Growing The San Pedro: A little over a year ago, I bought a San Pedro Cactus from a cacti nursery in Palm Springs for my 21st birthday present. Already knowing I wouldn't be able to ingest it for another year. Something in me just knew I needed to grow my own cactus rather than just buying a larger one to consume right away. The cactus had two heads growing at about a foot each. I waited a entire year and 3 months after buying them until I decided they were ready for consumption. By this time,both the cactus heads were over 4 feet tall, and a 3rd one even sprouted out over time and grown to about a foot and a half. It was time.
Preparing The San Pedro: After deciding how much of a dose me and few close friends were going to take (about 10-11 inches each) we all stood around my cactus and thanked it individually. For giving its body up to us to help us grow. After cutting down the cactus, we then took the individual doses inside and cut them into stars. About a 1inch each star. After cutting the doses into stars, we then cut out the inner white core. (Don't eat the white core, its really harsh on the stomach & has little to no mescaline at all) leaving only the thin green lay of mescaline underneath the waxy skin. You can also remove the waxy skin if you'd prefer. We decided to just leave the skin on, and throw the rest in the blender. Leaving the skin just makes it more pulpy and a little harder to get down, but other than that its not a big deal. After blending the cacti for a few mins, you will have your spiritual green juice. (There are many ways of Prepping this cacti. This was just our way)
Consuming The San Pedro: Me and my two very good friends have been planning this San Pedro experience for awhile now, almost about a year. Once they heard that the cactus was ready, we all started planning a desert trip. We decided on going to Joshua Tree, California. A beautiful high desert surrounded by nothing but Joshua Trees and beautiful stone mountains. It was also the night of the 4th BloodMoon, so the timing of all of this was just too perfect. After searching long and hard for a open camping spot (it was really packed, with the bloodmoon an all) But we finally found one and set up camp. The time was around 8:35pm when we were set up and comfortable enough to take the San Pedro. We once again, said our thank yous to the pedro and set our intents before consuming. (I Highly advise you say a little thank you before going into the pedro experience. Setting some kind of Intent is great as well. Please don't go into this experience expecting to see colors for no reason and things melt. Because you will gain nothing from it. These are ancient plant teachers that much be respected & they will return that respect.) So we start drinking. And let me tell you, the taste is not going to be in any way shape or form "alright" its down right disgusting. Kinda taste like you're drinking algae from a swamp. Big BIG gulps are suggested, dont sip it. Keep a big jug of water right next to you between chugs to wash the taste and the substance down. It took us about 10 to 15 mins to get it all down. Once its down. Go do something. Anything. Just make sure its something. Don't just sit and wait for it to come on. Let it come to you on its own. You have about two hours before the trip even begins to start coming on.
The Come Up: I feel as if we may have taken more than we should have at about 35 mins after consuming the cacti, because me and my other friends were already starting to feel very buzzed in our bodies. Which wasn't supposed to happen for another hour and a half.. this didn't scare us or nothing, just made us rethink our doses lol. Anyway, at about an hour after consumption, the effects of the mescaline were really starting to kick in. Still way to early for us to be feeling this way. My one friend turned to me and said "wow. This is not what I expected, holy sh*t! I feel so good." Mind you, this is only the coming up part of the trip. As the effects we just taking off, i decided I should get out my music and start playing the playlist i made for the weekend. I was playing for my friends some really good Native American flute music that was BEYOND amazing while tripping on San Pedro! It literally blended in so perfect with the environment , the trip, the moon, everything. There was some slight nausea during the come up, nothing to overwhelming. I noticed some uncomfortability and some slight tenseness as well but again, nothing I couldn't easily manage. This only lasted about 45 mins or so.
The Peak Experience: After Hitting the 3rd hour mark, The San Pedro spirit had made his presence appear to me. I remember being in mid conversation with my friend when I felt as if someone just walked up behind me, and started gently rubbing my ears. I can't even describe the feeling, just this warm sensation behind my ears. It was like if you were to close your eyes and someone stood right behind you, you would know. You would feel their body heat. That's what this felt like but my eyes were open and no one was behind me... I remember myself just smiling so brightly and even laughing to myself. I told my friend that someone was standing behind me and rubbing my ears. And we both kinda giggled at the same time at the thought of that for some reason. So as time went by, the feelings in my body were very much like MDMA, but way more natural. Natural Rolls. The visuals were very hard to explain because they were not your typical psychedelic visuals. It made earth more psychedelic I guess you could say. It didn't give you visuals that weren't there, it gave you visuals that were there all along, you just weren't paying attention to it. I could see funny faces in the mountain's, I could see different patterns and connections in the stars. I could feel the energy pulsate off the moon. I could see the different shades of night in the sky. I could hear every little sound in the desert, every bug, every bird. I could feel the wind from within my spirit. I remember this one point, when I was walking around the camp grounds by myself, I placed my hand on a tree for no actual reason, and I remember feeling this warm sensation in between my hands & the tree. Like as if me and the tree were exchanging energy/information with each other. I felt stuck there for awhile, the feeling of connection was overwhelming, it was so strong and so real. I remember at one point I even got on the ground and was mesmerized by the amount of different rocks there were. Each one more beautiful and unique than the last. Whats weird is while im doing all this exploring on my own, i've completely forgotten of how scared I normally would be to be by myself in the desert at night, let alone be laying in the dirt looking at rocks on the ground. But I knew my friends weren't far from me. As I laid there in the dirt, I remember turning around and looking up towards the beautiful sky. And it all hit me at once. The Connection to everything. The connection between me & other humans, the connection between humans the earth, the connection between time and how time is endless, in other words time is nonexistent. I felt the connection between my past, present, future self. I felt the connection between me and the different dimensions. I felt the connection to source of all that is. I felt the unconditional love that is what humanity is made from. I knew that any thing negative in my life right now is basically a waste of energy. Its not productive at all, and will just prolong my growth. All these connections went on for over 3 hours. I remember multiple times just crying my eyes out at how mislead humanity has been. And how we all need to learn to let go of the things that separate us all from each other, our true selfs and the earth. I remember that no matter what thought I thought of, Positive or Negative, the pedro was showing me many different perspectives of the thought, it would break the one thought down to many different ways of interpreting it. And then helping me find the one to best get me through any difficult situation. It was showing me the synchronicity's in life, they are everywhere, happening all the time. Not just when you're tripping, tripping just makes you notice it. We have now been tripping for over 6 hours, it was around 5am and we all decided to maybe try to get some sleep since the trip isn't gonna go anywhere soon, but we were all exhausted. One amazing thing about Mescaline is that you can go to sleep on it and wake up and still be on it... )
The Come Down: So we all go into my friends big SUV and get comfortable, my friend put on his playlist he made for this weekend that was very relaxing and trippy sounding. I remember just drifting off into the most beautiful state of relaxation that i've ever felt, and then fell asleep. Only to wake up not even a full 3 hours later. The sun was already starting to come up and warm up the desert. Upon awakening, i felt literally like I was wasn't on this planet anymore, but was in some far off distant place. It was weird but kinda cool. The effects have come down alot since the night before but one could most def feel the effects still there. The come down was very similar to the come up. Except no edgy/nervousness. You just come gliding back down like a feather, the same way you went gliding up like a feather. You may feel exhausted the next day, but thats mostly from being up the whole night before mentally exploring. I would recommend this Plant Teacher to people who are willing to listen. If you are not willing to listen, and think this plant will make you "trip ballz!" I can almost guarantee that you will have a very lame experience with this teacher. The teacher may not even present itself to you because you don't know what you want out of life and think you do. But if you are willing to have a heart to heart with yourself and this guild, You will do just fine. Just remember to take deep long breathes through out the experience, think of the San Pedro as a Grandpa. Grandpa will take your hand and take you on some crazy trippy adventures, but as long as you hold on tight and trust grandpa, he wont ever let go of your hand
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