17:34 min
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From DMT: The Spirit Molecule
A presentation and discussion on the continuities and discontinuities between the world of sacred plants and that of psychedelic science.
On this episode I went to dive deeper into the philosophy of Taoism, learn about dark room therapy, taoist nutrition and fasting, and of course we will revisit our favourite subject - sex and sexual energy.
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VOD release of DMT: The Spirit Molecule in Oct 2011.
Current models for the spiritual properties of the psychedelic drug state emphasize the bottom up neurotheological paradigm.
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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.
In this segment, he provides a brief summary of his research with the endogenous psychedelic substance DMT, his findings, and the need to find a new model consistent with his volunteers’ description of the DMT experience.
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.