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Who was the first person to smoke DMT?
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Was it ? I'm pretty sure it wasn't, there must have been someone before who did so. How'd they even figure out how to extract it? 
I am curious.
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Re: Who was the first person to smoke DMT? [Re: sunset_mission]
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even more of a mystery
how did the shamans know to mix snail shells (sodium bicarbonate) in with yopo seeds and snort it?
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Re: Who was the first person to smoke DMT? [Re: Coaster]
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those fucking ancient base heads man
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Re: Who was the first person to smoke DMT? [Re: Coaster]
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How the fuck did they figure that roasting these random beans and would make them go hubba-bubba and end up ?
How the fuck did people figure out that by drinking the urine of a reindeer who had eaten Amanita Muscari mushrooms that the alkaloids would remain active for another 5 excretions and thus tripped nuts off of piss? 
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Re: Who was the first person to smoke DMT? [Re: sunset_mission]
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u try living in the rainforest for generations with no TV and see wtf u come up with :-P id be snorting snell shells and huffing giraffe farts and everything!
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That's true Mad spare time for exploration, trial and error, boredom killing, no bullshit DEA and the wisdom of the overseeing all would inevitably lead to people sticking snail shells and beans up their noses.
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Re: Who was the first person to smoke DMT? [Re: sunset_mission]
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jesus.
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stranger_danger said: u try living in the rainforest for generations with no TV and see wtf u come up with :-P id be snorting snell shells and huffing giraffe farts and everything!
good point lol. finally makes sense
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Re: Who was the first person to smoke DMT? [Re: pfxtc]
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pfxtc said: jesus.
lol, i almost said the same
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Re: Who was the first person to smoke DMT? [Re: Coaster]
#14368382 - 04/28/11 05:47 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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DMT is the TV of the rainforest.
What I wanna know is how people discovered that crab and lobster are edible...that thing looks unholy.
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Re: Who was the first person to smoke DMT? [Re: sunset_mission]
#14368392 - 04/28/11 05:49 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Nick Sand formerly known as ∞Ayes during his fugitive years was the first person to discover that DMT freebase could be smoked. His thoughts on DMT are an absolute must read. These were written during the ∞Ayes days:
www.serendipity.li/dmt/sacred.pdf
www.serendipity.li/dmt/weebit2.pdf
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Re: Who was the first person to smoke DMT? [Re: MisterMuscaria]
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MisterMuscaria said: DMT is the TV of the rainforest.
What I wanna know is how people discovered that crab and lobster are edible...that thing looks unholy.
If you are hungry enough, you'll eat just about anything.
Someone could have observed a big fish eating one and thought "If the fish eats it, I probably can too."
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Re: Who was the first person to smoke DMT? [Re: Aser]
#14368420 - 04/28/11 05:56 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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All animals are edible to some extent
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Re: Who was the first person to smoke DMT? [Re: MisterMuscaria]
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MisterMuscaria said: DMT is the TV of the rainforest.

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What I wanna know is how people discovered that crab and lobster are edible...that thing looks unholy.
Or squid.
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Re: Who was the first person to smoke DMT? [Re: Coaster]
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Nick Sand...I'm cereal
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Re: Who was the first person to smoke DMT? [Re: muistrue]
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FractalDust said: Nick Sand formerly known as ∞Ayes during his fugitive years was the first person to discover that DMT freebase could be smoked. His thoughts on DMT are an absolute must read. These were written during the ∞Ayes days:
www.serendipity.li/dmt/sacred.pdf
www.serendipity.li/dmt/weebit2.pdf

Thank you for solving the mystery. 
So it was a fugitive who discovered the cosmic technology. Intriguing, am going to read about this.
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Re: Who was the first person to smoke DMT? [Re: sunset_mission]
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post it here my reader is broke
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Re: Who was the first person to smoke DMT? [Re: sunset_mission]
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Being the first person to soke DMT isn't super exciting, find me the first dude who cut some bark off a tree and mixed it with some random seeds and boiled it at the perfect temperature.. and then drank the most disgusting shit he's ever seen. I wanna know who that dude was.
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Re: Who was the first person to smoke DMT? [Re: pfxtc]
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pfxtc said: Being the first person to soke DMT isn't super exciting, find me the first dude who cut some bark off a tree and mixed it with some random seeds and boiled it at the perfect temperature.. and then drank the most disgusting shit he's ever seen. I wanna know who that dude was.
Seconded. Ayahuasca does NOT
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they just boiled everything including a bunch of nonactives that they still use in their traditional brew
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I'll work on formatting this, but it will take a bit, so in the mean time...
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VOL UME X, NUMBER 1 VERNAL EQUINO X 2001 Moving Into the Sacred World of DMT by ∞Ayes
The world of DMT is incredibly vast. What DMT opens in us is so profound that it is impossible to truly express. I have been making, using, and initiating people into DMT use, for around 40 years. I was the one who first discovered that the free-base could be smoked. It has never ceased to amaze me, nor have I ever felt that one could fairly arrive at any hard and fast conclusions about what was happening during a DMT trip.
I do think that there are general rules for approach- ing the DMT journey such as diet, preparation, set and set- ting, and intention. But DMT is about the beyond. “Beyond what?” you may ask. Beyond the intellect, beyond the senses, beyond any devices and biological instruments for dealing with the external world. When you journey through the realms of the interior, the rules of the intellect and the values of the material world are not only irrelevant, but using them as yardsticks can create confusion.
Tools of intellect are analytical, and as such are divisive. The processes of expression, communication, analysis, and intellect are tools for the ig- norant. With these tools, we work our way out of the dark; but this ignorance is of the material world, not the spirit realm. DMT is about unity and the healing of division, conflict, and the sickness brought about by compartmentalization. It is on a higher order of reality than the intellect, but it will weave message-laden images with any mental state or environmen- tal input. The trick is seeing the pattern in the fabric and not getting hung up on the colors and threads. Thus, when I see someone trying to understand the DMT experience from a non-mystical, intellectual viewpoint—subsuming the whole by the parts—I am strongly motivated to share a critical view- point in the hope of extending our understanding of DMT and its use by travelling toward the beyond, which is its proper landscape.
World consciousness is changing and expanding very rap- idly. The part that freaks everyone out is the idea that we will have to bid a fond farewell to the absolute authority of the intellect and the senses. These are the crutches of the mate- rial world. In the material world we fall down without them— we would remain as cripples. However, in the vast beyond, they are just distractions. These tools need to be dropped when you enter the ocean of consciousness, as they will only drag you down when you need to float.
32 When I read the excerpt in ER from DMT: The Spirit Mol- ecule by Dr. Rick Strassman, I was struck by what I feel are a few fundamental misunderstandings that he made, and his failure to notice the crucial effect that the presence of he and his crew, as well as the overall environment, was having on his subjects. I wish to point these out and to put this type of research back into the vast perspective to which it belongs, lest this materialistic viewpoint create decades of misunder- standing.
First off, DMT is not a re-run of the X-Files. There are no aliens squiggling through psychospace to do experiments on us. That idea is just plain silly. It is fine to wonder how these perceptions occur, but it’s another matter to jump to con- clusions. Wouldn’t it make sense to first examine the envi- ronmental design rather than look to alien origins? Over and over, Strassman’s subjects describe being examined by nu- merous strange beings in highly technical environments during the visual phase of their DMT experience. They are being examined, discussed, measured, probed, and observed. They are in high-tech nurseries and alien laboratories. There are 3–4 people moving around operating machinery accord- ing to some design or agenda.
Now lets look at what the physical surroundings are. These experiments are being done in a hospital room. There are a number of people in attendance, helping the one who is in charge, Dr. Strassman. He has an agenda and an experi- mental scientific viewpoint based on intellectual assump- tions. There are people from NIDA, a government agency overseeing these experiments. They are labelled “Mr. V.” and “Mr. W. ” It seems clear to me that these individuals are the “aliens” represented in many of the experimental subjects’ trips. The elements of the experimental environment seem to be cropping up in the trip world that the subjects are ex- periencing. Why haven’t other environmental designs been considered?
One of my many memorable DMT trips (at about 0.9 mg per kg of body weight, intramuscular of the HCl) was sitting on a Persian carpet listening to a recording of Sharan Rani playing a love raga on a sarod. I had my two trip buddies with me. There were candles and incense. The room was set up as a temple space for tripping. As I arrived at my internal trip space, I was filled with overwhelming feelings of wom- anly love and sensuality.
I looked down and was very surprised to see myself dressed in filmy harem pants and no shirt on. I had a beautiful copper-colored female body— breasts and all. I had many bangles on my arms, and ankle bells on my legs. I looked around and found that I was danc- ing a seductive love raga to the two musicians facing me play- ing sarod and tabla. We were performing in the courtyard of a beautiful Indian temple similar to Bubhaneshwar Temple, famed for its erotic sculpture and soaring towers. My danc- ing was an exact counterpart in rhythmic motion to the melo- dies and rhythms of the music. It was an exquisite act of love. It was so beautiful that when I came down, I declared that if I died right at that moment, I would regret nothing as I had experienced beauty more exquisite than I could ever imag- ine. Perfect love and unity.
As I came down, I saw my beauti- ful breasts shimmer away and the bangles slide off my arms twinkling into nothing. There was a momentary ache in my heart as all of this love withdrew. As the room reappeared around me, I experienced a confusion; I could not remem- ber if I was a sacred temple dancer dreaming I was a man, or if I was a man dreaming I was a female dancer. This was ob- viously a very touching and profound trip that infused my being with a new appreciation of love and harmony, some- thing I carry as a memory and a perspective on life to this day. Obviously, I am not a woman, but I was so profoundly influenced by a woman playing a love raga that I created myself in accordance to what was entering into me from my environment.
So it is apparent that set and setting are ex- tremely influential in acting upon the DMT state, which is clearly a magnifying, creative, and sensitizing medium. Now what would have happened if I had been injected with DMT in a clinical setting with two authorities from the Na- tional Institute on “Drug Abuse” watching me while little machines were beeping and orderlies and nurses were mov- ing about? How different is this from the early CIA experi- ments with LSD? Granted that this orientation is clearly not the evil, murderous purposes that the government was en- tertaining at that time, and the “compromised assets” (sub- jects) were not thrown from the windows to create an urban myth imprinted on everyone’s mind that LSD makes you “jump” out of windows, but there are certain elements that are similar. [Note: We are not aware of any documented inci- dents of government officials chucking dosed subjects from win- dows.
There was one incident where a chemical weapons special- ist, Frank Olsen, was unknowingly dosed during an Army Chemical Corps gathering. Mr. Olsen later became depressed (apparently related to his being dosed) and was to be committed in a mental hospital. However, “the night before commitment, he died after crashing through a window on the tenth floor” of a ho- tel (Stafford 1992). Did he jump or was he thrown? We don’t know. Nevertheless, we seriously doubt that this incident was or- chestrated in order to create an urban legend that LSD causes one to jump from windows, even if it may have contributed to this idea. Although I doubt that jumping from windows while on LSD is common, the fact is that it can play a part in such an activity, as I actually witnessed an individual on acid jump from my own second-story apartment window. — David Aardvark] These are experiments being done by government agencies exam- ining the use of these psychedelic substances in the pursuit of more power, money, and success (and based on the falla- cious concepts of “drugs” and “abuse”).
Remember, these are the same folks that rub elbows with the masters of dis- information that create absurd commercials like a frying egg in a pan saying, “This is your brain on drugs.” The assumptions are all wrong. Dr. Strassman’s interpre- tation is about the recording of specific hallucinations, psy- chological modalities, and intellectual structuring. In actu- ality, the hallucinations are only visual by-products of a mys- tical state. What is important are the feelings and the hid- den meanings you experience from entering into the vast- ness, and the new consciousness that can result; this is the glimpse that can open your soul to the sacred.
At the end of the excerpt, Strassman decides to “act as if the worlds volunteers visited and the inhabitants with whom they interacted were real,” so that he can show more “empa- thy.” It is difficult for me to interpret this “acting” as allow- ing true empathy. It seems more like psychological role- playing to me. His concern that this approach might create a communal psychosis is valid, however.
The administration of DMT in these highly artificial and agenda-driven environments may very well create a warped impression of assumed importance and reality that does not allow DMT to function as it should. Let Strassman take his subjects into the forest or a temple, and turn on with them after he has mastered it himself, and I think he will find that the little alien doctors will disappear and be replaced by other mystic beings—beings that can tell you about yourself. Or you can go to a completely non-representative space of the rare “level three” state, where there is no light, no design, just the voice of God using your soul as a silent tuning fork.
Alas, this is unlikely to happen, as Strassman would prob- ably lose his job or grant, might very well be prosecuted and jailed, and worst of all, like Leary and Alpert, lose his scientific “objectivity” (another great myth). Moving from this critical mode into a more expansive mode, I would like to address this topic from a mystical/religious point of view. The “objective” viewpoint was adopted by sci- ence as a more realistic way of describing reality than the “subjective” views filled with rigid dogma espoused by vari- ous organized religions. Actually, this understanding of ob- jective (standing aloof from an experiment so as not to have one’s judgment distorted) and subjective (being so immersed in what one is observing that meaningful observations can- not be made) are really misnomers. Subjective consciousness can be thought of as the personal inward journey involving mystical experience and self-realization. Objectivity has to do with the outward application of the mind for the realiza- tion of materialistic goals and intellectual pursuits in the world of practical life applications—for communication and social survival.
I would like to consider this topic from the subjective point of view, to share a perspective that I feel can lead to a much richer appreciation of where one can go with the sacramen- tal substances, should it be decided to use them in this man- ner.
One of the two “commandments” we had in the religious in- stitution that we established in the ’60s called the League for Spiritual Discovery was “Thou shall not change the consciousness of another person without their consent.” On the surface, this means don’t dose anyone without their knowledge. Dosing someone without them knowing it is a mean-spirited form of violence. Our consciousness, limited as it may be, is ours. It is intensely personal. It is also our entry and connection with Divine consciousness. So to dose someone without their knowledge is to mess around with their connection with God.
To do this for fun or revenge is nothing short of an abomination. It is disgusting and the height of unconsciousness. This is sin. Now, let’s look at changing someone’s consciousness with their knowledge and permission. When one enters into the field of consciousness to explore or find God, unity, healing, inspiration, beauty, or love, one is making a commitment to meditate or work, or to take a psychedelic in a conscious or purposeful way to find one’s self or gain some hidden inner knowledge. This is one’s promise to one’s self. This is ex- tremely personal. It is between one’s own heart and mind, and God’s. No one else’s.
When you take an inner voyage, you may be asking someone to assist you. This someone may know more about this jour- ney than you do. This person has made the trip before. This person knows, perhaps, how to navigate his or her path with- out fear and stumbling. This person does not know your path. Nevertheless, a calm, loving presence while you are passing through the rough patches and sticky bits may be helpful to you, if you want it. This is your trip. Your mind. Your idea. Your freedom. You take the responsibility for your trip. This is not really social. Even if you are in a cuddle-puddle this is your personal connection with love. The other person is only a mirror, a friend, a companion, a helper.
So when someone sets up an experiment—a program with some “idea” behind it, some agenda—they are imposing a kind of mind-trip on the psychedelic experience. The envi- ronment may then have to accord with medical, psychologi- cal, or even governmental rules, precepts, and regulations. Even if the person running the program wants to demon- strate how useful and helpful these substances are, the very fact that there is an exterior organized program controlling the way in which the substance is administered interferes with the nature of the experience. Such a program in a clini- cal environment may produce some interesting results, but this is not the entheogenic or sacramental use of these sub- stances. This applied program (curing, drug abuse, psychoto- mimetic model, or whatever) is a linear kind of thing—a con- trol and concept modality that does not even begin touch on the true potential of what can be a very profound multi- levelled experience.
It is but one very small window, a tiny part of what is possible, and the part cannot subsume the whole. Holistic, deep spiritual research cannot be authorized by its very nature. Authority does not command God. If au- thority is an organized and limited temporary utilitarian structure, when its use is finished, it is disposable. God is not disposable. Neither are people.
Consciousness research and exploration must always be un- authorized to be authentic. Authorization is simply irrel- evant. This does not mean we cast psychedelics hither and yon all over the landscape irresponsibly. It means that this is a deeply personal, tender, passionate search for self-realiza- tion. No one can tell you this. You must learn it for yourself. This is your love dance with yourself. For anyone to diddle with the controls in a gross or even subtle way, it distorts things (to put it “objectively”). To put it subjectively, it’s sim- ply perversion.
Let’s look at it from another angle—a scientific angle. There is a concept sometimes referred to as the Heisenberg Un- certainty Principle. Put simply, it means that the act of ob- serving something changes the nature of that which is being observed (in subatomic particles). The very act of just ob- serving it. In our social life this happens all of the time. For example, you walk into a room full of people. They look at you. You act very differently than you would if that room were empty. What might the fundamental effect of having substances administered by strangers (albeit possibly friendly strangers) who are taking notes, monitoring heart rate, respiration, video and audio taping, talking, whisper- ing, or what-have you, in a technical, clinical environment?
Obviously the nature of the journey will be profoundly in- fluenced and changed from what it could be if the “subject” were in a natural, private, aesthetically pleasing environment. No one is going to be entirely comfortable in a clinical set- ting. There is an agenda here. This agenda is not up to the standard of a spiritual, friendly, and supportive environment. Strange smells, strange sounds, and the wrong kind of light- ing, pervade. Past memories of doctor’s offices—pain, pok- ing, injections, etc.—can arise. This has to change the nature of the experience. It is simply laboratory experiments with human beings being used as experimental lab animals.
The highest use of psychedelics and the empathogens is for finding love, beauty, joy, ecstasy, unity, and integration. This search for our essential inner perfection and Godliness is the spiritual search. When these substances are used this way, they are used for the highest good. Then they are sacraments, and we can call them entheogens. We must never forget, no matter how much disinformation is spread, that these sub- stances are inert, innocent materials. It is we who interact with them and confer the variety of qualities that we attribute to them. It is we who have the choice to malign, terrorize, or scandalize them. It is also we who have the choice to treat them with the respect due to a gift from existence that can help in our search to find ourselves. And in doing so, to find the glory of love and illumination.
There may be some skeptics who say, “How did we get so deeply into spiritualism and God?” Yet, we have many ac- counts of elves, guardians, extra-terrestrials, and magicians that we see on DMT. What’s going on here? If we can accept imps, little monsters, and elves from this DMT spirit world, why cannot we accept God?
Let’s approach this topic from another neglected aspect. What is happening when we ingest DMT and reach this level of elves? Perhaps we are accessing the ultimate significant spirit of life when we apprehend these animated and sym- bolic representations. We may be intuiting the universal life code—the DNA molecule—which is found by the trillions all over the body. Perhaps the elves and imps are small sub- loops of information that we are accessing, which show how we can re-unify parts of our program that have gotten out of kilter. It has to come from somewhere, so why not look closer, rather than further? It seems that man’s search for knowl- edge started from the stars with the Greeks, and slowly worked its way closer and inward, until we are finally look- ing at the genetic engineering that is the basis of life. It is looking like the DNA molecule is possibly the origin of our spirituality also.
Let’s look at the feelings that occur during these visions, by examining them via a format for smoking DMT. I used to have a portable temple of very simple design—a beautiful handkerchief like a mandala, plus a candle. We’d sit around and smoke, one person assisting the smoker with matches and anything else he/she could do, like catching the pipe when the smoker went beyond physical coordination. We never passed the pipe around the circle, since that would mean you were already coming down by the time the pipe circulated again. The candle and mandala served as center- ing devices. As the DMT came on, the edges of the cloth would start moving, and so would the designs on the hand- kerchief. 2-dimensional surfaces would become 3-dimen- sional, independently moving in and out, up and down, rela- tive to each other. The center would become a vast depth reaching away into infinity. The feelings that accompanied this were a sense of intense profundity, as though one had just arrived at the edge of the Grand Canyon. There was a sense of hidden inner meaning just about to be revealed.
Everything seemed especially precious, and the real mean- ing of the word “sacred” resonated in my entire being. This is a feeling of coming into oneness with everything. It is the end of loneliness and emptiness, and the feeling of unity and completeness. It doesn’t get any better than that. In this space, anything can happen. Curing can happen. It can be accompanied by “agents,” little doctors working on you, sig- nifying monsters, or even magicians teaching you lost knowl- edge. Worship and prayer suddenly have a whole new depth and meaning, because the sacred opens up the infinite.
One time many years ago in the penitentiary on McNeil Island we had managed to get a group of psychedelic prisoners living all together in one of the 8-man cells.
Every Saturday night we would sit together in a circle around a little makeshift shrine, and take LSD, as well as smoke DMT. One of our cell mates, whom we could not dislodge from the cell, was an exception. He was a Mafia hitman.
Sick as he was, he eventually gave it a try. The night he smoked DMT he came out of it with a look of astonishment and awe, and he said, “That’s the first time I’ve gone to church in 30 years.” Even this stone-cold killer could recognize the sacred. DMT creates a well-spring into a type of infinite space. You can feel and taste it, as it moves through your whole being like a cool refreshing breeze on a hot sticky day.
Like a mother’s soothing touch on your fevered brow, but much deeper and more profound. You can feel the wind of the Divine blowing through your soul. Not ev- ery time—it is a trial and error process of finding the best moment, the best prepa- ration, a moment when you are already in a great space. Then you can catapult into the vastness of Godliness, and this is the highest fulfillment in life.
So much time is wasted trying to find a rational excuse for using the psychedelics. A use that can open the door for government approval. Let’s cure some junkies of their habit. What for? The government-backed prosecution of drug users creates the problem. The problem is fictional. So we are going to use a sacrament to cure a non-existent problem? It has been said that the psychedelic voyage is a trip from wellness to even greater wellness. I agree. To use these sacraments only in a per- verse application is to bring them down to a much lower level than their potential.
What my experience indicates is that the most profound way to use psychedelics is to create ideal, healthy, high-energy environments with people who are in top form—then you will be able to approach the highest. Yes, the sacraments are cura- tive and can be used that way, but it is all about curing, on any level.
Look at it as though consciousness were a set of stairs. Each stair represents a higher level of health, integration, and preparedness. At the bottom one can use the psychedelics with beer, opium, and cocaine to have a wilder party. One can use them to lose one’s self, have great sex, etc. Fine and good; nothing really wrong, if that’s what you want to do—it beats shooting people and raping the environment! This is, however, a low level of consciousness. Then you go up a few levels and you think that you can do some good with these compounds. Let’s use them for study- ing madness or curing addiction. Still a pretty low level of consciousness and no real commitment to personal development. This use is directed outward, not in- ward. Change comes from within—it can never be imposed from the outside.
The next step up it occurs that maybe you could use psychedelics for finding answers to questions in your life, perhaps even for vision questing. Now we’re beginning to start on a more consciousness-oriented trip. But how are we doing it? Are we really arranging it so that we are creating an environment that unequivocally sets the stage for a leap into consciousness, or are we programming the trip with interrup- tions (telephone calls, visitors)? The purer our intention, the greater the possible results become. It can be quite subtle. You cannot plan it all out beyond a certain point or it becomes a control trip. You cannot program out spontaneity, but you can be intelligent and sensitive, and remember not to make the same mistake too many times in a row.
Then you can use the psychedelics as an adjunct to tantra, meditation and/or yoga, devoting your entire trip to learning to go deep in these disciplines while continuing these practices on a long-term basis.
This is the highest, most visionary, and most produc- tive level. From whatever level you begin, the psychedelics will enhance, intensify, deepen, or broaden your experience, but they are working with the level of consciousness you pro- vide them.
I have been using psychedelics for over 40 years productively and creatively. Of course, how I take them has changed over the years, otherwise it would be senseless repetition. Many people, especially youngsters, take them for a while, change from that experience a bit, and then turn away without dis- covering the staircase effect that is the practice of consciously choosing the highest level of existence possible at that time of your life, and launching your trip from that place. Even less known is that DMT, according to your readiness, will manifest on one of three levels: 1) the design and symbol level; 2) the messenger level; and 3) an ineffable level of total communion with the Mystery.
The saddest thing is to waste these potentials when experi- menting with this truly great psychedelic. To hear of doctors dancing on government’s strings for carrots of money, power and prestige, while cringing from whips of criticism and dis- enfranchisement, during the very act of turning someone on and polluting their trip with this nonsense, strikes me as the height of unconsciousness. If this is not appropriate behav- ior for a curandero, how is this acceptable for a doctor in a modern society?
The proof of the pudding is that Strassman’s subjects have formed a support group because they thought that they might be losing their minds! What they need is an entirely supportive environment and free access to more DMT so that they can create their own sacred space away from govern- ment agents and all of that paranoid and polluting program- ming that occurs in “authorized” settings.
Unauthorized settings are free settings. Authority is slavery. Only in a free and supportive environment of grace and love, aesthetic and compassionate caring, can this sacrament be used to attain the highest. The freedom to practice this fun- damental religious use of DMT must be found again. Once there was a time when we could gather together lov- ingly, and peacefully take sacraments together. Hardly any- one remembers that time now.
The ambience of government terrorism against psychedelics produces a very different set and setting. I was a guide at the Millbrook League for Spiri- tual Discovery. This was a legally-incorporated religion whose charter included the use of psychedelic sacraments. When one night the door was criminally kicked in by G. Gor- don Liddy (now convicted burglar of Watergate infamy), that changed forever. Overnight the quality of magic that we had created was invested with fear. Although nothing illegal had been found and psychedelics had not yet been sched- uled, the reign of terror had begun. The Inquisition had ar- rived. It is flourishing even more now. The negative effects of the government-supported substances of alcohol, tobacco, and caffeine are more than a hundred times worse than all illegal drugs together. (If you consider only the psychedelics, empathogens, and herbs such as Cannabis, these government supported drugs are thousands of times more harmful.) Yet we are criminals, and soon we may go to federal prison for only talking or writing about scheduled plants and com- pounds!
The Bill of Rights is dead. No religious freedom. No free speech. No right of association. No right of assembly. The people who call us “druggies” are the true criminals. Explor- ers of consciousness are persecuted, jailed, and vilified by the people in charge of this inquisition—hypocrites, who are rarely called “druggies,” despite their frequent addictions to alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine (some of the most conscious- ness lowering drugs known to man). These “drug warriors” fear expanded consciousness because it exposes the lies and perversions of their loveless and violent lives. In desperate acts of self-serving stupidity, they blame others for the very sins of which they would rid themselves. Although the con- sciousness explorers are the victims of this reign of terror, it has nothing to do with us. It is just the mindless raging of the beast.
It is important to remain transparent and cloud- like in the face of this. This incredibly vast wash of lies and cruelty must be ignored. This is their battle with themselves. Do not be washed away in the waves of disinformation and lies. Stay centered. Know thyself. Stay with that thread of truth and love that you have discovered within; even though it fades in and out, it is your inner truth and the doorway to your own authority.
I am a “criminal.” I am a fugitive. I have been for 40 years. But I have been true to myself and my friends. It has been hard. But I have a vision. Someday, somewhere, I will estab- lish the University for Psychedelic Studies. There will be a department of psychedelic botany and chemistry. There will be a beautiful park and temple with lawns and ponds, peacocks, swans, and wildlife walking fearlessly. There will be pavilions for initiation.
There will be a department of entheogenic worship. There will be a school of psychedelic medicine and curing. There will be acres of psychedelic herb gardens. There will be places to dance and places to medi- tate. There will be a school of yoga, tantra, and a “Mystery” school. A school for breathing, for art, music, for medita- tion, for ecological and planetary studies as well as applica- tions. A school for love and one for beauty. There will be no government inspectors or police. They will not be necessary.
There will be guides, friends, helpers, and lovers. On the new level of consciousness struggling to be born now, this will be how it is, for the old way of competition, murder, and ex- ploitation is fast becoming an impossible situation. This planet must be lovingly cared for or we are all doomed. We are the guardians of life and planetary harmony. This is where we are going. That is what I have seen in my visions, and that is what I have been working for all of my life. That is what I will continue to do until my last breath. Care to dance?
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VOL UME X, NUMBER 1 VERNAL EQUINO X 2001 Moving Into the Sacred World of DMT by ∞Ayes
The world of DMT is incredibly vast. What DMT opens in us is so profound that it is impossible to truly express. I have been making, using, and initiating people into DMT use, for around 40 years. I was the one who first discovered that the free-base could be smoked. It has never ceased to amaze me, nor have I ever felt that one could fairly arrive at any hard and fast conclusions about what was happening during a DMT trip.
I do think that there are general rules for approach- ing the DMT journey such as diet, preparation, set and set- ting, and intention. But DMT is about the beyond. “Beyond what?” you may ask. Beyond the intellect, beyond the senses, beyond any devices and biological instruments for dealing with the external world. When you journey through the realms of the interior, the rules of the intellect and the values of the material world are not only irrelevant, but using them as yardsticks can create confusion.
Tools of intellect are analytical, and as such are divisive. The processes of expression, communication, analysis, and intellect are tools for the ig- norant. With these tools, we work our way out of the dark; but this ignorance is of the material world, not the spirit realm. DMT is about unity and the healing of division, conflict, and the sickness brought about by compartmentalization. It is on a higher order of reality than the intellect, but it will weave message-laden images with any mental state or environmen- tal input. The trick is seeing the pattern in the fabric and not getting hung up on the colors and threads. Thus, when I see someone trying to understand the DMT experience from a non-mystical, intellectual viewpoint—subsuming the whole by the parts—I am strongly motivated to share a critical view- point in the hope of extending our understanding of DMT and its use by travelling toward the beyond, which is its proper landscape.
World consciousness is changing and expanding very rap- idly. The part that freaks everyone out is the idea that we will have to bid a fond farewell to the absolute authority of the intellect and the senses. These are the crutches of the mate- rial world. In the material world we fall down without them— we would remain as cripples. However, in the vast beyond, they are just distractions. These tools need to be dropped when you enter the ocean of consciousness, as they will only drag you down when you need to float.
32 When I read the excerpt in ER from DMT: The Spirit Mol- ecule by Dr. Rick Strassman, I was struck by what I feel are a few fundamental misunderstandings that he made, and his failure to notice the crucial effect that the presence of he and his crew, as well as the overall environment, was having on his subjects. I wish to point these out and to put this type of research back into the vast perspective to which it belongs, lest this materialistic viewpoint create decades of misunder- standing.
First off, DMT is not a re-run of the X-Files. There are no aliens squiggling through psychospace to do experiments on us. That idea is just plain silly. It is fine to wonder how these perceptions occur, but it’s another matter to jump to con- clusions. Wouldn’t it make sense to first examine the envi- ronmental design rather than look to alien origins? Over and over, Strassman’s subjects describe being examined by nu- merous strange beings in highly technical environments during the visual phase of their DMT experience. They are being examined, discussed, measured, probed, and observed. They are in high-tech nurseries and alien laboratories. There are 3–4 people moving around operating machinery accord- ing to some design or agenda.
Now lets look at what the physical surroundings are. These experiments are being done in a hospital room. There are a number of people in attendance, helping the one who is in charge, Dr. Strassman. He has an agenda and an experi- mental scientific viewpoint based on intellectual assump- tions. There are people from NIDA, a government agency overseeing these experiments. They are labelled “Mr. V.” and “Mr. W. ” It seems clear to me that these individuals are the “aliens” represented in many of the experimental subjects’ trips. The elements of the experimental environment seem to be cropping up in the trip world that the subjects are ex- periencing. Why haven’t other environmental designs been considered?
One of my many memorable DMT trips (at about 0.9 mg per kg of body weight, intramuscular of the HCl) was sitting on a Persian carpet listening to a recording of Sharan Rani playing a love raga on a sarod. I had my two trip buddies with me. There were candles and incense. The room was set up as a temple space for tripping. As I arrived at my internal trip space, I was filled with overwhelming feelings of wom- anly love and sensuality.
I looked down and was very surprised to see myself dressed in filmy harem pants and no shirt on. I had a beautiful copper-colored female body— breasts and all. I had many bangles on my arms, and ankle bells on my legs. I looked around and found that I was danc- ing a seductive love raga to the two musicians facing me play- ing sarod and tabla. We were performing in the courtyard of a beautiful Indian temple similar to Bubhaneshwar Temple, famed for its erotic sculpture and soaring towers. My danc- ing was an exact counterpart in rhythmic motion to the melo- dies and rhythms of the music. It was an exquisite act of love. It was so beautiful that when I came down, I declared that if I died right at that moment, I would regret nothing as I had experienced beauty more exquisite than I could ever imag- ine. Perfect love and unity.
As I came down, I saw my beauti- ful breasts shimmer away and the bangles slide off my arms twinkling into nothing. There was a momentary ache in my heart as all of this love withdrew. As the room reappeared around me, I experienced a confusion; I could not remem- ber if I was a sacred temple dancer dreaming I was a man, or if I was a man dreaming I was a female dancer. This was ob- viously a very touching and profound trip that infused my being with a new appreciation of love and harmony, some- thing I carry as a memory and a perspective on life to this day. Obviously, I am not a woman, but I was so profoundly influenced by a woman playing a love raga that I created myself in accordance to what was entering into me from my environment.
So it is apparent that set and setting are ex- tremely influential in acting upon the DMT state, which is clearly a magnifying, creative, and sensitizing medium. Now what would have happened if I had been injected with DMT in a clinical setting with two authorities from the Na- tional Institute on “Drug Abuse” watching me while little machines were beeping and orderlies and nurses were mov- ing about? How different is this from the early CIA experi- ments with LSD? Granted that this orientation is clearly not the evil, murderous purposes that the government was en- tertaining at that time, and the “compromised assets” (sub- jects) were not thrown from the windows to create an urban myth imprinted on everyone’s mind that LSD makes you “jump” out of windows, but there are certain elements that are similar. [Note: We are not aware of any documented inci- dents of government officials chucking dosed subjects from win- dows.
There was one incident where a chemical weapons special- ist, Frank Olsen, was unknowingly dosed during an Army Chemical Corps gathering. Mr. Olsen later became depressed (apparently related to his being dosed) and was to be committed in a mental hospital. However, “the night before commitment, he died after crashing through a window on the tenth floor” of a ho- tel (Stafford 1992). Did he jump or was he thrown? We don’t know. Nevertheless, we seriously doubt that this incident was or- chestrated in order to create an urban legend that LSD causes one to jump from windows, even if it may have contributed to this idea. Although I doubt that jumping from windows while on LSD is common, the fact is that it can play a part in such an activity, as I actually witnessed an individual on acid jump from my own second-story apartment window. — David Aardvark] These are experiments being done by government agencies exam- ining the use of these psychedelic substances in the pursuit of more power, money, and success (and based on the falla- cious concepts of “drugs” and “abuse”).
Remember, these are the same folks that rub elbows with the masters of dis- information that create absurd commercials like a frying egg in a pan saying, “This is your brain on drugs.” The assumptions are all wrong. Dr. Strassman’s interpre- tation is about the recording of specific hallucinations, psy- chological modalities, and intellectual structuring. In actu- ality, the hallucinations are only visual by-products of a mys- tical state. What is important are the feelings and the hid- den meanings you experience from entering into the vast- ness, and the new consciousness that can result; this is the glimpse that can open your soul to the sacred.
At the end of the excerpt, Strassman decides to “act as if the worlds volunteers visited and the inhabitants with whom they interacted were real,” so that he can show more “empa- thy.” It is difficult for me to interpret this “acting” as allow- ing true empathy. It seems more like psychological role- playing to me. His concern that this approach might create a communal psychosis is valid, however.
The administration of DMT in these highly artificial and agenda-driven environments may very well create a warped impression of assumed importance and reality that does not allow DMT to function as it should. Let Strassman take his subjects into the forest or a temple, and turn on with them after he has mastered it himself, and I think he will find that the little alien doctors will disappear and be replaced by other mystic beings—beings that can tell you about yourself. Or you can go to a completely non-representative space of the rare “level three” state, where there is no light, no design, just the voice of God using your soul as a silent tuning fork.
Alas, this is unlikely to happen, as Strassman would prob- ably lose his job or grant, might very well be prosecuted and jailed, and worst of all, like Leary and Alpert, lose his scientific “objectivity” (another great myth). Moving from this critical mode into a more expansive mode, I would like to address this topic from a mystical/religious point of view. The “objective” viewpoint was adopted by sci- ence as a more realistic way of describing reality than the “subjective” views filled with rigid dogma espoused by vari- ous organized religions. Actually, this understanding of ob- jective (standing aloof from an experiment so as not to have one’s judgment distorted) and subjective (being so immersed in what one is observing that meaningful observations can- not be made) are really misnomers. Subjective consciousness can be thought of as the personal inward journey involving mystical experience and self-realization. Objectivity has to do with the outward application of the mind for the realiza- tion of materialistic goals and intellectual pursuits in the world of practical life applications—for communication and social survival.
I would like to consider this topic from the subjective point of view, to share a perspective that I feel can lead to a much richer appreciation of where one can go with the sacramen- tal substances, should it be decided to use them in this man- ner.
One of the two “commandments” we had in the religious in- stitution that we established in the ’60s called the League for Spiritual Discovery was “Thou shall not change the consciousness of another person without their consent.” On the surface, this means don’t dose anyone without their knowledge. Dosing someone without them knowing it is a mean-spirited form of violence. Our consciousness, limited as it may be, is ours. It is intensely personal. It is also our entry and connection with Divine consciousness. So to dose someone without their knowledge is to mess around with their connection with God.
To do this for fun or revenge is nothing short of an abomination. It is disgusting and the height of unconsciousness. This is sin. Now, let’s look at changing someone’s consciousness with their knowledge and permission. When one enters into the field of consciousness to explore or find God, unity, healing, inspiration, beauty, or love, one is making a commitment to meditate or work, or to take a psychedelic in a conscious or purposeful way to find one’s self or gain some hidden inner knowledge. This is one’s promise to one’s self. This is ex- tremely personal. It is between one’s own heart and mind, and God’s. No one else’s.
When you take an inner voyage, you may be asking someone to assist you. This someone may know more about this jour- ney than you do. This person has made the trip before. This person knows, perhaps, how to navigate his or her path with- out fear and stumbling. This person does not know your path. Nevertheless, a calm, loving presence while you are passing through the rough patches and sticky bits may be helpful to you, if you want it. This is your trip. Your mind. Your idea. Your freedom. You take the responsibility for your trip. This is not really social. Even if you are in a cuddle-puddle this is your personal connection with love. The other person is only a mirror, a friend, a companion, a helper.
So when someone sets up an experiment—a program with some “idea” behind it, some agenda—they are imposing a kind of mind-trip on the psychedelic experience. The envi- ronment may then have to accord with medical, psychologi- cal, or even governmental rules, precepts, and regulations. Even if the person running the program wants to demon- strate how useful and helpful these substances are, the very fact that there is an exterior organized program controlling the way in which the substance is administered interferes with the nature of the experience. Such a program in a clini- cal environment may produce some interesting results, but this is not the entheogenic or sacramental use of these sub- stances. This applied program (curing, drug abuse, psychoto- mimetic model, or whatever) is a linear kind of thing—a con- trol and concept modality that does not even begin touch on the true potential of what can be a very profound multi- levelled experience.
It is but one very small window, a tiny part of what is possible, and the part cannot subsume the whole. Holistic, deep spiritual research cannot be authorized by its very nature. Authority does not command God. If au- thority is an organized and limited temporary utilitarian structure, when its use is finished, it is disposable. God is not disposable. Neither are people.
Consciousness research and exploration must always be un- authorized to be authentic. Authorization is simply irrel- evant. This does not mean we cast psychedelics hither and yon all over the landscape irresponsibly. It means that this is a deeply personal, tender, passionate search for self-realiza- tion. No one can tell you this. You must learn it for yourself. This is your love dance with yourself. For anyone to diddle with the controls in a gross or even subtle way, it distorts things (to put it “objectively”). To put it subjectively, it’s sim- ply perversion.
Let’s look at it from another angle—a scientific angle. There is a concept sometimes referred to as the Heisenberg Un- certainty Principle. Put simply, it means that the act of ob- serving something changes the nature of that which is being observed (in subatomic particles). The very act of just ob- serving it. In our social life this happens all of the time. For example, you walk into a room full of people. They look at you. You act very differently than you would if that room were empty. What might the fundamental effect of having substances administered by strangers (albeit possibly friendly strangers) who are taking notes, monitoring heart rate, respiration, video and audio taping, talking, whisper- ing, or what-have you, in a technical, clinical environment?
Obviously the nature of the journey will be profoundly in- fluenced and changed from what it could be if the “subject” were in a natural, private, aesthetically pleasing environment. No one is going to be entirely comfortable in a clinical set- ting. There is an agenda here. This agenda is not up to the standard of a spiritual, friendly, and supportive environment. Strange smells, strange sounds, and the wrong kind of light- ing, pervade. Past memories of doctor’s offices—pain, pok- ing, injections, etc.—can arise. This has to change the nature of the experience. It is simply laboratory experiments with human beings being used as experimental lab animals.
The highest use of psychedelics and the empathogens is for finding love, beauty, joy, ecstasy, unity, and integration. This search for our essential inner perfection and Godliness is the spiritual search. When these substances are used this way, they are used for the highest good. Then they are sacraments, and we can call them entheogens. We must never forget, no matter how much disinformation is spread, that these sub- stances are inert, innocent materials. It is we who interact with them and confer the variety of qualities that we attribute to them. It is we who have the choice to malign, terrorize, or scandalize them. It is also we who have the choice to treat them with the respect due to a gift from existence that can help in our search to find ourselves. And in doing so, to find the glory of love and illumination.
There may be some skeptics who say, “How did we get so deeply into spiritualism and God?” Yet, we have many ac- counts of elves, guardians, extra-terrestrials, and magicians that we see on DMT. What’s going on here? If we can accept imps, little monsters, and elves from this DMT spirit world, why cannot we accept God?
Let’s approach this topic from another neglected aspect. What is happening when we ingest DMT and reach this level of elves? Perhaps we are accessing the ultimate significant spirit of life when we apprehend these animated and sym- bolic representations. We may be intuiting the universal life code—the DNA molecule—which is found by the trillions all over the body. Perhaps the elves and imps are small sub- loops of information that we are accessing, which show how we can re-unify parts of our program that have gotten out of kilter. It has to come from somewhere, so why not look closer, rather than further? It seems that man’s search for knowl- edge started from the stars with the Greeks, and slowly worked its way closer and inward, until we are finally look- ing at the genetic engineering that is the basis of life. It is looking like the DNA molecule is possibly the origin of our spirituality also.
Let’s look at the feelings that occur during these visions, by examining them via a format for smoking DMT. I used to have a portable temple of very simple design—a beautiful handkerchief like a mandala, plus a candle. We’d sit around and smoke, one person assisting the smoker with matches and anything else he/she could do, like catching the pipe when the smoker went beyond physical coordination. We never passed the pipe around the circle, since that would mean you were already coming down by the time the pipe circulated again. The candle and mandala served as center- ing devices. As the DMT came on, the edges of the cloth would start moving, and so would the designs on the hand- kerchief. 2-dimensional surfaces would become 3-dimen- sional, independently moving in and out, up and down, rela- tive to each other. The center would become a vast depth reaching away into infinity. The feelings that accompanied this were a sense of intense profundity, as though one had just arrived at the edge of the Grand Canyon. There was a sense of hidden inner meaning just about to be revealed.
Everything seemed especially precious, and the real mean- ing of the word “sacred” resonated in my entire being. This is a feeling of coming into oneness with everything. It is the end of loneliness and emptiness, and the feeling of unity and completeness. It doesn’t get any better than that. In this space, anything can happen. Curing can happen. It can be accompanied by “agents,” little doctors working on you, sig- nifying monsters, or even magicians teaching you lost knowl- edge. Worship and prayer suddenly have a whole new depth and meaning, because the sacred opens up the infinite.
One time many years ago in the penitentiary on McNeil Island we had managed to get a group of psychedelic prisoners living all together in one of the 8-man cells.
Every Saturday night we would sit together in a circle around a little makeshift shrine, and take LSD, as well as smoke DMT. One of our cell mates, whom we could not dislodge from the cell, was an exception. He was a Mafia hitman.
Sick as he was, he eventually gave it a try. The night he smoked DMT he came out of it with a look of astonishment and awe, and he said, “That’s the first time I’ve gone to church in 30 years.” Even this stone-cold killer could recognize the sacred. DMT creates a well-spring into a type of infinite space. You can feel and taste it, as it moves through your whole being like a cool refreshing breeze on a hot sticky day.
Like a mother’s soothing touch on your fevered brow, but much deeper and more profound. You can feel the wind of the Divine blowing through your soul. Not ev- ery time—it is a trial and error process of finding the best moment, the best prepa- ration, a moment when you are already in a great space. Then you can catapult into the vastness of Godliness, and this is the highest fulfillment in life.
So much time is wasted trying to find a rational excuse for using the psychedelics. A use that can open the door for government approval. Let’s cure some junkies of their habit. What for? The government-backed prosecution of drug users creates the problem. The problem is fictional. So we are going to use a sacrament to cure a non-existent problem? It has been said that the psychedelic voyage is a trip from wellness to even greater wellness. I agree. To use these sacraments only in a per- verse application is to bring them down to a much lower level than their potential.
What my experience indicates is that the most profound way to use psychedelics is to create ideal, healthy, high-energy environments with people who are in top form—then you will be able to approach the highest. Yes, the sacraments are cura- tive and can be used that way, but it is all about curing, on any level.
Look at it as though consciousness were a set of stairs. Each stair represents a higher level of health, integration, and preparedness. At the bottom one can use the psychedelics with beer, opium, and cocaine to have a wilder party. One can use them to lose one’s self, have great sex, etc. Fine and good; nothing really wrong, if that’s what you want to do—it beats shooting people and raping the environment! This is, however, a low level of consciousness. Then you go up a few levels and you think that you can do some good with these compounds. Let’s use them for study- ing madness or curing addiction. Still a pretty low level of consciousness and no real commitment to personal development. This use is directed outward, not in- ward. Change comes from within—it can never be imposed from the outside.
The next step up it occurs that maybe you could use psychedelics for finding answers to questions in your life, perhaps even for vision questing. Now we’re beginning to start on a more consciousness-oriented trip. But how are we doing it? Are we really arranging it so that we are creating an environment that unequivocally sets the stage for a leap into consciousness, or are we programming the trip with interrup- tions (telephone calls, visitors)? The purer our intention, the greater the possible results become. It can be quite subtle. You cannot plan it all out beyond a certain point or it becomes a control trip. You cannot program out spontaneity, but you can be intelligent and sensitive, and remember not to make the same mistake too many times in a row.
Then you can use the psychedelics as an adjunct to tantra, meditation and/or yoga, devoting your entire trip to learning to go deep in these disciplines while continuing these practices on a long-term basis.
This is the highest, most visionary, and most produc- tive level. From whatever level you begin, the psychedelics will enhance, intensify, deepen, or broaden your experience, but they are working with the level of consciousness you pro- vide them.
I have been using psychedelics for over 40 years productively and creatively. Of course, how I take them has changed over the years, otherwise it would be senseless repetition. Many people, especially youngsters, take them for a while, change from that experience a bit, and then turn away without dis- covering the staircase effect that is the practice of consciously choosing the highest level of existence possible at that time of your life, and launching your trip from that place. Even less known is that DMT, according to your readiness, will manifest on one of three levels: 1) the design and symbol level; 2) the messenger level; and 3) an ineffable level of total communion with the Mystery.
The saddest thing is to waste these potentials when experi- menting with this truly great psychedelic. To hear of doctors dancing on government’s strings for carrots of money, power and prestige, while cringing from whips of criticism and dis- enfranchisement, during the very act of turning someone on and polluting their trip with this nonsense, strikes me as the height of unconsciousness. If this is not appropriate behav- ior for a curandero, how is this acceptable for a doctor in a modern society?
The proof of the pudding is that Strassman’s subjects have formed a support group because they thought that they might be losing their minds! What they need is an entirely supportive environment and free access to more DMT so that they can create their own sacred space away from govern- ment agents and all of that paranoid and polluting program- ming that occurs in “authorized” settings.
Unauthorized settings are free settings. Authority is slavery. Only in a free and supportive environment of grace and love, aesthetic and compassionate caring, can this sacrament be used to attain the highest. The freedom to practice this fun- damental religious use of DMT must be found again. Once there was a time when we could gather together lov- ingly, and peacefully take sacraments together. Hardly any- one remembers that time now.
The ambience of government terrorism against psychedelics produces a very different set and setting. I was a guide at the Millbrook League for Spiri- tual Discovery. This was a legally-incorporated religion whose charter included the use of psychedelic sacraments. When one night the door was criminally kicked in by G. Gor- don Liddy (now convicted burglar of Watergate infamy), that changed forever. Overnight the quality of magic that we had created was invested with fear. Although nothing illegal had been found and psychedelics had not yet been sched- uled, the reign of terror had begun. The Inquisition had ar- rived. It is flourishing even more now. The negative effects of the government-supported substances of alcohol, tobacco, and caffeine are more than a hundred times worse than all illegal drugs together. (If you consider only the psychedelics, empathogens, and herbs such as Cannabis, these government supported drugs are thousands of times more harmful.) Yet we are criminals, and soon we may go to federal prison for only talking or writing about scheduled plants and com- pounds!
The Bill of Rights is dead. No religious freedom. No free speech. No right of association. No right of assembly. The people who call us “druggies” are the true criminals. Explor- ers of consciousness are persecuted, jailed, and vilified by the people in charge of this inquisition—hypocrites, who are rarely called “druggies,” despite their frequent addictions to alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine (some of the most conscious- ness lowering drugs known to man). These “drug warriors” fear expanded consciousness because it exposes the lies and perversions of their loveless and violent lives. In desperate acts of self-serving stupidity, they blame others for the very sins of which they would rid themselves. Although the con- sciousness explorers are the victims of this reign of terror, it has nothing to do with us. It is just the mindless raging of the beast.
It is important to remain transparent and cloud- like in the face of this. This incredibly vast wash of lies and cruelty must be ignored. This is their battle with themselves. Do not be washed away in the waves of disinformation and lies. Stay centered. Know thyself. Stay with that thread of truth and love that you have discovered within; even though it fades in and out, it is your inner truth and the doorway to your own authority.
I am a “criminal.” I am a fugitive. I have been for 40 years. But I have been true to myself and my friends. It has been hard. But I have a vision. Someday, somewhere, I will estab- lish the University for Psychedelic Studies. There will be a department of psychedelic botany and chemistry. There will be a beautiful park and temple with lawns and ponds, peacocks, swans, and wildlife walking fearlessly. There will be pavilions for initiation.
There will be a department of entheogenic worship. There will be a school of psychedelic medicine and curing. There will be acres of psychedelic herb gardens. There will be places to dance and places to medi- tate. There will be a school of yoga, tantra, and a “Mystery” school. A school for breathing, for art, music, for medita- tion, for ecological and planetary studies as well as applica- tions. A school for love and one for beauty. There will be no government inspectors or police. They will not be necessary.
There will be guides, friends, helpers, and lovers. On the new level of consciousness struggling to be born now, this will be how it is, for the old way of competition, murder, and ex- ploitation is fast becoming an impossible situation. This planet must be lovingly cared for or we are all doomed. We are the guardians of life and planetary harmony. This is where we are going. That is what I have seen in my visions, and that is what I have been working for all of my life. That is what I will continue to do until my last breath. Care to dance?
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I read it all. He detailed exactly what entheogens mean to me and how I approach the experience. He said things I wanted to say but better.
I do not have any role models or 'heroes', but I think I just found one.
All praise be to Nick Sand 
I pray he one day does open the University for Psychedelic Studies. I would so be a student/teacher there
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Re: Who was the first person to smoke DMT? [Re: sunset_mission]
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sunset_mission said: I read it all. He detailed exactly what entheogens mean to me and how I approach the experience. He said things I wanted to say but better.
I do not have any role models or 'heroes', but I think I just found one.
All praise be to Nick Sand 
I pray he one day does open the University for Psychedelic Studies. I would so be a student/teacher there 
He has a wee bit more to say about it too, are you ready for round two?
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Re: Who was the first person to smoke DMT? [Re: muistrue]
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sunset_mission said: I read it all. He detailed exactly what entheogens mean to me and how I approach the experience. He said things I wanted to say but better.
I do not have any role models or 'heroes', but I think I just found one.
All praise be to Nick Sand 
I pray he one day does open the University for Psychedelic Studies. I would so be a student/teacher there 
He has a wee bit more to say about it too, are you ready for round two?
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Re: Who was the first person to smoke DMT? [Re: sunset_mission]
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claimed it was introduced to him by a guy who was more "terence mckenna" than terence mckenna
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Re: Who was the first person to smoke DMT? [Re: sunset_mission]
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sunset_mission said: I read it all. He detailed exactly what entheogens mean to me and how I approach the experience. He said things I wanted to say but better.
I do not have any role models or 'heroes', but I think I just found one.
All praise be to Nick Sand 
I pray he one day does open the University for Psychedelic Studies. I would so be a student/teacher there 
He has a wee bit more to say about it too, are you ready for round two?

www.serendipity.li/dmt/weebit2.pdf
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Re: Who was the first person to smoke DMT? [Re: MisterMuscaria]
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MisterMuscaria said: DMT is the TV of the rainforest.
dude, shit is awesome
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Re: Who was the first person to smoke DMT? [Re: gerryjarcia]
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Wow, I was searching about DMT and came straight to the second page here and read the article. It was really great, then I went to the first page and saw that it was written by Sand. I was in awe. How cool is that?
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