#149 - Meet The Father Of Modern DMT Research

🧠 JOIN THE GIANT'S SHOULDER FAMILYBecome a YouTube Member for exclusive episodes, early access + ad-free viewing 👇https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder/joinRick Strassman is the psychiatrist who ran the first new American psychedelic research in a generation — five years of DMT studies at the University of New Mexico, the first rating scale ever built specifically to measure a psychedelic experience, and the book that made DMT famous. DMT: The Spirit Molecule sold a quarter of a million copies and effectively created machine-elf culture. Thirty years on, he is the most sceptical man in the room about what those entities actually are.Expect to learn why your brain spends energy importing DMT across the blood-brain barrier, why the pineal gland story he made famous fell apart, how brain DMT sits at the same concentration as serotonin and dopamine, why DMT floods the visual cortex of a dying brain, why a molecule that shrinks strokes and protects kidneys should not be psychedelic at all, what the endomatrix is and why it raises the simulation question, why he now thinks psychedelics are super placebos, what a DMT entity actually is and why talking to one is like talking to an AI, how you would actually test whether the entities are real, why only one scientist on Earth is studying endogenous DMT, and much more…SPONSORSGet Jenni Your Intelligent Research Assistant (GIANT20 for 20% off) - http://jenni.ai/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=inf&utm_campaign=thegiantsshoulderJoin the Outskill AI Mastery Sprint (Free This Weekend) - https://links.outskill.com/GIASHOULAUG2GS EPISODES MENTIONEDSteven Barker - Meet The World's Greatest Endogenous DMT Psychedelic Scientist You've Never Heard Of: https://youtu.be/gTc5QjyZuvYDavid Luke - Meet the Professor of Paranormal Consciousness - DMT Entities, Telepathy Tapes & OBE's: https://youtu.be/qLKD1gt1X5oDeborah Mash - Meet The Ibogaine Psychedelic Scientist Who First Unravelled Its Big Mystery: https://youtu.be/z7eRtXV6ptARobin Carhart-Harris - No. 1 Psychedelic Scientist: The Entropic Brain Hypothesis, Consciousness & DMT Entities: https://youtu.be/t-GkE4YtLRkAndrew Gallimore - No.1 DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worlds, DMT Entity Encounters, Attractor States and Consciousness: https://youtu.be/USgWrxEFWDAGUEST LINKSOfficial Site: https://www.rickstrassman.com/Books & Publications: https://www.rickstrassman.com/publications/Substack: https://rickstrassman.substack.com/YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/RickStrassmanBiosynthesis and Extracellular Concentrations of DMT in Mammalian Brain (Dean et al., Scientific Reports 2019): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-45812-wTIMESTAMPS0:00:00 Trailer0:04:31 The First Legal DMT Studies in a Generation0:07:41 The Bomb-Maker Who Became a Psychedelic Scientist0:14:13 The Iron Curtain Reason We Know DMT Works0:22:32 Why Your Brain Spends Energy Importing DMT0:28:26 Your Brain Makes DMT at Serotonin Levels0:29:26 DMT Floods the Dying Brain's Visual Cortex0:30:28 Stroke, Kidneys and Heart — DMT as a Survival Molecule0:32:39 The $64,000 Question Nobody Can Answer0:36:33 Does DMT Regulate How Real Reality Feels?0:39:32 Only One Person on Earth Studies This0:43:52 The Endomatrix and the Simulation Question0:49:48 "Psychedelics Are Super Placebos"0:55:12 The Man Who Wrote Down "Bananas Are Really Yellow"1:03:50 The Barking Patient — Entities as Dream Logic1:05:42 Talking to Entities Is Like Talking to an AI1:06:40 The Prime Number Test for Proving Entities Are Real1:13:36 Half His Volunteers Met Beings — And a Conscious Apartment1:18:08 "Your Brain On Drugs" vs Another Dimension1:26:58 The Entities That Curse You1:29:09 "Have You Started Yet?" — The Man Immune to DMT1:33:30 Why DMT Is the Only Psychedelic Without Tolerance1:36:12 Blocking 5-HT1A Tripled the Effect — Buried 30 Years1:39:06 Aphantasia and Seeing For the First Time.....Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com