Spooky Synergy

Propylhuasca + Ketamine

Substances: DPT, GHB, Ketamine, Peganum harmala

A few nights ago I tried oral DPT for the first time. There was/is a shortage of reports in this area- a handful of references on the net and a few brief blurbs in TiHKAL were all I could dig up, but nonetheless I had been interested in this route for some time. A friend also had been expressing an interest in this method, and we decided to try it on the same night and compare experiences over the Internet in real-time. I am familiar with the effects of DPT insufflated, and expected quite the same type of experience. At T+0 I took the equivelant of about 1 gram of rue, extracted with water and encapsulated. At +15 mins. I began feeling the rue stoniness, and then took another capsule containing 150mg DPT HCl along with a very small amount, perhaps ~15mg, insufflated (had to clean up that spillage!).

About 40 minutes to an hour passed before I began to notice the DPT. It began pretty mellow, kind of like the tail end of an insufflated experience. It built steadily for about 2 hours, where it reached a plateau lasting another hour, perhaps two. By this point the effects were pretty intense- more body oriented than mind, but at the same time having a vision-inducing quality to it- not visual in the same way acid is. I would not want to be in public at this dosage level. There was also a level of audio phenomon occuring- not like the beeps, blurps, and loops I usually get on psychedelics, but more like voices and chatter. I spent roughly 45 minutes around this period laying on my bed with the lights off. I saw white halos of what seemed to be the forms of people, buildings, and places. It felt very similar to dreaming. I encountered a bit of nausea, and was certain I was going to throw up for a while, but never actually did. I ended up sitting by the toilet in the dark for some time.

I felt myself slowly drifting back to a low earth orbit, when it occurred to me that I should try combining Ketamine with it. I have never had any luck reaching the "emergent" ketamine state using it by itself, but have found that using it while already under the influence of another psychedelic can be quite interesting. I prepared a mixture of about 40mg DPT and 100mg Ketamine for insufflation. I began drawing a warm bath, and after staring at the pile for a while wondering how i was going to get all that material up my nose, I schnozzed it up.

I hopped in the bath. The lights in the bathroom were off. At this point the white ghost-like dpt visuals maintained their presence, accentuated by the introduction of the ketamine (which I have found to have its own brand of white ghost-like visuals.) (Weirdness warning: The "emergent" ketamine state is so mind-boggling strange that words cannot scratch the surface of the experience- the same can be said of any psychedelic, but ketamine is especially hard to verbalize because it's hard to bring back most of the experience with you. It's a completely different mode of perceiving.) There was a definite sense that "I" was not alone. As I laid in the tub the Universe slowly began rotating on its axis and spiraling inward on itself, forming a tunnel which I seemed to be floating through at what felt like an upward 45 degree angle. Towards the end of the tunnel, haloed in darkness, were these weird floating shapes. They looked like (or I remember them looking like) strands of perhaps a dozen or so linked "pods" . There were maybe 3 of these "strands" intermingling with eachother. This fleeting vision which I have just vainfully tried to verbally illustrate dissolved and I found myself back in the tub. There was stilll a great deal of psychic chatter, which seemed to be eminating from somewhere other than "me". ("elf" chatter? hehe.)

I remained stilll in the tub for a while longer- I never could make any sense out of the elf chatter, but several memetic programs had since manifested themselves in english and were bouncing around in my psyche. One of these ideas was that I should start taking meditation more seriously. The effects began wearing down and the bath had cooled somewhat, so I decided to go check out how my online tripping companion was doing- it had been about 2 hours or so since I last checked.

I stumbled out of the bathtub and clumsily threw on some sweatpants and a shirt. I sat down at the computer and found myself largely unable to operate it. Typing sentences seemed like a mind-boggling feat. My typing abillity gradually improved and I sat around discussing this "newfound" oral dpt route with my friend for a while with some exitement. I took some GHB and after a few hours of idle chatter, music, and more GHB, I went to bed still somewhat above baseline.

Based on this night's trip, I would say that the oral experience is quite longer lasting and in some ways deeper than the insufflated route. Still unclear what role harmala plays in the activity, research has probably been done in this area already somewhere. Anyways, oral DPT + MAOI wins this psychonaut's seal of approval. It's eerie, in a non-threatening kind of way. It seemed to potentiate the K a great deal for me, and put me in a very strange, very beautiful place.