PSYCHOACTIVE CHEMICALS

Psychoactive chemicals have been used both therapeutically, recreationally and also as “sacraments” by individuals throughtout most of the 20th century. According to Dr. Andrew Weil, M.D., medical-grade quality psychedelics such as LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin (and I would add, MDMA) are among the safest drugs known to medicine. However, thanks to the US federal goverment, psychedelic research has been made illegal around the globe for over thirty five years; even though there is ample evidence that these types of drugs are safe when used responsably. A quote from William Burroughs’s Naked Lunch alludes to the fact that psychedelics (a.k.a hallucinogens) are also not addictive, which contradicts what the US goverment and it’s (bought and paid for) “scientific experts” say:

 

Ketamine Hydrochloride: This substance is a synthetic dissociative similar to PCP and is manufactured by Parke Davis pharmaceuticals, and marketed as Ketalar®, Ketaset®, etc. It is ‘dissociative’ in action for when taken the mind is separated from the body. Ketamine has been found to be a safe anesthetic — with rapid onset and minimum recovery time, along with a wide margin of safety. In fact, it was used as such extensively during the Vietnam War. One interesting fact I’d like to mention is that this substance, along with DXM — in high enough doses — and even PCP, were at first thought to work on the sigma receptor of the brain, which is thought to be involved in schizophrenia. (Sigma activity has been associated with drug-induced psychosis.) However, it has been recently discovered that the major binding site for ketamine — as well as for many other entheogens — in the brain may be the same that other endogenous neurochemicals, such as alpha-endopsychosin, bind to. For these receptors — NMDA, PCP2, and glutamate — are also thought to play an important role in what psychiatry refers to as epilepsy and psychosis. Therefore they are believed to accept the ketamine, PCP, and DXM molecules. Alpha-endopsychosin — an endogenous neurochemical — is said to be secreted at moments of extreme stress and/or spiritual ecstasy. Because of this, many researchers feel that it may explain OBE’s, astral-projections, NDE’s, alien-world experiences, etc. Of noted interest is the fascinating research being conducted (outside of the United States) by Karl L.R. Jensen, M.D., depicted in his book, Ketamine: Dreams & Realities, suggests that NDE’s (near-death experiences) and OBE’s can be clinically reproduced using sub surgicial amounts of ketamine.

 

Dextromethorphan Hydrobromide: This chemical is the active ingredient found in non-prescription, off-the-shelf cough suppressants. It has been used as a psychedelic for about 30 years without much publicity or harm. DXM is chemically related to opiates, but its effects are very similar to those of level 4 ketamine!! (see Into The Void) and PCP. Incredibly, such a potent psychoactive chemical is available in many supermarkets and over-the-counter drug stores. As explained in my first book, DXM’s effects vary with the dosage and the user’s body weight.

Dosages used in my own experiments are specified in Into The Void. One very important safety factor that must be noted is that many cough medicines contain other ingredients, such as corricidin and acetaminophen,which when ingested in the psychoactive/psychedelic quantities can cause adverse and even fatal reactions, including death! Beware. The effects of dextromethorphan begin within forty-five minutes to an hour, reaching a particular dosage-dependent level within two hours. One can expect to remain at this level for up three extra hours, with the effects beginning to dissipate in the next hour or so. The entire trip lasts a total of approximately six to eight hours. Note that the dosages listed in Into The Void are for Robitussin Maximum Strength cough syrup, which contains 5 ml. per teaspoonful.

As explained in the first instalmet of my trilogy, an interesting and rather peculiar thing I noticed while watching the block-buster movie, The Sixth Sense, starring Bruce Willis, is that the writer and director, M. Night Shyamalan, included in the movie a short television commercial from the early seventies, I believe, for a cough suppressant (currently, dextromethorphan is the only known cough suppressant available). Now, I have no way of knowing whether that rather odd addition to the movie was on purpose or not, but from my experiences with dextromethorphan, I can attest that this particular substance sometimes has the ability to engage one’s psychic senses or ‘sixth sense’; and therefore elicit the perception of hallucinations. Now, was this ‘addition’ to the movie a coincidence? Or, was it on purpose? Hmm. Another interesting thing I noticed in said movie is that Shyamalan himself makes a brief cameo appearance as a doctor (a psychiatrist, who by their very professions dispense psychoactive drugs...). The reason I am pointing that out is because it is only as consequence of my research and experiments — which in a way are scientific in nature — that I noticed said peculiarities in the film. I wonder if Shyamalan knows — like I and other DXM researchers do — about the paranormal effects that this chemical elicits on the user?


Drimenhydrinate Hydrochloride: These substances are mostly used in order to alleviate allergies, motion sickness, and induce sleep. The brand most often used by psychonauts is Dramamine® Original Formula. The other substances (or formulas, such as non-drowsy) don’t work as well. When taken in normal doses these substances do exactly what they are intended to do. However, in higher than normal doses (anywhere between 4 and 30 pills of dimenhydrinate, for this example), this pharmaceutical puts the brain to sleep (for it elicits the production of low-delta brainwaves), yet keeps both the mind and the body awake. Basically, they leave one in a dream-like state while still remaining awake. In that sense one starts dreaming while still awake. The psychoactive effects of dimenhydrinate last between 2 to 5 hours. The trick to seeing three-dimensional-like objects, and even people, is to remain awake and not falling asleep. For this substance will induce a tremendous amount of sleepiness. One must therefore fight the urge to fall asleep. In a sense, the psychic and visual effects are somewhat similar to DXM’s U-Dead Zone (for more information on this bizarre level of reality, please see Into The Void). The main difference being that one does not enter the earthbound spirit world, but rather the world of dreams.

Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD): Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD): Derived from a type of fungus that grows on rye plants, ergot, pure Lysergic acid diethylamide was synthesized and produced by Albert Hofmann in 1947. Only second to salvinorin A, LSD is one of the two most powerful psychoactive drugs known to man. It has been used by psychonaut researchers such as Dr. John C. Lilly and by psychologists Stan Grof and many others.

Given its ability to open the unconscious, it has also been used as a mind control agent by various US governmental agencies including the CIA in operations such as ARTICHOKE and MK ULTRA.

Note that the body builds a tolerance to this particular psychedelic, lasting up to three days. In other words, if you take the same amount of LSD within three days of the initial intake, it will not have the same psychic effects one has achieved with the initial dosage.