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I'm sure you will be just fine. Just about everyone alive has done something illegal.... but it is good to have a little healthy paranoia I suppose.

First I'd say that I think all of this is an illusion. I mean what a universe with matter eating black holes and all were the normal laws of phisics break down...or what with the quantum entanglement and particle wave duality that changes based on human observation. Honestly it all seems to be pointing to a grand illusion to me!

As for DMT and other drugs. I'm not really sure what I think about them. Obviously they act as neurotransmitters and interact with our serotonin receptors and even partially with dopamine and nor-epinephrine receptors as well. What I find the most interesting is that entire worlds can be created from what should be nothing more than a random scrambling right? I mean we flood our brains with these drugs and new realms open up. Our brains are amazing organs of perception. I wonder is the perception we have from our normal neurotransmitters ratio's the only right perception? It is obviously the perception that we all evolved with after all... Or is it possible that many other perceptions...and thus realities...do indeed exists and all it takes is a change of balance in the neurotransmitter concentration.

I think of it this way: Our brains has many many receptor. In the serotonin family alone there are 5HT, 5HT2, 5HT3, etc..and then subfamilies of these. The dopamine, norepinephrine, gabba, etc are similar in that there are many receptors in our brain. What if we just lump them all together and think of them collectively as our brains hardware. Next let's examine the code that makes it run. The code is the relative concentrations of the various neurotransmitters in our brain. Most of us have pretty normal levels and we call this baseline. But some people are not baselilne at all. Some people are angry or depressed. Ever come off a strong binge drink to plunge into a mini depression a few day's later? That was your GABA system trying to renormalize itself (It's probably not quite that simple actually).

So is the world we see with depressed eyes any less real than the world we see when our brains neurotransmitter concentrations are normal? So just extrapolate from there. When we ingest DMT it effectively turns on some receptors more than others...aka your brain sees it as an inbalance in neuraltransmitters. So is what we see on this drugs any more or less real than what we see when we are sober?

Just food for thought. I love to ponder this question. There is no doubt that they are not spiritual by nature though. Yet I do certainly believe people can have spiritual experiences from them...as I myself have had them.

Peace

<blockquote data-quote="joedirt" data-source="post: 3439139" data-attributes="member: 6370">I&#039;m sure you will be just fine.&nbsp; Just about everyone alive has done something illegal....&nbsp; but it is good to have a little healthy paranoia I suppose.First I&#039;d say that I think all of this is an illusion.&nbsp; I mean what a universe with matter eating black holes and all were the normal laws of phisics break down...or what with the quantum entanglement and particle wave duality that changes based on human observation.&nbsp; Honestly it all seems to be pointing to a grand illusion to me!As for DMT and other drugs.&nbsp; I&#039;m not really sure what I think about them.&nbsp; Obviously they act as neurotransmitters and interact with our serotonin receptors and even partially with dopamine and nor-epinephrine receptors as well.&nbsp; What I find the most interesting is that entire worlds can be created from what should be nothing more than a random scrambling right?&nbsp; I mean we flood our brains with these drugs and new realms open up.&nbsp; Our brains are amazing organs of perception.&nbsp; I wonder is the perception we have from our normal neurotransmitters ratio&#039;s the only right perception?&nbsp; It is obviously the perception that we all evolved with after all...&nbsp; Or is it possible that many other perceptions...and thus realities...do indeed exists and all it takes is a change of balance in the neurotransmitter concentration.I think of it this way:&nbsp; Our brains has many many receptor.&nbsp; In the serotonin family alone there are 5HT, 5HT2, 5HT3, etc..and then subfamilies of these.&nbsp; The dopamine, norepinephrine, gabba, etc are similar in that there are many receptors in our brain.&nbsp; What if we just lump them all together and think of them collectively as our brains hardware.&nbsp;&nbsp; Next let&#039;s examine the code that makes it run.&nbsp; The code is the relative concentrations of the various neurotransmitters in our brain.&nbsp; Most of us have pretty normal levels and we call this baseline.&nbsp; But some people are not baselilne at all.&nbsp; Some people are angry or depressed.&nbsp; Ever come off a strong binge drink to plunge into a mini depression a few day&#039;s later?&nbsp; That was your GABA system trying to renormalize itself (It&#039;s probably not quite that simple actually).&nbsp; So is the world we see with depressed eyes any less real than the world we see when our brains neurotransmitter concentrations are normal?&nbsp; So just extrapolate from there.&nbsp; When we ingest DMT it effectively turns on some receptors more than others...aka your brain sees it as an inbalance in neuraltransmitters.&nbsp; So is what we see on this drugs any more or less real than what we see when we are sober?&nbsp;&nbsp; Just food for thought.&nbsp; I love to ponder this question.&nbsp; There is no doubt that they are not spiritual by nature though.&nbsp; Yet I do certainly believe people can have spiritual experiences from them...as I myself have had them.Peace</blockquote>

[QUOTE="joedirt, post: 3439139, member: 6370"] I'm sure you will be just fine. Just about everyone alive has done something illegal.... but it is good to have a little healthy paranoia I suppose. First I'd say that I think all of this is an illusion. I mean what a universe with matter eating black holes and all were the normal laws of phisics break down...or what with the quantum entanglement and particle wave duality that changes based on human observation. Honestly it all seems to be pointing to a grand illusion to me! As for DMT and other drugs. I'm not really sure what I think about them. Obviously they act as neurotransmitters and interact with our serotonin receptors and even partially with dopamine and nor-epinephrine receptors as well. What I find the most interesting is that entire worlds can be created from what should be nothing more than a random scrambling right? I mean we flood our brains with these drugs and new realms open up. Our brains are amazing organs of perception. I wonder is the perception we have from our normal neurotransmitters ratio's the only right perception? It is obviously the perception that we all evolved with after all... Or is it possible that many other perceptions...and thus realities...do indeed exists and all it takes is a change of balance in the neurotransmitter concentration. I think of it this way: Our brains has many many receptor. In the serotonin family alone there are 5HT, 5HT2, 5HT3, etc..and then subfamilies of these. The dopamine, norepinephrine, gabba, etc are similar in that there are many receptors in our brain. What if we just lump them all together and think of them collectively as our brains hardware. Next let's examine the code that makes it run. The code is the relative concentrations of the various neurotransmitters in our brain. Most of us have pretty normal levels and we call this baseline. But some people are not baselilne at all. Some people are angry or depressed. Ever come off a strong binge drink to plunge into a mini depression a few day's later? That was your GABA system trying to renormalize itself (It's probably not quite that simple actually). So is the world we see with depressed eyes any less real than the world we see when our brains neurotransmitter concentrations are normal? So just extrapolate from there. When we ingest DMT it effectively turns on some receptors more than others...aka your brain sees it as an inbalance in neuraltransmitters. So is what we see on this drugs any more or less real than what we see when we are sober? Just food for thought. I love to ponder this question. There is no doubt that they are not spiritual by nature though. Yet I do certainly believe people can have spiritual experiences from them...as I myself have had them. Peace [/QUOTE]