Are you aware of your own existance? If your reading this you must be, there, now apply what you just learndWhat's the deal?
I've read and enjoyed Strassman's "Spirit Molecule", but no responsible neurologist/biologist takes such ideas seriously.
The human pineal gland produces melatonin, not DMT (nor anything like it). The trouble with some psychopharmacologists is that they ingest the drugs they're studying, and then immediately come up with unfounded, Leary-esque revelations. Maybe he was thinking of the Colorado river toad and 5-MeO-DMT when he came up with the theory...
As for chakras and the like, it's pretty obvious to me that that's just make believe. I'm NOT against make believe - it can be a lot of fun, but I think it can also be dangerous when taken too seriously.
I'm a big Hunter S. Thompson fan, but I take much of his work with a grain of salt. I think that sometimes, he's joking around or perhaps just unsure of his facts.
I fear the day some new age whacko enlightens us to the fact that there are subcutaneous cannabis seeds in the bottoms of our feet: The "Seed of the Sole", one might say.
Kids will be taking chunks out of their heels and planting them in the backyard.
At least (I hope) most intelligent grown-ups don't take this kind of stuff seriously.
Peacelove,
Aldousage
Re: the kykeon. There are strains of clavceps that don't produce gangrene nducng chemcals, and those chemicals are not wate soluble; also, there is specualtioin that LSD itself can be produced natually. There were some old threads on the subject that I can't be bothered fndng as my toes are turnng black.
Claviceps paspali was the species which was considered to be most likely candidate for the kykeon. Shulgin also reckoned it to be preferable to C.purpurea as a precursor to anyone interested in making ergoloids.
Do you know why he suggested that species? I assume less of the gangrenous alkaloids...?
Wheat carries associations of food for me, and gives life to the people.
Ergot poisons the wheat, and carries associations of death.
But everyone sees things differently.
i dont think anyone would be crazy enough to attempt to extract the pineal gland from a living being because it is pretty rediculious that someone would do that for a possible amount of dmt we dont even know is there. that being said i am still fairly content from getting all my materials from mimosa hostilis thank you
Wheat carries associations of food for me, and gives life to the people.
Ergot poisons the wheat, and carries associations of death.
But everyone sees things differently.