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Interesting that the only good reviews are by people who are admittedly uneducated about DMT. As someone who's well educated in the fields and topics of ethnobotanicals, entheogens, psychedelics, pharmacology, mental health, and more, I give it one star.I got this pamphlet on Kindle, and I must say that there's some good information in this book, although there's a TON of conjecture, pseudoscience, and frankly insulting hogwash. If you'd like to learn more about DMT please seek out books like 'DMT: The Spirit Molecule' by Dr. Rick Strassman, or books by the brothers McKenna (Terence and Dennis.)For one example of why this book is 'so' bad in my opinion, I will quote a few sentences that put the scope of how much research the author did before writing this..."Users who have indiscriminately used DMT have been known to cause harm to others and to themselves. In such cases, there is a likelihood of suicide."This angers me to an almost irrational extent. Not only have DMT users NOT been "known" to do these things, but it's purely incorrect and fabricated information. The simple fact that "indiscriminate" dosing of DMT would, and will, leave the user incapable of perceiving that they're even still part of this world, but they'd likely be fully physically incapacitated, slumped over and incapable using any of their skeletal muscles to do this supposed "harm" to themselves or others. Suicide would be impossible and out of the question with a sufficient dose, not to mention these so called "indiscriminate" dosages.Not only is this bad information, but it's fear-mongering.
SO, does DMT offer a look through the swinging door?In talking about the experience, Terence's Brother, Dennis McKenna said, "The problem with DMT, and part of its challenge, is that the experience is inherently ineffable; it cannot be described in ordinary language, it is translinguistic. You come down, slam back into your body, out of breath, suffused with ecstasy, babbling, sobbing. And yet we are linguistic creatures, and there is a nearly irresistible impulse to try to describe it. This begins almost immediately following the trip, as if verbalization were a protective reflex. DMT is more than the mind can handle; it's overwhelming in its raw nakedness; we feel compelled to try to stuff it back into some kind of linguistic box, and yet to do so is to diminish it. All of the descriptions, even Terence's, as elegant as they are, fall short of the actual experience. This is part of the mystery of DMT. It is a phenomenon that can be repeatedly experienced, and yet it is as astonishing the hundredth time as it was the first, and something that strange is worthy of our attention."Dennis is saying that memory isn't the thing. You can hear Mozart and be moved by the experience but after a few hours, when the music is gone, your memory of Mozart isn't the thing. You can even have the tune playing in your head but once the real music starts again, the memory vanishes because it wasn't real.It is the same with the psychedelic experience. After the trip, you are back, and the memory of the thing is playing. So keep this in mind.So Dennis is right but he misses the crucial thing. The reason for the impossibility of a description and a visualisation isn't because a complexity which will be cured by a better syntax or a better language or a better graphics board.
I've always been afraid of experimenting with psychodelics. About the furthest I've gone into the drug world is marijuana. With that being said I've always been really curious about different psychodelic drugs including DMT. I'd seen the rave reviews of Colin Willis's other works, and when I came across this book, I thought I'd give it a read to indulge my curiousity.DMT, also known as Demethyltryptamine is a drug used to put you in a subconcious/concious state. Similar to acid, shrooms, and other psycodelic drugs out there. This book begins by explaining what the drug is and all basic facts associated with DMT. It then delves deeper into the history of DMT, talking about it's discovery and historical studies. There's also a good portion of the book dedicated to the science behind the drug; which I found very interesting, because most online sources I'd found regarding DMT don't really mention the science behind it. In fact almost all pieces that I've read on DMT were more about the feelings and effects related to it, rather than the science behind those effects. So this book opened up a lot more information for me.As with most pieces about DMT this book also covers all of the effects of DMT. But, unlike many sources it doesn't purely focus on the positive attributes, it also explains in detail the negatives of DMT. Because the book was written in a way that was neither promoting nor demeaning DMT, I found that almost everything within it had a scientific base behind it and was written in a way very general way. It wasn't trying to persuade you to use the drug, or not to use it- it was just informing you on using it.
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