Strassman, Rick

Strassman, Rick, M.D., DMT The Spirit Molecule A Doctor s Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences (Rochester, Vermont Inner Traditions International Limited, 2001). 

Strassman, Rick, M.D., The Pineal Gland Current Evidence for Its Role in Consciousness, Psychedelic Monographs and Essays, Volume 5 (1991), 167-205. 

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Strassman, Rick. 2001. DMT—The Spirit Molecule. Rochester, Vt. Park Street Press. 

One famous set of DMT studies involves physician Rick Strassman, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. In 1990, Strassman began the first new research in the United States in more than twenty years on the effects of psychedelic drugs on humans. During the project s five years, he administered approximately four hundred doses of DMT to sixty human volunteers. 

For some reason, the concept of language and alphabets are everywhere in the DMTverse. One of Rick Strassman s subjects saw characters resembling a fantasy alphabet, a cross between runes and Russian or Arabic writing. The subject felt as if information was contained in the writing and that it wasn t random. Another subject saw numbers and alphabetic characters everywhere. Others saw Mayan hieroglyphics. 

Dr. Rick Strassman, author of DMT The Spirit Molecule, suggests that naturally occurring DMT in the human body may mediate spontaneous psychedelic experiences such as near-death and mystical... 

Everyone seems to have their own perspectives on the DMT beings. Anthropologist Michael Harner met bird-headed people who explained that they were the true gods of our reality. Various Amazonian tribes like the Secoya drink ayahuasca in a deliberate attempt to communicate with heavenly beings. Rick Strassman suggested that the DMT entities actually dwell in the parallel realities posited by modern theories of physics. Terence McKenna called the beings that he frequently encountered selftransforming machine elves. Like Strassman, McKenna speculated that DMT opens a portal to a parallel reality inhabited by these alien creatures. 

Holiday Inn let people experience novelty in their lives, safely, just as Rick Strassman did in his controlled, hospital experiments with DMT, which we discussed in Chapter 4. Holiday Inn introduced free will to the masses. The Interstate highways beckoned. Everyone could become an explorer. 

Riba, J., Antoni Rodgriquez-Fomells, Rick I. Strassman, and Manel J. Barbanoj. Psychometric Assessment of the Hallucinogen Rating Scale. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 62 (2001) 215-223. 

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