Well, Dr. Strassman's study involved injecting doses of DMT into volunteers and relying on their own accounts of the experiences they had to draw conclusions about the effect of the drug. Now, this method itself seems to me to require a lot of scepticism. There are many hallucinatory drugs that can induce strong visions such as are found in magic mushrooms, acid and even in marijuana but you will be hard pressed to find anybody that will seriously argue that unicorns exist just because they saw unicorns on an acid trip.
The part that leans towards the evidence of DMT tuning our brains towards another universe's frequency and actually glimpsing another realm during the so-called 'trip' (and the part that convinced Dr. Strassman as well) was the fact that as they returned to a new trip, the beings from the previous one were actually waiting in anticipation for their return.
However, I agree with you that this is fascinating. Perhaps a better way of looking at it than just arguing for a "seperate realm of existence" to which we have opened a trap door by injecting ourselves with DMT it would be better to understand what this means about this one reality we do know about.
This merely reflects the difference in opinion when observing facts between a believer and an atheist.
Clearly, and some of Strassman's patients experienced this, there have been great bouts of euphoria on the drug, mystical experiences even of union with god and at the same time there have been horrendous experiences where people have literally felt themselves to be raped by crocodiles (I am not joking). Every single one of his patients felt their trip to be without a doubt reality, they did not think it was anything like a dream state. After all, you are right that DMT is present in our minds but it is the drug most associated with dreaming and yet in this case the trip felt nothing like a dream.
Sometimes dreams can come close to those feelings, and I suspect it has to do with how high a person's DMT is during REM sleep.
Perhaps there is more to this than just an hallucination.
"Hallucination" is clearly aterm and accompanying meaning equal to past "learned men" saying that the earth was flat.
However, my dear friend, none of this whatsoever establishes a link between DMT and Islam. Perhaps you can explain that better?
Well, I can see why you wouldn't see the link if you don't think that the facts of the study lean towards the idea that the DMT 'tripping' brain is actually seeing into different other-realms. But can you see the link if you do attempt to see it from that point of view?
Topic: Rick Strassman on DMT