No, not the amazing string bean - close, but not quite. The amazing string being.

I'm experimenting lately with approaching DMT intuitively and playfully, rather than hitting the pipe with a serious intent. I tell myself, "the only thing you must do is smoke enough to hear the most subtle whispers, just enough to see the faintest glimpse." After dipping my toes in the water, it's up to my mood whether or not I continue, and in what manner I continue (this works much better with an MAOI thrown into the mix).

"Careful now - always better to err on the side of caution than to smoke too much," I remind myself before I begin. It's less that I propel myself into hyperspace - remember, I've got no serious business there - and more that I am lulled there by the irresistibly intense curiosity that is kindled by watching faint, jewelled silhouettes dancing in the dim light of sub-breakthrough DMT. Blurred shadows of the Unity, the divine, the alien intelligence, whatever the fuck we're seeing with molecule. Its gravity pulls me closer and closer, toke by toke, until I'm there.

It's a giant, fantastic, string being. What do I mean by this? Well, I'm sure many of you have seen 3D projections of hyperdimensional polytopes, represented by lines connected at joints, or vertices. Here is an excellent example, which comes closest to the string being. If for any reason that link stops working, look up an animation of a rotating tesseract. Now, imagine that computer graphic, but instead of straight lines connected at vertices, it's more irregular and organic, like a tree. Actually, "hyperdimensional spider web" probably describes it best. The strands of the web are composed of infinitely complex, fractal-esque geometry, which I can discern with inhumanly high-resolution vision.

I'm sort of hovering in the empty space between the branches of this weird structure, which is rotating and morphing around me, and it has the sense of being enormous, as if it were a structure carved out of something the size of a planet. Its motion is incredibly smooth and graceful, just like you'd expect a massive object to glide through frictionless empty space. And, most intriguingly, it has some quality which leads me to conclude that it is alive. It seems to be wrapped up in an agonizing process of birthing itself, and it strains to wriggle itself out of black nothingness. It's doing the same thing that the big bang did when it blossomed nondual emptiness into the giant freak show that is our universe - or maybe it IS the creation of the universe I'm witnessing?

I was very shocked and delighted by the vision, and giggled as it faded away. "Surely," I thought, "simply the fact that a person can see such a thing tells us much about the nature of life?"

My thoughts on how to approach DMT have recently fallen into alignment with yours.

Also, I have seen something similar to what you speak. I don't know if it's exact, but how could I know that for sure? I saw this thing for the first time last summer on a heavy mushroom trip. I was completely flabbergasted by it! I don't know what it is, it didn't communicate with me, but I got the impression it was alive. I have tried drawing parts of it, but nothing has come out even close.

I have since seen it a few times, primarily with cactus, and often in differing colors. My last cactus trip was near break-through dose. This "string being" would well up and envelope my vision in waves. Towards the end of the trip, it got smaller and smaller, as if it was moving away. I could still see it, but it began inhabiting everything I was looking at, almost as if it was receding back into the fabric of the universe.

Very peculiar! One of my favorite visions, to be sure.

Nice! I didn't know you could get visions of entities on cactus. Must've been a big dose, right? At that level, does the body load get uncomfortably intense?

Also, I love your avatar.

I have found, on high enough levels of anything, they can all take you to the same places. Cactus, mushrooms, DMT, sometimes weed even.

Yeah, it was a pretty high dose, and a pretty heavy body load. I think that was part of the reason why I didn't have a full break through, I had a hard time letting go because of my physical discomfort. The strange thing is, I can feel the presence of cactus again, when doing other things, like mushrooms.

When ever this stringy thing shows up, I'm usually in a really good mood. It seems to be intertwined with feelings of well being. Maybe it's a metaphor for the interconnectedness of existence? I don't know!



Thanks! It is one cool cactus.

I can relate to your OP 100%. Those polytopes can be stunning. I've recently become a fan in particular of the E8 being rotated through 8 dimensions. When I see geometry that behaves dimensionally like that on DMT, it's often quite intelligently arranged. The way I was describing it to a friend earlier today would be like have a cube block of marble. It's extremely simplistic, a 3 dimensional polygon. Now you can take that same 3 dimensional marble and form an amazing sculpture of a human out of it, and they're essentially physically the same in regards to the dimensional perception of them (they are both perceived as being 3D), but one is obviously much more aesthetically pleasing and intelligently designed even though the geometrical concept of the 3 dimensional cube may very well be underlying the entire structure of the geometry of the sculpture. Likewise an eight dimensional polytope for example (or a tesseract or 120 cell or whatever) seems extremely crude and simplistic in comparison to the eidetic, semantically meaningful forms (such as a pharaoh or a lion) that can also be perceived as 8 dimensional forms.

Very interesting... I only got an intuitive sense that the "string being" was hyperdimensional, and there is no way that I could say for certain that it existed in, say, 8 dimensions. Have you had trips where you have been able to clearly discern specifically 8D figures, and not 7D or 9D?

What I have noticed is that the deeper the experience, the more sacred/special it is, the more multidimensional it tends to become. Where medium doses might have the kinds of dimensional movements characterized by a tesseract, the godhead for example has geometrical motions that are very reminiscent to me of the E8 for example. Can I tell specifically how many dimensions I'm observing? Not exactly, but but in the deepest of breakthroughs, it becomes apparent that the number of juxtaposed planes becomes incredibly numerous.