Aw thank you! Yeah it’s definitely more gentle. It tastes better but there’s much more of it… ayahuasca you can drink like a shot but this stuff you really have to gulp down!
Yeah the ice analogy is beautiful, wish I could claim credit for it! When he was telling me it sounded great in his Russian accent… “In Russia we have ice so thick you can drive a tank on it”.
You can actually buy the cactus or even powder in the markets here, though I don’t intend to. I find it so fascinating. Not sure you’d find a South American cactus in Japan, though!