Nothing new here
After reading Strassman's DMT The Spirit Molecule I was very excited for this book to come out. I expected him to go deeper into his theories about what it means for humans to naturally produce DMT in our brains, among phenomenons possibly related to the chemical, but instead he only reiterated what was in his previous publication. It seemed like the entire book was a sophmoric introduction to the psychedelic experience rather than a progression of new ideas in reference to the experience. The one chapter that had anything to say about psilocybe mushrooms simply copy and pasted reports from the popular drug information site Erowid. I was looking for insight and new possibilities, not trip reports and introductions to already well known entheogens. I felt led on by this book and was incredibly disappointed at the entire lack of any new material whatsoever. Unfortunately, the only positive comment I can give about this book is that it contained some fascinating artwork, but it seems necessary to note that was not the main purpose of this book at all. All in all, if you're new to the psychedelic scene entirely, this is a good introduction, but for most this volume will provide no more than a sense of regret at wasting your money on it. If you really feel the need to get this, I suggest flipping through it in a bookstore first before commiting to it because otherwise you will almost surely be disappointed.

Glory to Drugs
I think this book should have been printed in the sixties. Drugs and the paranormal just don't mix.. what is real what is not? Unless your an old hippe from that time I think this book should be over looked.

Well written and thought-provoking
Halfway through the book and continue to get more fascinated with the content. Truly a paradigm-shifting concept.

Far Out
Loved the Anunnaki and Sumerian comparative to Hebrew, and contemporary myth.
It would seem that the human race may be monitored, and manipulated by a race of extraterrestrial, or interdimentional beings who have been controlling things since the dawn of man, or longer.
If you visit inner space you'll enjoy and learn from this book

...And I Think My Spaceship Knows Which Way To Go
"This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today

For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do

Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles
I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go..."

-David Bowie, "Space Oddity"

I remember hearing this song on some mushrooms. All of the sudden I got a glimpse of something that was golden, bright, pure...I had a realization that this thing I called "me"...this body and everything in it was all
MADE UP. It was/is/and will always be complete and total BS...you can read that as, Belief Systems. But the Real Me was changeless, forever, eternal.

This book blows my mind. And that's good. Minds are for the soul purpose of being blown. I mean, if you're not thinking of at least temn impossible things before breakfast, you're just kind of existing. But the purpose of life is to be shaken, stirred, and moved and this book will definitely move you. It confirms a lot of the experiences I had during my psychedelic phase and yet made me even clearer on why I stopped.

I stopped experimenting with psychedelics after hearing a rather brilliant quote from Alan Watts. I'm paraphrasing, but he basically said, "When a scientist sees something through a microscope, he immediately goes to work on what was seen. He doesn't keep his eye glued to the microscope. So, if you have a vision on psychedelics, go to work on that vision...don't keep trying to have another one..."

And that really woke me up. I was given visions that to this day still delight me just by thinking about them. I am grateful for my experiences and my inner excursions. The final frontier is not space, but mind. We all need to be psychonauts and explore the interior realms. We are all so much. This book made me laugh, smile, and think. Some of it was a little crazy, but some of it was truly moving.

"Once in awhile you get shown the light,
In the strangest of places if you look for it right."

-the Grateful Dead, "Scarlett Begonias"


Look for the Light within yourself. You'll be amazed at what you'll find.

"Hold your breath
Make a wish
Count to three


Come with me
And you'll be
In a world of
Pure imagination
Take a look
And you'll see
Into your imagination

We'll begin
With a spin
Traveling in
The world of my creation
What we'll see
Will defy
Explanation

If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Wanta change the world?
There's nothing
To it

There is no
Life I know
To compare with
Pure imagination
Living there
You'll be free
If you truly wish to be

If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Wanta change the world?
There's nothing
To it

There is no
Life I know
To compare with
Pure imagination
Living there
You'll be free
If you truly
Wish to be..."

-Willy Wonka, "Pure Imagination"


:)


Your life is whatever you can imagine it to be.

Peace & Blessings,
john, 'the Light Coach'