Senior Seminar High School drug research project

1. DMT: The Spirit Molecule
By: Cameron Aaron

2. DMT Summary
● A hallucinogenic drug
● Naturally found in the pituitary gland of human body as well as in other
mammals
● In most plant matter but is destroyed in the Digestive tract
● Is thought to play a role in near death experiences and in dreaming

3. Religious Purposes
DMT is taken as sacred religious sacrament in many different cultures most notably
the Urarina people of the Peruvian Amazon Basin. They belive that man has a
disconnection with spirit and by taking Ayahuasca you are able to recconect.
Ayahuasca is composed of a plant containing DMT and a plant containing a MAOI the
combination allows for the DMT to become orally activated

4. Trip
“I continued floating around in the three dimensional DMT space without anything too significant
happening, when I was found by a very advanced extraterrestrial being. His kind liked humanity and they
enjoyed helping humans evolve at a very fast rate. I could feel this being empowering me and showing me
advanced things. He helped direct my awareness to different things, all of which were helpful to my
evolution. Anytime my awareness shifted to something of no use, especially things that would enable fear,
he would give me a nudge to not pay attention to it but to focus on the useful things that were good for me.
He also could sense weaknesses in me as I brought them up from out from my consciousness and would
helped me overcome them. At the same time this being was learning from his interaction with me. It was a
positive experience.
“I learned that these beings existed [alongside] another type of beings. [The two] did not like each other,
but instead of fighting, they just avoided one another in a respectful way, knowing that engaging in
problems was a waste of time. They knew what they wanted and applied themselves fervently to related
tasks.”

5. Psycho addictivity
DMT have no chemical addictive properties but psychological dependency may occur.
You do not gain tolerance.

6. DMT Chemical Composition

7. How Does DMT Work in our Neurological System
Works on Default mode Network

8. Metabolic Process

9. Medical uses for DMT
DMT is used mostly by people looking to deal with a past trauma DMT causes the
DMN to become less active and more calm. Those that use it tend to have trips that
teach them a good lesson and make them feel better about life.
“It was really the DMT that empowered my commitment to the psychedelic
experience. DMT was so much more powerful, so much more alien, raising all kinds of
issues about what is reality, what is language, what is the self, what is three-
dimensional space and time, all the questions I became involved with over the next
twenty years or so.” -Mckenna

10. Conclusion
DMT is interesting

11. Citations
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0118143
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4334486/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N,N-Dimethyltryptamine
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dmt-you-cannot-imagine-a-stranger-drug-or-a-
stranger-experience-365