A clinical psychiatrist explores the effects of DMT, one of the most powerful psychedelics known.
- A behind-the-scenes look at the cutting edge of psychedelic research.
- Provides a scientific explanation for the phenomenon of alien abduction experiences.
From 1990 to 1995 Dr. Rick Strassman conducted U.S. Government-approved clinical research in which he injected sixty volunteers with the powerful psychedelic DMT. His account of those sessions is a riveting inquiry into the nature of the human mind and the therapeutic potential of psychedelics.DMT, a plant-derived chemical found in the Amazon brew, ayahuasca, is also manufactured by the human brain. In Strassman's volunteers, it consistently produced near-death and mystical experiences. Many reported convincing encounters with intelligent nonhuman presences, aliens, angels and spirits.
Strassman's research connects DMT with the pineal gland, considered by Hindus to be the site of the seventh chakra and by Rene Descartes to be the seat of the soul. DMT: The Spirit Molecule makes the bold case that DMT facilitates the soul's movement in and out of the body, plays an integral part of the birth and death experiences, highest states of meditation and sexual transcendence and even contributes to "alien abduction experiences".
