Several years ago, we interviewed Rick Strassman on
Dreamland about his book "DMT: The Spirit Molecule." He's a
University of New Mexico scientist who was given the first
official government grant to do research on hallucinogenic
drugs. He reported that all of the volunteers who were given
the drug DMT saw the SAME visions?and they all came into
contact with similar
ET-like
beings. Shamans report hearing the same reactions from
people who use drugs, or other methods, to attain alternate
mental states. The UK writer and explorer Graham Hancock
experienced a vision that
Anne
Strieber recognized, when he took the hallucinogenic drug
Iboga for research purposes and described his visions in his
new book Supernatural, which will be available in the US on
September 1st. Now scientists at another major US university
have discovered the same thing.
Using unusually rigorous scientific conditions and measures,
Johns Hopkins researcher Roland Griffiths has shown that the
active agent in ?sacred mushrooms? can induce
mystical/spiritual experiences descriptively identical to
spontaneous ones people have reported for centuries. He
says, "We're just measuring what can be observed. We're not
entering into 'Does God exist or not exist.' This work can't
and won't go there."
He and his co-researchers discovered that the experiences
from taking these substances brought the users positive
changes in behavior and attitude that lasted for several
months. Griffiths says, "I had a healthy skepticism going into
this, and that finding alone was a surprise?under very
defined conditions, with careful preparation, you can safely
and fairly reliably occasion what's called a primary mystical
experience that may lead to positive changes in a person. It's
an early step in what we hope will be a large body of
scientific work that will ultimately help people.
"A vast gap exists between what we know of these drugs?
mostly from descriptive anthropology?and what we believe
we can understand using modern clinical pharmacology
techniques. That gap is large because, as a reaction to the
excesses of the 1960s, human research with hallucinogens
has been basically frozen in time these last forty years."
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Who are these strange ETs who visit some people's
minds or
dreams?
or
reality?
Anne Strieber is writing a book called The Secret, which will
be available on this website in time for Christmas, in which
she has collected evidence about the visitors that will
surprise you.
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