a bit more re DMT The Spirit Molecule

[Jeremy Osner]

Devotes of William S. Burroughs may be interested in this book; DMT is the
active ingredient in ayahuasca or yage, which figures prominently in
Burroughs' writings.

Doug Millison wrote:

> A post intended for a friend -- whose name starts with P and sits
> next to the P-list in my email address book, for those of you into
> cause-and-effect -- wound up here, but that's OK, I was going to
> mention _DMT The Spirit Molecule_, a new book by Rick Strassman, here
> anyway.   After a long struggle with the various U.S. governmental
> agencies, Strassman got approval and then conducted research on DMT,
> a substance known back in the Pynchon '60s as "the businessman's
> trip" because of it's apparently short but powerful. An overview and
> chapter summaries of his book are available at
> http://www.rickstrassman.com.  More than a few of the people who took
> part in his research program reported encounters with "entities"
> sometimes described as "aliens" not unlike the beings that Pynchon
> describes in Vineland and then again in M&D (those "elves" I think he
> may have called them, down in that spooky Bermuda Triangle-like area
> where things are extra weird).
> --
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