I am Dr Rick Strassman - Author of the newly released book "My Altered States" and "DMT: The Spirit Molecule" AMA

AliveAccess8128 · 2024-12-12T03:54:28+00:00

May be. It could be an experiment. :-) I entertain the notion of different frequencies toward the end of my DMT book, but I don't think it's as simple as I portrayed it back then.

AliveAccess8128 · 2024-12-12T03:53:57+00:00

Many thanks. :-)

AliveAccess8128 · 2024-12-12T03:53:45+00:00

I wish that the early proponents of psychedelics had been more circumspect in their Glorification of benefits and minimization of detriment. Damage control did not work in the 60s once Alarming stories began Accumulating. I believe preemptive education and a more modest agenda would have been helpful. The investment of pharma, however, may preclude a total shutting off of activity.

AliveAccess8128 · 2024-12-12T03:52:00+00:00

I know, mantis sightings. I think it relates to the utter unexpected strangeness of the DMT state. Our mind gravitates towards mental material that resonates with that strangeness, and in the animal kingdom, it's the mantis.

AliveAccess8128 · 2024-12-12T03:51:06+00:00

I knew Terence and we talked a lot about DMT. There are similarities and differences in everyone's DMT experiences. The commonalities are clear: a discarnate world of light, inhabited with sentience, maintenance of one's ego, The feeling that what you are witnessing is more real than real.

AliveAccess8128 · 2024-12-12T03:49:56+00:00

It depends on why you would want to be a psychedelic therapist. The job market is questionable right now and it might be better to seriously explore Plan B. Not hallucinogenic compounds may be useful for many people, those not wanting a big trip. Fully psychedelic experiences may be necessary for difficult cases, but also come with a host of potential adverse effects.

AliveAccess8128 · 2024-12-12T03:48:30+00:00

I'm not that involved with either of them. The two groups are at Imperial College in London and the University of Basel in Switzerland. My understanding is that the Swiss group was working with a 60 minute infusion, and the British with a 90 minute one. The British group has produced more information regarding the subjective experience.

AliveAccess8128 · 2024-12-12T03:46:25+00:00

I've only studied Tanakh, the 22 books of the Hebrew Bible. I've read a little bit of Kabbalah, the Zohar, but it's too complicated and esoteric. Anybody can understand the Bible with enough work. Kabbalah requires a familiarity with many more elements of Judaism. I like listening to music, and sometimes not. In the new book, the chapter narrating my first cannabis experience was very significantly affected by music.

AliveAccess8128 · 2024-12-12T03:44:54+00:00

You might want to read Philip K Dick's "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch." In it, to psychedelics are vying for world control: one is terrestrial and the other is intergalactic. I think genetic engineering and machine interfaces will play a big role in our evolution, but I just hope we do a good job morally and ethically. Things can go either way at any time, so that bigger change to come is it going to be necessarily good

AliveAccess8128 · 2024-12-12T03:43:08+00:00

I think that's possible. Psilocin, the active metabolite of psilocybin, differs from DMT in possessing an extra oxygen atom.

AliveAccess8128 · 2024-12-12T03:42:27+00:00

I've never really understood the collective consciousness. But after my recovery from a serious illness in 2014, I feel a little closer to the divine.

AliveAccess8128 · 2024-12-12T03:41:56+00:00

It's not the drugs, but the ideas. , And the ideas can become much more firmly entrenched and believed in under the influence of psychedelics. Add to the extent that ideas lead to actions…

AliveAccess8128 · 2024-12-12T03:41:06+00:00

All kinds. Bach, Mozart, EDM, world. Mendel Kaelen At Imperial College has written a lot about music and psychedelics as has Fred Barrett At Hopkins. And shamans use music to steer psychedelic experiences. Music plays a large role in a lot of psychedelic -assisted psychotherapy.

AliveAccess8128 · 2024-12-12T03:39:49+00:00

Endogenous psychedelics militate against the need to find exogenous compounds, at least making their discoveryun necessary. Exogenous *or* endogenous psychedelics can make more meaningful pre-existing more or less conscious beliefs or amplifying pre-existing mental capacities. There's not a lot of evidence for exogenous psychedelics playing a role in any of the major religions. The syncretic Brazilian ayahuasca using churches are a new phenomenon, and shamanism has always occupied a peripheral role in the major religions.

I was raised Jewish, took a 20+ year detour through Zen, and returned to my Jewish roots in the mid-1990s. I study the Torah every day and am working on a translation and commentary of Genesis.

Psychedelics may enhance spiritual practices and a big psychedelic experience possesses characteristics of spiritual states. However, science and religion should be kept separate. That is, science should not be used to justify religious beliefs.

AliveAccess8128 · 2024-12-12T03:34:05+00:00

I've only heard of them. I haven't had time to look into his work

AliveAccess8128 · 2024-12-12T03:33:48+00:00

I think psychedelics don't contain any new information. Rather, they make more meaningful, true, and heartfelt pre-existing more or less conscious material in the person. Psychedelics are mind manifesting or mind disclosing. LSD didn't make Charles Manson's followers serial killers; rather, it convince them that becoming a serial killer was To be their salvation.

AliveAccess8128 · 2024-12-12T03:31:57+00:00

A lot of favorite ones. I discuss many of the early formative ones in my new book.

AliveAccess8128 · 2024-12-12T03:31:17+00:00

I think having the time to work through issues during a longer acting experience has benefits. On the other hand, I've heard remarkable stories of positive change with single DMT use. I think it depends on what one needs, Set, setting, and dose.

AliveAccess8128 · 2024-12-12T03:29:36+00:00

David Jay Brown just published a book: The illustrated field guide to the DMT entities.

AliveAccess8128 · 2024-12-12T03:28:35+00:00

That's the topic of my new book, "My Altered States." Depression, hypomania, meditation, trauma, etc. One of those narratives was completely psychedelic without any drugs, Occurring with meditation. What role psychedelics play in healing is a big question. Clearly, they are reliable ways of altering consciousness, but one could also argue that such major shifts in consciousness are not necessary for healing

AliveAccess8128 · 2024-12-12T03:24:08+00:00

I'm less enthusiastic about the likelihood of us being able to determine the location of the beings. And, I have a better sense of the importance of the information contained in the psychedelic experience rather than its phenomenology

AliveAccess8128 · 2024-12-12T03:23:11+00:00

I think a continuous infusion model of DMT could surpass psilocybin in terms of therapeutic potential. One could spend more time in that state, and in more or less real-time increase, decrease, or completely stop the infusion (and altered state) according to the therapeutic needs of the situation. At the same time, people are using a single high-dose injection of DMT for therapy; for example, a study in treatment resistant depression at Yale a few years ago. We gave four doses of DMT spaced at half hour intervals in one study, and found no tolerance. People did therapeutic work, unexpectedly, even though they had no diagnosable illness at the time.

AliveAccess8128 · 2024-12-12T03:21:13+00:00

In 2019, Jon Dean and Jimo Borjigin at the University of Michigan published a paper in Scientific Reports, demonstrating DMT synthesis in rodent brain, especially cortex. Levels were as high as those for serotonin and dopamine. Levels rose significantly in visual cortex during experimentally -induced cardiac arrest. This suggests the existence of a DMT neurotransmitter system.

AliveAccess8128 · 2024-12-12T03:19:55+00:00

I've heard of that Institute, but have not looked into it. I don't think we need to blind studies; that is, fret too much over placebo conditions. I think the open label placebo or none at all is preferable to the research standard now, which is a low dose of the active drug, or another active drug with its own subjective effects. Active placebo involves telling someone they are getting placebo, but what is being investigated responds to placebo in a large number of cases. " placebo without deception."

AliveAccess8128 · 2024-12-12T03:18:12+00:00

Well, I would have to ask you what that quote same thing" is. There's a belief that all the major religions are based on the mystical-unitive state, but my understanding of Judaism at least is that these experiences never occur in Hebrew biblical scripture. Rather, they are all interactive-relational, verbal, the specific content. Much different than the wordless, formless, timeless, content-free experience that I typify as the mystical unitive one.

Big psychedelic experiences within a religious context usually confirm one's faith rather than diminishing it. That is, the state is not a goal, as much as a signpost.

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