DMT

N, N-DMT
Commune with Spirits

Get the groundbreaking new book by confirmed square and non-hippy Dr. Rick Strassman, DMT, the Spirit Molecule, wherein U.S. government researchers in the 90s discover that DMT is released in the pineal gland in your brain every night around 4 a.m. (source of reports of alien abduction, anyone?) and also released in the brain by the developing fetus at 48 days – triggering the first measurable thought processes, and bringing in a whole new paradigm for the abortion debate – is it really all that ethically controversial before 48 days, then?

DMT – n, n-dimethyltryptamine – is closely related to the brain neurotransmitter serotonin, 5-HT – 5-hydroxytryptamine.

DMT lasts five minutes and is the most visually psychedelic substance on the planet, occurring  throughout plants, animals, and within human brains.  It is the psychoactive ingredient in ayahuasca in the Amazon.

It has been experienced as an elfin-crafted hypersonic anti-grav device; you can “see” things that resemble demons/angels/extraterrestrials, which is not necessarily a good thing, because maybe you shouldn’t be puncturing that membrane into the implicate order.  

Metaphysical/Epistemological Explanations

It could be several things.  Occam’s Razor would dictate #1.  In no particular order:

#1- Scientific View – secreted by pineal gland, a key chemical responsible for our perception/imagination of time passing in the material plane  – an extension of your ability to see a man in the moon, or faces in door paneling, AKA “Pareidolia.” An “amplifier” per Owsley.

 #2- Science Fiction View – Hyperawareness so that ultra-advanced alien spirits can be seen and felt and communicated with through quantum wormholes, similar in respect to Ketamine.  The Universe is a very populated place.

 or .. #3 – Pagan view – an extension of your ability to see the nature spirits when you are in the wild, or

#4 – Christian view – DEMONS  The fruit in the Garden of Eden was psychedelics.

 #5.  Psychedelic Christian view – It is one of the plants of the Earth given to us to use as we see fit. Christ is Cosmic.   

Or, could it be the neural home of the ancient proto Indo-European “Root Language,” the Elf/Alphernas Beten Ur Lingua?

‘The Tykes…’ Excerpt from Terence McKenna:

Partial Transcription of a taped workshop with Ethnobotanist, Shamanologist, and Psychedelico, Terence McKenna, May 26/27, 1990 – New  Mexico

Well, I suppose it’s an invitation to describe a DMT trip, which is never to be passed up. Because I think, I think what we’re talking about here is a continuum, I’m talking about a very narrow band of experience. A continuum of experience that comes through tryptamine hallucinogens: DMT, Psilocybin, and the  DMT-Harmine combination… and that’s it… Mescaline doesn’t, isn’t what I’m talking about. Ketamine certainly isn’t what I’m talking about. Datura certainly isn’t what I’m talking about. And some of these are plants, and some of them are synthetic drugs, but it’s a very narrow spectrum of these highly visionary ones, and then the most visionary, the quintessence is DMT.

I mean, I think that DMT is as intense as any drug should ever get; I don’t ever want to be  more loaded than that. I don’t think you can be more loaded than that and come back. You know? What happens on DMT for me, and this is based on, you know, composite  image of many experiences, and I’ve confirmed it to some degree with other people, but I was talking to somebody the other day, somebody who had just done it, and I said, “what  did you think?” and they said: “It’s the most idiosyncratic thing there is.” and I thought, what a wonderful description, that’s exactly what it is – it’s pure idiosyncraticness. It’s so idiosyncratic that’s all there’s there – it’s like idiosyncracy without an object, is what DMT is.

When you smoke this, the onset is very rapid. 30-45 seconds, you know? There’s this feeling which comes over your body – half arousal, half anaesthesia. The air appears to suddenly have been sucked out of the room because all the colors brighten visibly, as  though some intervening medium has been removed.

And then there’s a sound, like a piece of bread wrapper or cellophane being scrunched up  and thrown away. A friend of mine says this is radio-entelechy leaving the anterior fontanelle at the top of your head. [laughter] I’m not sure I want to line up with that… but  a membrane is being ripped; something is being torn.

And then there is a total (what Mircea Eliade called in a wonderful phrase) “a complete  rupture of the mundane plane”. [laughter] You know? That’s like a hit and run accident except the car came from hyperspace, you know? A complete rupture of the mundane plane.

And you fall back into this hallucinogenic space, and what you  see is a slowly rotating red and orange kind of thing, which, over the years we’ve nicknamed, uh, ‘The Chrysanthemum’. And it’s.. this represents some kind of disequilibrium state that  has its roots in the synapses. What’s happening as you’re watching this Chrysanthemum is that millions and then hundreds of millions of DMT molecules are rushing into  these serotonin bond sites in the synaptic cleft and disrupting the serotonin and switching the electron spin resonance signature of these neural junctions in this ‘other’ direction.

And this is taking, you know, 30 or 40 seconds, and there’s this rising hum, this ____nnnmmmmMMMMMMMM^^^^ that rising tone; the flying saucer tone of Hollywood  B movies… you actually hear this thing.

And then, if you’ve taken enough DMT (and it has to do entirely with physical capacity: Did  you take, did you cross the threshold?) something happens [clap] which… for which there are no words. A membrane is rent, and you are propelled into this ‘place’. And language  cannot describe it – accurately. Therefore I will inaccurately describe it.

The rest is now lies. [laughter] When you break into this space, you have several  impressions simultaneously that are a kind of gestalt: First of all (and why, I don’t know) you have the impression that you are underground – far underground – you can’t say why,  but there’s just this feeling of immense weight above you but you’re in a large space, a vaulted dome. People even call it ‘The DMT dome’ I have said, had people say to me,  “Have you been under the dome?” and I knew exactly what they meant.

So you burst into this space. It’s lit, sofeted lighting, some kind of indirect  lighting you can’t quite locate it. But what is astonishing and immediately riveting is that in this place there are entities – there are these things, which I call ‘self transforming machine elves ‘, I also call them self-dribbling basketballs. [laughter]

 They are, but they are none of these things. I mean you have to understand: these are  metaphors in the truest sense, meaning they’re lies! Uh, it’s a jeweled self-transforming basketball, a machine elf. I name them ‘Tykes’ because tyke is a word that means to me a  small child, and I was fascinated by the 54th fragment of Heraclitis, where he says: “The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls” … and when you burst into the DMT space this  is the Aeon – it’s a child, and it’s at play with colored balls, and I am in eternity, apparently, in the presence of this thing. There are many of these things, but the main  thing that’s happening is that they are engaged in a linguistic activity of some sort, which we do not have words for, but it’s visible language. They are doing the visible language trip. When you break into the space, they actually cheer! The first thing you hear when you pass across is this ‘hhhyeaaaaaayyy’ – you know the Pink Floyd song? “The  Gnomes have Learned a New Way to Say Hoo-Ray”? This has gotta be what these guys were talking about; how else could it be? It doesn’t make any sense otherwise.

 [laughter] You break into this space… the gnomes say hoo-ray! And they come rushing forward and they, and, and the thing then that happens is… and people say “is there risk, to DMT? it sounds so intense…

Is it dangerous?

The answer is: yes, it’s tremendously dangerous; the danger is the possibility of death by astonishment. [laughter]

And you must prepare yourself for this eventuality, because you are so amazed. Amazement seems to be the emotion that has torn loose and swamped everything else – I mean astounded?

When was the last time you were genuinely ‘ASTOUNDED’? I mean, I think you can go your whole damned life without being ‘ASTOUNDED’… and this is astonishment, you know, raised to the N-th degree to the point that your jaw hangs…

It raises issues: like you say, “Jesus, ah, huhh … I must be dead!” And you, and the weird thing about DMT is it does not effect what we ordinarily call the mind. The part that you call “you” – nothing happens to it. You’re just like you were before, but the World has been radically replaced – 100% – it’s all gone, and you’re sitting there, and you’re saying, “Jesus, a minute ago I was in a room with some people, and they were pushing some weird drug on me, and, and now, what’s happened? Is this the Drug? Did we do it? Is this it?” And meanwhile, these things are saying: “Do not give way to amazement; Control your wonder.”

in other words, they try to bring you down. They say,

“Don’t just goof out on this; pay attention. PAY ATTENTION… to what we’re doing.”

“OK, what’re you doing?…” [laughter] Say this is what we’re doing, and then they proceed to sing objects  into existence. Amazing objects. Objects that are Faberge Eggs, things made of pearl, and metal, and glass, and gel, and you, when you’re shown one of these things, a single one of them, you look at it an you know,  without a shadow of a doubt, in the moment of looking at this thing, that if it were right here, right now, this world would go mad. It’s like something from another dimension.

It’s like an artifact from a flying  saucer. It’s like something falling out of the mind of God – such objects DO not exist in this universe, and yet, you’re looking at it. And they’re clamoring for your attention.

 ” ‘k at this! ‘ook at This! Look at THIS!”

and they pull these things… and each one, you look into it and it begins to open into this wonder that you must fight. You say “No, don’t look at it,  look AWAY from it!” because it’s so wonderful that it’s swamping my objectivity and destroying my ability to function in this space.

Well, then they say “do“…

And the objects that they make  have the peculiar ability to themselves generate this linguistic ‘stuff’ which condenses as other objects. So beings are making objects, showing you objects, the objects are turning into beings and making other objects,  these beings and objects, they jump into your chest – and then they jump back out.

They jump into your body and disappear into your body, and then they jump back out, waving these things, just throwing this stuff in  all directions. They are – the word that comes to mind is: they are Zany. It’s like a Bugs Bunny cartoon, uh, gone mad. And all of this energy – they are elves. This is what elves are. It’s this wierd thing, where they  love you – or they like you a lot, but you can tell that their sense of humor is Weird. And that you must be very careful of the deals you cut with these things. and and in fact I’ve spent so much time trying to understand what is this.

It has different kinds of feelings about it. One is (and this  really threw me for a loop when I figured this out) after many many of these trips, and analyzing this place I kept going to, I finally realized: “this place is… somebody very weird… it’s their idea of a  reassuring environment for a human being! It’s like a playpen . It’s this warm. well lit, secure, womblike environment, and when I break into it they these things, the elves and the toys, are toys! These are  things to amuse me. The way you would hang, uh, cubes and blocks above a crad… a playpen, you know? Because children are supposed to coordinate shapes and bright colors. That’s what these things are: they are toys to  try and get me to coordinate my perception in this place. It’s a holding area of some sort – someone’s created this and is watching me.

OK – that’s one metaphor for what it is. Another metaphor is… I took this stuff  to Tibetans, to the Amazon. I gave it to Tibetans, they said “this is the lesser lights, the lesser lights of the Bardo. You cannot go further into the Bardo and return. This takes you as far as you can go.”  When I gave it to shamans in the Amazon, they said “It’s strong – but this is, these are the ancestors. These are the spirits that we work with. These are ancestor souls. We know this place.”

Well then, the  third and final metaphor, because when you’re in that place you have such complex emotions – very complex emotions – something weird is going on with time, because you perceive your body image as infantile. You seem to  have a very large head, and a very small body, and very short limbs. And, you know, I dunno what that’s about.

But they’re, uh, this…

Then the last facet of it that I want to mention is: there is this ‘you must be  on your toes’ thing – don’t let these guys get behind you. They are tricky. And their elfin humor may not be your idea of a good time.

[laughter] And I said to myself, where have I had, before, this feeling that I’m  having now. It’s a feeling of being with people that I can’t trust, but who want to help me, and who seem to be trying to, uh, cut a deal. That was the word that gave me the clue.  And then I remembered, “I know where I felt like this – I felt like this in the Crawford Market in Bombay when I had a kilo of Gold in my pocket and I was trying to trade it for hashish, and I was surrounded by all these Arab hash traders, and they were saying “we’re your friend, just wait, don’t worry…” And say “yes, I KNOW you’re my friend and I’m NOT worrying, but, you know, brbrbrrr… perform!” And so then I said: “Aha the creatures in the DMT flash are Traders…” They’re Traders. And that’s what this weird feeling is – it’s a business environment in there. [laughter] We’re having a business meeting. THey’re saying… and then the objects! Then I remembered- the objects… they’re trade goods! They’re saying: “How about thissss! How about This!”.

What do they want? What do I have that they want?… They’re meme traders, is what it is. And I think that what they wanted, and got, and took – without bothering to even say a word about it – was everything I  knew about the “I Ching”. And they’re like art collectors. They say “well, the idea is primitive, and primitive in its execution, but with a certain kind of internal integrity that one really must  respect…” So they’re primitive art collectors , and what they left me with, then, was, uh, my own, you know, their model of time. Which is the closest thing to one of these hyperdimensional objects. The  objects themselves cannot exist in this world. But the blueprints of them can. And this afternoon, if the computers are up and running, I will run through this ‘time idea’ with you.

And I think I will be able to  convince you that it has a weirdly crafted patina to it, that, the feeling is it didn’t spring from human minds, it, it is a creature of another kind of mental universe. And I think, you know, aside from the crisis on  this planet and our own personal difficulties this is the real challenge of the psychedelic thing; is to meet the inhabitants and trade with them. And set up a relationship.

The notion traders. They can trade  hyperspacial notions from across the cosmos. And this may be all the extraterrestrial contact that we’re, uh, going to be vouch-safed, you know?

There has been an alarming increase lately in the number of things about which I know absolutely  nothing.

Description and properties

(Microscopic Photo of a DMT crystal, Pictured) DMT, N,N-diemethyltryptamine, Nigerine, desoxybufotenine, 3-(2-dimethylaminoethyl)-indole is a white, pungent-smelling, crystalline solid with a melting point of 49-50 degrees Celsius, hydrochloride salt hygroscopic, picrate m.p. 171-172 degrees Celsius and methiodide m.p. 215-216 degrees Celsius. It is insoluble in water, but soluble in organic solvents and aqueous acids.

History

DMT was first synthesized in 1931, and demonstrated to be hallucinogenic in 1956. It has been shown to be present in many plant genera (Acacia, Anandenanthera, Mimosa, Piptadenia, Virola) and is a major component of several hallucinogenic snuffs (cohoba, parica, yopo). It is also present in the intoxicating beverage “ayahuasca” made from Banisteriopsis caapi, and it may have oral effectiveness due to the presence of several naturally occuring inhibitors of catabolic deamination.

Human Biochemistry and Pharmacology

Both the parent compound tryptamine and the N-methyltransferase system which is capable of converting it to DMT, occur in humans, but there is as yet no evidence that DMT is formed “in vivo”. DMT has nonetheless been identified in trace amounts in the blood and urine of both normals and of schizophrenic patients, but its origins and functions are unknown. Following intramuscular administration, maximum blood levels of about 100 ng/ml are observed in 10 minutes, coincident with the maximum changes in electroencephalographic responses. The plasma clearance t-1/2 [half-life] is about 15 minutes. Elevated blood levels of indoleacetic acid (IAA) are seen during the time of peak effects, implying its role as a metabolite. Urine levels of IAA are also elevated and account for about 30% of the administered drug. An increase in 5-hydroxy-IAA excretion suggests the involvement of serotonin in DMT action. Unchanged DMT is not excreted.

Human Psychopharmacology

DMT is inactive orally at dosages of over 1000mg. With intramuscular injection, there is an abrupt threshold of activity shown with 30mg, and a complete psychedelic experience results from the administration of 50-70mg (75mg subcutaneously, 30mg by inhalation). An unusual feature of the induced intoxication is the speed of onset and short duration. Within 5 minutes of administration there is mydriasis [dilated pupils], tachycardia [rapid heart beat], a measurable increase in blood pressure, and related vegetative disturbances which usually persist througout the drug experience. In 10-15 minutes, the full intoxication is realized, generally characterized by hallucinations with the eyes either open or closed, and extensive movement within the visual field. There is difficulty in the expression of one’s thoughts, and in concentration on a given subject. There is usually a mood change to the euphoric with unmotivated laughter, but instances have been reported in which paranoid ideation has promoted anxieties and feelings of forboding into a state of panic. The subject is largely symptom-free at 60 minutes, although some residual effects have been seen in the second hour. With the inhalation route of administration the time scale is contracted, with onset of effects noted in 10 seconds, a short period of full intoxication at 2-3 minutes, and a complete freedom from any residual effects within 10 minutes. At higher drug levels, there are increased vegetative symptoms, and these effectively overwhelm the psychedelic experience at dosages of 150mg i.m. Interactions with other drugs are rarely seen; a sensitivity has been observed with pretreatment with methlysergide, but there is no cross-tolerance with LSD. Repeated usage does not appear to lead to either physical or psychological dependency.

Legal Status

DMT is explicitly named as a Schedule I drug in the Federal Controlled Substances Act; registry number 7435. (United States of America)

Hyperspace Gracie & Zarkov Terence McKenna Land

DMT- How & Why to Get Off

a note from underground by ‘Gracie and Zarkov’

Number 3.

DMT, (N,N-dimethyltryptamine is not orally active (by itself), and must be smoked to experience its effects. Tolerance for the drug builds almost immediately. If you don’t get enough in the first 30 seconds, smoking more will not put you into the far out visionary DMT state, but will only result in a more ‘ordinary’ hallucinogenic state. If on an attempt, you don’t get enough, you must wait at least one hour before trying again (smoking multiple doses within the hour can result in you seeing the patterns but it is almost impossible to break through to the extreme states described below). Furthermore, the actual mechanics of smoking DMT can be quite tricky. In our experience, without careful attention to technique, about half the DMT shots misfire. Therefore, it is essential to use effective technique in order not to waste the drug. In this paper we offer three different tested techniques in an easy to follow step-by-step format; We have also included our description (however inadequate) of what a DMT trip is like.

We are well aware of how scarce a substance DMT is. We had to undertake a long, intensive search to secure a supply of this marvelous drug in the smokeable, freebase form. The search was well worth it! One of the reasons for writing this paper is, hopefully, to increase the demand for DMT. If this paper intrigues you, we suggest that the you seek out a supply of your own. Look for DMT in the smokeable freebase, not hydrochloride form. You will not be disappointed.

Getting Ready

1. We recommend a uniformly, though not brightly, lit room. Unlike with mushrooms, in total darkness the DMT visions are rather drab. In full sunlight the colors are unbelievably intense with red and gold predominating but we feel that bright sunlight tends to obscure some of the intricate detail so characteristic of DMT visions. We usually do it during the day in a room that is brightly lit with indirect light.
2. Get comfortably seated where you can lie back and rest your head during the trance. If you smoke DMT standing up, you will almost certainly fall on your ass if you get a good hit!
3. We recommend a dosage of about 40-50 mg. The dosage should be weighed out and not eyeballed. Dosages below 25 mg yield only physical and threshold psychedelic effects. Dosages between 25 mg and 40 mg are usually not enough to display the full range of the unique DMT effects described below. Dosages in excess of 55 mg, particularly if you are successful in holding all of the vapor in your lungs, can be VERY heavy and are not recommended for f irst time users.

Method One: The ‘Freebase’ Method

4a. Obtain a ‘freebase’ airpipe such as the one illustrated below. Use with the largest funnel type bowl you can find. Insert the largest fine mesh stainless steel screen that will fit into the bowl. Then sprinkle the DMT uniformly over the center of the mesh screen. Make sure to keep thE DMT away from the edges of the screen so that when it melts it does not run over the edge of the screen.

FREE BASE AIR PIPE CLASSIC DMT PIPE

5a. Hold a match or torch above the screen and inhale deeply and slowly. Do not let the flame touch the DMT as this will destroy much of the drug. DMT melts and vaporizes easily so the point is to let the hot air rushing by the flame into the pipe vaporize the DMT. It is quite easy to vaporize the DMT and end up with the airchamber full of white DMT vapor.

Method Two: The Classic Psychedelic Ranger Method

4b. If you hanq out around a good glassblower or long time ‘head’ you might be able to obtain a classic DMT pipe such as the one illustrated. Load the DMT into the glass reaction chamber and heat the outside bottom of the chamber with a flame.

5b. When the white vapor appears, breathe in deeply and slowly. If you inhale too soon or too quickly, the powdered DMT will be blown down your throat. It is not active that way. Make sure that all of the DMT is vaporized. In the absence of a classic DMT pipe, some people use a regular ‘hash oil’ pipe heated from the outside. We find this too tricky to be reliable. You are just as likely to end up with boiling liquid DMT in your mouth. (That’s why the classic pipe has a ‘V’ shaped stem.) We personally use the ‘freebase’ method.

In either case…

1. The smoke is very harsh. It tastes like burning plastic. It isn’t particularly hot, but you will have a tendency to cough. On each toke try to hold your breath for as long as possible. Exhale and immediately take a second toke. The physical effects, a buzzing or vibration throughout your whole body, come on first. The intensity of these effects is not a reliable guide to the dosage of DMT that you have consumed. Keep taking lungfuls and holding them until all of the premeasured DMT is consumed. Gracie suggests that the best way to smoke DMT is to try to smoke as much as you can before you inevitably fall into a trance. While not recommended for beginners, it does capture the approach you should take towards smoking your premeasured dose. One advantage of the ‘freebase’ method is that the 50 mg of DMT can be divided into three toke sized piles. The smaller amount can be easily vaporized and inhaled in one breath with the screen being reloaded with DMT after each toke.
2. Just as you feel yourself ‘going over the top’, exhale. Breathe normally, close your eyes and enjoy the visions. Your companions should be instructed to take the pipe from you when you close your eyes because you will have poor motor control. Since you will be in a trance for 4-8 minutes, you should also have told them not to disturb you. To them you will look like you are asleep. This is not a social drug or one to be taken casually; you will be entranced.
3. When you come our of the trance, remain seated for about 10 more minutes as you will still have only shaky control of your limbs.
4. In 30 minutes from the time you started you will be pretty much down, but still euphoric. You will be completely down after a total of about one hour.

1O. We do not recommend that DMT be combined with other drugs. It should be done on a clean head. Marijuana fogs the effects. It is not a party drug: the effects are most entertaining experienced in a quiet room. When DMT is smoked at the peak of a mushroom or LSD trip, the effects are spectacular, but only recommended for the experienced, most brave (or some might say, most foolhardy) of investigators. The effects used at the peak of another psychedelic can last for several hours.

Notes on the Visual Stages of a DMT Trip

0 – 20 seconds – a scratchiness in the lungs

20 – 30 seconds – a buzzing starts in the ears, rising in tone and volume to an incredible intensity. Its like cellophane being ripped apart (or the fabric of the universe being torn asunder). Your body will vibrate in sympathy with this sound, and you will notice a sharp blood pressure rise. You may feel like you are deeply underwater. Wearing a unitard or leotard and tights helps to minimize this sensation. Your visual field will also vibrate in resonance to the sound and will finally be completely obscured by the visions.

30 seconds – 1 minute – You break through into DMT hyperspace. Often at this point, users believe that their hearts or breathing have stopped. This is not true. To an outside observer, you are breathing normally and your pulse, while elevated, is strong. We believe that this subjective effect is due to your ‘internal clock’ being slowed so greatly that the subjective time interval between breaths or heartbeats seems like an eternity. Synthetic DMT has been extensively tested by medical authorities here and in Europe. It is perfectly safe with no lasting physical effects at these doses. However, since smoked DMT causes an abrupt blood pressure increase, it is probably not good for people with abnormally high blood pressure.

1 minute – 2 – 5 minutes – depending on dosage: DMT hyperspace. For all practical purposes, you will no longer be embodied. You will be part of tne intergalactic information network. You may experience any of the following:

Sense of transcending time or space Strange plants or plantlike forms The universe of formless vibration Strange machines Alien music Alien languages, understandable or not Intelligent entities in a variety of forms

Do not be amazed and do not try to actively direct your observations but merely pay attention. The beings can show you amazing things, but if you try to impose vour personal trip on the DMT you will find that you cannot and may become frightened.

At the end of the ‘flash’ of the visions you will have an after-vision of circular interlocking patterns in exquisite colors. It has been described as looking at a vaulted ceiling or dome. If you did not ‘breakthrough’ to the levels described above, this ‘chrysanthemum’ pattern, as we call it, is all you will see. It is worth the trip, too.

You may begin to wonder how you will ever find your way back to your body. If you have taken enough DMT to fully ‘breakthrough’, by the time you can even wonder about it, you are almost back. Trust in your own wetware; your psyche and your body will be reunited. Worrying will only prolong the process.

5 – 12 minutes – The visions have subsided. There are still patterns when you close your eyes, but with eyes open the world is back. At this point a flood of information may rush through your mind. The phase is fleeting. In order to preserve your DMT ideation, we recommend that you begin talking as soon as you come out of the visionary state. Don’t try for complete sentences but get as many ideas out as you can while you can. Have a tape recorder running during the trip and you can review your thoughts at a later time.

15 – 30 minutes – The ideation flood subsides leaving you euphoric. You may still have a trace of the vibrations in your body.

30 – 60 minutes – The euphoria subsides.

60+ minutes – You are completely down.

Note: While we recommend above not to combine DMT with other hallucinogens, we have had excellent results using DMT as a ‘pre-dose’ for LSD, MDMA, MDA, or mushrooms. The technique is to take the second hallucinogen orally just as you come out of the vision state. The resulting trip will be more profound and will help you to understand the strange and alien vistas which you were shown while on the DMT. (For more details, see our Note from underground no. 4.)

Method Three: The Tryptamine Giggles

If the description of the DMT effects sound too heavy for you, (we certainly don’t deny that DMT can be a heavy trip) 25 mg of DMT can be mixed with some dope in a joint or in a pipe and smoked in a liesurely fashion. The giggley mood lift is quite pleasant. The occasional breaking through of abstract hallucinatory patterns can liven up an otherwise quite ordinary stoned-again evening. However, we would recommend that before you burn up all your DMT in this fashion that you at least try one high dose trip as described.

Finally, while there is no such thing as a ‘typical’ DMT experience, we have attached a note of ours (reprinted from High Frontiers, issue 2) to this paper which describes one of our DMT trips. The most accessible information on DMT is Peter Stafford’s Psychedelics Encyclopedia. Terence McKenna, who offers, in our opinion, the most sophisticated analysis of the DMT experience, has two excellent cassette tapes which discuss the DMT state: Mind, Molecules and Magic. June 1984; and Tryptamine Hallucinogens and Consciousness, December 1982. They are available from Dolphin Tapes, P.O. Box 71, Big Sur, CA 93920 for $9.00 plus tax and $2.00 postage. (Note: this is dated, try SoundPhotosynthesis)

a hit of dmt 10/9/84 – zarkov

i loaded about 40-50 milligrams of dmt into a glass pipe on top of a small amount of damiana. even though i had been warned, i was still shocked at how harsh the first toke was. it tasted and smelled like burning plastic. i involuntarily exhaled. i immediately took a second toke. the heavy white smoke rushed up the pipe as harsh as before, but i was somewhat better prepared for the terrible taste and i was able to hold the smoke for a few seconds. i exhaled, took a third toke, and was able to hold this last lungful. suddenly i began to hear a loud, moderately high-pitched carrier wave. immediately, the room started vibrating in sympathy. the pattern on the wall hangings oscillated madly in time to the buzzing that overlaid the carrier wave’s fundamental tone. simultaneously, a heavy, trembling feeling swept over my entire body as if i were being propelled at multiple g acceleration by some giant rocket engine. my visual field dissolved in the most amazing colors. i could not see the room over the intensity of the visual effects. the events of the preceding paragraph occurred in the space of a few short seconds.

closing my eyes, i got a glimpse of several entities moving in front of a giant complex control panel. the visions were not crystal clear and seemed as if i were viewing it through a scrim. the creatures were bipedal and of about human size. it was impossible to say more other than they did not move like the giant insect creatures i have seen clearly under the influence of stropharia mushrooms. there was a direct awareness of an overwhelmingly powerful and knowledgable presence! it was neither frightening, nor encouraging. it was just mentally there. a thought came, unbidden, into my head. i realized that i was viewing ‘god central.’ the central panel i saw was the control panel for the entire universe.

the vision was fleeting and dissolved into a vision of much greater clarity. a gaggle of elf-like creatures in standard issue irish elf costumes, complete with hats, looking like they had stepped out of a hallmark cards ‘happy saint patrick’s day’ display, were doing strange things with strange objects that seemed to be a weird hybrid between crystals and machines.

this vision was also fleeting, and it dissolved into a visual pattern unlike that experienced by me on any other psychedelic or combination of psychedelics. the visuals were interlocking sinusoidal patterns arranged in a japanese chrysanthemum pattern that filled my entire visual field. the pattern was ever-changing and the colors of the individual patterns changed independently of the underlyng pattern. the colors were intense and came in a magnificent variety of colors: metallics, monochromes, pastels, each flickering in and out of existence as if obeying some undetected ordering principle.

an idea came into my head that i was seeing the ‘true universe’ or universe as it really exists. that is to say, i was seeing directly the vibrations of every particles in the universe that ‘i’ was somehow in contact with. ‘i’ was directly ‘seeing’ the universe withough ordering it into an arbitrary reality tunnel — i.e., perceived ‘solid, objective reality.’ the visual pattern seemed to be a sort of m-dimensional lissajous curve formed by the intersection of ‘i’ with the shock wave of space-time causality.

the carrier wave remained strong throughout the experience. while definitely the same type of phenomena as the carrier wave heard under the influence of psilocybin mushrooms, the dmt carrier wave was much louder than even the loud carrier wave heard under the influence of ten grams of very potent, dried stropharia mushrooms. also, by comparison to the mushroom experience, the carrier wave sounded as a ‘purer’ tone — i.e., the sinusoidal component dominated the buzzng component. my throat was too sore from the harsh smoke and the control of my breathing was hindered by the intensity of the expereince, so i was unable to sing or even generate a solid tone, to attempt audio driving of the visuals.

the overwhelming sense of a presence did not disappear when the vision changed to visual patterns, but remained an almost palpable entity as lon as the visuals remained intense. I never felt the foreboding — let alone the direct challenges — I have felt under the influence of stropharia mushrooms whenever the feeling of contact with the presence has been strong. the presence was just there and very powerful. I felt that I had glimpsed Whitehead’s god.

The period of intense visuals lasted about eight minutes. the side effects remained unpleasant, but easily ignorable. The DMT left me euphoric and very bemused for about an hour.

definitely far out and very impressive! Copyright December 1984 by Gracie and Zarkov Productions. We believe that in a truly free society the price of packaged information would be driven down to the cost of reproduction and transmission. We, therefore, give blanket permission and encourage photocopy, quotation, reprint or entry into a database of all or part of our articles provided that the copier or quoter does not take credit for our statements. Revised August 1985.

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Going Further

This is from a NY practitioner named Thor: DMT is best taken with extensive yoga, mental preparation, and Syrian Rue, an MAO exciter, 3 pulverized grams taken an hour before – 3 separate doses – on an empty stomach. Syrian Rue potentiates the effects of DMT, and extends the effects to over an hour. It begins with a psychedelic MRI for 30 minutes. Unbending intent is key, and more time is experienced within your particular time/space continnuum.

Similarity to Melatonin & Serotonin

Apparently, dream occurrences happen because melatonin is metabolised into 5-Methoxy-Dimethyltryptamine, which is the chemical responsible for dreams. The human body contains both DMT and 5-methoxy-DMT… the body converts tryptophan into DMT, 5-methoxy-DMT and serotonin… and this may be case the case with melatonin since it’s very similar chemically. I’ve not seen any hard proof on this yet, but I strongly believe it to be true.”

We’re ALL “Holding”

The finding of DMT in normal human body fluids opens up interesting legal questions. Since DMT is illegal, as is “any material, compound, mixture or preparation” containing DMT, it would seem we are all guilty of possession of a controlled substance!

DMT, Ayahuasca and Your Health

As to dependency. DMT with Harmine, or Pinoline, has objectively been demonstrated to not wear out the brain, as non-essential external drugs do. But rather enhance the long term neural pathways of the brain, into better pathways. This is reflected in greater value production in the life of the experimenter.

Dr. Dennis McKenna (Terence’s brother) with a team of specialists, has now conclusively shown by testing, (via cerebral spinal fluid, blood plasma, and psychological analysis), that Amazonian ayahuasca elixirs, (which are used as medicine with many reports in rejuvenation), actually increase the effectivity of serotonin pathways, rather than decrease them slightly, as Psychedelics do.

Linear I.Q. and long term memory increased. Those tested had been working in ayahuasca communities for 10 years, and participated in the elixir 1-3 times a week. Psychological analysis, showed:

a. they could handle stress far better than the comparison test group and general comparison data base;

b. had dropped addictive habits from their lives (alcohol, nicotine, cocaine),

c. were able to run a more integrative and effective business life, then before. Most in fact, rather than becoming “drop outs”, became integratives, introducing values into society, at the practical business level – creating their own effective companies. There was also a greater sense of Group Mind, amongst the members of the community, hence better integration between all participants.

No negative physical side-effects were seen from these long term experimenters, and psychological health, as well as physical health, were optimal, with evidence of being enhanced.

As opposed to addictive drugs, or to psychedelics not produced by the brain, or being in the DNA synthesis library – taking exogenic Harmine, actually stimulates the pineal gland to produce more Pinoline for itself, increasing the other essential neurotransmitters recycling.

Furthermore, Harmine itself is a key to medicines in treating Parkinson’s Disease, and now even a cure for malaria, and has been used in the Vinegar of the Four Thiefs, associated to the Eucharist of Christ, to treat the plague, via the Assyrian Rue. It was also the holy plant of Mohammed, over which stood seven angels, and which he drank as the Espand, to speak the Koran. It is the red coloring in Persian Rugs, and hence lead to the concept of the flying carpets. There are also several case testimonies of cancer being cured with it. -from http://www.akasha.de/~aton/NeoDMT.html

Who should Never Do It

Observed warning signs: Those with history of mental instability. Those under the age of the lower to mid twenties.

U.S. Cancels Patent on Sacred Ayahuasca Plant

WASHINGTON, DC, November 5, 1999 (ENS) – Indigenous peoples from nine South American countries won a precedent-setting victory Thursday, as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) canceled the patent issued to a U.S. citizen for the ayahuasca vine.

The plant, Banisteriopsis caapi, is native to the Amazonian rainforest. Thousands of indigenous people of the region use it in sacred religious and healing ceremonies, as part of their traditional religions.

The PTO’s decision came in response to a request for re-examination of the patent filed with the PTO in March by the Coordinating Body for the Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA), the Amazon Alliance for Indigenous and Traditional Peoples, and lawyers at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL).

“Our Shamans and Elders were greatly troubled by this patent. Now they are celebrating. This is a historic day for indigenous peoples everywhere,” says Antonio Jacanamijoy, general coordinator of COICA.

According to David Rothschild, director of the Amazon Alliance, “Ayahuasca is used in sacred indigenous ceremonies throughout the Amazon. This patent never should have been issued in the first place.”

The PTO based its rejection of the patent on the fact that publications describing Banisteriopsis caapi were “known and available” prior to the filing of the patent application. According to U.S. patent law, no invention can be patented if described in printed publications more than one year prior to the date of the patent application.

William Anderson, director of the University of Michigan Herbarium, said that the PTO needs to improve its procedures for researching applications.

CIEL lawyer David Downes said, “While we are pleased that the PTO has canceled this flawed patent, we are concerned that the PTO still has not dealt with the flaws in its policies that made it possible for someone to patent this plant in the first place.” He explained that “the PTO needs to change its rules to prevent future patent claims based on the traditional knowledge and use of a plant by indigenous peoples.”

He also argued that “the PTO should face the issue head-on of whether it is ethical for patent applicants to claim private rights over a plant or knowledge that is sacred to a cultural or ethnic group.”

In a separate proceeding at the PTO, the three groups have called for changes in PTO rules. They argue that the PTO should require that patent applicants identify all biological resources and traditional knowledge that they used in developing the claimed invention. Applicants should also disclose the geographical origin, and provide evidence that the source country and indigenous community consented to its use.

Trance – The Modern DMT Culture

Link https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1966/09/lsd-and-the-third-eye/361531/

also note that although it was not known at the time the article was written, the pineal gland probably produces DMT as well as melatonin…. It seems like it was published on September 9, 1966.

Afaik, the brain continuously produces DMT and other psychotomimetic chemicals as a by-product of producing serotonin. However, they never get anywhere because they are quickly destroyed by monoamine oxidase and other enzymes. If you were to increase your serotonin production by consuming l-tryptophan along with some simple carbohydrates (eg. a glass of grape juice) and the necessary vitamin co-factors, and take a strong monoamine oxidase inhibitor at the same time, it would most likely make you dangerously insane.

On a related note, my experience taking St. John’s Wort (now believed to be a weak monoamine oxidase inhibitor), was that it did increase my creativity — my writing seemed more eloquent and inspired. Unfortunately, it did nothing for depression, so I stopped taking it.

and it has the rods and cones that the optic nerve has…it’s like an optic nerve not connected to an eyeball. the plot thickens! 😉

It’s hard to believe that a gland trapped inside your skull can detect light. Yet, it is a longstanding belief of Traditional Chinese Medicine that a person needs to get 20 minutes of sunlight on the top of their head for good health proper sexual functioning due to the regulation of the pineal gland. However, the stalk of the pineal gland is not like the optic nerve in that it doesn’t connect to the monkey part of the brain — it attaches to the lizard brain.

I’ve always found it odd that many brainless creatures such as arthropods often have more than one set of peepers. A part of the DMT experience is feeling like a pair of disembodied eyes. Despite that all reality is lost, one retains one’s field of vision, of having two eyes, as perhaps one’s only sense of self. Having a pair of eyes goes far back in our evolutionary development — the most ancient fish and even dinosaurs had two eyes — predating the development of our brains. Reports of aliens almost always mention two large eyes, often to the exclusion of other prominent facial features like mouths and noses. We evolved to think like two-eyed creatures and seem to make this expectation of other thinking beings.

Hence, we put an emphasis on sight in our psychedelic experiences, “dude, like I had all of these cool visuals.” Oracles and shamans are described as having “visions.” Psychics claim they can “see” not “hear” the future.

Party promoters often spend as much money on decorations as they do music.

People seem to make little mention of auditory hallucinations, even though the ear has greater resolution than the eye (The Third Ear by Joachim-Ernst Berendt is a good read). Hallucinogens such as psilocybin have obvious auditory effects, yet these are often perceived as distortions rather than hallucinations. Those who have taken ayahuasca made from

Mushrooms often report an “overwhelming ringing” or a “loud whine”accompanied by a reduction of auditory input. DMT may induce utter silence. When people do have auditory hallucinations they often find them a disturbing sign of madness. Seeing people who aren’t there is one thing, hearing voices is considered a symptom of schizophrenia. Clairvoyants are marginally accepted, clairaudients usually get taken away. (Btw, I wonderwhat blind people experience when they smoke DMT.)

The ears and eyes seem quite different in many ways. Sight requires a much greater degree of concentration. It is impossible to read words without focusing on them. Yet, you can completely understand words that you hear unexpectedly (such as someone calling your name).

What does any of this shit have to do with trance parties?? Beyond having the psy-trance community influenced by DMT culture, it is my belief that we are unified by our auditory experience at trance parties. While people might be looking at different things or having wildly different visual effects, we are all more or less hearing the same music. If this were not the case, trance music would not “work.” In other words, one would trance out, stop hearing the music which was inducing the trance, and the trance would be broken. This is the opposite of trance-inducing optical stimuli.

For example if one is using the frequency followed response of flashing lights of a mindmachine, you are only in a trance as long as you are not aware that you are looking at flashing lights. As soon as you catch yourself, and realize you are merely staring into a pair of goggles, you revert to beta state. The same applies to meditating with your eyes closed or staring at the sky. This does not seem to be the case with music.

Actually, there is a lot of evidence that dmt is partially responsible for our sense of time. while melatonin regulates the “body clock” and such functions as the sleep/wake cycle and circadian rhythms, DMT seems to regulate the “mind clock”- that is, the slow release of DMT over time is analogous to an hourglass releasing sand. a set amount of dmt is released per period of time, letting the brain know how long a second is, or a minute, or an hour. without this slow and measured release, the mind would have no way of differentiating an hour from a minute. That is why the DMT experience is often one of timelessness, or the feeling of experiencing hours over the course of what actually is just 15 minutes; when one smokes DMT, the brain is inundated with a very large quantity of DMT, and interprets that as a longer period of time passing. As some might know, this effect is not complete, because the mind also relies on external stimuli to experience time…but the sense of it is definitely there, especially with closed eyes in a quiet environment where there is less environmental data to contradict the chemical messages that the brain is getting.

God, DMT, the Holographic Universe and The Matrix
Terence McKenna
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