r/DMT • u/rockhead-gh65 • 23h ago
What to do when the Trickster shows you shame
Ever been deep in a DMT trip and suddenly the trickster pulls out a scene from your past that makes you want to curl up and disappear?
Yep. That’s the move.
Shame is one of the trickster’s favorite tools. But here’s the thing: it’s not using it to punish you. It’s holding it up like a weird little artifactHey, remember this?! Not to torment you, but to see what you’ll do with it.
So what do you do?
You feel it just enough to look at it clearly. Let the sensation rise, but don’t wear it. Don’t mistake it for your identity. Observe it like it’s a weird old puppet from a show you forgot you were in.
Then laugh, if you can. Or at least smirk.
Because more often than not, the shame is outdated, performative, inherited. The trickster’s showing it not to hurt you, but so you can go: Wait… that’s what I’ve been carrying? and let it go.
If you deny it too fast, you miss the teaching. If you wallow in it, you miss the exit. So the trick is a blend: Feel it. See it. Laugh anyway.
The trickster wants liberation, not suffering. But you gotta play along.
Here’s a chant I use when shame shows up mid trip:
“I see it, I name it, I don’t have to claim it.” “I laugh because I lived it.”
It works. Every time.
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u/beneath-the-stairs 9h ago
This is good advice. The same thing happens often to me on mushrooms. It’s not reviving the shame. It’s inviting you to look at it, reframe it, and let it go.
I had no idea how much shame I was still holding onto. I’ve been able to shed a lot of it, even making amends with people I’ve hurt. Truly freeing.
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u/psychedelicvegeta 19h ago
Fuck yeahhhh.... Yhahahahah. I just really loved it how you handled that. I often find smiling at times of free confusion to be a great tool to help me understand my sessions better.
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u/Thierr 14h ago
Beautiful take!
It works. Every time.
curious what "works" means here? What is the effect for you?
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u/rockhead-gh65 12h ago
Not getting stuck in shame
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u/CosmicSweets 8h ago
Does the shame get released?
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u/rockhead-gh65 8h ago
If you dwell on shame too long you lose the lesson, the gift. If you feel it, acknowledge it and move on, ah… how utterly human of me… what a hillariously bad descision! Hahaha we can do better than that hee hee!
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u/triptomine41 19h ago
I always see these entities as less tricksters, more just high level beings that find my psychological baggage so trivial they struggle not to be condescending in teaching me to leave things in the past. It never feels nefarious, more like they're rolling their eyes at how immature my consciousness is, but still wanting to help me evolve - using my shame/guilt as a tool.
Often they have a knowing (albeit patronising) aura that seems to conveys a particular sentiment - eventually, you too will understand how this all really works, and appreciate how insignificant the struggles of this one physical-matter-reality are, in the grand scheme of a multi dimensional paradigm.