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Erowid Experience Vaults Report Id: 1782

San Pedro Dreams

by Adam Walker

Dose: T+ 0:00 oral Cacti - T. pachanoi extract

Body weight: 0.00 lbs

With both parents on holidays in Bali and the house left for my sister and I to look after, Ibegan preparation for what was to be my first psychedelic experience produced by the chemicalMescaline.

I had purchased the psychotropic plants from a cactus stall at the St Andrews markets in Mel-bourne. Approximately twenty to thirty centimeters of the San Pedro cactus was sliced thinlyand combined with one Peyote button. This I then boiled in a large pot of water on the stove forat least ten hours while I was at school. After this time the solid material was removed and theremaining liquid continued boiling until the broth was reduced to a fairly small amount.

Several days later when set and setting was right and I felt I was ready to take the substance, Isat before the altar in my bedroom and proceded to drink the dark greeny-brown liquid. As I tookthe first mouthful of the substance from the chalice, I had trouble keeping myself from vomiting.This was the most revolting thing I had ever tasted. I was reminded of what Jim DeKorne saidwhen he described its taste as something a curious preadolescent deity might dream up if hewanted to test to what extremes poor, benighted humanity would go to, to transcend its naturalcondition.

While waiting for the substance to take effect, I noticed a change in the way I perceived things. Nolonger did I see objects as a whole, but realised that they were made up of millions and millionsof smaller particles (cells or atoms perhaps), these particles were interwoven to create the whole.The clothes I was wearing and the curtains in front of me no longer appeared as the every dayobjects I am used to, but were now totally alien to me.

Approximately two hours after taking the substance I decided to go bed. I thought that if novisions or images had come to me by now, my chances of experiencing something enlighteningwere very slim. I was so tired that I should have fallen asleep immediately, but once in bed Inoticed a restlessness I had never felt before. I likened it to what Albert Hofmann experiencedearly in his first LSD trip. I was affected by a remarkable restlessness, combined with a slightdizziness. At home I lay down and sank into a not unpleasant intoxicated dreamlike condition,characterised by an extremely stimulated imagination.

This restlessness prevented me from sleeping and I quietly freaked out as more bizarre thoughtsand feelings came to me.

At one point during the night the shape of my bedroom window went out of whack and began tobend and warp. It was at this point that I decide it was time to move myself to another room. Fora while everything appeared to be back to normal, I believed that the effects had subsided and I

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Erowid Experience ID: 1782 San Pedro Dreams by Adam Walker

was reentering my ordinary state of consciousness, little did I know that the most bizarre was yetto come. It was once I began to nod off that I experienced the queerest sensation. It was what Iexperienced at this point that had the most affect on me.

All of a sudden I woke up with the distinct feeling that I was in at least five different bodies allat the same time. I am unsure if these bodies were all mine or whether I had taken possession of

them, but each one was doing something totally different. One was digging in a garden, one wasflying a plane, and one was sitting up in bed wondering what the hell was going on, the thing wasthat all of them were fully awake. Somehow the Mescaline had caused me to become one withvarious people and objects, this gave me a feeling that everything in existence is connected. Thisis a universal belief found in many shamanic cultures, especially those that use the Peyote andSan Pedro cacti as a means of altering their state of mind. It is also a very popular belief amongstthe old Celtic and Druidic cultures, which I have an intense interest in.

For the remainder of the night I slept quite restlessly as I continuously slipped in and out of analtered state of consciousness. When I awoke the following morning I was filled with the greatestsense of awe I had ever felt. I felt as though something inside me had been transformed forever.

Although I regret not being able to take these cacti in the same way that the Native Americans didin their sacred rituals, I still think that its possible for the modern man to experience the sameilluminating visions that they were exposed to some two thousand years ago. Although this is nota substance I would like to take too often I think it possible that Mescaline could be a catalyst formans evolvement and that we should take this possibility into consideration when we decide thatit should be an illegal substance.

Notes

1. Jim DeKorne (1994). Psychedelic Shamanism pg 85, Loompanics Unlimited, Port Townsend.

2. Albert Hofmann (1983). LSD My problem child pg 15, Tarcher, Los Angeles.

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