DMT en de zoektocht naar jezelf

Door: Dieter Vorderhake

Dear Dr. Strassman

What if DMT somehow simply prevents (when physically dying) or blocks (when physically still alive) all our sensory input to the mind, and thus makes the brain unable to receive, process and respond to sensory input?
Maybe it prepares us for death this way, without too much negative sensory input, so with less emotional and physical pain. Maybe nature provides us comfort this way.
Like adrenalin does during our lives. Maybe DMT is the 'death protocol' of our brain.
Maybe the same happens when injecting DMT in the body during life, only the physical body is actually not dying, and that is why you come down again.

If there is no sensory input at all, the mind can not 'feel' the body, there is no touch, no sight, no hearing, no taste, no smell etcetera.
Then the experience is as if there is a seperation between body and mind. The body does not exist anymore cause the brain does not receive the signals from the body.
The brain is on its own.

In your book there are some people that had problems at first when they got the DMT, they did not want to loose control.
Once they did 'give up' they came to inner peace. All the remarks say it was as if there was 'no emotion', or 'all came together', or 'all was balanced'.
Unltimately if there is no sensory input, there can be no contradictory feelings and emotions. So all is whole.
Maybe they did not want to loose control of their sensory input. It scared them, felt like dying. Andrea said: 'it was death'. She fought the DMT and it's purpose or result.
Only when Andrea realised the body kept functioning under DMT, she was able to let go and she was not scared any more.

The reports from people that could not respond at all with their body for a couple of minutes, but wanted to, could be evidence that there is no communication possible between the brain and the body under influence of DMT. For instance, Saul reported that he did not know if he was breathing.
Others reported that they had fully accepted the seperation, but they had to go back to their body. Maybe they 'had to' because it was not really dying.
Maybe they 'accepted the seperation' when DMT was full in its effect, and they 'had to go back' when DMT effect was already diminishing, in other words, their sensory input came back.
Maybe when the body really dies, there is only the effect of 'accepting the seperation', because the sensory input will not return.

What if people 'are who they are' because of their sensory input? During life you constantly get sensory input and have the urge to respond to it.
You can get confused by all different and contradictory inputs. The result can be scattered feelings and emotions. Might this lead to what we have defined as psychological problems?
Maybe, if you have a strong personality (due to 'correct' sensory input), you can with reason, and by carefully observing, comparing and analysing your sensory input, reach the same goal of inner peace.
As you suggest, DMT might be helpful to show what 'can be' if there is no sensory input. Like trancendental meditation can.
Following this, might DMT be helpful in the process of 'organising sensory input' and by doing so, deal with the psychological problems?

There are Tantra exercises that tell you to block all openings of the head: ears, eyes, mouth, nose, lying on a bed free from being disturbed.
This is in a way the same. You withhold yourself from sensory input, and this is actually the purpose of the exercise. (The book of secrets - OSHO)
According to Tantra, this is one of the 112 exercises (Sutras) that can ultimately lead to enlightment.
Don't worry they say, if you pass out from lack of oxygene, your body will restore breathing and keep on functioning and you'll wake up soon.

Maybe this is why we have sensory input, because it makes life interesting and feeds the mind.
But the mind does not want to experience negative sensory input, so it protects itself with chemicals like adrenalin and DMT.
When the body dies, so do the senses, so the mind makes the brain release DMT.

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