Welcome to hypography, weRall1
weareallone, on 22 June 2010 - 05:16 PM, said:
So I put it out there Does DMT Dimethyltryptamine Create Psychic Visions? Here is my
Psychic Astronaut experience and my Psychic Awakening, please don't flame me

To everybody reading and considering replying to this thread, I strongly recommend following the above link and reading weareallone’s life story there, to dispel any misconception that he’s a newcomer to the subject of the endogenous
tryptamine DMT, and because it is, IMHO, a decently written and deeply personal story.
My personal background and moral education puts high value on “heartsongs” – explanations of how we think and feel judged for their sincerity and depth of emotion over factual accuracy – but also on regarding physical reality as a scientifically knowable data – “cold equations” – unaffected by the beliefs and emotions of its viewers, which often leads me to delicate balancing acts, trying to reconcile people’s feelings and imaginings with what’s physically real. Unlike the meatspace realm where I grew up and acquired my moral and epistemological compass, we’re interacting in the remote realm of an internet forum here, so I’m unsure how or which whom I’m interacting now, but I’m attempting such a balancing act now, with you, wearallone.
Our life stories correspond and differ in some key ways. I was born in 1960, which I’m guessing makes me about 20 years older than you, about 1 generation apart. I’ve been a full-time IT pro since 1985, specialized somewhat in computer security. Your professional life seems rockier. The bulk of my IT work is medical – the work of which I’m most proud is in medical computing, using self-reported medical history to improve long-term health, but I’m solidly in the medical mainstream, oiling the informational gears, so to speak, of a giant not-for-profit HMO that manages the health of close to 10 million people using the tools and philosophy of western medical science. So, while I’m not an MD, I take this paragraph at
your personal webpage You're to busy trying NOT to Rock The Boat and loose your Status as Supposed Professionals or Researchers, just so you can sit out in the back yard, sipping your wine, telling everyone how fucking special you are because your a Doctor. You are NOT, I repeat NOT a Doctor in my eyes, you are a sell out to your own species. I have like Zero Respect for Medicinal Science, LIKE NONE! Medicinal science is Fucking nothing but Legal and Business Bullshit. Doctors and Researchers are nothing more than Lawyers and Business Men. I tell everyone I meet what a scam your primitive and dangerous medical profession really is.
personally. It pisses me off. You may have zero respect for my profession, but there’s a reasonable chance you’re alive because of it, as infant mortality in countries like Canada and the US would likely be about 25% rather than the present day 1% without the techniques and therapies developed by it.
Through the mid 1980s, I was interested and involved in psychic and magikal community, especially involving tryptamine and other psychedelic pharmacodynamics. However, literature and some first-hand experiments, self and clinical, led me to conclude that all belief in “classical extra-sensory perception”, especially mind reading and out-of-body perception, is incorrect, and that all of these perceptions are imaginative/hallucinatory phenomena confined to the brain and ordinary sense. Most compellingly, I personally experienced several out-of-body experiences in controlled settings where I viewed and reported 4 digit numbers not visible by my normal senses. In all cases, I was certain I had correctly viewed, remembered, and accurately reported these numbers, but in all cases, I was wrong.
In short, my beliefs changed from a credulous “anything is possible” leaning toward “ESP is real” to a skeptical “natural law exists” and “intuition and imagination is real, and capable of more than one might think”.
I’m an apostle of this worldview. I believe people who believe that ESP is real err in a way that dramatically limits their ability to acquire knowledge and wisdom, and should strive to make a transition from credulity to skepticism similar to mine.
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Hi there I am not going to stop till I answer this question. Does DMT Dimethyltryptamine Create Psychic Visions?
In the levels occurring endogenously – that attained via meditation or other non-drug ingesting activities – I don’t think so.
In the levels occurring when ingesting
DMT, such as inhaling vaporized DMT-bearing salts, I think so. Pharmochemically and pharmodynamically, DMT is similar to the better-known artificial psychedelic drug
LSD – both bind primarily to neuroreceptor such as dopamine and serotonin receptors, expecially the 5-HT
1A serotonin receptor. So, in addition to its smaller literature, the much larger literature on LSD can be considered evidence that large doses of DMT produces reports of psychic visions.
I find
Rick Strassman’s speculation that the an extraordinarily large endogenous release of DMT accounts for the strange experiences reported by some people who nearly die interesting and plausible, but have seen no clinical evidence from Strassman, nor evidence that he intended to attempt to collect any, in support of this hypothesis. DMT is not routinely checked for in hospital tests, and in pharmacological research (according to the references in its wikipedia article linked to above) is usually detected via gas chromatographic tests not practically available to hospitals, so testing Strassman’s hypothesis would not be an easy or cheap undertaking, but such a conclusive test an interesting hypothesis seems worth it.
You seem to be familiarity with Strassman and his ideas, weRall1 – do you know of any such research?
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