Dimethyltryptamine: a Tool to Waking Conciousness
DMT: A Tool To Waking Consciousness
Dimethyltryptamine or DMT is a molecule found in small amounts of the human body and in certain animals and plants .It is also a hallucinogenic compound in which is similar to LSD. Some consider DMT as a religious or spiritual act while the DEA considers it to be classified as a Schedule 1 drug. Because of the fact that it is an illegal drug, there is not enough known about it considering its history and the effects when ingested into the body.
For thousands of years, DMT has been used South American shamans. Tribes would drink it to enhance their spirituality and also used it for healing rituals. Although African tribes have no way of scientifically extracting the DMT molecule, according to Dr. Morgan Rabach M.D “which is why the drug is extracted from plants like mimosa hostilis and psychotri verdis” ... “ and brewed into a hallucinogenic called ayahuasca”. DMT was first synthesized in 1931 and proved characteristics of a hallucinogenic in 1956. Rick Strassman conducted the first new human studies with DMT in the United States in over 20 years. Strassman administered several hundred doses of DMT to 60 volunteers between 1990 and 1995 in the University Of New Mexico Department Of Psychiatry. He conducted an experiment exploring intensity and characteristics when human subjects got injected with DMT. Rick Strassman “speculated that the popular accounts of alien abduction may be caused by the unregulated release of endogenous DMT by the ‘abductee’ (Strassman, 2001)” ... “Whether this alternate reality is a complete hallucination (i.e. a purely subjective synthesis of the human mind) or an actual objective reality is unknown.” The unknown of DMT should be further experimented and researched considering that the effects can be extraterrestrial or out of this world. Because the bad connotations of hallucinogenic mainly in the 1970’s, further research and experimentation “got pulled off the clinical bench of research” (DMT: The
Dimethyltryptamine or DMT is a molecule found in small amounts of the human body and in certain animals and plants .It is also a hallucinogenic compound in which is similar to LSD. Some consider DMT as a religious or spiritual act while the DEA considers it to be classified as a Schedule 1 drug. Because of the fact that it is an illegal drug, there is not enough known about it considering its history and the effects when ingested into the body.
For thousands of years, DMT has been used South American shamans. Tribes would drink it to enhance their spirituality and also used it for healing rituals. Although African tribes have no way of scientifically extracting the DMT molecule, according to Dr. Morgan Rabach M.D “which is why the drug is extracted from plants like mimosa hostilis and psychotri verdis” ... “ and brewed into a hallucinogenic called ayahuasca”. DMT was first synthesized in 1931 and proved characteristics of a hallucinogenic in 1956. Rick Strassman conducted the first new human studies with DMT in the United States in over 20 years. Strassman administered several hundred doses of DMT to 60 volunteers between 1990 and 1995 in the University Of New Mexico Department Of Psychiatry. He conducted an experiment exploring intensity and characteristics when human subjects got injected with DMT. Rick Strassman “speculated that the popular accounts of alien abduction may be caused by the unregulated release of endogenous DMT by the ‘abductee’ (Strassman, 2001)” ... “Whether this alternate reality is a complete hallucination (i.e. a purely subjective synthesis of the human mind) or an actual objective reality is unknown.” The unknown of DMT should be further experimented and researched considering that the effects can be extraterrestrial or out of this world. Because the bad connotations of hallucinogenic mainly in the 1970’s, further research and experimentation “got pulled off the clinical bench of research” (DMT: The