What is DMT?

DMT - a naturally-occurring compound, N,N-dimethyltryptamine, present in animals and plants. It is also synthesized by our bodies in small quantities during sleep, peaking at 3 to 4 AM, and, according to some scientific-like hearsay, at the moment of death or the onset of NDE/OBE experience. DMT has been used in shamanic practices by many cultures and tribes. The experience is very intense. People report seeing strange cities, aliens, angels and colorful geometric patterns. Many people felt a presence of some huge and loving intelligence, which was beyond their comprehension.

DMT is present in many plants and can be extracted fairly easily, but it is an illegal substance in its synthesized form, so don't throw a block party to do it. It has been studied somewhat in the controlled hospital environment, and even though some volunteers had strange and scary sensations, the substance is not known to have any dangerous side effects.

The scientists do not know why this substance is present in such abundance in nature, and what it's function is. Some think it is there to make dying a fun experience and to make dreams more exciting and colorful, others say that it is a means to exploring consciousness deeper. My theory is that it is needed to communicate to the Universal Mind, or any larger mind, like a hive mind for ants and bees, or to behave in a more intelligent manner than the body has provided for (like in plants, molds, fungus, and various primitive creatures that can't possibly think on their own). If there is any truth to my theory of a huge brain - a Universal Mind in a parallel dimension, than it is very likely that DMT is one of the means of facilitating contact with that brain and getting information. And, perhaps, the reason the brain peaks DMT production when dying or having an Out of Body Experience, is because those are the times when a person's soul needs some material transportation mechanism to another dimension. There is some substantiation of my theory, because one of the scientists mentioned briefly that DMT in plants is a molecular mechanism for reacting and interacting with various external events. Plants must need DMT to help them 'think' since they don't have brains. If I were to use computers as an analogy, then if the mammal brains are fancy laptops that can do tons of stuff without being online, then plants would be like cellphones, that have to be connected to the network all the time to be able to do anything useful. So DMT could be that thing connecting simpler brainless organisms to the Universal Mind brain network, which basically thinks for them, and then tells them what to do. Kind of like what we do when we don't know something - we Google it or as Wikipedia. So DMA could be like the universal keyboard for all the life forms to access information. I think, DMT might be a key to evolution. Not that Darwin's survival of the fittest is total crap, but it doesn't exactly hold water, not that much water. For one thing, if those DNA changes were to occur randomly, it would take a billion times longer for all those species to evolve, and a lot of them would die out, because, let's be honest, if you give someone strong poison, he or she will die. Those DNA changes would have to happen like immediately, in the matter of seconds, for a creature to survive. Is it likely? Well, I read about some yogis who were so very well trained, that they could drink poison and protect their bodies from it by meditation, and come through unharmed. What if meditation enabled them to metabolize some DMT, and that DMT sent a quick message to their molecules and DNA and permanently or temporarily made some lightning-fast changes on cellular level?

Too bad there hasn't been much serious research into DMT, since it is considered an illegal psychedelic substance and research of it is frowned upon by the general scientific community. I would love to see some research done on presence of DMT in superorganisms, such as ant hives. Wouldn't they need DMT to communicate to each other and the hive mind? Wouldn't it make a good mechanism of keeping the superorganism functioning properly? Couldn't peaks of DMT be also involved in any kind of psychic experiences, such as precognition and telepathy, as well as past lives recall? If the Universal Mind exists outside space and time, because it's in another dimension, then it can pass information from future and past just as easily as about the present.

Dr. Rick Strassman, MD wrote o these clinical experiments with DMT in his book: DMT:The Spirit Molecule.