No Magic Bullet
It comes down to having sufficient spiritual reserves to withstand monumental and fundamental truths that shatter long-standing internal structures. Those who metathink regularly, have been repeatedly assaulted by life's difficulties, and have shared long drags on cigarettes with their demons in the hushed hours are rarely affected by DMT - because their ego structure has already been violently cracked open multiple times, and they have survived. When life does it, the process is often more organic. For these individuals, DMT is more of an amusing review - perhaps they feel a little more through it, or their nervous systems are gently recalibrated.
It is those who seek a quick-fix "magic bullet" after encountering some minor inconvenience - who lack cognitive access to the deeper layers of themselves, and who are intellectually or spiritually limited in capacity or experience - that actively pursue it because life feels too steady, too apathetic - because they have habitually spiritually anaesthetised themselves. These individuals rarely ask themselves whether they have the resilience to endure the blows and the subsequent cascade of internal conceptual purging that follows.
There is a story of a woman who took ayahuasca, and her life was never the same after. She had been married ten years, had 3 kids, and worked as a psychologist—pretty much a normal life.
Long story short, she divorced her husband, left her family, lost her job, and became suicidal. I have heard other downhill stories in which trips cooked the minds of those who partook in them, changing their entire psyche, often negatively.
But yeah, normies love to FAFO and risk being deprogrammed.
I am curious if you have taken it.
My experience is that anything a drug can do, you can get naturally without all the side-effects.
of course, you may need to sweat blood to get there, but that isn't going to crush you (well, unless you're the type who can't push himself to that point, but then you simply won't anyway, so still safe really.)