DMT and Tryptamines

[Sily]

William, yes I read 4 of the series in the 70's -- sooo long ago, but I do still have the books on my shelf if I want to check it out again.  I loved those books.  But what I can remember...... it was over thirty years ago so memory fails me, but I thought "The Dreaming" was induced with Peyote Buttons and not DMT.  If I'm wrong please let me know, but I think the DMT experience is unique and different from peyote.

I have an idea that came to me but I might add it later tonight as I have to get ready for work now.  :D

[William]

Sily I loved the whole series and believed he showed signs of Fractured Alters from it...... Dmt, maybe, he did it all....

[Sily]

They were great books.  From what I can remember I buried my nose in his books and didn't come out for days.  My new book arrived today - the new one from Dr. Strassman and others.  I know what I'll be doing this weekend, starting tonight, I'll be reading about the machine elves and other worlds just a step away.  :)

[William]

I have yet to find someone who has read All the Don Juan series books. I say this because there is such a twist in them that his writing alone is worth reading.... But most dont have the energy enough to read all of his books....

[Cosmic_Shaman419]

A few weeks ago I experienced sleep paralysis for the first time. I couldn't move, and there was a tall bi-pedal hominid standing in the corner of my room. It sounded as if it were calling for my attention, but it was just noise, and blurry noise at that.
 
Needless to say, I started reading into sleep paralysis, a phenomenon where your brain awakens from REM-stage sleep, but your body remains in the sleep-state induced paralysis that accompanies REM sleep. Vivid, and many times reportedly horrifying, disturbing, or supernatural hallucinations are associated with sleep paralysis, and is comparable to the feeling of a deeply psychotropic, paralytic dissociative.

Other phenomena that are sometimes associated with sleep paralysis are reports of alien abduction, and ghostly encounters.

During REM sleep, the body is paralyzed, and the mind begins dreaming, due to the secretion of endogenous DMT into the cerebro-spinal fluid of the brain.

DMT when taken as a recreational, or spiritual psychoactive drug, its effects are best described as a paralytic, dissociative, psychotogenic hallucinogen, or psychedelic. Anubis hit the description of the overall experience right on the head.
   
Perhaps it is not too far off the mark to theorize that one of the chemical reactions in the brain accompanying sleep paralysis is the secretion of DMT - it would account for the vivid hallucinations, and spiritual context of these wild surrealities.

For that matter, if you subscribe to the philosophy that the method of the exploration of the vast infinity of space and time is internally through oneself, then perhaps you will agree that the hallucinations accompanying sleep paralysis are a glimpse into an alternate dimension parallel to our own, into which access would be extremely easy under the influence of endogenous DMT.

I do so love discovering new doors to different parts of this spectacular universe. :D

And for any with an interest in learning about DMT do I recommend the following.

DMT: The Spirit Molecule, Rick Strassman, M.D.

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Inner Paths to Outer Space, Rick Strassman, M.D., Slawek Wojtowicz, M.D., Luis Eduardo Luna, Ph.D., and Ede Frecska, M.D.

Godspeed.

[Sily]

I'm popping back into this thread to say I'm on page 117 on Inner Paths To Outer Space.  Great book. 

I had the thought today that some wait for the aliens to come to them, but why not reverse it -- WE go into their dimension, with the help of the umbilical cord known as DMT.  Just about impossible to find but apparently once obtained it's worth it.

I have not tried DMT myself but the stories of those that have continue to be a main interest of mine.

[Andrea]

I have so much to say. 1st Carlos Casteneda was the first thing I thought of while reading your post, very similar.
. 2nd I feel like I have experienced these sort of entities in my dreams. THEY appear like normal PEOPLE until THEY realize I see who they are, then THEY change.Most times they are Very aggresive.

Your stories remind me of my fathers. HE did psychodelic drug in the 70s similar stories indeed.