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DMT, what a molecule!
    #568621 - 03/03/02 12:56 PM (22 years, 1 month ago)

So I smoked DMT for the first time last night (actually 5-MEO-DMT but from what I gather they take you to approximately the same place), and needless to say it was probably the most profound experience of my life. I still cannot get over the fact that the place I went to was actually accessible to my mind just by smoking some of this chemical. You read reports and you think you understand what it is all about, but you have no idea until you've been there. It is so utterly removed from this physical plane of existence.

You've all heard what DMT does, so I won't bore you. But my question is what do you think this experience means? What is it? Is it experiencing what it is like to die? (I indeed felt like I was dead for the entire experience) Is it temporarily existing in a higher dimension? Is it existing as pure spirit without the confines of the physical body? Any theories, unique or otherwise? I am baffled but intensely interested in what this mindstate was and how it relates to our existence in general, and I welcome any thoughts.

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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: skaMariaPastora]
    #568642 - 03/03/02 01:26 PM (22 years, 1 month ago)

From what I gather the effects of 5MeODMT and N,NDMT differ quite a bit.


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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: CuckoosNest]
    #568663 - 03/03/02 01:43 PM (22 years, 1 month ago)

How so? Does anybody have experience with both and can articulate how they are different and how they are similar? Maybe their mental effects in terms of visuals, feelings, etc are slightly different but aren't they both in the same grouping in that they bring you to the same degree of mind/body separation and transcendence of physical reality?

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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: skaMariaPastora]
    #568670 - 03/03/02 01:49 PM (22 years, 1 month ago)

i suppose, but I have read/heard that 5meodmt does not produce anywhere near the visual disturbances/hallucinations that nndmt cause. I would like to see some first hand experience people speak up and clear this up though.


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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: skaMariaPastora]
    #568679 - 03/03/02 02:02 PM (22 years, 1 month ago)

I just finished reading Strassman's "DMT: the Spirit Molecule" I suggest you read it as well. I personally try to ignore the alien abductions, visiting elves, and the rest of the McKenna BS... but it is a good read.

Meaning, eh? What does it all mean.....
Well, it could be Jungian archetypes.
An alternate glimpse at the matrix of the mind maybe.
A parallel universe... doubtful.

A good question would be "Am I seeing what I want to see or am I being shown something?" I don't have any answer to that question. But I can say that when interpreting an ambiguous phenomenon, the functional aspect of truth can be misleading. Meaning that if one is not careful, one's predisposition will be the greatest influence on the meaning. So, I guess I do have an answer.


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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: skaMariaPastora]
    #568705 - 03/03/02 02:47 PM (22 years, 1 month ago)

Wow, this brings back memories! It has been over ten years since I smoked DMT, and it still gives me goose bumps when I think about it. For me, the experience taught me that there is more to reality than reality. I'm not talking about something as simple as it opened my mind to possibilities. It is more like seeing your reflection in a mirror for the first time and realizing not only that you have a reflection, but what you look like from another direction.

The harder you think about the experience, the more you try to put it into logical terms or relate it to our everyday reality, the more distant the experience will become. Rather than try to understand it, simply know it and leave it at that.

Now to contridict myself and try to answer a few of your questions:

> Is it experiencing what it is like to die.
I wouldn't be surprised if death doesn't feel like the initial catapult launch DMT puts you through when smoked.

> I indeed felt like I was dead for the entire experience
Welcome to egoloss, maybe.

> Is it temporarily existing in a higher dimension?
It sure feels like it. This dimension is gone, donno where that leaves you.

> Is it existing as pure spirit without the confines of the physical body?
I like to think of it as "" became me and I became "". I was everything and nothing at the same time. I could see time as the illusion it really is... there was no past, no future, just ... -smile-


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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: skaMariaPastora]
    #568725 - 03/03/02 02:58 PM (22 years, 1 month ago)

Is it experiencing what it is like to die? (I indeed felt like I was dead for the entire experience)
You felt like someone who had just smoked 5-MEO-DMT. Do you think that an entheogenic explorer who just got crushed by a bus and is drawing her last breath will think "Hey cool, this is just like smoking 5-MEO-DMT "?

Is it temporarily existing in a higher dimension?
It is temporarily existing in a unusual brain-state brought about by a chemical that disrupts normal pathways. Of course it is going to feel weird and unusual.

Is it existing as pure spirit without the confines of the physical body?
Your body is subject to the same physical laws while tripping as while sober. Don't know how you can be "pure spirit". If you were you would not come back when your body finished processing the chemicals as without a connection there would be no way for your body to tell your spirit to come back, so you obviously are still linked, hence not pure.

Any theories, unique or otherwise?
Why do you need a theory? You experienced the DMT state. There is nothing to be gained by layering words on top of that.

I am baffled but intensely interested in what this mindstate was and how it relates to our existence in general, and I welcome any thoughts.
What does our mindset on alcohol or Drano(TM) for that matter have to do with our existence in general? Many drugs cause strange and unusual thoughts and feelings. What that tells is is that we have disrupted normal chemical processes and hence our equalibrium.

There is no ultimate meaning. What meaning you assign is up to you and is completely arbitrary.

I know this response is not the much more fun Mckenna-like reply that you want to hear. Sorry...


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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: Swami]
    #568742 - 03/03/02 03:15 PM (22 years, 1 month ago)

It is temporarily existing in a unusual brain-state brought about by a chemical that disrupts normal pathways. Of course it is going to feel weird and unusual.

it may be an unusual brain-state but it is still one that exists. it may not be a normal pathway but it is a pathway that is there none the less...

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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: skaMariaPastora]
    #568746 - 03/03/02 03:20 PM (22 years, 1 month ago)

I have never tried DMT, and have only read briefly on the subject. From what I read, it sounds like a fuckin scary transition! I dont know if you want to , but would you mind writing your experience? You can PM me if you dont want to write it here. Also, how much does it cost, and is it hard to come by? Thanks.


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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: Seuss]
    #568784 - 03/03/02 03:55 PM (22 years, 1 month ago)

A couple comments:

Sclorch:
I am currently in the middle of DMT the Spirit Molecule and that definitely influenced my mental set when I went into the experience. I was expecting something resembling death and that's what I got out of it, although "death" is only the English word I use to describe the experience, what actually happened is inexpressible. And I see what you mean about the Jungian archetype, I definately felt like part of some kind of universal consciousness.


Seuss:
"For me, the experience taught me that there is more to reality than reality. I'm not talking about something as simple as it opened my mind to possibilities. It is more like seeing your reflection in a mirror for the first time and realizing not only that you have a reflection, but what you look like from another direction."

Yes! That makes so much sense. Its like seeing everything in the universe from all angles simultaneously. Finally understanding what lies behind this physical world that lays in front of us.


"The harder you think about the experience, the more you try to put it into logical terms or relate it to our everyday reality, the more distant the experience will become. Rather than try to understand it, simply know it and leave it at that. "

Yes, this is very true. I find myself overanalyzing my experiences too much, and maybe I shouldn't. But I think that if you can't take anything back with you from the experience (can't articulate it in physical terms) then the experience only serves as a reference frame, seeing what "lies ahead." If I can attempt to understand it in the context of this world, I can learn so much more from it. Maybe. I don't know.


Swami:
"It is temporarily existing in a unusual brain-state brought about by a chemical that disrupts normal pathways. Of course it is going to feel weird and unusual. "

I expected a response like this, but I cannot bring myself to believe that what I experienced was just my brain getting "fucked up" off of a chemical. What I experienced was something higher than myself, the cosmic overmind or universal conscious or whatever. Call me gullible or deluded if you like, but when I am confronted with such overwhelming experiential evidence such as I received, I am going to adapt my belief system and restrain my skeptic mind to accomodate it.


Although I take all of Terence McKenna's ideas with a grain of salt, I enjoy hearing about them because it is interesting to think about. He is a reasonably intelligent man that made these conclusions after much chemical experimentation. Sure, he could just be a crackpot, but nobody knows that. Its fun to absorb his concepts because it shows you what is possible, what could exist if you open your mind up to the possibility.

Thanks for all the responses.

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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: skaMariaPastora]
    #568867 - 03/03/02 05:27 PM (22 years, 1 month ago)

I expected a response like this,
Cool! You got that prophecy thang going...

but I cannot bring myself to believe that what I experienced was just my brain getting "fucked up" off of a chemical.
And why not? Please seriously answer this one question:

Why is an experience of other-dimensionality valid evidence of other realities whereas someone else who does the same dosage and ends up freaking out because "There are bugs crawling out of my eye sockets! ARRGGGGHHhhhh!" Is that not an equally valid experience? And what is that evidence of? Altered realities where bugs do literally crawl from one's eyes? Or much more likely the Swami Scrambled Neuronal Response Hypothesis(c)?

Swami's model follows that a little bit of mind altering substance alters the mind a little. And a lot alters the mind a lot - to the point of shutdown or overload which is exactly what one would expect from a brain just getting tweaked off of a chemical. This model works for all substances.

Now let's look at skaMariaPastora's discontinuous model of altered consciousness. The validity of the experience depends on the chemical and the dosage. Only certain chemicals are "holy" or "spiritual" or able to transport one to the other realm.( DXM -bad; mushroom - good!) Too little is not a spiritual experience and too much is well - you tell me!

What I experienced was something higher than myself,
That is not possible. If you experienced something then it was a part of you.

the cosmic overmind or universal conscious or whatever.
Is this the very same cosmic overmind that cannot come up with any out of the ordinary knowledge or predictions to display it's powers? The same overmind that let many visionary indigenous tribes be overrun by technologically advanced tribes? What a pathetic little overmind!

Call me gullible or deluded if you like,
You are doing fine without my assistance...

but when I am confronted with such overwhelming experiential evidence such as I received, I am going to adapt my belief system and restrain my skeptic mind to accomodate it.
No! Let the skeptic in you run naked through the sprinklers of life on a hot summer day.

Although I take all of Terence McKenna's ideas with a grain of salt, I enjoy hearing about them
... as Swami predicted!

He is a reasonably intelligent man that made these conclusions after much chemical experimentation. Sure, he could just be a crackpot, but nobody knows that.
And the Swam is a reasonably intelligent man that made these conclusions after much chemical experimentation. Sure, I could just be a "skeptic", but nobody knows that. I could be the ultimate Brujo here searching for a new student to tame the Nagual...

Its fun to absorb his concepts because it shows you what is possible, what could exist if you open your mind up to the possibility.
Fun is fine, but searching for entertainment is not a search for truth. (Unless you are a regular reader of the Swami's posts where I try to put the fun back in dysfunctional. )


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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: Swami]
    #568923 - 03/03/02 06:22 PM (22 years, 1 month ago)

lol, you make me laugh Swami. That was thoroughly entertaining.

As to tripping experiences being only chemical:
A drug does not make you experience anything per se. Everything you feel, see, and experience is a product of your own mind. The drug is just the mental lubrication (so to speak) that allows the mind to work in different ways. I chose for this experience to be a spiritual one, so it was. The presence of the drug in my synapses allowed my spirit to temporarily escape the body and go somewhere else (or something like that, I don't really know what happened). Other people who did it with me chose to experience it as a recreational high, and they had a fun time and nothing more. If you experience bugs crawling out your eyes, it is because one way or another you chose to have that vision, and the drug allowed your mind to do so. Because I chose to have a spiritual experience, the 5-MeO-DMT allowed this to occur. You have no right to say I didn't merge with the cosmic overmind, because you were not there. I very well could have. Then again maybe I didn't and it was just the drug. I'm going to go with the overmind because that's what it felt like and I'm going to trust my feelings. I certainly don't discount other viewpoints though. That's the whole point of this thread: to get other people's views about the subject and use them in formulating my own. And I definitely appreciate yours.

And the experience depends on neither the chemical nor the dosage. It depends on your mind and what you want to do with it.

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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: skaMariaPastora]
    #568929 - 03/03/02 06:28 PM (22 years, 1 month ago)

> I cannot bring myself to believe that what I experienced was just my brain getting "fucked up" off of a chemical.

There is a theory I read not too long back about this. The general idea is that there is an area of the brain that decides how important a memory is. When you get "fucked up" off these chemicals, they are simply messing with this part of the brain causing it to categorize _everything_ as super important. Because you are already in an altered state, the altered state seems even more important leading to all the mystic conclusions.



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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: skaMariaPastora]
    #568969 - 03/03/02 07:46 PM (22 years, 1 month ago)

lol, you make me laugh Swami. That was thoroughly entertaining.
I am glad you found it so as I am not really mean-spirited.

A drug does not make you experience anything per se.
So curare, doesnt really paralyze you? Cobra venom doesn't really shut down your nervous system and kill you?

Everything you feel, see, and experience is a product of your own mind.
Everything we feel, see and experience is filtered through our perceptions, but is hardly a product. The stars in the sky are not a product of my own mind.

The drug is just the mental lubrication (so to speak)
Please stop that dirty talk. The Swam has a low tolerance to erotic stimulation...

that allows the mind to work in different ways. I chose for this experience to be a spiritual one, so it was.
Guuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrreat! (Tony the Tiger impersonation) However, you can intend on a spiritual journey and have a horror-filled journey (a bad-trip). Now later, you can reframe the entire experience to say that it was "good" or "cleansing" or "necessary", but tell that to someone when you are in the middle of a meltdown and begging for your mommy.

The presence of the drug in my synapses allowed my spirit to temporarily escape the body and go somewhere else (or something like that, I don't really know what happened).
Or if "you" or your ego is a by-product of normal neuronal processing, then of course the greater the disruption, the less the sense of self.

If you experience bugs crawling out your eyes, it is because one way or another you chose to have that vision, and the drug allowed your mind to do so.
Let's settle this point and puh-lease avoid the semantic gymnastics (one way or another? this is a weak argument with a built-in back door escape clause. "Hmmm, well on a deeper level of which they were not aware, they really wanted it." Unless you have evidence of knowing another's deep-seated needs, then leave this out of the equation!).

How many people reading this post had a bad trip and did not choose it?

Because I chose to have a spiritual experience, the 5-MeO-DMT allowed this to occur. You have no right to say I didn't merge with the cosmic overmind, because you were not there.
I think it is in the BIll of Rights:

FREEDOM OF SPEECH, PRESS, PETITION & ASSEMBLY ?
Even unpopular expression about merging with the overmind is protected from government suppression or censorship...

Seriously though as mentioned in my previous post, if there were an overmind would it not have knowledge normally unattainable without connecting to it?

And the experience depends on neither the chemical nor the dosage. It depends on your mind and what you want to do with it.
Shirley, you must be joking!

I (after many decades of meditation), nor no one I know, has ever had a psychedelic experience unless ingesting psychedelics. I have not heard of one single person having a level 5 experience on 0.5 g of mushrooms. I did not trip on 50mcg of LSD, but got going well at around 150mcg. So the experience was both substance and dose related.


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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: Swami]
    #569009 - 03/03/02 08:43 PM (22 years, 1 month ago)

The process of being..... hehehe
What we seem to have here is a pride... and the alphas are fighting. Black manes swirling about in the cyberwinds.
Playing Devil's advocate is useful... but it gets annoying. Especially when one thinks that there is no ultimate truth set---> just another ego game.

I think some put too much emphasis on the dose... what about set and setting? The dose will only open doors that are presented to it.



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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: skaMariaPastora]
    #569052 - 03/03/02 09:40 PM (22 years, 1 month ago)

Oh boy, DMT = mesotec (sp), a very potent strain of salvia divinorum. I've read experiences of both. Just wild wild trips! Maybe if you find some guru or people with similar experiences, it'll make some sense to you.

Do respect the power of both of these hallucinogens. Take too much, and you'll end up in a straight-jacket.

EDIT: wait a sec, your alias has to do with SD??

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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: skaMariaPastora]
    #569056 - 03/03/02 09:43 PM (22 years, 1 month ago)

Where do you get this stuff? It sounds like something that everyone should give a try now or then.. if ya want to send me some of both ill compair them for ya :smile:

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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: Swami]
    #569127 - 03/03/02 11:15 PM (22 years, 1 month ago)

i've never had a bad trip......adios. peace.


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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: Swami]
    #569320 - 03/04/02 04:38 AM (22 years, 30 days ago)

In reply to:

And the experience depends on neither the chemical nor the dosage. It depends on your mind and what you want to do with it.



swami wrote:

I (after many decades of meditation), nor no one I know, has ever had a psychedelic experience unless ingesting psychedelics. I have not heard of one single person having a level 5 experience on 0.5 g of mushrooms. I did not trip on 50mcg of LSD, but got going well at around 150mcg. So the experience was both substance and dose related.

What about (mind)set and setting?
What about people having OBE or NDE experiences?
What about people having religious experiences?
What about me having had important elements of psychedelic experiences without psychedelics (for example: being everything at once, knowing everything, great sense of belonging)?

The mind (in my experience atleast) has a major influence on the trip. Maybe this is different for people - there was a discussion somewhere about some people getting profound insights and people just getting nice swirling patterns and colours.

In this context Huston Smith's book "Cleansing the doors of perception - the religious significance of entheogenic plants and chemicals" is of importance. There IS a connection between psychedelics and mysticism.

Swami, you also said something that this 'overmind' or 'god' is pathetic because it doesn't appear to protect from harm. That's an old theological problem - why didn't he/she/it intervene in the holocaust or what about the existence of evil. My preferred answer to this is the same answer that is given by aldous huxley's novel "Island". Your answer is that such an god/overmind does not exist. I find it interesting to read the various theologists (that came up with other answers. For example look up theodicy, evil and god.

I think you sceptic approach is very usefull for this field, but some things (love, death, good, evil etc.) can be only be understood through the realm of poetry, religion or (psychedelic)experience. What did you think of the movie Contact in this regard?

What does the concept transrational mean to you - is it the same as prerational or magical? Is there such a thing? Look up Ken Wilber and his pre/trans fallacy.

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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: skaMariaPastora]
    #569338 - 03/04/02 05:49 AM (22 years, 30 days ago)

I remember Murple saying that 5MEODMT and NNDMT are very different drugs



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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: Swami]
    #569339 - 03/04/02 05:49 AM (22 years, 30 days ago)

"The Swam"
heheh you reffered to yourself in the third person. That's amusing.


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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: alphatrion]
    #569455 - 03/04/02 09:31 AM (22 years, 30 days ago)

Swami, you also said something that this 'overmind' or 'god' is pathetic because it doesn't appear to protect from harm. That's an old theological problem - why didn't he/she/it intervene in the holocaust or what about the existence of evil.
Not at all the same thing and not theological. God protecting is different than contacting the overmind on DMT. In the Amazon, some tribes use Ayahuasca (DMT+Harmaline) to divine knowledge on good hunting, weather, and the intentions of neighboring tribes. Same with entering the Dreamtime or contacting Mescalito.

My point is that these indigenous tribes have been overrun by technological cultures who are not consciously attempting to contact the overmind; hence the prophecies and warnings that they seek are useless.

Can't compare this mindset with a merciful God overlooking all.

In this context Huston Smith's book "Cleansing the doors of perception - the religious significance of entheogenic plants and chemicals" is of importance. There IS a connection between psychedelics and mysticism.
A decent, but rather dry book IMHO. Smith's conclusion is not factual, but hypothetical, so it is not correct to state flatly that there is a connection. There is no mention in the book of temporary psychosis which is at the other end of the spectrum.

What did you think of the movie Contact in this regard?
Contact was entertaining, but weak. Sagan obviously reverses his hard stance to appease the believers and gain a wider audience. I will start a new thread on SETI, one of Sagan's pet projects.


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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: Swami]
    #569516 - 03/04/02 10:37 AM (22 years, 30 days ago)

My point is that these indigenous tribes have been overrun by technological cultures who are not consciously attempting to contact the overmind; hence the prophecies and warnings that they seek are useless.

I strongly disagree with your reasoning that the fact that they are overrun means that their prophecies/gods are useless. You can disagree wether the christian god is similar or not to the 'overmind', but i wanted to bring in theodicy because it is important to know the meaning of god if you want to talk about it/him. This overmind people experience is not something that you can expect to protect as you are implying. I what people are experiencing you find of no value or pathetic i think that is not something for you to say but for the people themselves.


Smith's conclusion is not factual, byt hypothetical, so it is not correct to state flatly that there is a connection

If there is no connection why am i experiencing a connection? Also since you are talking about the other end of the spectrum: what about Ken Wilber's debut: "The spectrum of consciousness" in which he describes this connection?

Contact was entertaining, but weak. Sagan obviously reverses his hard stance to appease the believers and gain a wider audience.

Sagan was dead when the movie was made, the book is a bit less soft. Sagan was a sceptic yes, but he acknowledged that there was a mystic part of religion that is inherent to a human being - this is what i was referring to in the movie. I didn't think it was entertaining and weak and left a deep impression on me. I think science and religion are two legitimate modes of 'thinking' and understanding of our universe.

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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: skaMariaPastora]
    #569696 - 03/04/02 02:30 PM (22 years, 30 days ago)

The difference described in the two sorts of DMT could be coused by the strength. If I am correct, 5-MEO-DMT is 5 times less as strong as the NNDMT. So that could explain why on 5MEO the visuals seem to be less, you just didnt dose enough!
Except for the strength, I havent read about any real differences in experience.

To The Holy Swam:
You must take for consideration that our perception of reality is also only coused by interacting chemicals in our brain.
If you take a psychedlic, you simply change the perception. This would mean that a psychedelic state is as much real as the reality we percieve. The reason people get so fucked up is becouse the state is unusual. The brain is trying to find a way to interact with the new chemical.

On psychedelics the brain activity rises, this could explain the experience of higher self. I dont know how the brain activity is effected by DMT, but it wouldnt suprise me if this is enourmus.
Since only ten percent of the brain is used normally, I find it to be highly assumable that when the activity is effected in some way, the perception also changes, and could get into spiritual level. Since this reality is also a chemical induced perception, spiritual experiences could also be (partly) depended on the brain.

The cosmic overmind doesnt do anything in this world that is reality chancing, couse it isnt needed. This world is an illusion, constructed by our minds. Seperation and suffering is a part of the illusion. It is just an experience, why interfere with it?
And all the tribes are of course part of the overmind.

A cobra poisening you is also part of the illusion. You chose for it to excist, and be, for this reality, be terminal to human.

Do you have proof the stars in the sky are not a product of your own mind?

The reason your world seems to be so highly material is becouse you made it this way. As long as you believe this is the truth, it will be your world.
And why would you want to live in a world with limited possiblities? Whats the use for it? Isnt it only an ineffective use of your "powers"? If you could do anything, why would you limit yourself?
Now dont asume you can instantly switch to miracle mode. It has probably taken much efford to get into this state, so it probably also does to get out of it.


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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: Divine_Madness]
    #569714 - 03/04/02 02:53 PM (22 years, 30 days ago)

5-MeO is a lot more potent than nnDMT, so you don't have to smoke as much to get the same intensity of effects. But I doubt this is the reason for the subjective differences.

I liked how you worded how psychedelics effect the brain. That's right on in my opinion. Drugs are tools that allow our brains to perceive our world differently. This could be a spiritual experience if you allow that message to come across, but if you are convinced it is chemicals, then it is a self-fulfilling prophecy. And I've found bad trips to be your mind simply not accepting this new way of perceiving. You become afraid and this fear is just a downward spiral in which you experience whatever negative thoughts you think.

And I agree, the cosmic overmind isn't something that meddles in human affairs, it just IS. It is how everything in this universe is put together. It has no power to act, only to be.

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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: skaMariaPastora]
    #570211 - 03/05/02 02:46 AM (22 years, 29 days ago)

Sorry for the disinformation on dmt...I asumed 5meo was the weaker one since its effects are describes as less (in this thread).

You could also exlpain the difference in experience by the fact that on spiritual level, their are many different realms and thoughtworlds. With thinking you travel through these states, and this explains the association with your own thoughtworld.
When you have a bad trip, you just went in the wrong direction.


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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: alphatrion]
    #570262 - 03/05/02 04:42 AM (22 years, 29 days ago)

I strongly disagree with your reasoning that the fact that they are overrun means that their prophecies/gods are useless.
Disagree all you want. History backs up my point. It is NOT my opinion that many entheogenic cultures have been wiped out.

This overmind people experience is not something that you can expect to protect as you are implying.
I expect and imply nothing! Most ayahuascueros and brujos claim precognitive powers, but these powers have not protected a single tribe from technological onslaught.

I what people are experiencing you find of no value or pathetic i think that is not something for you to say but for the people themselves.
Where did I say the experience had no value? Once again someone inserts words that I did not utter. Why the need to do that? Can't your arguments stand on their own without fabrication?

If there is no connection why am i experiencing a connection?
If there was a connection, then why did I not experience it on my many voyages? WHy can one not bring back any special knowledge from this connection? Wh do trippers that have connected commit the same sins as non-connectors?

o since you are talking about the other end of the spectrum: what about Ken Wilber's debut: "The spectrum of consciousness" in which he describes this connection?
What about it? It is one man's opinion.

hink science and religion are two legitimate modes of 'thinking' and understanding of our universe.
Please explain how religion is a form of thinking.


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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: Swami]
    #570409 - 03/05/02 10:01 AM (22 years, 29 days ago)

Ok Swami, i apologize if i misread you but i also feel that you are misreading my arguments. I really value your comments although i find them a bit irritating sometimes. I think the main problem in our little communicationproblem lies in the distinction between usefull and meaningfull. Because of the importance you assign to usefullness (which i agree is important) i think you don't see the meaningfullness.

If there was a connection, then why did I not experience it on my many voyages?
I am surprised to find that you don't find this connection, i thought this was common. Have you ever had religious experiences to compare psychedelic experiences with?

About Ken Wilber, in case you didn't know he is one of the main figureheads in the transpersonal psychology field (the area that researches out of the ordinary states like religious and psychedelic states). He has the most succesfull theory about human consciousness that is currently under much debate. I therefore value his opinion on the matter highly. But this is not a strong argument using an authoritive argument... but i used it becasuse the real answer lies in research (transpersonal psychology).

Please explain how religion is a form of thinking.
I was saying 'thinking' and understanding (don't misinterpret me) - i view religious practice as understanding without rationalizing (emotional felt)... so without active (like we do on this forum) thought but rather something passive and i view science as a more active object oriented way of thinking. Both 'methods' give us a better balanced picture of everything. That's the way i see it... you can disagree of course... the main point is that i see religion not as 'usefull' but as 'meaningfull'. Usefulness is not relevant in this regard but understanding (and sometimes accepting) is. Do you understand my way of thinking and my distinction between usefullness and meaningfullness? This distinction for me is like i said evident in the movie Contact and the Huxley novel Island. In the latter there is an entheogenic culture that gets wiped out and they know it and they understand why it happens.
Thanks for your time and answers!

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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: alphatrion]
    #570413 - 03/05/02 10:08 AM (22 years, 29 days ago)

"i view religious practice as understanding without rationalizing"

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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: alphatrion]
    #570471 - 03/05/02 11:27 AM (22 years, 29 days ago)

That's the way i see it... you can disagree of course... the main point is that i see religion not as 'usefull' but as 'meaningfull'. Usefulness is not relevant in this regard but understanding (and sometimes accepting) is. Do you understand my way of thinking and my distinction between usefullness and meaningfullness?

I understand what you are saying. My take is that meaningfullness is a mere trick of light and shadow with no substance. Meaningfullness is merely a perception not rooted in reality; whereas usefulness is reflected in the outer world.

Survival, for example, is quite useful.

When someone sees a disfigurement in tree bark and says " Look, it's Jesus!" they see some sign from God. Another may see just a diseased tree.

Let's take a romatic relationship. "Oh, she is the most beautiful woman in the world *sigh*. Her laughter is like bells tinkling in a gentle zephyr." A short time later: "What did I ever see in that lying bitch?" The meaning moves all over the place from moment to moment; a mere will-o-the-wisp.

Or in another example, someone has a mystical experience of cosmic oneness, then the next day fights with his wife, cuts someone off in traffic, steals some office supplies from work, etc.

In the Swami world-view, meaningfulness is irrelevant in a search for truth and not all that interesting to me. Truth should be universal and constant, not localized and wavering.


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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: Swami]
    #570530 - 03/05/02 12:36 PM (22 years, 29 days ago)

Everyone seeks truth in different ways. We all arrive at the same place in the end, so why sweat the means of travel? Just go with whatever makes the most sense to you.

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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: Swami]
    #570616 - 03/05/02 02:42 PM (22 years, 29 days ago)

In the Swami world-view, meaningfulness is irrelevant in a search for truth and not all that interesting to me. Truth should be universal and constant, not localized and wavering.
I really appreciate your clear reply. You say that meaningfulness (or the search for meaning) in the Swami worldview is irrelevant because truth should be universal and constant (correct me if i'm wrong).

I have two questions about this:
1] Why should the truth you are seeking be universal and constant instead of changing like a chameleon.
2] For me the search for meaning automatically is associated with the search for truth. You seem to be more oriented on the more scientific/practical endevour, does this mean that you prefer not to answer or pursue questions of meaning (because there is no constant meaning)? OR does this mean that you feel everyone should do this for him or herself and there is no use communicating about this because it is different on every occasion - so there is no constant therefore it is no (usefull) truth.

My take on this is that i think it is very useful to talk about meaning(fullness) because i think it has both (meaning)substance and (usefull)substance. Granted you cannot produce cold fusion with it but you can create peace in someone's life. Also saying that one is satisfied with life without 'objective' meaning but that life was just 'good' is also a form of creating meaning. It's all in the head everchanging but with its own dynamics and rules. I do not think there is no structure or meaning in the meaning itself... it just less tangible. Poets can handle it fine apparently.
I think one problem you have with meaning is that some people attach more meaning to arbitrary things causing them to be dictate their version of the meaning/truth to others. This is something to fight against and the age of enlightenment did a good job in the western world. However it was also the cause of the disenchantment of the world (Max Weber)... God was killed and with it the orientation on meaning as something meaningful and therefore useful. Everyone should be FREE to create his own life without the load of religion (humanism/liberalism), but what to do with this freedom and why? The only thing that was left was the usefullness orientation, goals, means to an end: an moral flatland.

I don't have a problem with an everchanging meaning, it is not meaningless for me but beautifull, its also a bit frightening because it suggests that i as a person will change and die. But if i look carefully i see that this is beautiful and nothing to be afraid of... if i look even further i see an eternal spirit and i see god. Do God and this eternal spirit therefore really exist? No they are real and the are not real at the same time.... they are just as real as me saying that i am a person, it is a conceptualization... a word.

Maybe you disagree with the comparison but i like to compare this religous searching with the search for words and language to express yourself. You argue that use of labels like ufo, aliens, overmind on religious experiences is unnecesary and even harmful and limiting. In a way this can be the case.
I argue that use of symbols like eternal spirit, god, aliens, ufo's without mistaking them for real world objects but seeing them as something unworldly but yet tangible is a necessary step in our evolution.
There was a time man didn't use language, so ideas were difficult to express... somehow the mind developed with or without mckenna's mushroom and more complex notions were possible... where once there was no conception of self and other and the outside world, there appeared to be seperate objects.... labeling these objects and shifting them around in the mind created language. By experimenting, trial and error our ancestors began to use simple words to convey the inner world meaning they were experiencing. Language made culture and society possible.
In this way i think the conceptualization of 'mystical' inner world structures that are not as easy to pinpoint as the previous static objects will lead to an new advance in our culture. If you use these new conceptualizations as static objects you essentially do the same as conservatives or religious fanatics do with language... the bible is reduced to words that have to be memorized and are solid truth. The West is the great satan, skeptics are wrong, believers are naive... we must grow beyond language. The search for truth lies in the direction of meaning not in the direction of predictability and control. But how do we communicate if the real meaning is not in the words? We must 'loosen up', play with language, be tuned in to the 'meaning' sphere.... i think the new language and therefore new possibilities will grow in time.

And now for the million dollar question: are the inner world and outer world separate. I say I don't know, I also think that we not yet have the capacity to answer this question.... I also think it is a limiting viewpoint that the two are seperate... but in the corners of my field of view i can see some connections but it is not yet solid evidence - maybe my solid state shell religion is forming? Better to take the risk than to be confined to the area of individualism, skepticism and science. I don't think i am being naive, copying someone else his view, heard it from my parents.... being sceptic means also being sceptic to one's worldview. This of course includes being sceptic of my viewpoint that sceptics like you are not sceptic enough.



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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: Divine_Madness]
    #570626 - 03/05/02 02:56 PM (22 years, 29 days ago)

Since only ten percent of the brain is used normally,
Here for the millionth time, this myth is erroneously repeated. This has been covered and is just plain false.

This world is an illusion, constructed by our minds. Seperation and suffering is a part of the illusion.
Here he is begging for the Swami "Rock-in-the-Back-of-the Head" Challenge, which no one will take, because they don't even believe their own nonsense.

It is just an experience, why interfere with it?
How can one interfere with an illusion?

And all the tribes are of course part of the overmind.
Whatever... (note the use of the "of course" as if it were self-evident. This is a semantic trick in an attempt to make the reader feel inferior if he cannot see it.)

A cobra poisening you is also part of the illusion. You chose for it to excist, and be, for this reality, be terminal to human. Even a newborn with no preconceived ideas will die from venom. This makes it universal and NOT subjective at all. Perhaps you would prefer the Swami Cobra Venom Challenge...

Do you have proof the stars in the sky are not a product of your own mind?
This is a universal phenomenon, hence objective and not subjective.

The reason your world seems to be so highly material is becouse you made it this way. As long as you believe this is the truth, it will be your world.
Belief does not make things true. They exist or not independent of another's thoughts.

And why would you want to live in a world with limited possiblities?
Desire is not related to truth.

Whats the use for it? Isnt it only an ineffective use of your "powers"? If you could do anything, why would you limit yourself?
Please demonstrate the use of the limitless power for us!

Now dont asume you can instantly switch to miracle mode. It has probably taken much efford to get into this state, so it probably also does to get out of it.
Ah, here was the much heralded back-door escape clause present in the believer's universe.



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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: alphatrion]
    #570649 - 03/05/02 03:23 PM (22 years, 29 days ago)

1] Why should the truth you are seeking be universal and constant instead of changing like a chameleon.
Are you serious? So one day we might be immortal beings and the next day we are soulless husks and then back again?

1+1=2. This is the same every day the world over. Gravity works the same everywhere on this planet. However religious, mythical truths change from era to era, from person to person because they are based on ephemeral musings. (Hence the 5000+ interpretations of the Bible).

Every religious person has faith in their view of God. However, all or most of them are wrong. This is not Swami's opinion, but the exclusion principle. Jesus can't both be the Son of God and Not the Son of God. (Please don't throw paradox in here as a weak semantic argument!) As no real argument can stand up to the exclusion principle, this point will either be avoided or the retorts will be in some form of double-speak.


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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: Swami]
    #570656 - 03/05/02 03:38 PM (22 years, 29 days ago)

I was really serious with these questions - although i was rambling a bit with the language thing. You haven't answered both question 1 and question 2, but don't feel pushed. They were not meant as an 'objective' question but as 'subjective' question - please give YOUR personal answer.

Remember that in THIS thread we are not talking about religion as a belief system, but about using archetypes to describe something that is not the description itself. For example when someone uses the word I experienced the overmind, he didn't really experience an objective overmind but the word and the imagery best fitted his experience. To understand the experience you have to use the best words AND be aware that it doesn't point to a real world object. Do you understand what I am saying or do you prefer to see this as doublethink or a weak argument? I cannot do better than this sorry, maybe better next time.

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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: alphatrion]
    #570659 - 03/05/02 03:45 PM (22 years, 29 days ago)

in response to swam's statement a while back....
"I (after many decades of meditation), nor no one I know, has ever had a psychedelic experience unless ingesting psychedelics. I have not heard of one single person having a level 5 experience on 0.5 g of mushrooms. I did not trip on 50mcg of LSD, but got going well at around 150mcg. So the experience was both substance and dose related. "

Actually it is a proven scientific fact that ther Pineal Gland (located underneath the brain) not only controls the release of Melatonin but also 5-Meo-DMT. I have heard that a specific kind of meditation can release 5-Meo-DMT (Woodstock '69 video/book), but that isn't a reliable source. The way i have heard to have a full blown psychedelic experience without any drug, is Light deprivation for 2 weeks, this counters the release of melatonin from the pineal gland, and starts to produce and release more 5-Meo-DMT, though i don't have the time or ability to quit my job and schooling to test this, i have read a few journals, and anyone who has had true light deprivation for 2 weeks, seems to have hallucinations, egoloss, and other 5-Meo-DMT effects.
I will be posting some sources in a few minuntes, i just have to find them in my history, so you can read about it yourself. And Swam, i love debating and think it is a good thing, but don't automatically assume something isn't possible just because it hasn't happened to you.




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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: alphatrion]
    #570664 - 03/05/02 03:54 PM (22 years, 29 days ago)

I thought that was a really good post alphatrion, you hit on a lot of good ideas. Props to you.

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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: Swami]
    #570666 - 03/05/02 03:55 PM (22 years, 29 days ago)

See the problem here is that Swami has Text book after endless Text book to back up his arguments...Sure if a rock hits me in the back of the head it's gona hurt and 1 + 1 = 2 --That's complety obvious. We see it everyday and touch it all the time....

The other side of this argument is a bunch of people reaching for the stars and dreaming of an existence that we have not tapped into, yet we still have the ability to dream about --- Didn't someone once say that dreams can come true....

Swami you got the Text book with the good hard facts and you keep telling a bunch of dreamers to stop pointing at the stars just cuz they can't prove what might be over the rainbow......

Just because you dream doesn't make you wrong... you shouldn't kill hope -- all of us are looking for equality... where not talking about forcing a belief system on people --- I just wanna know what might be out there

Anyways just because this world makes complete solid sense doesn't make it real -- I'm not gonna jump off a roof anytime soon --- but I'm not gonna tell a bunch of poeple to stop dreaming

Keep on dreaming and maybe will see the light -- but just remeber Swami has got a point with a rock in the back of your head


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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: Swami]
    #570689 - 03/05/02 04:27 PM (22 years, 29 days ago)

1+1=2. This is the same every day the world over. Gravity works the same everywhere on this planet. e.t.c.

have you ever played with the idea that the "eternal laws" are nothing but universe's habits? if the universe was eternal then, maybe, this anthropocentric metaphor would be appropriate... C.S. Lewis once remarked, "To say that a stone falls to earth because it is obeying a law makes it a man and even a citizen."

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Re: DMT, what a molecule! [Re: Swami]
    #571308 - 03/06/02 07:01 AM (22 years, 28 days ago)

Here for the millionth time, this myth is erroneously repeated. This has been covered and is just plain false.
Allright, do you know were I can read more of this?

Here he is begging for the Swami "Rock-in-the-Back-of-the Head" Challenge, which no one will take, because they don't even believe their own nonsense.
Can you explain whats nonsense about it?
What is the use of your rocky thing? It only demonstrates the illusion.

How can one interfere with an illusion?
I dont know.

Whatever... (note the use of the "of course" as if it were self-evident. This is a semantic trick in an attempt to make the reader feel inferior if he cannot see it.)
I was not aware of it at that time. Sorry if it made you feel uncomfortable

Even a newborn with no preconceived ideas will die from venom. This makes it universal and NOT subjective at all. Perhaps you would prefer the Swami Cobra Venom Challenge...
It will die in your universe.

This is a universal phenomenon, hence objective and not subjective.
You experience this "universal" phenomenon, right?
How can you know if it is being experienced, if your not here?

Belief does not make things true. They exist or not independent of another's thoughts.
Any proof?
Ever wondered why this worlds is so material?

Desire is not related to truth.
Everything is related to truth.

Please demonstrate the use of the limitless power for us!
I am.
Or should I say we?

Ah, here was the much heralded back-door escape clause present in the believer's universe.
It seems like your using it too.


1+1=3

If you have one object, and you dublicate this object, you have two objects. These two objects together, could be viewed as a third object.


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