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DMT: THE SPIRIT MOLECULE A DOCTOR'S REVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH INTO THE BIOLOGY OF NEAR DEATH AND MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE

By RICK STRASSMAN


Cover Art by Alex Grey


SIGNED by Psychedelic Artist ALEX GREY on the front cover

also with drawing of an All-Seeing Eye inside of a Triangle .       


Published by Park Street Press Rochester, Vermont  

2001 First Edition with printing number line 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1.. 

This book is a soft cover with psychedelic jacket artwork by Alex Grey in near fine condition with 358 pages. 

(not issued hardcover)


Review quote from Ralph Metzner’s blurb on the first page: 

“The most extensive scientific study of the mental and perceptual effects of psychedelic drugs since the 1960s.” 


Written after a decade of clinical study with 60 subjects using one of the most powerful psychedelic drugs known.

It was the first government approved study of a psychedelic drug in 25 years.


CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Prologue: First Sessions

Part I: = The Building Blocks

1.  Psychedelic Drugs: Science and Society

2.  What DMT Is

3.  The Pineal: Meet the Spirit Gland

4.  The Psychedelic Pineal

Part II  = Conception and Birth

5.  89-001 

6.  Labyrinth     

Part III = Set, Setting, and DMT

7.  Being a Volunteer 

8.  Getting DMT        

9.  Under the Influence       

Part IV = The Sessions

10.  Introduction to the Case Reports

11.  Feeling and Thinking

12.  Unseen Worlds

13.  Contact Through the Veil: 1

14.  Contact Through the Veil: 2

15.  Death and Dying

16.  Mystical States

17.  Pain and Fear

Part V = Taking Pause

18.  If So, So What?

19. Winding Down

20.  Stepping on Holy Toes

Part VI = What Could and Might Be

21.  DMT: The Spirit Molecule

22.  The Futures of Psychedelic Research

Epilogue

Notes


FROM THE COVER 

From 1990 to 1995 Dr. Rick Strassman conducted DEA-approved clinical research at the University of New Mexico in which he injected sixty volunteers with DMT, one of the most powerful psychedelics known. His detailed account of those sessions is an extra-ordinarily riveting inquiry into the nature of the human mind and the therapeutic potential of psychedelics. DMT, a plant-derived chemical that is also manufactured by the human brain, consistently produced near-death and mystical experiences. Many volunteers reported convincing encounters with intelligent nonhuman presences, especially "aliens." Nearly all felt that the sessions were among the most profound experiences of their lives.


Strassman's research connects DMT with the pineal gland, considered by Hindus to be the site of the seventh chakra and by Rene Descartes to be the seat of the soul. DMT: The Spirit Molecule makes the bold case that DMT, naturally released by the pineal gland, facilitates the soul's movement in and out of the body and is an integral part of the birth and death experiences, as well as the highest states of meditation and even sexual transcendence. Strassman also believes that alien abduction experiences are brought on by accidental releases of DMT. If used wisely, DMT could trigger a period of remarkable progress in the scientific exploration of the most mystical regions of the human mind and soul.

RICK STRASSMAN, M.D., is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.

REVIEWS = "Rick Strassman's pioneering research raises fascinating questions about the neurochemical basis of experience and the feasibility of conducting human research with mind-altering drugs in a university medical center. Truly adventurous reading!" === Andrew Weil, author of Spontaneous Healing


REVIEWS = "Fascinating and provocative. A remarkable exploration of the boundaries of science and consciousness itself." == Rupert Sheldrake, author of The Presence of the Past


REVIEWS = "A dazzling journey through psychedelic drug experimentation and a tantalizing peek into a new model of how the brain and mind work. Strassman's research points toward a physiological basis for spirit and its interaction with the human body; his data suggests that our brain chemistry allows us access to other realms of existence just when we need it most, and his story recounts both the dangers and promises of entering this brave new world." == Bruce Greyson, Editor, Journal of Near-Death Studies

MORE ABOUT == Rick Strassman (born February 8, 1952 in Los Angeles, California) is a medical doctor specialized in psychiatry with a fellowship in clinical psychopharmacology research. He has held a fellowship in clinical psychopharmacology research at the University of California San Diego and was Professor of Psychiatry for eleven years at the University of New Mexico. After twenty years of intermission, Strassman was the first person in the United States to undertake human research with psychedelic, hallucinogenic, or entheogenic substances with his research on N,N-dimethyltryptamine. He is also the author of the well known book "DMT: The Spirit Molecule" which summarizes his academic research into DMT and includes his own reflections and conclusions based on this research.

Psychedelic drug research == Strassman's studies, taking place between 1990 and 1995 in the General Clinical Research Center of the University of New Mexico Hospital, aimed to investigate the effects of N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a powerful psychedelic drug, that is found in hundreds of plants and every mammal that has been studied. DMT is made primarily in mammalian lung tissue, and is related to human neurotransmitter serotonin and the pineal hormone melatonin.

Strassman refers to DMT as the "spirit molecule" because its effects include many features of religious experience, such as visions, voices, disembodied consciousness, powerful emotions, novel insights, and feelings of overwhelming significance. During the project's five years, he administered approximately 400 doses of DMT to nearly five dozen human volunteers. Strassman was the first to legally administer psychedelics to people in the United States in 20 years, and his research has widely been regarded as kicking off the "psychedelic renaissance", in which many psychedelic compounds have begun again to be scientifically studied since the early 70s.

Strassman characterized biological and psychological effects in his first set of dose-response studies, effects consistent with activation of central and/or peripheral serotonin receptors. His team published a companion article describing psychological effects and preliminary results of a new rating scale, the Hallucinogen Rating Scale, or HRS. The HRS has seen wide acceptance throughout the international research community as a sensitive and specific instrument for measuring psychological effects of a wide variety of psychoactive substances, with over 45 articles documenting its use as of mid-2015. A follow-up DMT study demonstrated lack of tolerance to the psychological effects of repeated closely spaced doses of DMT, making DMT unique among classical psychedelics.

More than half of Strassman’s volunteers reported profound encounters/interaction with non-human beings while in a dissociated state. Dr. Strassman has conjectured that when a person is approaching death or possibly when in a dream state, the body releases DMT in a relatively large amount, mediating some of the imagery reported by survivors of near-death experiences. However, there are no data correlating endogenous DMT activity to non-drug-related altered states of consciousness. He also has theorized that the pineal gland may form DMT under certain conditions, and in 2013 researchers first reported DMT in the pineal gland microdialysate of rodents.

He has detailed his research in his book DMT: The Spirit Molecule; and he co-produced a documentary film by the same name DMT: The Spirit Molecule, based on this book.  Dr. Strassman has also conducted similar research using psilocybin, a psychedelic alkaloid found in hallucinogenic mushrooms. In unpublished studies, he administered doses of up to 1.1 mg/kg, nearly three times the doses considered "psychedelic" in contemporary clinical research with this compound. He also had permission to begin an LSD study, but he did not begin by the time he finished his DMT study.

Alex Grey is best known for his visionary paintings, primarily vivid, multilayered depictions of the human body. Grey's work has been exhibited throughout the world and is collected in the book Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey and his philosophical text The Mission of Art.

MORE ABOUT == Alex Grey (born November 29, 1953) is an American visionary artist, author, teacher, and Vajrayana practitioner. His body of work spans a variety of forms including performance art, process art, installation art, sculpture, visionary art, and painting. Grey is a member of the Integral Institute. He is also on the board of advisors for the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, and is the Chair of Wisdom University's Sacred Art Department. He and his wife Allyson Grey are the co-founders of The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (CoSM), a non-profit church supporting Visionary Culture in Wappingers Falls, New York.

Grey has also made his own contribution to the philosophy of art in his book The Mission of Art (1998). Therein, he promotes the possibility of the mystical potential of art: he argues that the process of artistic creation can (and should) play a role in the enlightenment of the artist. For him, the process of artistic creation holds the potential of transcending the limitations of the mind and more fully expressing the divine spirit. He also believes that art can induce within the viewer an elevated state wherein spiritual states of being are attained.

Publications

1990 - Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey

1998 - The Mission of Art (Alex Grey)

2001 - Transfigurations (Alex Grey)

2006 - True Visions (Erik Davis and Pablo Echaurren)

2007 - Metamorphosis: 50 Contemporary Surreal, Fantastic and Visionary Artists

2007 - CoSM, Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (Alex Grey & Allyson Grey)

2008 - Art Psalms (Alex Grey)

2012 - Net of Being (Alex Grey & Allyson Grey)


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