So we're actually doing this? Cool =) you'll see Photocopier that wasnt precisely spam :p.
DMT is the active ingredient in Yage/Ayahuasca, a native drug that's become popular in the psychedelic community lately, in my country specially it's becoming more and more fashionable. I've never actually tried pure DMT and I'm not sure that I would, what I experienced with Yage was very dense and it was trough 8 hours, DMT is supposed to be the same thing but in 15 minutes, and it's said to be absolutely the most intense psychedelic experience you can have.
Something that also influenced me a lot was Terence Mckenna, who is equally respectful of them and is useful in fitting these ideas for cerebral occidental folks such as myself :p. I reccomend his book True Hallucinations. Mckenna is very speculative, you shouldnt follow his ideas as something 100% true, he's very speculative and it'd be silly to believe what he says, but that's kind of the point because his whole outlook is about empowering your own critical mind, it's this outlook what I think is valuable about him as well as his respect for indigenous people
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMNAOk1bMDw if you want more there's loads of material here
http://deoxy.org/mckenna.htmWhat Yage is, is a soup made out of several plants sacred to indigenous people, 2 of which are responsible for the hallucinogenic aspect, but the soup as a whole also acts as a purgant, so you puke and you shit and you're also tripping out of your mind, you might leave your body (I didnt) but it also gives you an outlook on all of your life and makes you see why you do the mistakes you do, so all of it's effects including the puking are seen as a phisical and spiritual "cleansing". Personally it gave me the assurance that the good part of you is what really exists, what is the center of you while the rest is just shit you pick up. I have only done yage once, but I've tried one thing or the other over the last few years, but no more often than 6 months, I believe these things are to be respected.
I think Blumunkee's position on LSD is positive, honestly I havent tried it because being in Colombia it seems better to go for more indigenous aproaches than LSD, we also obviously have some LSD culture but I havent been intrigued enough to try it. I've tried Psilocybin mushrooms in natural contexts tough, and I dont know how similar it is to LSD but if you take just a bit of Shrooms I could see using something like that for inspiration.
What Terence says about LSD is that he went to seek DMT and Yage because he didnt think LSD was fullfilling the promiss of trippyness he expected :p, he found it far more trasnforming and I'm pretty sure that view is widesperead.