2010
An investigation into the long-obscured mystery of dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a molecule found in nearly every living organism and considered the most potent psychedelic on Earth.
75 min
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Here he describes the process of setting up a program to research the psychedelic drug, DMT, at the University of New Mexico. It took two years to obtain the required permissions, as there had been a twenty year hiatus in psychedelic research on human subjects.
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The Neurophenomenology of the DMT State, presented by Christopher Timmermann from Imperial College London, UK
Many people have a spiritual experience on psychedelics. How they make meaning of it could be influenced by the metaphysical beliefs of their therapists.
In this series of experiments-the first new American clinical research with psychedelic drugs in a generation-dozens of human volunteers received hundreds of doses of DMT, one of the most powerful psychedelics known to science.
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What I will focus on are the psychological factors that influence people’s judgments about what is real and how these might explain why people come to believe in the existence of such beings.
The phenomenon of encountering non-human entities under the influence of DMT has inspired debate about what these might actually be.
Psychedelic drug phenomena do not justify radical new views of reality.
Now, researchers are attempting to catalog these experiences to figure out just what, or who, those DMT entities are.
When people consume enough DMT (N,N-Dimethyltryptamine) to have a "breakthrough" experience, they often encounter beings that seem autonomous, existing in a reality separate from our own.