Hello friends,
I wanted to share SWIM's experience with you guys. None of the sub-sections in the Nursery are totally fit for it, but I don't have the privilege to post elsewhere (why?
), so, I'll just post it here.
I really want to take part in the discussions other in the forum, like suppliers, physics, music and extraction teks, but am limited to this sub-forum. Please, let me know, if there is something I need to post/do to be a full member.
Anyways, here it goes:
Saturday:
In my last post (in First Questions for Information) I spoke of SWIM's experiment with powdered Caapi vine and powdered mimosa (consumed much later). None of them produced any effect (maybe for a little bit and too small to notice).
SWIM feels something funny at 1:00AM and tried to meditate but falls asleep.
Dietary setting:
Last good meal, Friday night (bean burrito). Saturday was the first caapi day, so SWIM only had the disgusting muddy caapi (long story) in the evening which was very filling in fact with all the fibers in it. And 2 apples + a bowl of cereal + organic soy milk + a few spoons of ricotta cheese + a couple of spoons of brown sugar.
On Sunday SWIM didn't eat anything at all. The stomach was ready.
Fast forward -> Sunday.
09:30AM - SWIM wakes up with a mild headache and goes to check mail box. 10 x 12' good quality San Pedro + 500 grams of shredded yellow caapi vine.
10:30AM - SWIM takes 100 grams of caapi vines and puts them in 1 gallon of boiling distilled water in a 5 gallon pot with the glass lid closed and medium flame on gas stove.
02:30PM - The water has been reduced to about half a gallon. SWIM filters out 1 coffee cup worth of juice and puts it in the freezer.
03:00PM - The cold tea is taken from the fridge and consumed. Can still taste the vinegar, yuk. SWIM filters out another cup and put it in the freezer. This time he also adds 1 cup of water to the simmering caapi soup.
04:00PM - No weird feeling/sensation yet. The above process repeated.
05:00PM - SWIM removes the pot from the stove top and puts it in the freezer.
05:30PM - SWIM measures contents in the fridge and filters all of it out. He finds 3 more cups of tea still left. He also takes the caapi, which looks much darker in color now, and stores it in the freezer in a ziploc for mixing with rest of the 400g of caapi while brewing in the future. Drinks 1 cup out of the 3 remaining. Thinks of drinking the other cup but feeling too full at this point.
06:00PM - Starts feeling something going on inside. Drinks one more cup. Nope, not a good idea. Bad, BAD stomach. Has to run to the bathroom and here comes the flash flood.
The purging goes on every 15 minutes or so (a couple of times from the grosser side). Strangely, the puking doesn't accompany any nausea. It feels more like he just needs to get all the nasties/toxins out of his gut.
07:00PM - SWIM feels his body being heavy. Just wants to lie down and not move much. Closes his eyes and turns off all the lights, music and the TV. No visions or anything, but he is feeling very calm and relaxed. Doesn't open his eyes for an hour, not asleep though.
08:00PM - Gets up from the semi-slumber very fresh. Doesn't feel like puking at all. Downs a cup of tea brewed from 5-6 grams of powdered MHRB (boiled for 4 hours and filtered).
09:30PM - No effect since the mimosa tea was consumed.
10:00PM - Still nothing. Oh, wait, gotta empty the gut real bad. This keeps going until not a single drop left in the stomach.
Through out the day SWIM had the mild headache he woke up with, only much more severe now. But, SWIM does some work for Monday and goes to bed at 12:30AM.
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This whole time, since Saturday morning, in his bathroom SWIM has 100 grams of powdered MHRB sitting in a very very high pH NaOH solution and naptha. This is being done using the Lazyman's tek.
Around 10:30PM, Sunday night, SWIM extracts a pull from the jar and pours it in a casserole dish and turns on the fan for naptha evaporation. Right before going to bed he takes half the amount in a 2 oz spice jar (very fitting
) and sticks it in the freezer. The naptha turns cloudy in 15 minutes.
Fast forward Monday morning:
SWIM opens the freezer to see small white chunks in the jar, still somewhat cloudy. He goes to the tray to see all of the naptha gone and yellowy waxy stuff sticking to the glass dish. Has to go to work.
Comes back in the evening at 5:30PM to see the naptha isn't cloudy anymore. On the glass dish front, no smell of naptha at all. He takes a paper cutter and scapes the wax. Can't get all of it. Measures whatever he got and turns out to be 1.2 grams. If the stuff is all SPIRIT the it's freaking awesome.
Can the wax be smokes directly?
SWIM is very very happy to see 1.2 g out of 100 grams of bark. Plus there is more in the freezer and he is going to do a couple of pulls more.
I have to go now. Will post pictures when I get them from SWIM.
[edit]: Pictures uploaded
1. Some of the naptha pull (jar with white beads) precipitated in the freezer overnight. With waxy spice (?) from the rest of naptha evaporated in the casserole dish.
2. A closer view of the precipitate.
3. The waxy spice was recombined with the naptha from precipitate (was left next to the computer fan for a while for warming it up just enough for the wax to dissolve with naptha)
4. A little bit of the wax SWIM plans to use as his rocket propellant for a test drive to the edge of the Milky Way before venturing into a full scale journey to the edge of the universe.
Om purna mada purna midam That is the Whole, this is the Whole,
purnat purnam udachyate From the Whole, the Whole arises,
purnasya purnam adaya Taking away the Whole from the Whole,
purnam eva vasishyate The Whole remains,
om santi santi santihi Om Peace, peace, peace.
Om asato ma sad gamaya Lead us from untruth to Truth,
tamaso ma jyotir gamaya From darkness to Light,
mrityor ma amritam gamaya From death to Immortality,
om santi santi santihi Om Peace, peace, peace.