What is 5-MeO-DMT?
This molecule occurs naturally inside of us and is most potent at birth and death. It is found in trace amounts in various plants as well as the secretion of the glands of the Sonoran Desert Toad, known as bufo, but the molecule itself can also be synthesized, which, for many, is a preferred form to utilize since it doesn’t create any environmental harm and is equally safe and effective, as well as provides a more accurate dosage.
When inhaled or vaporized with a “full-release” dose, it induces a rapid response that brings the participant to a very intense, and potentially overwhelming experience, but also one that can give a Unity experience, full egoic dissolution, and one of the most powerful psychedelic experiences ever known to humans, giving it the name “the god molecule”. The experience lasts around 15 minutes and then the ego starts to put itself back together.
Some facilitators will give a smaller second or third round to allow the after-effects to last, where there is a potent window to do some profound inner work.
There are a range of experiences that can happen in the full-release session. In the ideal, the participant can have a profound Unity experience, feeling love and wholeness as your Self, as the One Self that I AM. Sometimes the medicine can cause a whiteout or blackout and it is hard to remember anything, although the experience can begin to come back. The body can go through all sorts of somatic releasing. Your provider, and usually another helper, are there to make sure you are safe. For some, it can be a challenging experience for if it’s harder to surrender.
However it unfolds, it unlocks receptors in the body, opens pathways, and can bring out deeply held thoughts, feelings, traumas, etc, from the subconscious out into the conscious mind. It can put a lot of those experiences into a more expanded holistic context of your life and also can reveal where deeply held concepts are limiting mental structures that you’ve been holding onto. This can be profoundly healing, but also disorienting and challenging if you are not ready, on multiple levels, to manage the inevitable ripple effect of seeing and experiencing yourself in this expanded way.
Whatever happens during your session, whether ecstatic or otherwise, may begin a process that unfolds into your life for days to several months afterwards, which becomes a whole other experience in itself. The process continues to unfold. This is an important window to make time for your “integration process”, integrating what you experienced into your nervous system. That can look like lots of things from doing less, to having someone to talk to, professional or otherwise, or learning to meet life in a new way.
You may experience reactivations where you feel you are back in the 5-MeO space. It often comes back resting at night, but there can be all sorts of triggers. Sometimes hearing the music that was played in your ceremony can trigger it. The reactivations are pleasant for some, but not for everyone. The best thing to do is to breathe through them and relax until it passes. Some people can feel destabilized for a short period. This is normal, but it may feel challenging when your life takes on new meaning. This can be harder when people have strong mental constructs like with religious conditioning or some sort of moral framework.
Low-Dose 5-Meo Sessions
Another way to work with 5-MeO-DMT is with a low-dose protocol series. The basic format of this is an hour session where you are working with a lower amount of medicine, so you are still aware of your surroundings, but are able to work with the medicine so things start to emerge in a manageable way. As resistance comes up, you are able to work with it and go back in to meet that space with more awareness and the ability to surrender deeper, making it a therapeutic unfolding.
A series of hour-long sessions, with potential increasing doses can help familiarize you with the 5-MeO space, although nothing can really prepare you for a full-release session, at least you get to practice the art of surrendering, which is helpful.
The low-dose protocol brings out another valuable approach with 5-MeO. It supports the process of embodiment, because of the rapid conscious integration. Also, this medicine continues to unlock things in us, so it opens doors and pathways inside of us.
It is important to prepare accordingly and be fully transparent with your provider through their intake process. This is for everyone’s safety.
People are experiencing all sorts of healing, awakening, and support through working with 5-MeO and if you feel called, it is a powerful, potentially life-changing journey. To get the conversation started, please fill out the intake below.