By Jane Clark and Michael Cohen — 2020
An interview from the archives with physicist and philosopher David Bohm [in which] he talks about his insight into the essential unbroken wholeness of the universe
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Here he describes how he was an active Buddhist meditator for twenty years while he was also engaged in DMT research. Eventually he left Buddhist practice, and began a deep study of the Hebrew Bible. Initially, he thought that the DMT "spirit molecule" might be responsible for spiritual experiences.
Naturally occurring DMT may produce prophecy-like states of consciousness and thus represent a bridge between biology and religious experience.