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    <body><![CDATA[I'm glad Dr. Strassman also documents the bureaucratic absurdities he endured to accomplish his very important research. Shows how the government's vigorous demonization of entheogens in the preceding decades remains systemically entrenched. So sad, considering their incalculable usefulness in perso...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39106771">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The author is clearly out of his mind--much like Terrence McKenna and almost every other DMT-hound on the planet. It's pretty clear that DMT deranges you...but it does so in such a FASCINATING way! And, hell...who am I to say that Strassman and McKenna weren't onto the something? They clearly were O...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55231927">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book provided more validation in personal experiences I've had.  I have yet to experience dosing myself with DMT, but have had DMT experiences probably due to larger amounts of DMT being released in my brain than most people experience.  I listened to and interview with Rick Strassman and remem...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27053388">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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