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Thanks Bushpig, I was expecting yet another bashing with the new posts. Thanks for having the bravery to stick up for this "newbie". Though since I made such a bad first impression to everyone else here, to everyone's pleasure, I'll be looking on other sites when I have time to work on this stuff, maybe looking in on here just for occasional info.

Sorry to everyone else for putting out my feelers and giving it a shot. I know people don't "know me", but was hoping for them to get to know me over time (and eventually in person in the physical world) if in my state. However, in retrospect, I cut to the chase too fast. It was risky to give out my myspace, but that is still not giving out my real name and address, just the city/state, nor did I ask anyone to give their real name or personal info on here. If the Feds really wanted to trace my identity I'm sure they could, and they could with anyone on here as well, there are plenty of stories on here of people's entheogen experiences.  I'm betting that there is not enough DEA manpower to try and bust everyone on the suspicion of possession of the herbs. They mostly want dealers (of hard stuff). Also, as was made clear, I am not looking to "hook-up" to the herbs. I already have the them ordered from an online botanical company (and well hidden in another location just to be safe). Plus the plants themselves (uncombined) are not illegal.  

So this was just a try, though on the next site will be more cautious of not offending people. I assume most others on here have friends to engage in these practices with, well you're lucky. Sorry for trying to better my circumstances. I'll eventually find the right people, though it may take a while, this seemed like a helpful angle, but yes I was too hasty.
 
Also thanks to Avery for the suggestions (and non-negative response). Yeah with the Santo Daime, I'm also not enough into Jesus (not against him either) to join that, or any organized religion. I am open to affiliating with any spiritual group that is not dogmatic (and not saying they are), but I'm not going to get into any religious group just to do Aya with others that have more Aya experience (and can do it legally). But thanks for the suggestion just the same.
 
Anyway thanks again Bushpig, but I am out of here. Not going to debate (nor listen to the complaints of) the mistakes of my first post again and again, nor how "immature" I am for discussing experiments with Ayahuasca on a site that discusses the experiments with Ayahuasca, waste of time.
 
Night all,
Pretorious
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Hello all, I have experienced Aya last spring and it was amazing (also wrote an essay on it for psychology class). I still would like to plan future experiments since I have plenty of each herb left over and I know there is much more to see/experience. However, none of my friends have any interest (or bravery) to try it. Its not likely that I am going to find the ideal set and setting (anytime soon) to experience it again, but I have to start working on trying to find something better next time than doing it on my own, in my place.

I am very much into spiritual beliefs/practices (but not dogmatic of course) and I take this shamanic experimentation very seriously (not that it is not fun and exciting too--save for the drinking it part!) and is not for simple recreation.

Anyway, I am also into things like going to Apogaea (the local Colorado mini burning man) over the last two years with two particular friends that are into it, however, I would not do this stuff there (too intense for public festivals), and they are not the type of people I would want to do Aya with anyway, nor do they really know much about shamanism, spiritual energies etc. (nor do they care). In fact they are not really close friends, just the only people (out of all my friends) that I can get interested in going to Apo (so far). Its tough to find friends that are seriously into this experimentation so I'm starting to look around on these sites (and of course will try better to get contact info from the right people at Apo next time) at least as a start. I'd ideally like to find people to do this with again by next summer, preferably on a camping trip (but of course that would involve a designated sober person to be a watchdog I think).

As far as the rest of my personality/tastes/interests, yeah I'm into a lot of particular things, but am not stuck in any particular culture or subculture (though generally lean to the liberal sides of course) even though my myspace shows my goth/punk past, but shows all my diverse interests, music and otherwise. I am not into any other types of drugs (save for some grass) other than occasional experimentation with psychedelics. I am 38 and back in School going for a psychology degree and plan on getting into transpersonal psychology at Naropa University in Boulder for an MA. Of course I prefer people my age or older, but I have no problem with age groups (with similar interests) younger than myself, but those more than 13,14 years younger is pushing it for me. So those over 25 at least.

Anyways...anyone who roughly/potentially fits what I'm looking for, or if you can connect me to the right type of people here in Colorado (I am in Colorado Springs, and have a reliable car), or just have good advice to share, then send me a msg. My normal email is mailto:dr_pretorious@gmx.com">dr_pretorious@gmx.com, myspace is myspace.com/drpretorious.
By the way, I recommend the Bouncing Bear Botanicals film _Manifesting the Mind_ to everyone. Has most of the psychodelics heavy-hitters in the field.

Live long and Xeper,
.:Pretorious:.