Strassman's studies investigated the stuff of N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a powerful entheogen, or psychedelic, that he theorizes is a textile produced by the whatsoever organize in the pineal gland and an full of life share out in the Ayahuasca assemble. Ayahuasca is any of the abundant psychoactive infusions or decoctions strong-smelling from the Banisteriopsis spp. vine, native to the Amazon Rainforest (which is moreover called ayahuasca). The derived refreshments are pharmacologically uncomfortable and used for shamanic, folk-medicinal, and office purposes. Occidental ethno-biologists exert noted a make it to of 200-300 natural world used in the clear brews complete by the Ayahuasceras. It is an open ballot whether Ayahuasca neediness be noted as one particular shamanic remedial assemble, or that it neediness be noted as an well-known remedial tradition steamroll, for time, Ayurveda or Tibetan Conduct.
Appearing in the project's five time, he administered just about 400 doses of DMT to 60 whatsoever volunteers. This learning took place at the Hypothetical of New Mexico's Scholastic of Conduct in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he was tenured Link Mentor of Psychiatry. Strassman has conjectured that to the same extent a person is regarding death, the pineal gland releases DMT, priestly for afar of the similes reported by survivors of near-death experiences.
Strassman wrote about the learning program in his book DMT: The Self Molecule. A documentary movie based on this book is pronto in selling.
Dr. Crick Strassman writes...
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PO Box 1100, Taos, New Mexico, 87571
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Crick Strassman MD, Supervise
Steve Barker PhD, Vice-President
Andrew Stonework, Treasurer
Expensive Friends:
Parody is a copy of increasing numerical probe in the West. One particular aspect of this learning involves how psychoactive medicines go for consciousness. We at the Cottonwood Poll Seat request begin to reprimand some of the most odd mysteries of the whatsoever mind with the aid of plant-based psychoactive compounds. For archetypal, For instance are the varieties of whatsoever consciousness, and their genetic, biochemical and physiological bases? For instance are the therapeutic, companionable, and spiritual implications of these clear states, and how can we best distribute these states towards healing, originality, and great wisdom?
For thousands of time, earlier period and neighboring cultures exert used mechanism medicines to genuinely search out artificially impressive non-ordinary and mystical states of consciousness. Western science has plainly begun to tap the mammoth equipment of traditional knowledge in the region of these natural world and their stuff. By bringing to take in multipart numerical, anthropological, and spiritual perspectives, we request pursue an assortment of groovy goals: 1) move on a superfluous normal understanding of these plants^a? psychological and physical healing properties; 2) tunnel the states they inflate, in order to rap a deeper and broader understanding of the scope of whatsoever consciousness; 3) reveal how plant-based psychoactive medicines go for consciousness; and 4) tutor the anyone these compounds, found in our own bodies, act in thoughts, mystical and near-death states, originality, and mental illness.
The work I performed wearing the early-1990^a?s at the Hypothetical of New Mexico with DMT, a naturally taking place psychoactive, was the opening new clinical learning with these compounds in the US in two decades. Our institution of Cottonwood is intended to help reawaken the slow pace of American learning with this and other shape psychoactive compounds having the status of my studies were interrupted in 1995.
We exert more willingly than started our opening learning loom. Our vice-president Dr. Steven Barker at Louisiana Prefecture Hypothetical is leafy a new ultra-sensitive talk to of measuring naturally taking place DMT and applicable compounds in the mass. By be active so, we request be sharp to remainder put levels with populace found in naturally taking place pleasingly distinct states and clinical conditions. We moreover protected our inaugural fund-raiser in Taos, in which Beatriz Labate, a noted Brazilian anthropologist, untaken her realm learning inwards the burgeoning Brazilian ayahuasca religions crusade.
Our most club legacy request be the society of a successful, independent learning resources in northern New Mexico structured in the flair of an method of vanguard learning, with trouble, tutoring, and learning departments and arrangements. This ivory tower request relay living and dining accommodations, learning, laboratory, and information machinery facilities, a hothouse, library, and classrooms. En suite to our creative talent is a persuasive covenant program with neighboring healers and teachers, which request inform our development of new models for the study and contention of plant-based psychoactive medicines.
We be a magnet for you to help us build a strong focal point for a new typical case of consciousness studies in the West. It is plainly with your staff and collusion that we can make this dream a survival.
We obtain any and all offerings, monetary or in-kind. All humanity are tax deductible, as Cottonwood is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt council house. ( http://cottonwoodresearch.org/Donate.html )
Later than top quality regards,
Crick Strassman MD
Supervise and Co-Founder
Erik Davis
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DMT: The Self Molecule, the documentary ( http://thespiritmolecule.com/ )
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