You will have to improve your ritual from session to session, not just the spiritual side, but also everything related to the substance. The latter will prove challenging to most. Developing a technique of preparation can take months of frustrating trial and errors. Once you have it, you sill need to find a way of taking the substance that works for you. That is hard as hell even if you have a friend guiding you. If taking the substance proves difficult, it can affect your Set and give you a negative experience. There is no piece of advice I can give you here. With time, you will eventually find a method that works for you.

As you take some time to reflect on your ritual and as you analyze it, I encourage you to avoid jumping to conclusions. The entheogenic ritual is powerful. It has the potential to make you live incredible mystical experiences. They can be so overwhelming that it is is sometimes tempting to be overly optimistic when interpreting them. You might think you’ve seen something or maybe you were given some power or you received a ground breaking revelation. Don’t jump to conclusion. If you’ve read other pages on this website you must have heard me repeat a million times: there is no more fearsome demon than that of self-delusion. Once you have convinced yourself of something, it is very hard to come back. You will ignore the things that you were wrong about and you will confort yourself in a prison of illusion. Don’t fall for it. If during your ritual, you were told that you are special, it’s most likely your ego messing with you. Look that demon in the eyes and move on. The power of persuasion of psychedelics is nothing to scoff at. It can fool even the most level headed.

I’m sure you have heard of bad trips. I know from personal experience that some shamans or retreat organizers claim with a straight face that bad trip don’t happen in their ritual (like in some ayahuasca retreats for instance). It’s bullshit, don’t believe them. A bad trip is a thing and it can happen to anyone. I’m being honest with you, it can happen in the ritual presented here. It happened to someone several times. One time he unwittingly drank three glasses of lemon juice made with rotten lemon while on ingested DMT. He got mild food poisoning and the sickness got picked up by the substance. The house turned into a hospital and he spent hours seeing himself as dying from cancer. He knew I was ok. It was just a series of bad sensations. If you let it get to you, it can be rough, but “all you have to do” is remind yourself that it’s only a trip. A bad sensation is just a sensation. It is transient. That is why I teach meditation and I encouraged you to study reality. When you know for a fact that a bad trip isn’t real, it becomes nothing more than a game of patience. When you are assailed with oppressive sensations, keep your mind in check. Don’t let the mind analyze what you are going through. It will throw you on a downward spiral. Look at the sensation, however bad, with detachment. Be patient and you’ll get through it.