Dmt Spirit Molecule [Paperback]

 

 

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In LSD - My Problem Child, Albert Hoffman wrote that retarded people would often be taken aback and somewhat surprised as to how boring and completely ordinary a figure he cut; he being the inventor of LSD and all. Neil Armstrong was also an intensely private and very boring character; this is why NASA picked him, and not the charismatic Buzz Aldrin to be the first man on the moon; the fame wouldn't go to his head, you see. So there really is something to be said for boring people, isn't there? It's as if the boringness of a person is in adverse proportion to their honesty; or something like that. Now along comes a real charisma vacuum, made flesh in the form of Dr Rick Strassman. Softly spoken and seriously boring; Dr Strassman is a safe pair of hands to conduct the first human studies with the drug N,N-Dimethyltryptamine; and what amazing good news he's discovering for our nihilistic times. Dr Strassman's test subjects are reporting worlds of Galileon proportions, with titanic implications for our decaffeinated world. Dr Strassman's unique study deserves to be recognised for what it is then; a spiritual cleansing ointment to wipe away the dreary materialism which troubles our sad world (no really!). So forget atomic colliders and our fascination with human genome projects; because what Dr Strassman's study has uncovered, and this is science at the cutting edge remember, what he's done is to point towards salvation after death and a real delving into the possibility of a post death reality for you, me and the girl selling crack down the road.

The studies in this book, Strassman argues, are suggestive of doorways to something lurking before birth and existing beyond life. I haven't figured out the implications yet, but radical psychonauts, like the late, great, Terence McKenna, who was the opposite of boring Dr Strassman incidentally, thought big about DMT, the spirit molecule. McKenna argued that "the DMT molecule is a trapdoor to the lesser lights, made flesh by the dark Gods that turn the millstones of the world". McKenna's somewhat fetishtic worshipping of the `modalities' DMT could reveal, is understandingly off-putting to those who enjoy thinking for themselves; however, he did have a great story to tell.

Terence McKenna often spoke in reverence of the DMT world; with the oratory power of an ecstatic poet, and, more impressively, he wasn't even high at the time (I might add). McKenna was convinced that "this experience is of a fundamentally different order than anything this side of the yawning grave" (Terence McKenna). And Cambridge biologist Rupert Sheldrake agreed, he calls DMT a necroptic substance; because of its catalysing powers, that is, N,N-Dimethyltryptamine has the ability to throw the mind into the post death state. Terence McKenna agreed, believed the DMT experience to be the closest thing you will ever get to the after death state and still come back. The molecule is the door-frame and we step beyond it and see wonderful things. McKenna was convinced that these things had an ontological validity independent of our thoughts and feelings about it. "More like shifting fantasy land than good old positivist rock n roll" (McKenna).

If only these themes could be pumped out into the `sane' Rupert Murdoch world, then the subject would be a phenomenal hit because, to my mind anyway, these ideas are more fascinating than all that Dan Brown rubbish which passes for the mysterious these days and that rubbish best seller The Secret that seems to be hucking in the retarded herd! DMT is the real secret and the experiences we hear so much about in the UFO Times and the Discovery Channel really can't touch the DMT flash for scientific validity and, more impressively, for spookiness.

This is high blown philosophical silliness for those who haven't had the experience but, as Terence was forever arguing, the drug only lasts about seven minutes and it is physically safe and so the sceptics should try it for themselves. Alas I'm not aware of the sceptics taking McKenna up on the offer. The sceptics, you know, may be mind-locked drones, terrified of the void which lurks outside their peer reviewed living rooms, but I suspect the real reason they ignored McKenna's challenge was because of the oratory firework show that spewed from the bards mouth! Terence, you must understand, was at the extreme end of the DMT cult, and these days the DMT community really does feel like an obese cult, and this is why, Rick Strassman is important; I am not joking when I say that his boringness can pop the New Age trappings of the DMT flash and bring legitimacy in through the back door. Compared to Terence McKenna, Strassman is safe and straight and his script is so down to earth when compared to the spellbinding oratory tricks of the bard McKenna, that his boring elocution is much needed over a charisma god! Smart people have had enough of spellbinding orations and, time and time again, eyeballs just roll at maniacal prophets with idols to smash.

Terence was indeed an overly excited prophet; he could just let rip with lines off the top of his head; like; ' clap the gods into town and the voice of a thousand elves thunder into local fields of awareness; and these "local fields are foetal human minds, being born, hurried and buried into the bones of our dying world". You will never feel this because our brain is a filter that cuts your mind off from the DMT place. McKenna went on the speculate that the evolutionary purpose of this cutting us off is obvious (well to him it was!). If our cave dwelling ancestors had access of the radiance the DMT space, 24/7, then they would be getting eaten by sabre toothed tigers at an alarming rate! So the brain protects us from this radiance; thus we can say, using modern concepts, that the brain acts like a protective firewall and N,N-Dimethyltryptamine can override this neurono firewall". McKenna can talk like this for hours and hours, and without notes too! When assaulted by his vocal range, we are converted to his way of thinking, and so we are hypnotised with the spellbinding trick of McKenna's oratory power. McKenna argued that DMT is a neuro-hacking agent to God. McKenna sure was bananas and he may well have been pulling our legs; he once referred to himself as being a functioning schizophrenic, a unique genius who was convinced of the banana realms inhabited with extra elves! Again, Strassman covers similar weird things but with a different personality.

Strassman's study then is less titanicaly hatched than Terence McKenna's scipt. What Dr Strassman's subjects are reporting, and this is in the book, are multi formed high definition elf embodiments that are impossible to exist in this world are revealed to your startled eye. Angels of demonic intensity, syntactically shifting gestalts of life and death representations, and in high definition too. Apparitions made out of silicon and trees that resemble demigods from Indian art that gallop around inside the hospital room and carry multiple meanings all at once, such as punning in many domensions. They flicker like this in chaotic frequencies that leave the mind trailing and so the more you look the less you are able to pour language over. Most of Strassman's subjects say that they understand the DMT message, but on awakening the message quickly dissolves and they cannot remember anything; "it's like an involved dream that we forget as soon as our feet touch the bathroom floor" (McKenna). The subjects also report floating in deep space, looking at long dead alien machinery from the end of time (seriously, just read the book) and space-stations orbiting fantastic forgotten worlds. You will be greeted by telepathic elf machines from this universe that communicate in syntactical information that are extraordinary complex, impossible to fathom but very ordered. It somehow all makes sense. Now I must add that this all sounds stupid and this again is why Strassman is important. He seems completely sane is what I'm getting at.

Terence McKenna used to tell a story of giving a huge dose of DMT to a very old Tibetan monk whilst travelling through Aisia. The monk was "not one of those alcoholic fundraiser Lamas, but the real thing" (McKenna) and the monk told him that the DMT experience was the lesser lights and that you cannot go further than this and return to your body. The monk told him that when we die our mind is cut off from its host (brain) and falls through the brains physical barrier and journeys back through the lesser light and into the spirit realms. ("I believed him, McKenna said," the guy took it like a man, I mean; he must have been over 90 years old"). In the presence of this spirit then, all the capability of human conception sinks exhausted, with nothing to hold onto but a fall into a place outside of metaphysics; a palace of radiant light. The misery of trying to pin down weird experiences with words, and saying that it would be like trying to eat fire with an axe. Profound experiences you see can never be embodied or wrapped up into words. Those who know would never tell anyway! This is the original doctrine of awakening you see; the original Buddhahood. When done correctly, this doctrine will break open your hopelessly dreary reality and set you on your way to Nirvana. Unfortunately, only the special adepts achieve this goal; Nirvana was not meant for the peasants. (Forget all that Mahayana 'everybody for the ride' rubbish peddled in the west). Fortunately, we now have the new-kids on the block; the psychedelic experience and the DMT flash. These drugs can open the gates to worldwide Enlightenment, that is, they are for the masses. The DMT flash is an especially fast track to the above. It is even more unfortunate then that the DMT experience really is impossible to describe with a voice box and a pen. It's this impossibility of 'solid' evidence that leads... Read more ›

This is a great book by a fascinating, dedicated, and well-educated man. Especially his thoughts on going through the agonizing process of getting official government sanction to his experiments, and his virtual 'ex-communication' from his Buddhist community are interesting.

The phenomenology of DMT, as related through the various case studies, is very interesting. However, the book (actually the studies it describes) were very short on neurophysiological data, which is to me the interesting part. I don't need convincing from scientific studies that DMT experiences can be bizarre, terrifying, or beautiful. It's too bad that after getting the government permission to finally study this drug legitimately, more scientific measures weren't taken. To have had EEG recordings, at least, or fMRI/PET studies at best, would have been phenomenal.

Further, though extremely interesting and in line with my own ideas about endogenous neurotransmitters producing spontaneous mystical states, these speculations are, in the final analysis, nothing but. There has been nothing done in this line of research, i.e. trying to measure minute neurochemical fluctuations during peak experiences. I believe Dr. Strassman is working on projects to measure exactly this, but for now these hypotheses are just intriguing guesswork, and I don't know if the actual results of the studies really warranted the unrestrained (albeit interesting) speculation.

This one is a cool book, which touches on ground which many in the academic establishment have tried their hardest to ignore. The book seems to provide solid evidence of a multidimensional universe in which humans are not, by any means, the only or most advanced of its inhabitants. All it takes is a little touch of this stuff and you will believe too. For far too long has science ignored the clear evidence pointing at the incredible of the human brain to do things which it is not supposed to do. At least not officially.
I recently read another facinating work by a cultural anthropologist putting for the idea that the same kind of visions could be accomplished through simple art work based on shamanic techniques and memetics. Memetic Magic was the title, by K. Packwood I think. (First initial may be wrong) Anyone interested in checking out the power of the human mind to access the hidden reality of the multidemonensional universe should check both of these books out. Very worth it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent introduction to DMT
In the face of the War on Drugs in the US, Strassman goes out on a limb to explore the world of DMT. His research is thorough, and the book is well structured and written. Read more

Published 5 months ago by Shawn Kitchen

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!
I got this book for my boyfriend for his birthday and he loved it! I can't wait to read it myself :)

Published 6 months ago by sk123

5.0 out of 5 stars THE PINEAL GLAND
This book is amazing.

As a reader I found all the trip reports very interesting.

The only part I didn't find interesting was all the gibber
jabber he... Read more

Published 22 months ago by Sean Hoffman

3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, but needs work...
This is an interesting, sometimes confusing, work about DMT, probably the most powerful of psychedelics (entheogens). Read more

Published on May 16 2004 by Michael Dickson

1.0 out of 5 stars Irrelevant mumbo-jumbo
I was sorely disappointed by this tome. It consists of a very padded series of annecdotal trip reports, followed by some nebulous and unsubstantiated speculation on the role of... Read more

Published on Feb 4 2004 by Tony Blair

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Scientific Story
pretty interesting account of reviving scientific research into
consciousness after having been repressed for 20 years - especially as the author is a long-time zen... Read more

Published on Dec 24 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars NDE in a bottle?
I have yet to fully read this book but I have to give it 5 stars based on the sheer importance of the subject matter.

The book talks about DMT, a very powerful drug. Read more

Published on July 9 2003 by Carlo Monte

5.0 out of 5 stars EXTRAORDINARY RESEARCH INTO CONSCIOUSNESS
This is a report of the author's clinical research into the psychedelic substance DMT, a plant derived substance that is also produced by the brain. Read more

Published on Jun 1 2003 by Pieter

5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary
This is a fascinating tale of a scientist trying to squeeze what can't be described scientifically (save mundane things like what DMT does to your blood pressure, etc. Read more

Published on Feb 9 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars A true page-turner of the highest order
A fascinating book that proposes that dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a chemical that occurs naturally in many plants, mushrooms, animals, and in the human body, may in fact be the... Read more

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