Understanding DMT Entities, Elves and other Hallucinations

Humphrey Osmond

Romancing Chaos

The word Psychedelic was coined by LSD enthusiast Humpfrey Osmond in and effort to change the perception of LSD from a deliriant that induced schizophrenia, to a drug that had medical potential.  

The term "psychedelic" is derived from the Ancient Greek words psychē (ψυχή, "soul") and dēloun (δηλοῦν, "to make visible, to reveal"),translating to "mind-manifesting". wiki

 

"It was on this term that Osmond eventually settled, because it was "clear, euphonious and uncontaminated by other associations."This mongrel spelling of the word 'psychedelic' was loathed by American ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, but championed by Timothy Leary, who thought it sounded better. Due to the expanded use of the term "psychedelic" in pop culture and a perceived incorrect verbal formulation, Carl A.P. Ruck, Jeremy Bigwood, Danny Staples, Jonathan Ott, and R. Gordon Wasson proposed the term "entheogen" to describe the religious or spiritual experience produced by such substances." From Wikipedia:

The irony is that an insurance salesman and a bunch of humanities teachers don't realize that the 60's music scene recreated the Ancient Mystery religions, and the negative associations can't be eradicated by changing the name evidenced by the Leary crowd.Thinks about this: we go from a medical term, Psychotomimetic, meaning inducing psychosis, to Psychedelic, meaning mind manifesting, to Entheogen, meaning the religious or spiritual experience produced by the plant substances.  And this occurred in the span of about 25 years.

  

The gatekeeping researchers think that you can change a name and you change what it is, but a rose by another name is still a rose.  Psychedelic drugs are dangerous, but can have amazing results for us.  Romanticizing the experience through language is negligent and the equivalent to false advertising by snake oil salesmen. One such huckster everyone loves was Terrance McKenna.

St. Terrance McKenna

In high school (c. 1985-89), I read Carlos Castaneda and William Burroughs, so when I came across McKenna, I found nothing original in his work. I found his work a regurgitation of both Castaneda and Burroughs. Furthermore, rather than demystify the drugs through his experiences, he choose to continue the mystique by describing his experiences as True Hallucinations. A land of elves and fairies with gifts to give us, if we only reach out to them;"the gnomes have found a new way to say hooray".  So taking drugs allows you to "see" a world of imaginary creatures?  To see aliens?  Devils or Angels? Maybe.

Maybe its neuroplasticiy at work? Maybe the molecules in the psychoactive drugs are just realigning your brain's sensory perceptions and linguistic model of the world?  Maybe, all the hallucinations are part of an epigenetic process where your body is going through a genetic change?  Maybe that includes scanning your junk DNA for genetic code?  Maybe that junk DNA has memories of your families history going back to a single cell organism? Maybe your life as a sperm? Or egg? Maybe even the memory of your birth?

Alien Abduction

Being born is one of the most traumatic experiences a person goes through, and you may even have a memory of it.  Most of us are familiar with the Alien abduction scene in a movie. A helpless person is dragged under an bright light by green beings who then perform experiments on them.  

Seems to me like a vague memory of being born in a western style hospital.  A baby pops out of the birth canal, high on many hormones, including DMT. Their eyes cannot yet focus, but they see a green being- think the grey/green color of scrubs worn by doctors.  They also wear eye protection as well. So I assume to a newborns unfocused eyes a doctor in a surgery outfit would look like an alien. Furthermore, the baby is put through a series of tests or experiments. And if you're a boy, you get the tip of your dick cut off.  

Imprinting- the blank slate, brain as printing press

So, imagine you have a flashback to your birth? Wouldn't you describe it as an alien abduction?  And this brings up the notion imprinting.  What ever language it is that someone exposes you to is the language you are going to use.  What I'm getting at is, if you read Terrance McKenna, you might might describe your psychedelic trip to a wonderland of elves and gnomes.  

I did drugs before I read any of these people. And I did them out of boredom, at first.  My friends and I would take some LSD and just go do something - like go to the beach or downtown LA at 2AM.  We would just trip.  We never saw elves or fairies or aliens.  It was just trippy- more like mind melting. 

I liked the experience so much that I wanted to learn more.  Information was hard to come by back then and you could find books at places like Tower Records, and used bookstores   My best luck would be at thrift stores.  Carlos Castaneda's books were there, found the Doors of Perception, and I would even find a paperback on LSD.  But the most influential book was the Danny Sugarman biography of Jim Morrison, No one Here get out alive.  After reading that and listening to the Doors, I stated to think of Breaking on through to the other side.  Or thinking of becoming the consciousness of a fly after reading Castenada's The Teachings of Don Juan. 

Acid is used to clean printing presses  

Now, that brings me to the concept of LSD being called acid.  Albert Hoffman named his ergot extract, Lysergic acid after the legendary Lycurgus, the Spartan law giver- the father of Ancient Greek laws.  So what Hoffman was saying with his name was -- LSD could dissolve laws. Oh, and Lycurgus made his citizens take an oath not to change the laws until he returned from a mission- he never returned.  Acid is also used to clean printing press plates.  So Hoffman knew that his drug was inducing some sort of breakdown of the the brain's imprinting. And he would know this a a chemist, or an alchemist, the terms are inscribed on the Alchemical symbol of Baphomet,  Dissolve; coagulate. THEY have  known for millennia  that these drugs break down a person's concept of reality, change it, then form a new Reality. 

Psychoactive substances induce neuroplasticity

I know as teacher that it gets more difficult to learn as we get older because our  brains become hard wired.  Around the age of 25, our brains' sort of stop developing.  Your prefrontal cortex starts to engage more, but you start becoming set in your ways- its hard to change and learn new things, (especially as the planning part takes over.) And this is where psychedelics can really beneficial because it's really the probably the only way to induce change in brain short of near death experience. 

Here's the thing.  We know now almost everything these molecules do to our brain, and how they alter our chemistry.  We know exactly what is going on from MRI/s, brains scans, blood tests, experiments on rats, so why would we continue to use such vague, misleading language to describe the effects these drugs? And if we change the language associated with these descriptions to include the negative, and neuroplastic, and epigenetic effects, then maybe we can use the substances more effectively as a society. 

Neurogenesis at the very least

One of the most interesting things psilocybin mushrooms have been proven to do is induce neurogenesis. They literally cause the growth of new neurons in our brains.  So instead of describing these experiences as divine or seeing aliens, maybe we can think of these molecules as inducing neuroplasticity, epigenetic changes, and neurogenesis, and maybe being conscious of the experience is all you are experiencing.  

So before you go looking for aliens or elves, just know that these are mostly hobgoblins of the mind. Maybe there are invisible creatures we can see while under the influence, I just haven't had any of those experiences myself, and neither have my close friends.  But we've all experienced telepathy, deja vu, and synesthesia-like experiences.  I think if you approach these drugs in more scientific way you can avoid becoming insane looking for god, or elves, and instead just find yourself. 

Think about it and let me know what you think?

 

A Truth About Deja vu and Reincarnation

Deja Vu 

Many of us have had the feeling that we have been here before and we use the French phrase Deja Vu, literally "already seen" to describe these moments.  For me, it literally feels like I have been here before, and been doing what I am doing in the moment, as if I dreamt it first.  However, there is another kind of feeling that has come over me while under the influence of psychedelic mushrooms, an understanding that I have actually been here before, not a feeling, but more like a distant memory.  

General George Patton

During WW2, General Patton had many such premonitions where he remember himself taking part in many ancient battles.  He wrote a poem about it called "Through a Glass Darkly". Here are a few stanzas :

Through the travail of the ages,
Midst the pomp and toil of war,
I have fought and strove and perished
Countless times upon this star.

In the form of many people
In all panoplies of time
Have I seen the luring vision
Of the Victory Maid, sublime.

I have battled for fresh mammoth,
I have warred for pastures new,
I have listened to the whispers

When the race trek instinct grew.

His beliefs were even portrayed in the movie Patton, and can be seen here:

Reincarnation

The simple truth is, you weren't so much as born again, you have never really died in the first place.

While it may be easy to dismiss the concept of reincarnation, I think the truth is more scientific, and the fact is we all had past lives, and those memories are stored in our DNA.  Our brain's make memories, they record stimulus and response into a unit of information.  I believe that information is stored in the DNA. 

We use our brains to make and access memories, but Im not sure the memories are actually stored in our brains.  I believe that experiences get translated into a response/stimulus code, think of instincts.  We are born with behavior programmed into us,  and these are the ancestor memories, their experiences woven into our genetic code as behavior, and sometimes we actually can remember the experiences of our ancestors as real memories. Furthermore, I'm inclined to believe these memories can come from our experiences as a sperm and egg.  

Before you born you were a sperm and an egg.  Think about that for a minute.  Two distinct living cells that come together to make a new cell.  Each cells has its owner's DNA, and the new cell combines the DNA to make a new code, and part of this code are the memories of the parents, which become your instincts. While the other DNA code makes your physical body. But what about your experiences as a sperm and egg?  What sort of consciousness do they possess?  Can you have memories of those experiences?  I think so.

Under the experience of psychedelic drugs, many people hallucinate alien-like beings, weird insectoid creatures.  Other's claim to see UFOs, or fairies, or DMT entities. I've had some pretty weird experiences myself, but I never believed these hallucinations were real, but that my brain was under the influence of drugs. What I do believe is that these drugs stimulate epigenetic changes, and during the process the brain is able to access your ancestral memories in an effort to reconfigure the way your body reads your DNA.  

Epigenetics

Epigenetics is an emerging field of science that studies heritable changes caused by the activation and deactivation of genes without any change in the underlying DNA sequence of the organism. The word epigenetics is of Greek origin and literally means over and above (epi) the genome.  https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/Epigenetics 

                              

Scientists have discovered that your genes can change through environment, behavior, and even food like mushrooms.   That's right, mushrooms can induce epigenetic changes too.  In fact, mushrooms might induce epigenetic changes to fight cancer. From https://www.whatisepigenetics.com/magical-mushroom-fight-off-cancer-epigenetics/

In one of the first studies assessing the potential benefits of mushrooms against bladder cancer, these researchers found that the growth of human cancer cells was reduced from 60 to 90 percent and that histone deacetylase activity was significantly lost. The results were obtained by examining the effects of three distinct PL extracts on UCC cells in vitro.

HDACs are epigenetic enzymes that remove chemical groups, known as acetyl groups, from histone proteins. DNA wraps around these histones and the expression of our genes is changed depending on how loose or tight the structure is. Read more about chromatin remodeling and the impact it has on gene expression.

These mushroom extracts were able to induce a change in genes that resulted in the death of cancer cells.  So if mushrooms can change the way your genes interact and kill cancer, maybe the psychological changes that occur are also genetic?  I don't know, but I know you could perform experiments with psychoactive mushrooms and study the genetic changes that occur.  I think that there is a real possibility that we can sometimes access these ancient memories and its part of the evolutionary process.   

Part 2 will discuss the idea that DMT entities are just memories from your cellular past.  

An Etymology of Entheogen or Why I Came Up with Neurotron

Psychotomimetic

Mushrooms are considered a drug by modern society standards, often referred to as Entheogens. In the early 20 century, scientists described the effects of ,mushrooms as Psychotomimetic, which means “actions mimics the symptoms of psychosis, including delusions and/or delirium, as opposed to only hallucinations” (wikipedia). However this word was loaded with negative connotations and seen as obstacle to those who wanted to popularize their use. One such person was Aldus Huxley, British secret agent, and Fabian Society member.

CONSPIRACY TO DESTROY AMERICA BY BRITISH AGENTS.

Huxley was part of a conspiracy to undermine America thru a secret culture war that involved importing radicals from Germany into Hollywood ,and popularizing drugs with American youth in an effort to radicalized and socialize America. The man who popularized mescaline and LSD could not people excited about using a drug that made you psychotic. What if they changed the word psychotomimetic into something more positive? Something with a little sales pitch behind it.

Huxley arrived at the word Psychedelic coined by another British agent, Humfrey Osmond. “The term psychedelic, from the Greek for “mind-manifesting”, was coined by Humphry Osmond, a British psychiatrist working in Canada in the 1950s. “To fathom hell or soar angelic / Just take a pinch of psychedelic,” he wrote in a letter to the writer Aldous Huxley. Osmond had introduced Huxley to mescaline, and Huxley went on to write The Doors of Perception about his psychedelic experience.”

Now armed with the word psychedelic, these two went about introducing LSD to many pop culture figures in the late 50’s. With in ten years they had transformed American culture and created a new movement of drugged out hippies, which also destroyed the anti-war movement. This movement culminated in the Manson Family killing Sharon Tate and friends.

PSYCHEDELIC RESURRECTED AS ENTHEOGEN

If you looked at what Huxley did as an experiment, then he proved that psychotomimetic was actually the proper word for describing the effects of these substances. The conspirators never at rest decided make another go at it. 

Most recently, there has been a movement in nonscientific circles to recognize the ability of these substances to provoke mystical experiences and evoke feelings of spiritual significance. Thus, the term entheogen, derived from the Greek word entheos, which means "god within", was introduced by Ruck et al. and has seen increasing use. This term suggests that these substances reveal or allow a connection to the "divine within". Although it seems unlikely that this name will ever be accepted in formal scientific circles, its use has dramatically increased in the popular media and on internet sites. Indeed, in much of the counterculture that uses these substances, entheogen has replaced psychedelic as the name of choice and we may expect to see this trend continue. (wikipedia)

Neurotron Vs. Entheogen 

Non-scientists should be the key word here. Instead of being more scientific and looking at what these molecules do to our brains, they went back to the more occult and obscure language of religion. “The god within, experiencing the divine”. What the fuck does that even mean? You can observe what is happening in a person using blood tests, neuro imaging, brain scans, neurotransmitters levels, but no. Let’s use non scientific language and be vague. Maybe they primitives thought they were experiencing the divine, but maybe its just a chemical experience that breaks down your neural net, your cognitive map of the world, the simulation of Reality composed of language, and re-organizes it?

So my attitude is lets use a new word that is scientific, and has some poetic cache. Entheogen is about the ugliest word that could come out of my mouth. I personally almost never use it and only do to appeal to those who’ve already been imprinted with it as the correct, or trendy word to use. The word that I propose is Neurotron. I have come to the conclusion though experience and research that psychoactive drugs disrupts the brains neural network, reorganizing it, and resets it. In short, they induce neuroplasticity.

Neuro - Greek for nerves, nervous system  

tron - Ancient Greek for tool, plow-

Neurotron A tool for plowing your neural net, or a tool for reweaving your neural network

techne - neverous system/ tech - a skill, craft, art

Neurotechtroics is the is the skill of reweaving or rewiring your neural network using Neurotrons.

I don’t know what it means to be divine or to have God speak to me, but I now what it feels like to eat mushrooms. I know that my nervous system is distorted and information taken in by my senses is all mixed up. To call that experience divine or whatever is unscientific as fuck and only keeps people thinking religion has something to offer. And it does, mind control. Occult, mysticism creates illusion which can then only be explained by the people who created it- a racket indeed.

Neurotrons and neortechtronics also sound cool. Just say them. Neuro tron, Nero tech tronics. Way better then the cacophony that is entheogen.

C’mon people it’s the 21 century, let’s start sounding like we live there!

Feel Good,

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What is Skydas?

Skydas is the Lithuanian word for shield. My ancestors were Lithuanian Dukes and I have incorporated the Lithuanian language into my philosophy for the similar reasons scientists used Greek and Latin, and also because of its uniqueness. For example, I use the word Kulgrinda to refer to the epigenetic process that might be stimulated by psychedelic drugs changing the way your body reads its DNA. code Its original meaning was all about trials to villages being hidden under streams. And so I felt like mushrooms might actually help us discover the hidden paths in our minds that lead back to our safe village—metaphorically.

So all these Ideas I have, I want to use in defensive way to protect our consciousness and keep our psyche free from mental illness. I feel like religion has always been a racket and will only confuse people with mysticism. This unclear languages gives all power to the priestly class, who quite frankly have nothing to offer me anymore but the continuation of racketeering. Science is no different to me. Look at the phamaicutical industry and then look into the placebo effect — another scam. I dont trust any of these institutions and I never really have. Trust is earned and these institutions have done nothing but erode my trust. Which is why I am creating Skydas.

There are no memberships or joining- we represent a collective of sorts, a collection of ideas which represent a kind of philosophy of protection. One idea involves the use of mushrooms and other psychoactive drugs to stimulate change to the neural network. In my experience all religions have some form of ritualistic plant use to accomplish this but they don’t tell you , and in fact keep promoting ridiculous ideas like the Buddha and Jesus were real people. Once they get you to believe these ideas, they can manipulate you thru guilt and fear, and then change your behavior for their agenda, not yours.

For example, why did Jesus say eat my body and drink my blood? You can do all the mental gymnastics around that you want, but when you understand that Jesus was mushroom, then it become clear. You eat the body of the mushroom and experience the Kingdom of Heaven, or what St. John called the Logos. You become Jesus, the truth, the living embodiment of a god, the “I AM”. Or does it make more sense that 1,000s of years ago some guy did all these amazing miraculous things that only a mushroom could do?

Anyway thats the deal with Skydas….

How Amanita mushrooms can cure depression

Depression and anxiety disorders caused by low GABA and conditioned fears, amounting to learned helplessness. 

Muscimol works as an agonist for our GABA receptors in our nervous system.  

Muscimol has been used to extinguish conditioned fears in mice.

Mushrooms can break the conditioning! 

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