| Nick Sand wrote a couple articles where he basically let loose on Rick Strassman and his DMT research, some of which I reprint from below: “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 ignorant. “When I read the excerpt in ER from DMT: The Spirit Molecule 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. 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 conclusions. Wouldn’t it make sense to first examine the environmental design rather than look to alien origins? Over and over, Strassman’s subjects describe being examined by numerous 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 according to some design or agenda. Now let’s 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 experimental scientific viewpoint based on intellectual assumptions. 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 experiencing. Why haven’t other environmental designs been considered?” “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.” Sands condemns Strassman’s approach entirely and states “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 fundamental religious use of DMT must be found again.” (184) |
I have to side with Sands on what he is saying here. I feel that these experiments have not yielded practical results we can use, and they appear to be a way to peer into the mysteries of the mind, and maybe even, insert an agenda. What agenda? Well, I’m not sure but it makes me highly suspicious when four doctors publish a book together on psychedelics where pages of the book are dedicated to Zacharia Sitchen’s “ancient aliens” and David Icke’s “reptilians” mythologies. That book is Inner Paths to Outer Space. I have a hard time believing that Strassman is doing something for the government’s mind control programs, so the only other possibility is that he could be a victim himself, of mind control. I certainly know I was at one time. I read Sitchen’s work and pretty much believed it and the same with Icke. Mind control does not imply they have projected beams of ignorance on you with electromagnetic fields from a satellite after abducting you (Not yet at least). It means simply that propaganda has helped shape the world inside your head. The whole purpose of this book is to minimize the effect of a millennia old mind virus, and this virus keeps taking new forms and shapes. The New Age religion is the latest form, shapeshifting into the “ancient aliens” now birthing its changeling baby, the hybrid reptilian interdimensionals. As I write this, Stanford is conducting a study on DMT users to see who has had alien, fairy or elf-like entity experiences. Jonathan Ott found that combining 120 mg of harmine with 30 mg of DMT orally would produce effects similar to what he enjoyed with his genuine ayahuasca potion experiences in Brazil, Ecuador and Peru, (185) and DM Turner, a self-professed psychonaut, having tried a number of combinations of psychedelic mixtures on himself, wrote in the Essential Psychedelic Guide that taking harmala alkaloids in a smoking blend with DMT could prolong the DMT experience from a five-minute trip to a thirty to forty-minute trip. (186) From these two experiences we find that the ayahuasca trip that the shamans have been taking in the jungles can now be done safely in one’s own home in private or with friends and trip guides, provided the environment is legal and people involved are experienced and knowledgeable. Not only that, but the DMT trip can be extended a long time as well, but far from the lengthy trip of an ayahuasca experience. Thousands of people are now seeking out these experiences in all kinds of ways and personally experimenting. I think listening to what they say about their experiences is a far better way to obtain information about the inner mind than searching for the ETs in outer space or the brains of control subjects. (184) http://psychedelicfrontier.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Moving-Into-the-Sacred-World-of-DMT-by-Nick-Sand.pdf (185) Mystery School, p. 154; Ott, Pharmahuasca, p. 173 (186) ibid, p. 156; Turner, The Essential Psychedelic Guide, p. 77, 78 |