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Subject DMT: The Spirit Molecule - You want to know what thrusts you beyond the veil?

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I've made tea with Mimosa Hostilis and Syrian Rue, an Ayahuasca like drink and it was pretty intense. I felt really nauseous about 20 minutes after drinking it (it tasted horrible, the most bitter thing you can imagine), so I was clenching my stomach and hiding my head under a pillow and then I heard a voice say "What are you hiding from? There is nothing here to hide from" and then boom, it was like I was shot from a rocket into hyperspace. I can't remember too many specifics, but it felt like being on a rollercoaster at some points, It was explained in a way that this was the flow of creation, I felt myself being destroyed over and over again, torn apart, etc. dying and reexperiencing the birth process, where I was before birth and so on. One thing that coming back was a feeling like being on a beach, but it actually was like being in a lattice like enclosure that was in deep space and it was silent except for a digital hum and every time I would get back there a voice would say "Well here we are again." and then I would be shot out again into this flow rollercoaster like thing and while on this , around me I would see pictures of things, concepts, like fragments of my thought. As well as this, this male voice would keep saying that he loved me and I was in this wonderful embrace and felt so much love. Towards the end, as I stated coming back, there was this constant dialogue, it was telling me everything and I knew it was important, but unfortunately I don't remember any of it, not one word and this must have gone on for at least a half hour. 5 hours later, it was over. I was on the other side of the room from where I started underneath a chair, drenched from sweat and apparently I had pissed myself. 
This was the most intense experience I've ever had and I'm pretty familiar with psychedelics like mushrooms and LSD, but this was something else.
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Original Message DMT THE SPIRIT MOLECULE

In November 1990 permission was finally granted to Dr. Rick Strassman to undertake a five-year study of DMT (N, N-dimethyl-tryptamine) at the University of New Mexico's School of Medicine in Albuquerque. This was to be the first legal study of a psychedelic substance in humans for over 20 years. Dr. Strassman, a clinical research psychiatrist, administered various doses of the drug (0.05mg/kg - 0.4 mg/kg) to more than 60 volunteers, adhering closely to medical protocols.

"DMT: The Spirit Molecule" is the book Dr.Strassman wrote about his experiences and those of some of the volunteers in the experiment. He goes well beyond his remit as a scientist, both in terms of his grasp of the complex spiritual, therapeutic and paradigmatic issues that are raised, and in terms of the sensitivity and care with which the research volunteers are treated. Never are they subjected to a reductionist or sceptical attitude, however bizarre their reports.

In his discussion of DMT using the name "Spirit Molecule" Strassman is fusing two approaches; one based on his detailed "nuts and bolts" scientific knowledge and the other on spiritual knowledge and practice. One of the most interesting aspects of the book is the author's investigation into the possible connection between naturally-occurring DMT in mystical states (NDE's for example) and those encountered in outwardly administered DMT. The similarities are striking. Perhaps the most striking is in the area of reported contact and communication with autonomous, intelligent, non-corporeal beings.

The extreme strangeness of the "other worlds" and their "inhabitants" he heard about caused conflicts in the author's mind about how he would choose to integrate them into his worldview (or make the leap into another?) Professional and personal allegiances were also challenged. By the time the experiment drew to a close, mounting pressure from various sources (not just scientific ones) lead to his decision to retire from publicly-funded psychedelic research. However, not before completing some truly groundbreaking work.

The "spirit molecule" is, for Dr.Strassman, essentially a kind of chemical "vehicle", enabling disembodied consciousness to be carried to other realms of existence. If McKenna and the Mayan Calendar creators were right, it may be that we will be needing this vehicle - en masse - in the near future. Rather than a redundant organ like the appendix (as it was once thought) the pineal gland, about which Strassman presents substantial evidence for an essential function in DMT production and assimilation (perhaps supplanting the previously demonstrated synthesis of DMT by blood, brain, and lung), may in fact be a FUTURE ORGAN. Upon this little pine-nut of an organ could rest a new model of brain and mind - indeed a whole new paradigm.

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