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The Australian Psychedelic Society-Sydney Presents Bufo Alvarius: The Underground Secret A 5-MeO-DMT Film-Screening, Presentation and Discussion The Film: Bufo Alvarius: The Underground Secret. The film is a radical testimony of the strongest known natural psychedelic tryptamine: 5-MeO-DMT, which is produced by the Bufo Alvarius toad, native to the Sonoran Desert of northern Mexico and southern Texas.This breathtaking audio-visual adventure is enhanced by immersive animations inspired by the psychoactive effects of this extraordinary substance. Fascinating stories of a group of Czech psychonauts are combined with personal insights of the erudite Stanislav Grof, as well as a contemporary shamanic facilitator from Mexico who has served this medicine to thousands of people from around the world. For many, the experience has been life-changing The Talk: 5-MeO-DMT – The Metaphysical Tribes, by Sebastian Job, PhD. This talk will be an introduction to some of the interpretative stances evident in the contemporary 5-MeO-DMT ‘community.’ The film-screening and presentation will be followed by a Q&A and open forum community discussion. Sunday 2nd December, 1:00pm - 4:00pm 107 Projects, 107 Redfern street, Sydney FB Event Tickets: $15:00

New paper out, looking quantitatively at the alkaloid content of Tetrapterys mucronata. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pca.2548/abstract Long story short, it contains substantial amounts of bufotenine and 5-MeO-DMT, and smaller amounts of 5-MeO-NMT and 2-Me-6-MeO-THβC. That explains how it could be used without admixture as the basis of a psyhoactive brew: both bufotenine and 5-MeO-DMT have been reported active without MAOI admixture (though the authors don't seem to make that connection). Odd choice of plant to analyze though. T. mucronata has only been reported as the basis of an ayahuasca-like brew by one person (R. E. Schultes), and even he seems to hedge his bets about it. The language is very ambiguous both in his 1975 De plantis toxicariis... XIII article and his 1990 book The Healing Forest (coauthored with R. F. Raffauf). It's not clear, but he may be suggesting that this use was heard secondhand from a native, rather than directly observed. Or maybe his notes from the trip were just not clear... the claim dates from an expedition he took with Isidro Cabrera in the early 1950s, but he didn't publish anything about the plant until over two decades later. This is interesting, because recent chemical analysis of a vine sold as Tetrapterys methystica (which has been more reliably reported as the basis of an ayahuasca-like brew) did not show any known alkaloids. Then again, the vendor who sold that bark is not exactly known to be reputable... so perhaps it's a case of misidentified vine?

This is a very intriguing plant which, as far as I can tell, has never made it into cultivation. If anyone has botanically-inclined contacts in Brazil, it would be nice to change that! Pilocarpus pauciflorus has the potential to fill a void in the market: a viable plant source of 5-MeO-DMT. Sure, the occasional Anadenanthera seed will contain predominantly 5-MeO-DMT, but more often they contain primarily bufotenine. They simply aren't reliable. Phalaris grasses are even less reliable. Virola resin sounds like a plausible candidate, but the commercially-available bark has historically been a bust. Enter Pilocarpus pauciflorus, weighing in at more than 0.5% 5-MeO-DMT by weight. To be fair, that's based on a single analysis (Balsam & Voigtländer 1978). It is possible this plant may turn out to be a bust... but it could just as easily become a must-have. If you're looking for further information on the plant, most of the literature on it refers to it by the now-outdated synonym, Pilocarpus organensis. Any ideas on how to obtain a plant which is not currently known to be in cultivation anywhere? ReferenceBalsam, Günter, and Hans W. Voigtländer. 1978. Ein psychotropes Alkaloid aus Pilocarpus organensis. Archiv der Pharmazie 311(12):1016-1018. DOI: 10.1002/ardp.19783111207