#149 - Meet The Father Of Modern DMT Research

🧠 JOIN THE GIANT'S SHOULDER FAMILY Become a YouTube Member for exclusive episodes, early access + ad-free viewing: https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder/join Rick 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… SPONSORS Get Jenni Your Intelligent Research Assistant (GIANT20 for 20% off) - http://jenni.ai/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=inf&utm_campaign=thegiantsshoulder Join the Outskill AI Mastery Sprint (Free This Weekend) - https://links.outskill.com/GIASHOULAUG2 GS EPISODES MENTIONED Steven Barker - Meet The World's Greatest Endogenous DMT Psychedelic Scientist You've Never Heard Of: https://youtu.be/gTc5QjyZuvY David Luke - Meet the Professor of Paranormal Consciousness - DMT Entities, Telepathy Tapes & OBE's: https://youtu.be/qLKD1gt1X5o Deborah Mash - Meet The Ibogaine Psychedelic Scientist Who First Unravelled Its Big Mystery: https://youtu.be/z7eRtXV6ptA Robin Carhart-Harris - No. 1 Psychedelic Scientist: The Entropic Brain Hypothesis, Consciousness & DMT Entities: https://youtu.be/t-GkE4YtLRk Andrew Gallimore - No.1 DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worlds, DMT Entity Encounters, Attractor States and Consciousness: https://youtu.be/USgWrxEFWDA GUEST LINKS Official Site: https://www.rickstrassman.com/ Books & Publications: https://www.rickstrassman.com/publications/ Substack: https://rickstrassman.substack.com/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/RickStrassman Biosynthesis and Extracellular Concentrations of DMT in Mammalian Brain (Dean et al., Scientific Reports 2019): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-45812-w TIMESTAMPS 0:00:00 Trailer 0:04:31 The First Legal DMT Studies in a Generation 0:07:41 The Bomb-Maker Who Became a Psychedelic Scientist 0:14:13 The Iron Curtain Reason We Know DMT Works 0:22:32 Why Your Brain Spends Energy Importing DMT 0:28:26 Your Brain Makes DMT at Serotonin Levels 0:29:26 DMT Floods the Dying Brain's Visual Cortex 0:30:28 Stroke, Kidneys and Heart — DMT as a Survival Molecule 0:32:39 The $64,000 Question Nobody Can Answer 0:36:33 Does DMT Regulate How Real Reality Feels? 0:39:32 Only One Person on Earth Studies This 0:43:52 The Endomatrix and the Simulation Question 0:49:48 "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 Logic 1:05:42 Talking to Entities Is Like Talking to an AI 1:06:40 The Prime Number Test for Proving Entities Are Real 1:13:36 Half His Volunteers Met Beings — And a Conscious Apartment 1:18:08 "Your Brain On Drugs" vs Another Dimension 1:26:58 The Entities That Curse You 1:29:09 "Have You Started Yet?" — The Man Immune to DMT 1:33:30 Why DMT Is the Only Psychedelic Without Tolerance 1:36:12 Blocking 5-HT1A Tripled the Effect — Buried 30 Years 1:39:06 Aphantasia and Seeing For the First Time .....Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com