“DMT often induces experiences that belong to hard science fiction or space opera.”56 And, indeed, many such reports of DMT parallel strongly those of “alien abduction,” leading the researchers to suspect an endogenous release of the molecule in the brains and nervous systems of those in whom such encounters take place. Rick Strassman goes as far as to call DMT “the brain’s own psychedelic.”57 The molecule has been found in every mammal in which we have looked and in innumerable plant species. It is pretty much everywhere in the natural world and appears to play some central role not only in
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