Speak of the Devil – Reverend Campbell discusses DMT with Warlock Patrick DeMarco. DMT or N, N-dimethyltryptamine is a hallucinogenic tryptamine drug. It produces effects similar to those of psychedelics, like LSD and magic mushrooms. We will be discussing Patricks personal experience after having tried it for the first time.
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Show Notes
- Definition
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/dimethyltryptamine- dahy-meth-uhl-trip-tuh-meen
- : a hallucinogenic drug, C12H16N2, with an action of short duration. Abbreviation: DMT
- What is DMT
https://www.healthline.com/health/what-is-dmt- DMT is a Schedule I controlled substance in the United States, which means it’s illegal to make, buy, possess, or distribute it. Some cities have recently decriminalized it, but it’s still illegal under state and federal law.
- Where does it come from?
- DMT naturally occurs in many plant species, which have been used in religious ceremonies in some South American countries for centuries.
- It can also be made in a laboratory.
- Is it the same thing as ayahuasca?
- Kind of. DMT is the main active ingredient ayahuasca.
- Ayahuasca is traditionally prepared using two plants called Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis. The latter contains DMT while the former contains MAOIs, which prevent certain enzymes in your body from breaking down DMT.
- Does it really naturally exist in your brain?
- No one knows for sure.
- Some experts believe the pineal gland produces it in the brain and releases it when we dream.
- Others believe it’s released during birth and death. Some go further to say this release of DMT at death may be responsible for those mystical near-death experiences you sometimes hear about.
- What does it feel like?
- As with most drugs, DMT can affect people in very different ways. Some truly enjoy the experience. Others find it overwhelming or frightening.
- As far as its psychoactive effects, people have described feeling like they’re traveling at warp speed through a tunnel of bright lights and shapes. Others describe having an out-of-body experience and feeling like they’ve changed into something else.
- There are also some who report visiting other worlds and communicating with elf-like beings.
- Some people also report a pretty rough comedown from DMT that leaves them feeling unsettled.
- How long does it take to work?
- Synthetic DMT kicks in pretty fast, producing effects within 5 to 10 minutes.
- Plant-based brews tend to produce effects within 20 to 60 minutes.
- Does it cause any side effects?
- DMT is a powerful substance that can cause a number of mental and physical side effects. Some of these are desirable, but others not so much.
- Possible mental effects of DMT include:
- Euphoria
- Floating
- vivid hallucinations
- altered sense of time
- depersonalization
- Keep in mind that some people experience lingering mental effects for days or weeks after use.
- Warlock Patric DeMarco’s experience
- Mario Garnier Documental sobre el Bufo Alvarius
https://youtu.be/GD0DZc-Id3c - Bufo Alvarius, the Sonoran Desert Toad
- The largest toad in North America
- Lives underground for 9 months out of the year
- Surfaces for 3 months to procreate and refill food stores
- Toad medicine is the squeezing of the glands at the back of the head
- Methylate buthanin 5-MeO-DMT
- 5-MeO-DMT: The 20-Minute Psychoactive Toad Experience That’s Transforming Lives
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidcarpenter/2020/02/02/5-meo-dmt-the-20-minute-psychoactive-toad-experience-thats-transforming-lives/?sh=258d329138a1- In a recent European study, after one single use, the substance 5-MeO-DMT was shown to produce sustained enhancement of satisfaction with life, and easing of anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30982127/ - One single 50mg vaporized dose — derived from dried venom secreted by the Bufo alvarius toad — often produces hallucinogenic, boundless experiences within one second of inhalation that can last from 7 to 90 minutes, and on average lasts 20 minutes.
- Their ability to heal has prompted voters in Oakland and Santa Cruz in the state of California to opt for decriminalizing a wide range of psychedelics — such as magic mushrooms, peyote and ayahuasca — making those items the lowest law enforcement priority. Last year, Denver also followed suit passing similar resolutions around fungi containing the psychedelic psilocybin; and more recently Chicago’s City Council approved a resolution that could pave the way for decriminalization there.
- there was the not-so-small Michael Pollan Effect. Since 2018, when Pollan first burst through the glass ceiling of legitimate psychedelic use with his influential book How To Change Your Mind, the idea of cognitive freedom had suddenly inched up to the forefront of the American conversation on mental health.
- In a recent European study, after one single use, the substance 5-MeO-DMT was shown to produce sustained enhancement of satisfaction with life, and easing of anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
- How does it work?
- It attaches to the receptors that Serotonin uses to regulate brain activity.
- 5-MeO-DMT releases the control to the brain so you start using different combinations of brain regions that you normally don’t have access to.
- Perception and understanding are heightened, where motor function is diminished
- What does dissolving the EGO do for the Satanist who works to enhance or strengthen the Ego?
- Mario Garnier Documental sobre el Bufo Alvarius