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it may be that the pineal is the most active organ in the body at the time of death.
Might we say that the life-force therefore exits the body through the pineal?
Until this forty-nine-day watershed, the fetus may be only a physical, rather than a physical-spiritual, being.
schizophrenia as a lung disease because of the high concentrations of DMT-forming enzymes within the lung!
The hormones that change in response to drugs reflect which brain receptors those drugs affect.
Serotonin receptors also regulate heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature, and pupil diameter.
Leary’s research at Harvard had created cliques of drug-taking graduate students.
The students developed an us verses them attitude.
Tolerance occurs when the same dose of a drug produces smaller effects when taken repeatedly. LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline all produce rapid and nearly complete tolerance after three or four daily doses.
determined that the best regime was four injections of 0.3 mg/kg DMT given at 30-minute intervals. This dose, while highly psychedelic, was just below our highest, 0.4 mg/kg.
DMT attaches firmly to 1A receptors in animal brains,
As it turned out, pindolol markedly enhanced the psychological and blood pressure effects of DMT.
Pindolo blocks the 1A serotonin receptor site whcih is what DMT binds to.
After a while we could almost predict how intense a volunteer’s session was by the rise in their blood pressure.
Even more impressive was the apprehension of human and “alien” figures that seemed to be aware of and interacting with the volunteers.
This sounds like machine elves
Personal DMT experiences were limited to the volunteer’s own mental and physical processes.
DMT helped open avenues to his or her personal psychology and relationship to the body.
Once volunteers began approaching the furthest boundaries of this category, near-death and spiritual themes began to emerge. The personal then became transpersonal.
The hallmark of the invisible category is an encounter with seemingly solid and freestanding realities coexisting with this one.
The most sought-after and highly prized sessions were the transpersonal ones.
These involved near-death and spiritual-mystical experiences.
For the most part, personal experiences with DMT stay within the confines of one’s own body and mind
DMT, as a true spirit molecule, gave our volunteers the trip they needed, rather than the one they wanted.
“It seems like some kind of membrane you break through, into a feeling of meaning and certainty.”
Description of a DMT trip
The almost organic nature of the apartment was beautiful. It wasn’t just functional. There was life in the furniture, like it was molded out of something alive, an animal, a living being.
DMT Trip
I saw a psychedelic, Day-Glo–colored space that approximated a room whose walls and floor had no clear separations or edges. It was throbbing and pulsing electrically.
there were people and guides. I was with a Mexican family, on a porch of a house in the desert.
I thought, “It seems like a pretty common day,” and then I stopped and thought, “No, I’m tripping.”
Opening their eyes at any time superimposed this reality with their now-manifest but previously invisible one.
Subjects would close their eyes and see a world. When they opened their eyes they dream world was layered on top of thr real world.
He was with them; it wasn’t something else.
It seems common for subjects to believe their hallucination was real.
Research subjects used expressions like “entities,” “beings,” “aliens,” “guides,” and “helpers” to describe them.
Machine Elves
What would happen to the study of spirit realms if we could access them reliably using molecules like DMT?
This is what I want to know
Since most of these people were from California, I admittedly chalked up these stories to some kind of West Coast eccentricity.
Doing this displays a bias towards the data.
Also surprising were the common themes of what these beings were doing with so many of our volunteers: manipulating, communicating, showing, helping, questioning. It was definitely a two-way street.
Calling it a two way street implies interaction with the elves
Only with DMT do people meet up with “them,” with other beings in a nonmaterial world.
There were a lot of elves. They were prankish, ornery, maybe four of them
I heard a giggling sound—the elves laughing or talking at high-speed volume, chattering, twittering.
except that they were living beings, not robots.
Description of the elves
Then there were three beings, three physical forms. There were rays coming out of their bodies and then back to their bodies. They were reptilian and humanoid, trying to make me understand, not with words, but with gestures.
Elves
Then there was a message telling me that I had been given a gift, that this space was mine and I could go there anytime.
Elves
During his tolerance study, we talked about going further through the bright colors,
DMT has shown me the reality that there is infinite variation on reality. There is the real possibility of adjacent dimensions.
Subject describing a trip
You return not to where you left off, but to where things have gone since you left.
DMT trip
When I’m there, I’m not intoxicated. I’m lucid and sober.
DMT trip
They had a space ready for me. They weren’t as surprised as I was.
Dmt Elves
There was one main creature, and he seemed to be behind it all, overseeing everything. The others were orderlies, or dis-orderlies.
Elves
His high sensitivity to DMT warned us that the next day probably would be one of the biggest psychedelic experiences of his life. I told him to be ready.
This counters the random dose which alters the set part of set and setting.
At about 3 minutes, his neck showed some hives, something that had also happened to several other volunteers
This is the first I've heard of this with DMT
They probed, they really probed. They seemed to know time was limited.
Elves
“Be ready to be dismembered tomorrow. I know that’s a grim suggestion, but it sounds like you may be in for a fairly rough ride.”
By gelling the subjects what to expect he is conditioning their response.
The thought came to me with certainty that they were manipulating my DNA, changing its structure.
This is a common theme during a DMT trip.
Right now? My body doesn’t feel quite my own. There is still something of the other dimension flowing through it.
Another dimension flowing through him.
