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DMT, Moses, & the Quest for Transcendence
Author and infonaut Clifford Pickover presents an analyisis of the DMT
experience as more than hallucination, but as a valid dimension of
Reality. Central to this are the perceived "alien" or Other presences
encountered in the DMT experience.
"The molecule DMT (N,N-Dimethyltryptamine) is a psychoactive
chemical that causes intense visions and can induce its users to
quickly enter a completely different "environment" that some have
likened to an alien or parallel universe. The transition from our
world to theirs occurs with no cessation of consciousness or quality
of awareness. In this environment, beings often appear who interact
with the person who is using DMT. The beings appear to inhabit this
parallel realm. The DMT experience has the feel of reality in terms of
detail and potential for exploration. The creatures encountered are
often identified as being alienlike or elflike. Some of the creatures
appear to be three-dimensional. Others appear to lack depth...Maybe
this is why the ancients seemed so in touch with God and with miracles
and visions. Maybe Moses and Jesus had a greater rate of pineal DMT
production than most."
These theoretical ponderings are followed by a whole bunch of
fascinating responses contributed by his readers, reflecting the
diversity of interest and speculation about this captivating chemical.
N-N-Dimethyltryptamine exists naturally within the nervous system of
most higher mammals. It bears a strong structural identity to
serotonin and melatonin, both of which are vital to perception,
cognition, sleep, and dreaming. Little is known about it's biological
function and it remains uncertain why such a profoundly mind-altering
psychedelic is manufactured by the nervous system. As a pineal modifer
it could be affecting what Descarte's referred to as the "reducing
valve of the Soul", tearing away the biosurvival filters to allow the
kaleidoscopic spectrum of the Absolute to enter into conscious
apprehension. As Pickover suggests it seems very possible that many
mystical visions depicting angelic visitations bearing earth-shaking
proclamations could have been driven by the endogenous production of
psychoactive indoles.
Of course Pickover wields McKenna and Rick Strassman as his allies,
but it's refreshing to see him cite rogue neuroscientist Julian Jaynes
whose intriguing work The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of
the Bicameral Mind suggests that concsiousness too evolved and that
the emerging mind of early humans was a very different perceptual
apparatus than it is now. The self-reference provided by the ego, the
gallery of emotions and complexes, and the creative leaps of the
enlarged cortex, might have intitially manifested as god-like
whisperings or sudden possessions, hence the preponderance of
mythologies populated by anthropomorphic dieties. DMT, or as Mckenna
argues, it's cousin psilocybin, may have been the early catalyst to
the emergence of the Self and the cataloging of our world by language
leading to our technological evolution as tool makers and numerical
wizards.
Paradoxically, it seems also to be the trail of bread crumbs back to
the pre-linguistic interconnected web of nature within which humans
were once intimately embedded; when the distinction between I and Thou
was barely a murmur in the primal buzz of instinct and reaction. Did
Homo sapiens long ago answer a distant call from hyperspace while
perhaps scrubbing about the Savanah plain? But then just who are these
entities, these "self-transforming machine elves"? Where do they come
from, and what is their message? Telepathic Zeta Reticulans who
monitor us through brain frequencies induced by tryptamine spin
resonance? Our future selves popping in from the 5th dimension to
harasas us for not yet figuring It out? Or more holy whisperings and
angelic visitations manufactured by an over-excited pineal gland bent
on religious fervor?
Whatever the source the visions always seem to deliver a profoundly
real sense of contact with something very far away yet right next to
us all of the time, seeming to say, "Look... we are all beings of
light suspended in eternity dreaming this beautiful creation."
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