DMT and the Pineal Gland

Human beings have known of the psychedelic effects of dimethyltryptamine (DMT) millennia before the discovery of the molecule itself. The indigenous people of South and Central America have created various DMT containing snuffs and mixtures, and the more notable ayahuasca brew (Strassman 33).

Ayahuasca combines a DMT containing plant with an enzyme inhibitor which allows the DMT to be taken orally. In contemporary Western culture, extracted crystalline DMT is smoked for a short mystical trip through the veil of time and space.

DMT is no rarity of nature. In fact, it has been found in the bodies of all mammals in which scientists have searched for its presence. DMT is present in an enormous number of plants from every ecosystem. DMT has been found in human urine and blood, and many speculate, based on precursors and enzymes among other reasons, that DMT has an endogenous connection with the brains pineal gland. (Strassman 38)

The pineal gland, or third eye, is an unpaired brain organ shaped like a pine cone. Its location is the direct center of the brain, right above the brow center, or the crown chakra. The spiritual significance of the pineal gland spans throughout world religious tradition, as pointed out in David Wilcock’s ‘The 2012 Enigma’ documentary. As Wilcock points out, even today people of the Hindu faith wear the pottu on their forehead, indicating the pineal gland.

Many speculate the pineal is allowed to excrete DMT based on the theory of resonance. Just as certain sound frequencies can shatter glass, certain “‘sacred’ words, chants, visual images and mental exercise” can generate specific fields, causing the brain to vibrate and pulse at certain frequencies (Strassman 76). The change of consciousness is best illustrated by the “receiver of reality” brain model. Working with this model, Strassman compares the brain to a TV receiver, which can turn to different channels of consciousness, such as those induced by DMT (Strassman 311).

The effects of consumed DMT are remarkable. Joe Rogan articulates a typical DMT experience: “Literally, you are transported into another fucking dimension. I don’t mean like you feel you’re in another dimension, you’re in another dimension. There’s fucking complex geometric patterns moving in synchronies order through the air all around you in three dimensional space. It’s like they’re arteries, but there isn’t blood pumping through them, there’s light, pulsating light with no boundaries. And there’s an alien communicating with me who looks sort of like a Tai Buddha, except he’s entirely made of energy and there’s no outline to him. He’s concentrating and telling me not to give into astonishment, relax and try and experience this.”

After inducing and recording 60 clinical DMT sessions, Dr. Rick Strassman breaks the experiences into 3 different, yet overlapping categories. Joe Rogan’s would be considered an “invisible world” session, where users report “freestanding autonomous realities” coexisting with our own, often inhabited by aware and interactive alien beings. “Personal” sessions were psychologically oriented and “yield deeper awareness and acceptance of personal issues.” Lastly are the “transpersonal” sessions, including mystical and near death experiences, which go “beyond the individual’s historical life experience.” (Strassman 55)

Author Graham Hancock hypothesizes that the discovery of psychoactive substances by human beings some 40,000 years ago would have “exploded like incendiary bombs in the dull, somnolent, utilitarian minds of the anatomically modern but behaviorally archaic humans… demolishing rigid mental structures… jumpstarting the intellectual and cultural evolution of our species” (228).

Hancock also notes the statistical evidence that a small percentage, 1-2% of the human population, has the ability to spontaneous fall into trance and mystical states without the aid of “psychoactive plants or the physical methods of trance induction such as rhythmic dancing or drumming” (229). The weight of such experiences would have had little influence on society, just as their medieval and modern counterparts did, fairies and alien abduction phenomenon respectively (Hancock 229). Ergo, although some humans were having such experiences for perhaps hundreds of thousands of years, it wasn’t until these experiences went mainstream in the form of ingested and smoked plants that the profound shift in consciousness occurred. It is important to note that these mystical states of consciousness can be achieved by anyone entirely without the aid of psychedelics, through meditation, trance, and other means such as shamanic ecstasy.

Psychedelic substances are among the most natural substances on earth, nearly molecularly identical to our brains natural neural transmitters, and in the case of DMT – endogenous to the human body. Yet, governments around the world criminalize and run propaganda campaigns against these substances, placing shackles on the human mind. Isn’t the exploration of one’s own consciousness an inalienable human right? I believe the study of DMT and other psychedelics will lead to many answers regarding human evolution, consciousness, and life itself. To quote Joe Rogan once more, “Life is a massive fucking mystery, and there’s really only a few different ways to crack below the surface of that mystery, and the best way is psychedelics.”

By c0sm0nautt

A Psychonaut License: The Psychedelic University

Reality Sandwich
By Ido Hartogsohn

Most sincere and mindful people would not dispute that the use of psychedelics can, under certain circumstances, have positive outcomes. Psychedelics, after all, have played a crucial role in human culture for millennia and continue to be a part of many cultures, even today.

The recreational use of LSD and other mind altering substances during the psychedelic sixties is one of the main factors that frightened society away from the exploration of psychedelic realms. As long as researchers and psychologists kept their experiments with LSD confined to their laboratories and clinics, everything was fine. But the widespread use of psychedelics among large sectors of society, with many people having no knowledge about how to work with psychedelics, led western society into a state of media frenzy and paranoia regarding all forms of consciousness expansion. Psychedelics were rashly demonized and then outlawed without any further discussion -- a fact which has been lamented ever since by psychedelic advocates from fields such as psychology, theology and philosophy.

There's been little movement since the sixties toward the legalization of these substances. Yet it seems that society's willingness to consider positive applications of psychedelics has grown lately. Psychedelic research has finally begun to get back on its feet after being put on hold for decades, and the public discussion of psychedelics seems to be somewhat less ill informed than it had been in recent decades, as was noted in Daniel Pinchbeck's article on the future of psychedelics.

Those who can go beyond the veil of propaganda and misinformation that cloaks the entire territory can discover that, unlike many other perfectly legal and accepted substances (such as coffee, alcohol or nicotine), psychedelics are actually non-addictive, non-toxic drugs which in the long term have no adverse side effect on body and brain functions.

When handled with care and in a knowledgeable, respectful manner, psychedelics can have many desirable personal, psychological, philosophical, spiritual and creative results. These facts are well known to the societies in which psychedelics have been a part of the culture and religion for millennia.

Article continues:
http://www.realitysandwich.com/psychonaut_license_psychedelic_university

Ibogaine for Opiate Addiction

Here's the PDF Link: http://www.shroomery.org/forums/download.php?Number=9355911

Great read, Enjoy!

Second Mushroom Trip

(Crude drawing of visuals)

Dosage: 1.5 grams (mostly aborts), using lemon juice tek, fairly empty stomach

4 blunt hits of marijuana 1 hour after ingestion

Psilocybin cubensis B+

Soon after the blunt hits the effects of the mushrooms started to kick in at an alarming rate. This being my second trip, I was expecting a low dose (level 1 or 2 trip) that would last about 2 hours. How wrong my expectations were.

At the peak of the trip, whether my eyes were opened or closed was no longer relevant. We had a few candles lit in the room which gave some beautiful afterglow effects that lasted a few seconds after closing my eyes. We also had a black light lit which, halfway through the trip, managed to encompass the entire room – reflecting off of everything it could. Listening to ‘Explosions in the Sky’, my trip was an emotional rollercoaster. I was experiencing the music on so many different levels. In one ear and out the other, the music sounded like nothing of this world. I would occasionally forget the music was even playing, seeing the music rather then hearing it!

I was bombarded with an array of closed eye visuals that resembled intrinsic patterns of what looked like Dr. Seuss-like tubes and machinery. I saw valves and springs that were morphing and growing like the Windows 3D Pipes screensaver. The visuals took on almost an extradimensional quality that seemed too imaginative to be part of my imagination. These morphing patterns took the form of mushrooms and even insects at one point! When I had my eyes open, I stared primarily at the ceiling tiles which were illuminated by the black and candlelight. They were moving and bouncing around, taking a life on their own. At one point the cracks in the tiles seemed to separate and I could see an orange glow being them. They took on a rhythm that complemented the music well.

I had a few negative thoughts throughout the experience, a feeling like my thoughts were spiraling in a cyclical pattern out of control. I managed to maintain control, understanding negative emotions and feelings could be averted by directing attention elsewhere. After reading Martin Ball’s ‘Mushroom Wisdom: How Shamans Cultivate Spiritual Consciousness,’ I have learned great knowledge on how to work with, avert, and understand negative aspects of the mushroom trip.

Towards the end of the trip I was lying in my bed trying to fall asleep and I began to vividly remember my dream from the night before. I thought this was interesting, usually I can’t remember a dream unless I record it promptly after waking up in the morning. Falling asleep with the residual effects of the mushrooms was a challenge. I laid in my bed for a good hour or two tossing and turning feeling mildly uncomfortable. I got up to walk around twice during this period, both times noticing how “different” my room looked. My hippie-psychedelic posters were running and my rug took on a more coarse quality then I had ever noticed before.

Throughout the trip I felt so constrained by language. Myself and the two others I was tripping with had trouble communicating at times. Mid trip I uttered, “Words can’t exclaim what I’m feeling.” I had a feeling of being in between thoughts and consciousness. I was disappointed I was not able to take much esoteric knowledge out of this trip. I felt frustrated a few times during the trip because I was having too much fun and not maintaining the role of “the witness” trying to understand what the mushrooms were trying to show me. This being my seconds trip, and much more profound the first, I feel I have much more mushroom learning to undergo.

A profound memory of the trip was the impression of “mind workers” chiseling their way through my consciousness to break through to my perception. I could see and feel them working, and had an intense feeling of the other. Perhaps if I had taken a higher dosage they would have broken through. All day today I had a mild headache, which was most likely the result of lack of sleep (I’m used to getting at least 9 hours). I’m looking forward to chomping down on at least 3 grams in a few weeks.

theduderinok's YouTube Channel

I would like to introduce theduderinok's youtube channel, which has been one of the most educational and information channels I have found to date.

Theduderinok takes interviews from popular radio shows such as CoasttoCoastAM and puts them in youtube format. His archieve has dozens if not hundreds of interviews with important teachers of this Paradigm Shift.

Check out his playlists! They include:
- Alternative Agriculture and Medicine
- 2012 and convergence of consciousness
- Astral Travel and Lucid Dreaming
- Quantum and Metaphysics
- and much much more!

Interviews include:
- Gregg Braden
- David Wilcock
- Dennis and Terrence McKenna
- David Icke
- Graham Hancock
- Ian Crane
- Richard Hoagland
- Dr. Len Horowitz
- John Lear
- John Major Jenkins
- Jordan Maxwell
- and many more!

You can find the link on the right side of the blog. Enjoy!

Iboga - Trip of a lifetime

Ibogaine, the psychedelic extract from the Iboga root indigenous to Western Africa has showed in recent years to posses a life changing therapeutic effect, similar to the DMT containing brew Ayuascha. Check out this first hand account of an Iboga trip!

"As I started to feel the effects of the drug I was suddenly seized with fear. I had taken a hallucinogenic which could confuse the dreaming and iwaking states, my adulthood and childhood, and in doing so break the cellophane between myself and insanity. Sometimes drugs have been a trip into the horrors of my life and sometimes a means of flight from them. But nightmares are never more horrific than real life. Are they?

Perhaps I shouldn't have worried. As a child I saw everything as a novelty - I was always intoxicated. Alcoholism didn't run in my family, it galloped. By the time I was in my teens I was already sluicing down liquor with the abandon of someone truly spooked by his own existence. And it went on from there.

By the time I was 30, crack had taken me, as swiftly and easily as an eagle taking a rabbit. Crack led to heroin: first smoking, then the needle. I took drugs as an escape from a life which I found unendurable. I took drugs because I enjoyed taking them. The fixing ritual is the sweetest form of pleasure a man can have. The needle, the belt round the arm, the first feeling of the spike sliding through the flesh... The ecstasy of hitting a vein is incomparably pleasurable. Complete happiness is about to be yours. You hear the angels sing. You feel the kiss of God. The whole world is bathed in the luminous glow of entrancement, of contentment, of peace."

Read the rest of the article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2004/jun/20/features.magazine67

Synchronised Hyperspace Event

Synchronised Hyperspace Event - http://www.entheogenic-portal.com/

"The Synchronised Hyperspace Event is a study to what might happen when all of us, across the world, enter hyperspace at the same moment in time.

Since the discovery of hyperspace people have tried to understand what hyperspace really is. The basic question that is asked over and over again is: "Is hyperspace real or does is it only exist in our imagination?". To give an answer to this question we need to explore hyperspace and conduct several experiments while out there.

By no means are any of these experiments mandatory, they are all optional. If you only want to join for the massive take-off thats fine.

Meeting other travelers

The first and foremost experiment is to meet other travelers in hyperspace. There are however a few problems with that:

a. How do you recognize another traveler

To recognize another traveler, we ask each traveler to pick an individual "glyph" and/or "phrase" and focus on them before taking off to hyperspace. If you meet someone with a glyph or speaking a specific phrase try to remember it and write it down as soon as you come back from hyperspace.

b. If hyperspace is really, really huge like our own universe, how do you meet another traveler

One thing to make sure we meet other travelers is to focus on a specific place before taking off, the choosen place is Stonehenge. Of course this might sound strange, since we are in hyperspace and hyperspace might not have a place called stonehange but we have to start somewhere and that somewhere currently is stonehenge.

Remote viewing

One sub-experiment is remote viewing. We are using the same spot as the gathering spot for meeting other travelers: Stonehenge.

One theory about hyperspace is that hyperspace is just our own universe. To experiment with this we ask people who are gathering at stonehenge to remember specific things about it and write that down as soon as come back from hyperspace.

Mathematical questions

In hyperspace a lot of people encounter so called entities. One theory out there to establish the reality of hyperspace is to ask one of these entities a very hard mathematical question that's impossible for a normal human to answer. For example a very hard methematical question to ask is the factorization of a large non prime number.

Random Number Generators

At Princeton university they are running the Global Consciousness Project. With this project Random Number Generators (RNG's) are planted all over the world. These random number generators spit out several random numbers per day and what they look at is deviations in these random numbers. During their experiment several deviations could be linked to world wide events. The RNG's are still running and you can download the data for free. After the date of the event we will download the data and look for deviations around our liftoff time.

Date/Time

The set date and time for the next event to enter hyperspace is November 30th at 2:00 GMT (2am). Check http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/ to translate the GMT dates to your localized times.

Final words

So here we are, all entering hyperspace at the same time. Maybe nothing would come of it, maybe something spectacular would come of it, who knows... Regardless, it would be a very interesting experiment! At a minimum, imagine the reports that would be posted here, as different and / or similar as they might be, all experienced within the exact same window of time! OR, perhaps something deeper might manifest, allowing us to understand hyperspace in a whole new way!?"

http://www.entheogenic-portal.com/

Terrence McKenna on "Drugs" and Society

"Drugs is a word which has polluted the well of language."

Joe Rogan articulates DMT (dimethyltryptamine)