Bufo

Bufo... bufo... you said bufo... It's not the best known name, especially when compared to ayahuasca, LSD, psilocybin and other molecules. And yet. Everyone who has taken it calls the experience the best moment of their life. But, be careful, as mentioned for ayahuasca, there are multiple factors for success, including the dosage which must be done very precisely with regard to the neurotoxicity of this natural product.

Indeed, this molecule, 5Me0-DMT, a very close cousin of DMT, is naturally produced by a toad found in the Sonoran Desert in Mexico and the extreme south of California and Colorado where it is now very protected. It is for the "bufo alvarius " (its pretty Latin name), a means of defense produced by its parotoid glands (behind the gills , at the base of the neck).
Taking bufo in the form of vapor (the crystals are heated in a pipe) while facing the master of ceremonies or facilitator who presents the pipe, requires maximum exhalation of the lungs before heating the crystals and allowing inhalation for the following 30 seconds with retention of around ten seconds of smoke and its gentle and slow exhalation.
This induces a “total” effect within 10-15 seconds: consciousness begins to fragment, the ego dislocates and atomizes into fine particles to finally dissolve completely into the immense, the immeasurable. The experience is unique because for most users, the states of connection and fusion with entirely other levels of consciousness are new.

 

We can speak of illumination, of fusion with the All, the One, the great architect, God, universal Love, the Cosmos... It is this first memory which remains anchored forever for all those who have tried: this ultimate dissolution and fusion. Everyone then follows, after these first 15 seconds, very different paths for a duration of 20 minutes to 2 hours:

·       a total loss of consciousness with atony (loss of muscle tone therefore lengthening accompanied by the facilitators from the initial cross-legged position

·       more rarely, a consciousness which "comes together" in 3-4 minutes to experience significant events in one's life which gives rise to gestures, movements, intense muscular tensions... which the practitioner does not always remember to his “return” to the most common normality .

This return phase is also of two types:

·       a sudden "awakening" with a look of wonder and full of love for the world and... its inhabitants

·       a return through an airlock which can last quite a long time with perception of the environment but an intermediate state of consciousness which can remember certain sensations, thoughts, ideas, interior states, sequences, encounters, energies, lights, vibrations, responses, images, other worlds... the list is very personal and specific to each one

 

A thought comes to almost everyone: “so that’s it”. The impression is strong, it is even a certainty, of having touched the heart of the reactor and been in the soul of the matrix, of being initiated into revealed mysteries and connected to everything, of seeing the logic of the world and to erase its absurdity, to measure the smallness of its daily worries and to be in harmony with the animal and plant kingdoms...

You might think that this fades away... but no, the change is very structural and there is a before and after. What we could call a teleportation on the path whether spiritual or psychological.
And then we realize that we have just experienced the most beautiful moment of our life.
Some might say that there is a price to pay, a phase down... well no. Others might think that it's the beginning of an addiction... surprisingly the answer is right there: no. Two possible reasons for this: on the one hand the force and the absolute side of the experience. To quote Jung's response to the question he was asked at the end of his life about his belief in God: "I don't believe, I know." On the other hand, the mode of action which is developed in the “molecule” section clearly explains the action on the receptors.

5-HT2 and 5-HT1A from serotonin... which is different from other substances that can be described as drugs...