I understand your view of obtaining a spiritual view of a plant or chemical instead of focusing on the "smallness" of the actual chemical itself.
For instance, I was smoking dmt when I first was able to extract it, and it was very intense, and blew me away for only 5 to 8 minutes, and as such made it difficult for me to really relish in and integrate the experience.
I had a little difficulty cracking my head open for oral doses of it. For instance, I would visit the elves while smoking, but eating up to 200mg was not hitting me at all.
So, focusing on the non-spiritual/chemical aspects of the substance, I foolishly took a thousand miligrams, after imbibing a very large dose of the needed maoi for oral activation.
Within a very short time, while standing up, I saw higher versions of myself and my "secret/spiritual brothers and sisters", as the future spirits themselves, and they said very plainly and in the perfect, cute, buzzing elf voice,
"We've got your mind."
They were trying to assure me of my safety, and at that moment I knew I had eaten probably twenty times what have been a normal mind-blowing dose. I rode it out, clutching my bed and waiting for the corners of the walls to come back together in a 3d fashion.
But I later started eating the pants themselves, mainly syrian rue and mimosa, without extracting, and I was able to flow with, and even ground myself a bit with the actual plant teachers being in my guts. It is difficult to do this without purging, (even though this sort of purging is extremely healthy,) so I eventually went back to the pure chemicals.
I was then able to connect solidly to the plant teachers with the chemicals because of my introduction to the plant materials themselves.
Pentagram and Hexagram rituals on DMT are profound. They, and the circle, sit there burning into star-diamond material that I can see just past the realm of them burning in regular white-blue, or white-blue-yellow fire. (Yellow is kind of in the lower realms of the burning, and blue-yellow is of the higher burning "frequency", but what I see is even beyond that as forming/being some kind of divine machinery of the Universe.