To re-iterate, my only issue with Rogan is the regurgitation of the Strassman slop, which deepens the vapid, pop culture, void and strengthens the myths as fact. I'm telling you, I can't count how many times I've heard random people (who know nothing of psychedelics) bring it up in conversation and it's always paired with the death BS. Don't even get me started on McKenna. I don't believe an update is possible. There's no going back (the Spirit Molecule movie will only make it worse). The general consciousness in 'straight' society regarding DMT has been permanently shaped by these charlatans. I have a long time friend with a neurology PHD who's primary area of research is psychedelics and she stressed to me years ago that that community does not hold Strassman in any sort of high regard. Pairing detailed medical research findings with wild personal postulations in one book was wildly irresponsible and we're living with the reverberations of that. This is the prison, within which DMT must live now. *sigh*
Ok, rant over. Sorry guys. I get really worked up over Strassman/McKenna gobbledygook and pop culture figures that vomit it all over the indiscriminate consciousness of the masses.
I dunno, I'm just as full of BS though. Hopefully someone can at least get a laugh out of anything I write. I don't take myself as serious as it probably sounds. That book just pisses me off. Again, sorry.
It's just so unfortunate that the lowest common denominator out there believes, without question, what someone like Joe Rogan regurgitates from what he barely comprehends from someone like Rick Strassman who barely comprehends what he's dealing with. It boggles my mind.
People need to look up Nick Sand for a respectable perspective on DMT. His articles are unfortunately difficult to come by but I first read them in a reposting by a member at the entheogen forums many years ago (I'm linking to the post here for informational purposes as I believe his writings are very much in tune with the mindset of the members here. MODs appologies if it's a faux pas to link to other forums):
One quote that particularly chimes with me regarding Strassman:
"The administration of DMT in these highly artificial and agenda-driven environments may very well create a warped impression of assumed importance and reality that does not allow DMT to function as it should. Let Strassman take his subjects into the forest or a temple, and turn on with them
after he has mastered it himself, and I think he will find that the little alien doctors will disappear and be replaced by other mystic beings—beings that can tell you about yourself. Or you can go to a completely non representative space of the rare “level three” state, where there is no light, no design, just the voice of God using your soul as a silent tuning fork. Alas, this is unlikely to happen, as Strassman would probably lose his job or grant, might very well be prosecuted and jailed, and worst of all, like Leary and Alpert, lose his scientific “objectivity” (another great myth)."
For those that don't know, Nick Sand is credited as the first person who discovered the effects of smoking free base dmt (not to mention creating orange sunshine LSD).
