Psychedelics Medicines work // Amber Lyon Trips All Over the World // Anti-Marijuana Academics Tied to Pain-Killer Manufacturers

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Four Psychedelics Have Been Shown to Cure Depression, Anxiety, PTSD — Even Alcoholism

Friday 5th September 2014 at 04:21 By david-icke


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‘Research into the medicinal properties of psychedelics has been underway for decades.
Scientists have found drugs like MDMA, LSD, and Magic Mushrooms can be used to treat
anxiety, depression, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Obsessive Compulsive
Disorder (OCD), and even addiction. And, yet, the government continues to block
research and enforce policies that criminalize the use of the drugs.

Currently, psychedelics are categorized as a Schedule I substance by the DEA, which
means they are believed to have high potential for abuse and are banned for medical
use. Despite this, there has been a recent resurgence of research into the potential
healing properties of these substances.’

Earlier this year, celebrity journalist Amber Lyon left her post at CNN to start a website
entirely dedicated to the benefits of psychedelics for psychological healing. And Swiss
researchers also published results of a drug trialexploring possible medical uses of
LSD—the first trial of its kind in nearly 40 years.

For a clearer sense of how different psychedelics work on the brain, and their potential
clinical benefits, check out this handy chart from Scientific American (below). As more
and more states approve medical marijuana, maybe medical acid and medical ecstasy
are not so far behind.



http://www.alternet.org/drugs/4-psychedelics-have-been-shown-cure-depression-anxiety-ptsd-even-alcoholism

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Anti-Marijuana Academics Tied to Pain-Killer Manufacturers

Saturday 6th September 2014 at 04:42 By david-icke


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It's easy to understand the general motivations of those who support Measure 91, the
marijuana legalization initiative on the November ballot: consumers, entrepreneurs and
libertarians.

As WW has reported, the opposition to Measure 91 comes from law enforcement and
some healthcare officials.

What Oregonians haven't yet seen is the influence of the pharmaceutical companies
who manufacture prescription painkillers.

Reporter Lee Fang, who earlier wrote about big pharma's opposition to legalization for
The Nation, has a new piece in VICE magazine that highlights the funding that
prominent academic critics of legalization have received from large prescription
painkiller manufacturers.

"VICE has found that many of the researchers who have advocated against legalizing
pot have also been on the payroll of leading pharmaceutical firms with products that
could be easily replaced by using marijuana," Fang writes. "When these individuals have
been quoted in the media, their drug-industry ties have not been revealed."

Read more: Anti-Marijuana Academics Tied to Pain-Killer Manufacturers

http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-32108-anti_marijuana_academics_tied_to_pain_killer_manufacturers.html

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Does DMT Play a Role in the Expansion of Consciousness and Open a Doorway to the Afterlife?

Friday 5th September 2014 at 04:51 By david-icke


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Artwork by Alex Grey

Jeff Roberts, Collective-Evolution
Waking Times

Forget about every other psychedelic for just one minute, because it’s time we have a serious talk about DMT.



‘It’s time we discuss the absolute profundity of an experience that changes people’s lives forever. In a matter
of seconds, everything you know about the world in front of you is ripped away, catapulting your awareness
into a dimension of foreign abstraction and pure astonishment.

For most, there are no words accurate enough to describe what happens when you experience the hyper-space
reality of a DMT trip. It’s called the “Spirit Molecule” by many of our greatest thinkers, an oxymoron when really
considered. This is because DMT is said by many to be the portal to what we know as the ‘afterlife’, a realm built
of light fractals and sacred geometry, where time and 3D space merge, and where we are brought into contact with ‘them’.

But what does DMT have to do with you or anything for that matter? Could DMT play a large role in the rapid
expansion of human consciousness? Many people believe it to be the case. Let’s explore this mystery right now.’


What Makes DMT So Special?

The most fascinating thing about DMT, or N,N-dimethyltryptamine, is that it occurs naturally in the human body,
as well as in many other animal and plant species. Think about that one for one second, the most potent psychedelic
known to man, and we are born with it in our system. It is theorized to be produced in the pineal gland, a small
marble sized organ in the anatomical center of our brain. DMT is thought to be released from our pineal gland
during Near Death Experiences (NDEs), during birth, and when we dream. Structurally, it resembles a common
neurotransmitter, serotonin, which is responsible for most of our thoughts, feelings, and reactions. Although the
brain denies access to most drugs and chemicals, it takes a particular and remarkable fancy to DMT.


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The brain is a highly sensitive organ, especially susceptible to toxins and metabolic imbalances. A nearly impenetrable
shield, the blood-brain barrier, prevents unwelcome agents from leaving the blood and crossing the capillary walls into
the brain tissue. Minute nutrients such as amino acids and glucose are among the selection of molecules our brain
allows to cross. However, 25 years ago Japanese scientists discovered that DMT is able to cross the blood-brain barrier
with ease. Strangely, it’s as if the brain is ‘hungry’ for DMT. But why?

The DMT Study That Changed Everything

Rick Strassman
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Rick Strassman was the head of the most well-known DMT study known today. His volunteers experienced the most
profound experiences during the trials, ultimately shifting Strassman’s own beliefs about life and our existence in the Universe.

Besides the breath-taking visuals experienced during a DMT trip, something else reportedly happens to people who
‘break through’ during more intense experiences.

During Dr. Rick Strassman’s infamous human-DMT studies in the 1990s, about half of all participants reported making
contact with strange entities or beings. Some people described them as “helpers”, “guides”, or “aliens”, Terence McKenna
coined them as “machine elves”. Nevertheless, however the participants described these beings, there was a commonality
among their experiences. These beings had been ‘waiting’ for the participants, with much to show them in a limited amount of time.


“Many of the volunteers’ encounters with life-forms in these non-material worlds involved the powerful sense of information
exchange. “ Rick Strassman, DMT: The Spirit Molecule.
.
These beings communicate in varying ways, typically sharing information relating to biology, technology, or even consciousness.

Strassman goes on to explain his dilemma, the contradictory nature of his scientific mind and profession against the
mystical experiences being reported by the volunteers.


“I was baffled and nonplussed by the sheer volume and bizarre nature of these reports. My crude and minimal responses
to volunteers’ tales clearly reflect[ed] my quandary. At first I tried to avoid the pitfalls attendant to developing any explanatory
model, either for my benefit or for that of the subjects. After a while, however, we all needed to make sense of these types of sessions.”
.
Strassman said he immediately flocked to the biological explanation, that the brain was firing up some sort of wakeful dream
experience. Yet, the participants refused to accept his conjecture.


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DMT machine_elf
Many users of DMT have reported contacting foreign beings who have been ‘waiting’ for them.

“Research subjects tenaciously refused to accept biological explanations because such explanations reduced the enormity,
consistency, and undeniability of their enounters.” A point eventually came, Strassman admits, where he decided to suspend
his reductionist, materialistic approach, “I decided to act as if the worlds the volunteers visited and the inhabitants of whom
they interacted with were real, as real as room 531, as real as the hospital bed.” Doing this was the only way Strassman could
try and come to some sort of understanding of what was happening during the volunteers’ experiences.

Could We Really Be Dealing With A Portal To Another Dimension of Existence?

It may be difficult for some to accept the presence of alien beings in these DMT trips as truth, however, shouldn’t we at least
consider the hypothesis considering that at this point, there are no other proven explanations? Here are three possible
explanations for the DMT experience:

1.There are no aliens, it is rather a subjective yet extravagant hallucination of the mind.
2.DMT allows awareness of processes at a cellular level, or even atomic levels, tapping into the neuro-pathways of the brain or even
communication among molecules.
3.DMT provides our consciousness access to higher planes of existence which are inhabited by foreign entities.

The last theory comes from one of the greatest psychonauts of the last century, Terence McKenna. His ground breaking
theories have challenged even the most out-of-the-box type thinkers. McKenna was a dedicated student who aimed to
fully understand psychedelics and the role they played in expanding our consciousness.

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Terence McKennna, a psychedelic researcher who strongly believed DMT to be the key to unlocking information about our existence.

McKenna, like many other psychedelic researchers, believed that DMT was a portal to another dimension wherein we gained
access to the true nature of reality, a vibratory non-material space of loving energy and unlimited potentiality. This was
obviously far from our current model and understanding of our Universe.

However, this theory is not far from what was has already been taught in ancient Eastern religions or Shamanic traditions.
Could these ancient, mystical beliefs in fact be based in truth? Today, infamous activists such as Joe Rogan are quick to
reference McKenna’s psychedelic theories in attempts to explain the astonishing events which take place after smoking DMT.
Rogan also believes that psychedelics such as DMT are tools meant for man to use in order to completely expand our normal
thought patterns. DMT is also the active psychedelic ingredient in the popular shamanic brew of ayahuasca, a plant medicine
that is quickly growing in popularity, especially in the last few years with the advent of wide-reaching documentaries such as
Stepping Into The Fire and Vine of The Soul. Ayahuasca has been known to treat today’s most wide-spread ailments, such as
depression, addiction, cancer, and the list goes on. Could DMT be what helps to heal our physical and psychological wounds?

Questions We Must Consider About DMT

With that all being said, let’s over-view what we know about DMT:
DMT is a naturally occurring psychedelic, the only endogenous psychedelic known.
Not only is DMT produced within the body, but it also just happens to be the most potent psychedelic known to man.
DMT is readily and efficiently used by our brains, an organ which is very protective of what it lets across the blood-brain barrier to use as fuel.
DMT is known to produce astounding, mystical experiences for anyone who has a stronger dose, ultimately changing the life of its user forever.
DMT allows its user to come into contact with beings who wish to share pertinent information.
DMT is thought to be released during NDEs, child birth, and also when we dream.

Are You Ready For A DMT Experience?

What role does DMT play in our human experience? Is it a tool here for us to use to rapidly expand our consciousness? Why
has our government scheduled a natural brain chemical under strict control? Could DMT be the answer to unlocking the truth
about reality and existence? These are important questions which must be seriously addressed. The power of the psychedelic
experience, particularly the DMT experience, is simply unmatchable.

Psychedelics are here for a reason, and it is up to us to figure out how to properly utilize them. Ultimately, we can judge the
DMT or psychedelic experience however we’d like to, but I suggest only doing so after you’ve experienced it first. The
psychedelic experience has something to offer everyone. So, I ask you the question, do you want to completely change
the way you understand life and existence as we know it? If so, have a full-blown DMT experience, then let’s talk.We
want to hear your thoughts on DMT and psychedelics. Share with us in the comment section below!



Read more: Does DMT Play a Role in the Expansion of Consciousness and Open a Doorway to the Afterlife?


http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/09/03/dmt-expansion-consciousness-doorway-afterlife/

[Cidersomerset]

This is not directly related to this thread, but I wanted to post it somewhere.......


Sleep Paralysis ~ Psychological or Spiritual?

Saturday 6th September 2014 at 04:39 By david-icke

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‘There are a lot of experiences that we have as Souls residing within
contiguous spiritual space that we take for granted, or that we never
talk about with people because we’re not sure how they’re going to
react. The seemingly dichotomous nature of our perceive reality
(black/white, good/bad, us/them) makes us seem isolated in our
minds, alone in the world. Sometimes these experiences may even
seem wierd, or out of place, even though we’re the ones experiencing
them! And, they even seem like something that will mark us as crazy
or, Heaven forbid, different.

One of these experiences is something that is called, as defined by Stanford University no less, sleep paralysis.’

Read more: Sleep Paralysis ~ Psychological or Spiritual?

http://therapybook.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/sleep-paralysis-psychological-or-spiritual/

[Cidersomerset]

Can DMT Connect Us To Parallel Universes?

new Sunday 7th September 2014 at 10:05 By david-icke


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‘DMT, which is easily one of the most powerful psychedelic drugs, could provide a method
of access to other planes of existence, according to Rick Strassman’s book DMT: The Spirit
Molecule. It could be that these other planes are always there and available, but we just
can’t perceive them. Our brains are programmed for normal, not multidimensional perception.

But what if DMT could lead us to other universes? Theoretical physicists think that parallel
universes could possibly exist, based on the phenomenon of interference. You can
demonstrate this phenomenon by allowing light to pass throw a narrow hole in cardboard.
Different rings and colorful edges appear on the screen where the light falls – not just the
outline of the cardboard. More complex experiments have been done, and researchers
think the existence of a kind of invisible light particle collides with those we can see and
this refracts light in ways not previously known. Neat!

So when thinking about this principle, it could be that parallel worlds interact with
eachother when this interference happens. Some theoretical hypotheses state that
there could be an unimaginably huge number of parallel universes which are similar
to our own and subject to the same laws of physics as we are. So can DMT allow us
to see, feel, and experience other universes?

According to David Deutsch, a leading theorist in this area and author of the book
The Fabric of Reality, it's doubtful that DMT could open this gateway for us.
Strassman notes that DMT is a substance that changes the brain's physical
properties, and quantum computing as it's called may take place, which could
establish contact with other universes.

What do you think? Can we reach other universes this way? Sound off in the
comments!

Read more at http://higherperspective.com/2014/09/dmt-parallel-universes.html#EOz5AiRXSSTSlc0L.99

http://higherperspective.com/2014/09/dmt-parallel-universes.html?utm_source=DMT

[jake gittes]

Interesting stuff! Interesting also how the pineal gland keeps coming up in things I read, and how things have allegedly been done to minimize its abilities. Thanks for the read(s).

[risveglio]

Has anyone experienced with magic mushrooms as a treatment for anxiety? Some even claim you can experience "ego death".

http://www.shroomery.org/4018/Howto-Ego-Death

Seems like it could be the best or worst experience of your life, not that I know where to get Magic Mushrooms these days, just have to wait patiently for the wonderful collapse.