Thanks for this thorough and provocative article, Daniel. While I haven't felt a need to experiment with DMT as a substance introduced from without, for example during an Ayahuasca ceremony, I'm experienced with other psychedelics, and more experienced with meditation, the Tibetan yogas of dream and sleep, hypnosis and shamanism. The shamanic journey induced by drumming is a well-proven effective method to contact alternative or parallel realities. Lately, I have also devoted myself to the Wim Hof Method, combining it with tummo, the Tibetan yoga of inner fire. Some contemporaries, including Wim Hof, say that the breath work stimulates the production of DMT in the pineal body. I will vouch that since I've been doing this daily for over a year, my dreams have become more vivid and I sleep fewer hours. Set, Setting, and "dosage" are still watch words for psychonauts.
Almost too abstract to incorporate in our linear ways of thinking with the “egoic mind.” Not many will get the opportunity to use DMT, let alone, get past the fear of “other reality “ experience. But this makes complete sense to me and I feel it to be a very believable account of what happens upon body death or using DMT. It opens up a whole new world of other possibilities and ways of being outside the material body.. if you dare to go there…
Thanks for this thorough and provocative article, Daniel. While I haven't felt a need to experiment with DMT as a substance introduced from without, for example during an Ayahuasca ceremony, I'm experienced with other psychedelics, and more experienced with meditation, the Tibetan yogas of dream and sleep, hypnosis and shamanism. The shamanic journey induced by drumming is a well-proven effective method to contact alternative or parallel realities. Lately, I have also devoted myself to the Wim Hof Method, combining it with tummo, the Tibetan yoga of inner fire. Some contemporaries, including Wim Hof, say that the breath work stimulates the production of DMT in the pineal body. I will vouch that since I've been doing this daily for over a year, my dreams have become more vivid and I sleep fewer hours. Set, Setting, and "dosage" are still watch words for psychonauts.
Almost too abstract to incorporate in our linear ways of thinking with the “egoic mind.” Not many will get the opportunity to use DMT, let alone, get past the fear of “other reality “ experience. But this makes complete sense to me and I feel it to be a very believable account of what happens upon body death or using DMT. It opens up a whole new world of other possibilities and ways of being outside the material body.. if you dare to go there…