History Of N, N-Dimethyltryptamine ( DMT )

He has circled back to where he began his education and has been a professor at Harvard for Mind Body Medicine. He is the co-founder of the Benson Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. This Institute has a large research program to continue to explore the mind body connection and its benefits, continually growing the understanding the field of psychoneuroimmunology and all it has to offer. (Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine,

Throughout human history people have sought experiences that somehow transcend every day life. Some sort of wisdom that might progress their knowledge of self and of the world that they live in. For some reason they believed that the tangible world just could not be all there is to life. Some believed in a greater force that controlled them, some believed of invisible beings that influenced their lives, some of an actual other world that paralleled their own. Many of these people also believed that it was possible to catch a glimpse of these forces, beings, or worlds through a variety of means that propel individuals into altered states of consciousness. These techniques include

Since the 20th century, many medical professionals and researchers have been attempting to utilize psychedelic drugs in psychological illnesses treatments. In many testing cases, these psychedelic drugs were having hallucination effects on the patients. For examples, psychedelic drugs such as LSD and methoxamine are capable of changing a person’s moods, feelings, or even behaviors in either positive or negative ways. However, after decades of restriction on psychedelic drugs in 1960s, hallucinogens have been researched constantly in order to find a proper ways to utilize them in medicine. In other words, medical experts have been testing these drugs occasionally on patients, raising questions about medical ethics as a result. For instance, various patients reported to experience drug addiction, violent or suicidal thoughts, and physical syndromes such as coma, seizures, or loss of muscular coordination. Therefore, not only the testing of psychedelic drugs causes ethical debates, but the use of these drugs in general also questions whether they should be used in medicine at all.

Hallucinations and the experience of Peyote are seen as not only a cosmic experience, but also a personal reflection life and its many lessons as well.

They act as if they are a real Shaman and go around telling people to drink the ayahuasca. Many reports have been submitted about using Ayahuasca to heal someone that has an addiction or is depressed, it can take care of your issues with one or more sessions. It works by making you feel unconscious and also by making you feel like you are in another world, with these effects it helps you forget. The Ayahuasca plant and the preparation of it are legal, but the issue that people didn’t like is that the plant you use to mix it with cannot contain DMT. People began challenging this for the use of the church, they wanted the court to allow them to import and use the tea for religious purposes in the United States. The case was heard by the U.S Supreme Court on November 1, 2005, the decision was released on February 21, 2006. They then allowed the church to use the tea in its ceremonies because of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, this is a federal law that protected their interest. To sum it up it is legal in the United States to make the Ayahuasca tea but can’t containing DMT, the only exception is for certain religious

Psychedelic mushrooms are rumored to have a long and holy background, which dates back to 9000 B.C in North African indigenous cultures. Rock paintings, statues and manuscripts depict what some historians believe to be magic mushrooms. This idea is highly controversial, as other historians claim that none of the evidence found is definitive, and that people are seeing what they want to see. Westerners began to eat magic mushrooms during the 1950s; throughout the 1960s and 1970s, hallucinogenic drugs became widely popular and psychedelic mushroom use became inextricably tied to the “hippie” movement.

Since then conservative ideology and federal laws have prevented research or studies into entheogens and the human mind. To understand whether or not entheogens can produce religious experiences it important to understand the parameters and definitions that make up the typology of religious experiences, the effects of entheogens like lysergic acid diethylamide on the human mind, and previous case studies that tried to understand the relationship between entheogens and religious experience.

"The feeling of doing DMT is as though one had been struck by noetic lightning. The ordinary world is almost instantaneously replaced, not only with a hallucination, but a hallucination whose alien character is its utter alienness. Nothing in this world can prepare one for the impressions that fill your mind when you enter the DMT sensorium."- McKenna.

Although the hallucinations caused by the drug are short, the effect is almost instant. DMT is passing through three barriers with the help of three different active transport mechanisms to be compartmentalized and stored within the brain.With this process, high intracellular and vesicular concentrations of DMT can be achieved within neurons. The outlined stages of uptake reveal that considerable physiological effort is exerted for the accumulation and storage of DMT and suggest that it has vital importance, since only a few compounds such as glucose and amino acids are known to be treated with similar priority. These extensive specialized processes would not have evolved to target a toxic compound or merely because of the psychedelic effects of DMT. DMT is a powerful and psychologically dangerous drug because the trip is so strong for such a short amount of time the user can actually lose sense of reality and experience seeing aliens or beings from another

When people do DMT they get crazy hallucinations. For example, when ”Graham Hancock” smoke DMT he went into an otherworldly space in his hallucination. When others went into hallucinations after doing DMT they were seeing the inside of computer boards and the inner workings of machines. When people take a high dose of DMT they feel things like people touching them and crazy things running around . According to,”Cassandra”, “something took my hand and yanked me... we went through a maze... It seemed like I was accompanied.” This illustrates that when people take too much of the DMT they start seeing crazy things and feeling crazy things too. Cassandra went on to explain that the people she was with looked like jokers. Another person took the same amount and they saw the same thing. According to,”Chris”, “they were like clowns, or jokers or jester or imps.” This demonstrates how when they take too much DMT they sometimes see some of the same bazaar

Hallucinogenic mushrooms have been around for many years. The earliest recording of people using these mushrooms is from 7000 B.C. rock paintings in the Sahara desert (www.magicmushrooms.net). Psychedelic mushrooms were a revered tradition in native Central American cultures at the time of the European invasion, and have been in continuous use up to the present. Named teonanácatl ("flesh of the gods") in Nahuatl, they may have been employed for healing, divination and for intercession with spirits. Since the beginning of the Latin American colonial era, their use has been hidden due to persecution by the Christian church, which branded all native religious practices as "pagan"(wikipedia.org). According to the BBC(British Broadcasting Corporation), the first documented use of psychedelic mushrooms was in the Medical and Physical Journal: In 1799, a man who had been picking mushrooms for breakfast in London's Green Park included them(psychedelic mushrooms) in his harvest, accidentally sending his entire family on a trip. The doctor who treated them later described how the youngest child "was attacked with fits of immoderate laughter, nor could the threats of his father or mother

For thousands of years people have spoke of all types of visions. Whether the visions were from religious groups, Indian tribes, or self proclaimed prophets; all types of people have seen things. This was more than likely occurring with the help of different types of hallucinogens. Hallucinogens have been around since the beginning of time. Some mushrooms, cactus flowers, and even different types of mold are all able to produce hallucinogenic effects. However, it was only within the last century that man actually started to produce his own. LSD, or lysergic acid diethylamide-25, is a relatively new substance in society. All known effects show LSD, or acid, as the harmful drug most people know it as. There are people who believe

Serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) is a neurotransmitter in the brain that has an enormous influence over many brain functions. It is synthesized, from the amino acid L-tryptophan, in brain neurons and stored in vesicles. Serotonin is found in three main areas of the body: the intestinal wall; large constricted blood vessels; and the central nervous system. The most widely studied effects have been those on the central nervous system. The functions of serotonin are numerous and appear to involve control of appetite, sleep, memory and learning, temperature regulation, mood, behavior (including sexual and hallucinogenic behavior), cardiovascular function, muscle contraction, endocrine regulation, and

It is no secret that drug use has the ability to completely alter a person’s state of consciousness, whether it be through extreme euphoria, increased hyperactivity, pain relief or psychedelic hallucinations. Although many drugs are used for medical purposes, the global issue of recreational drug use is now being fronted as an extremely serious matter that is steadily on the uprise. Recreational drug use is often associated with negativity, addiction and as having serious physical and mental repercussions. One of the few class of drugs that is often associated with both positive and negative connotations are hallucinogens, otherwise known as “psychedelics”, which have powerful altering effects on ones sense of perception, brain function

He had heard that in America and in South America that the indigenous people used powerful hallucinogenic drugs to get closer to God and he wanted to see if this could help him, too. His first stop was in Salt Lake City, Utah. When he got there he met with James “Flaming Eagle” Mooney. James is a medicine man and self-proclaimed “roto-rooter man” because he said he cleans people of