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Apr 17, 2023Liked by Andrew R. Gallimore

Interesting! I think there's a typo in there you might want to correct: ..."and forwards (upwards) travelling waves decreased". Should it not be "increased"?

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Thank you! Yes, typo indeed! Corrected! :)

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Very interesting research but I can't find an answer to the obvious question: What are the essential differences (if any) in imaging results between the different drugs? Given the radically different subjective experience of DMT one would expect a totally different pattern of brain activity,

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So you've just suggested a reasonable experiment to test these "wacky ideas". A lot of the "popular imagery" was also present in reports from the 1960s and even earlier. What that means is a different question -- million $ or otherwise -- but I think it's important to keep an open mind about what we're dealing with. It's very easy to make sweeping assertions about what the DMT experience is or isn't -- I try to avoid that and entertain many possibilities, even at the risk of sounding like a "lunatic". I get attacked from the other -- woo -- side too, for being too materialistic. Hard to win really...

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Apr 6, 2023Liked by Andrew R. Gallimore

"Its identity as an endogenous 'psychedelic' was discovered by the Hungarian

chemist and psychiatrist Stephen Szára, who synthesised DMT in his lab and

injected it into himself in 1956, afterwards describing his "hallucinations",

which "consisted of moving, brilliantly coloured oriental motifs" that completely

filled his consciousness (Szára, 1957, cited in Strassman, 2001). Szára went on

to give DMT to his medical colleagues, one of whom reported that, "the whole

room is filled with spirits ... I feel exactly as if I were flying", while another

noted that, "in front of me are two quiet, sunlit Gods" from David Luke's 2011 paper 'Discarnate entities and dimethyltryptamine (DMT): Psychopharmacology, phenomenology and ontology'

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I interviewed Stephen Szara a few years before he passed away and discussed DMT research from its very beginnings in this article:

https://realitysandwich.com/dmt-research-from-1956-to-the-edge-of-time/

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I will try to find and post a paper(s) on the different imagery that was found on subjects who had little to no previous knowledge about the substance. What I remember from what I read is that certain things were recurring through many different people. The biggest ones I remember are an exact copy or similar version of you speaking to you, insects, and machine like entities with he most popular being a self reflection. I read this months ago and need to jog my memory but if/when I find the paper I will add a link. I think you would find it very interesting and I also think it would be beneficial to review the methods used and how the participants were selected

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