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Join Date: Jun 2010
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Can Dimethyltryptamine DMT create Psychic Visions
Just 3 years ago I was an Extreme hard-core SKEPTIC on Psychics, ESP, Remote viewing or what ever you want to call it. Today I am not a skeptic but I am still very cautious. You see, I never really believed in Psychics, ESP or Remote viewing after the age of 14, I am 43 today. Actually I was going to be a physicist when I was younger and I was strictly Newtonian Cartesian, the Quantum I couldn't really agree with because it had a bit of a metaphysics flavor to it, it just didn't feel right.
I began becoming aware of having premonitions just last year, and my denial of Psychics, ESP and Remote Viewing finally broke in April of 2010. The visions I was having through out my life I would chalk up to random chance, or the possibility that the human brain being the most powerful computer on earth was extrapolating data and predicting the most probable out come. Here is my site outlining my question on if DMT can create Psychic visions... I can not paste URL's in this forum as I am a new member and as a new member I must have 15 posts behind my belt before I can paste URL's So to get around this... Please cut and paste this "brownskinwife.yolasite.com" into Google the first Hit should be "Dr Strassman DMT dimethyltryptamine"...Please Click on this and read. Then Please read the "My Story" Section of the site. Like many of you I was a skeptic as well so I know where you are coming from, but remember, please read those 2 pages. The Home page (Dr Strassman DMT dimethyltryptamine) and the My Story page as well. Or check out the entire site, it is a cool read, anyway and like I said earlier though today I am not a skeptic I am still cautious. If people complain about the links I will edit and shorten the text and put it in the forum in place of the link, I do not want to make anyone upset. I know James Has a 1 Million Dollar give away for anyone claiming to Posses Senses out side of our 5 physical senses, but it is not the money that is important to me, it is the truth that is important to me. I am an Alturist, my possessions include a Broken Lap Top, 10 Books and a few photographs. I have shelter, I have food and I have amazing wicked friends that I call family as well as family, which is all I need. So the 1 million dollars really doesn't matter to me. Love, helping people, healing and giving are what are important to me, it is apart of my DNA. Can DMT create Psychic Visions? I am not special, I for lack of a better word, was angry against Psychics, I used to laugh when ever I saw a "Neon "Psychic" sign and a "Out of business" sign at the same location. I used to joke and say..."I wonder if they saw that one coming?". I don't laugh today however. Please look at my site and help me answer this question, "Can DMT create Psychic Visions?" Please James keep the 1 million, help people with it perhaps or help to discover the truth with it. Are there any studys currently done with Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) in relation to ESP? If so can I partake in a study to finally answer this question, if there are no studys then my question is "WHY?", what are we afraid to discover from a simple study? |
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Has a Rucksack
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Heading For the Hills
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Interesting. I was considering starting a thread myself on ''Why do so many drug users ascribe 'mystical' qualities to their high.'' I'll be interested to see how this develops.
ETA: Well, I assumed this was a 'take DMT, see the future thing. ' but it seems he claims to create DMT within his body by meditation and prayer. Go figure. |
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Join Date: Sep 2001
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Random capitalization? Check.
Consistent misspelling of common words(studys)? Check. Misuse of scientific terms? Check. Vague claim? Check. "Yoosta be a skeptic till I saw the light"? Check. |
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Not bored. Never bored.
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Has a Rucksack
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Heading For the Hills
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Anyone else reading the link get the feeling he's getting higher and higher as it goes along?
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Master Poster
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: ohio
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Psychic Visions no!
Sounds more like it turns you into a pathetic lying attention whore. But hey to each it’s own |
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"Prove all things, hold fast that which is good" (I Thessalonians 5:21) I readily admit I don’t know enough to say for sure that there is no God. But I do know enough so say that anyone who claims to know the mind and will of a being such as God is a liar. I have no problem with Jesus, but his fan club sucks! |
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Has a Rucksack
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Ok, waded through it all (and took a short sanity break to watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md1CK...os=5YS0aZSN1No half way through).
Confused usage of there/their/they're; check. It's the nets longest, wierdest, most rambling dating ad. Can you predict something, and divulge the details to us before it actually happens? |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Oct 2007
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What psychic visions did you have? What documented evidence do you have that you saw the future? If you have none, your claims are not something that will find acceptance here.
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Jul 2006
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ROTFL.
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Los Angeles
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... Joe Rogan, is that you?
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Has a Rucksack
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Opinionated Jerk
Moderator Join Date: Jul 2006
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Call me crazy, but for some reason I think the real Woody Allen would approve of his post.
Because, you know, Woody Allen loves tripping his face off. |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: UK
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I've worked with ayahuasceros in the Amazon jungle and at no point did any of them ever claim to be able to see into the future. Where does this idea that DMT can make you psychic come from? Whacked out woo Westerners?
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Graduate Poster
Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 1,485
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woddyallen,
Since you were a hardcore skeptic before you discovered your ability to have psychic visions, why don't you tell us what you think would be an appropriate test? I'm willing to believe that you are serious. Put yourself in the shoes you wore three years ago. How would you have approached someone with your claims? Please suggest a starting point for a test protocol and we can go from there. Thanks, Ward |
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Muse
Join Date: Aug 2007
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In a word
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Muse
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 904
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Where did the thumbs up come from?
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Philosopher
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 7,866
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I think it's Roman
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Illuminator
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Location: UK
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Has a Rucksack
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New Blood
Join Date: May 2009
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The effects of Dimethyltryptamine as a hallucinogenic drug has been covered in Alexander Shulgin's bizarre (but fairly amusing) book "Tryptamines I Have Known And Loved" (TIHKAL). I guess linking to it is borderline illegal in an American forum, but this quote is representative:
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Has a Rucksack
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Mountain View, CA
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woddyallen, the JREF challenge isn't going to do any test that requires illegal actions (possessing, using a controlled substance), so there is no point in pursuing that. of course, if you are getting the DMT through meditation or something, you should be fine. I (none of us) speak for the JREF, but stuff like this (no illegalities) is pretty standard.
As far as the million goes, if you were able to test and win, you could give the money to any charity in the world. So don't turn your nose up to it is my suggestion. Your website is not convincing. As a former skeptic, you should understand that skepticism isn't just rolling your eyes at something you find doubtful, instead, it is the active search for solid evidence, and reserving judgement until them. The first step is evidence of existence. Your site seems to go into method a lot - meditation and the like. It really doesn't matter how you do what you do at this stage. We won't even entertain the question until we have evidence that you actually achieve something. So that is why some of the posts above ask for verifiable predictions. Let's face it, no one has presented solid evidence for ESP in the entire history of the world, and you are claiming to take reality altering drugs. The most likely explanation is merely that you are mistaken. But, if you are not, you are going to have to provide solid evidence, not websites about meditation, chi, and the like. For example, a prediction like "At 803UTM, January 3rd, 2011, flight 7343 will crash in Quito..." would be very testable and fairly convincing. A prediction like "a major tragedy will occur within six months" is both completely untestable (tragedies happen everyday) and totally unconvincing. People here will happily work with you to figure out tests, but you have to stop accusing people of being "afraid". Offer something concrete to us, we are anxious to help you. Really. But only if you stick to reality and drop the accusations of fear and what not. (some of the rest of you posting are welcome in the "bullying" thread, I'm sure) |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jun 2009
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You know what bugs me. I enjoy a bit of puff from time , and in my younger days had a few other drugs.
What the hell are people expecting when they do drugs? Their intent is to mess with your brain, and all these woo's get that effect and then ascribe something mystical to it. To answer the op, No, this is actually the exact opposite of an unexplained phenomenon. You are ingesting a drug and your mind is firing weirdly. If your experience was real, then i would like to give a warning to everyone here that there is no less than one dragon on earth that tends to fly around a beer store in my area. Personally i think this was a hallucination brought on by things i ingested at the time, but if suddenly things experienced on drugs are real, watch out friends. |
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Has a Rucksack
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Agreed. Several acquaintances of mine insist on the existence of 'pixies' on Dartmoor because they did a load of mushrooms and saw them... This wasn't a hallucination brought on by psylocybin, oh no, mushrooms give you the power to see the pixies. The girl I was seeing at the time left me because I scoffed at this; in retrospect, no real loss.
ETA: By this logic, there really is a werewolf living in my garden who looked in the window and told me good jokes, and my friend Paul has the ability to transform himself into a goat. |
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Great Dalmuti
Join Date: Jul 2007
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As long as you are not selling or distributing the drug, there is nothing illegal about linking to a book or article about illegal drugs. Remember, Americans can legally buy High Times at a newsstand or bookstore. American drug laws are insane, but they have not yet been successfully extended to infringe on free speech.
JREF may have stricter policies, however. |
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"If it's real, then it gets more interesting the closer you examine it. If it's not real, just the opposite is true." - aggle-rithm |
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Seeking Honesty and Sanity
Join Date: Oct 2001
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How odd! A few years ago there was someone here at JREF who said almost the same sort of thing.
I think it was 'UndercoverElephant' who claimed that he could communicate with extra-terrestials while under the influence of DMT and therefore he should be awarded the $ 1,000,000 prize money. Of course, he could never proove his claim, so he never got the money. In short, people can imagine all sorts of things while under the influence of drugs, but that does not mean those things are real. Therefore, my advice is for you to keep off drugs, to stay sober, and to make money honestly; and you will be much better off. |
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Official Nemesis
Join Date: Feb 2007
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If you are regularly receiving visions, the easiest way to test this will be to create a diary that is posted on-line and can be verified to see if any of the visions come true. Not posting things after the fact. We had a poster here not long ago who claimed to have visions similar to this (although they were spontaneous, not triggered by, er, stuff). When he posted them in detail, none of them came true. None. |
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Muse
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: The Area 51 Motel 6 Room 12 Bed 2 Pillow1
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Perhaps the dragon was underaged and was just looking for someone to buy him and his buddies a case or two.
I have never ingested the "harder" hallucinogenic drugs; it must be passing strange to see something like a dragon, even if you realize that it is an effect of the drug. Woddyallen, we cannot encourage or participate in a study that is illegal in nature. You should be able to understand that. |
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Student
Join Date: Jun 2010
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Doing a clinical study isn't illegal, can you folks make this happen?
I thought about including my exwife as a verifiable witness to the DC Sniper being 2 black males one younger one older shooting from the trunk of heir big blue late to mid 80's car, taking turns shooting out of the trunk...When the FBI was looking for a white male in a white van. But I will ask her for her permission If she is talks Directly To James and you as well Roger, this should not be a problem for her. But she is very fragile and I wouldn't want to expose her to any abuse and bulling from some people, not all here but a couple that may harm her. If you have James ear roger could you relay my idea of doing a study. Keep the money to help people or to expose the true FRAUDS that harm people out there. My Motivation is not money, fame or anything other than seeing if DMT can in fact create Psychic visions. And I think doing a scientific clinical study isn't illegal! I will no longer accuse people of being afraid, actually it is I who is afraid which is why you picked up on my accusation, I am sorry, I make mistakes and I admit when I am wrong, I WAS WRONG! LETS DO THIS, James has connections to psychologists and I am sure as a scientific skeptic he MORE than anyone on earth can MAKE THIS HAPPEN. |
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2008
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But WHY would he make this happen? If you provided evidence first that psychic visions do exist, then I'm sure scientists will line up at your door wanting to perform experiments to discover the mechanism.
Without evidence, you are asking people to conduct an experiment to discover the cause of an event that almost certainly does not occur. |
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Graduate Poster
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: An American in Germany
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Actually, you've got a concrete suggestion already given above:
Log all your predictions online before the predicted event happens. If the predictions come true, then you've got proof of something that can be investigated. Up to that point, no one has to know how you got your visions. Whether you are taking DMT, licking tomatoes, or sticking beans up your nose to cause the visions is irrelevant. Once you prove that you can actually predict the future, you can begin worrying about the HOW of predicting the future. Since you say that you are causing DMT to be produced wihtin your body by meditating, all you really need to do is provide some checkable predictions. There's no need to try to get anyone to start a study and get hold of DMT to dose people with. Prove to yourself FIRST that you really can predict the future. You can prove it to us at the same time. If you really can do it, then the study can be done - but I'd suggest checking for the presence of DMT in the body. That is to say, don't take any. Do your meditation, predict the future, and see if your natural DMT level is elevated (there are tests for such things.) No need really at all for anyone to be taking controlled substances. |
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Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: A galaxy far, far away...sometimes, but mostly the USA
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Why is it that people come here, make claims, then ask us to prove their claims for them?
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