Rick Strassman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The discovery of DMT in the human body stimulated much less fanfare than did that of endorphins. Anti-psychedelic-drug sentiment sweeping the USA at the time actually turned researchers against studying endogenous DMT. The discoverers of endorphins, in contrast, won Nobel Prizes...
-- Rick Strassman

#Discovery #Usa #Dmt
When our individual life force enters our fetal body, the moment in which we become truly human, it passes through the pineal and triggers the first primordial flood of DMT. Later, at birth, the pineal releases more DMT. As we die, the life-force leaves the body through the pineal gland, releasing another flood of this psychedelic spirit molecule.
-- Rick Strassman

#Dmt #Molecules #Body
Aaron was one of the few Jewish volunteers in our study, and I felt a certain kinship with him at that level.
-- Rick Strassman

#Volunteer #Levels #Study
Being raised a Jew in southern California in the 1950s and 1960s, my religious training emphasized learning the Hebrew language and Jewish festivals, history, and culture. We also remembered the Holocaust and supported the newly formed Jewish state of Israel.
-- Rick Strassman

#Religious #Israel #California
The pineal gland of evolutionarily older animals, such as lizards and amphibians, is also called the 'third' eye. Just like the two seeing eyes, the third eye possesses a lens, cornea, and retina. It is light-sensitive and helps regulate body temperature and skin coloration-two basic survival functions related to environmental light.
-- Rick Strassman

#Eye #Animal #Light
The resemblance of ... the alien abduction of 'experiencers' to the contracts described by our own volunteers is undeniable. How can anyone doubt, after reading our accounts... that DMT elicits 'typical' alien encounters?
-- Rick Strassman

#Reading #Dmt #Volunteer
The history of human use of plants, mushrooms, and animals for their psychedelic effects is far older than written history, and probably predates the appearance of the modern human species.
-- Rick Strassman

#Animal #Mushrooms #Use
Many of us would never have tried psychedelics if it weren't for Leary's popularizing them.
-- Rick Strassman

#Ifs

The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.
To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.
True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.
USA TODAY hopes to serve as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make the USA truly one nation.
The reason is that Chile is the brightest spot in Latin America. It has very fast growth, low unemployment. It privatized its Social Security system, which we in USA were unable to do.
I don't think we [the USA] need more troops. I think we need to be less worried about civilian casualties.
Even Obama's staunchest supporters are starting to leave him. Last week Michelle Obama demanded to see a copy of his birth certificate.
Many people leave the country to see beautiful places. I just look out the window and see some of the most gorgeous scenery ever, right here in the USA.
Politics in this country [USA] is always tough. It's always contentious, because this is a big country and a diverse country, and people have strong points of view, and we've got a great diversity of interests.
When our individual life force enters our fetal body, the moment in which we become truly human, it passes through the pineal and triggers the first primordial flood of DMT. Later, at birth, the pineal releases more DMT. As we die, the life-force leaves the body through the pineal gland, releasing another flood of this psychedelic spirit molecule.

Rick Strassman famous quotes

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