The Spirit Gland
I recently picked up a book titled, "DMT: The Spirit Gland" and I found it quite interesting. It was written by a medical doctor and researcher at the University of New Mexico and his explorations with the drug DMT.
DMT is found naturally in our brain, residing in the small but powerful pineal gland. Ancient philosophers have theorized that the gland is the "seat of the soul" -- or the metaphysical point at which body and conscious connect. At birth, death, and near-death experiences the pineal gland opens its defenses and floods DMT into our bloodstream. It is often associated with the "life flashing before my eyes" experience and causes intense hallucinations.
In the study, the doctor administered varying amounts of synthesized DMT to patient volunteers and got some pretty astonishing results. Several of the participants encountered spirits and deities and even what some referred to as "DMT elves". The spirits were often trying to communicate to the patients and seemed to be "preparing" them. Most of the subjects felt that their DMT experience was beyond there body; not just inside their head, but in a third party location, like in outer space somewhere. DMT appeared to be a vehicle of some sort to a different world.
Do you guys think these hallucinations inspired by this DMT are simply that, meaningless hallucinations; or do you think there is something more? -- that maybe this DMT production in the pineal gland offers some proof of a sort of afterlife.
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