Friends who haven’t yet tried 5-MeO-DMT, or Upaya as I like to call it, are often curious what it’s like.
True to its name, Upaya is different for different people on different days. It gives U what U need at that time.
That said, I would generalize my experience so far as following three basic stages:
- Emotional Body: showing U any places in your body that U are storing tension or trauma, that U are habitually disassociated from. It highlights those spots so U can bring attention and awareness into them, relax your muscles and heal trauma in that part of your body.
- Concentration: Upaya naturally brings the mind towards concentration states, or bliss states as I like to call them.
- Insight: with a unified, integrated, harmonized mind, Upaya naturally shows U any psychological or contemplative insights that U are ready for. The mind is subtle and pliable, ready to deepen and ripen.
Upaya seems to benefit from any practices U can do to warm your engines up beforehand—to bring sensory clarity, concentration power, equanimity or any other positive qualities or Awakening factors into your experience going in.
If this line of investigation is interesting to U, I can recommend John Gorman’s book, A Practical Guide to Psychedelic Meditation: Radiant Great Bliss With 5-MeO-DMT. His frame is more thorough, and he has much more experience. That said, I did find his frame to be quite heavy on a Tibetan perspective, which is valid but not as resonant for me personally.