anyone know what DMT does in plants?

[Jingmaster]

It would make sense that insects wouldn't go for plants high in tryptamines, if that is the case, because essentially the insects are there to recycle the weakest plants. That is why the farming industry uses all the pesticides, herbicides, etc., because the plants are so weak since they are hybridized and grown in mineral deficient soil. Nature via insects want to recycle them. Hardy plants grown in mineral rich soil aren't attacked nearly as much by insects because they are able to survive and spawn new life.

So a plant high in tryptamines is recognized as a hardy plant, therefore doesn't need to be attacked and recycled by the insects. One way of looking at it at least.

I've always thought that plants that have these neurotransmitters are simply using them, much like we are, to experience their reality. I see it a bit like asking, "Why do plants have chlorophyll? Why would they have something in them that can cleanse and build OUR blood? What's the point to them having chlorophyll?"

Everything in the universe has some kind of sentience and some way of experiencing the rest of the universe and it just so happens that on a chemical level, the universe dishes out some similar compounds to different life forms, and so we end up interacting with each other and discovering new ways of experiencing all that is via alchemical means.


Then again, maybe it just happened accidentally, like in that Bill Hicks bit:


"Then on the seventh day, God looked at His creation and said, 'Ah, my Creation, perfect in every way..."

(God starts looking around, startled. He glances about in a panic)

"Oh my Me... I left fucking pot everywhere. Shit! I never should've smoked that joint on the third day! If I leave pot everywhere, that's going to leave humans with the impression that they're supposed to USE IT. Shit!"


: )

JM

 

[rawmo]

Doing a bit more research here's some extra things to ponder -

DMT is [according to Dennis McKenna] only 2 synthesis steps away from the amino acid Tryptophan.

So with this in mind [and in perspective to redundancy / co-opting of similar molecules for different aspects of cell biochemistry]

It is perhaps not unusual that DMT as a basic/simple chemical [in the sense that it is more likely to be produced by multiple organisms than a more complex molecule] it would be in many organisms, and also with many potential uses.

So yeah,
maybe it's just a consequence of it's basic structure as a variant on an even more basic building block chemical [tryptophan].

A little less exciting perhaps than other stories about it, but still handy that Jurema produces it in such high amounts and it affects the structure of our mind so amazingly.

 

[Ayawasqero]

Intoxicating plant-eating animals?