LIFING VICIOUSLY THOUGH OTHERS EXPIERICE TRIAL
He said the drug produces “a profound shift in conscious experience.” Not long ago, this may have sounded like loopy hippie hyperbole, but Griffiths is one of the world’s leading experts on the use of psychedelics as medicine, and he said the neurological research on DMT suggests that it could provide real psychological benefits among people with conditions such as depression and anxiety-a view that some recent clinical trial data support. Griffiths is the founding director of his university’s Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research who has published research on DMT. “It’s sometimes described as literally being shot off into DMT space,” said Roland Griffiths, a professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University. It’s the main psychedelic (significantly diluted) in Ayahuasca brews. It’s often referred to as an “entheogen,” or a substance that can facilitate divine or spiritual experiences. While DMT is less well-known than other hallucinogens, some consider it the ur-psychedelic-the alpha and omega in any true psychonaut’s arsenal of mind-expanding substances. Shulgin’s account touches on several hallmark features of the DMT experience, including the rapid onset and the overwhelming sense of one’s self and identity evaporating into something grander and more intimately enmeshed in the fabric of the universe. Up, up, out, out, eyes closed, I am at the speed of light, expanding, expanding, expanding, faster and faster until I have become so large that I no longer exist.” “I couldn’t even mourn the loss-there was no one left to do the mourning. “I was being destroyed-all that was familiar, all reference points, all identity-all viciously shattered in a few seconds,” he wrote. In a 1997 book that he wrote with his wife and collaborator, Ann Shulgin, he described one of his personal experiences with inhaled N, N-Dimethyltryptamine, or DMT. The late biochemist Alexander Shulgin was an early drugs-as-therapy pioneer. But users say the profundity and variety of the DMT trip makes it especially difficult to put into words. “Within the space of a breath, you go from regular waking consciousness to something wholly different.”ĭescribing what any drug “is like” can be difficult. “It is a completely immersive experience of seeing and feeling,” he finally said. As he thought about what it’s like to take the drug, he made a motorboat sound with his lips.
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