Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - 470 Joe Rogan Experience Review of Rick Strassman
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                                        This is the story of DMT, or dimethylethyptamine,
                                         
                                        a molecule with a complex name and the simplest ability to unlock the door to another dimension.
                                         
    
                                        DMT, the spirit and molecule, you know, it's a conundrum, it's a paradox.
                                         
                                        It's amazing that we have a molecule in our brain and throughout our body that is the most potent hallucin that we know.
                                         
                                        Why is DMT in our bodies? Why is it in plants and all sorts of mammals?
                                         
                                        What is the role of plays in humans?
                                         
                                        Between the inhalation and the exhalation, they were then transported into, you know, whatever it is.
                                         
                                        know, whatever it is, or wherever it is, that DMT leads people.
                                         
                                        I would have expected that I would see angels and fairies and not alien life forms.
                                         
                                        Are these experiences, spiritual experiences, or otherwise, are they created by physiological
                                         
    
                                        processes, or is the brain itself responding to something that's going on?
                                         
                                        Hey guys, and welcome to another episode of the JRE review.
                                         
                                        This week, I am joined by Peter.
                                         
                                        How are you, sir?
                                         
                                        Howdy? Doing pretty good. How are you doing?
                                         
                                        It's good to have you here. I'm doing fantastic. I really am. Very excited that. Rick Strassman is back on.
                                         
                                        Now, you and I both went to the University of New Mexico, also lived in New Mexico.
                                         
                                        Great university. Quality institution. Very nice.
                                         
    
                                        And a good medical school, too.
                                         
                                        Research hospital. UNMH. They do good stuff over there.
                                         
                                        It's underrated. People don't realize how good the schools are there.
                                         
                                        So, yes, Dr. Rick Strassman, medical doctor, clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.
                                         
                                        He's basically the pioneer in psychedelic research, best known for leading the first FDA-approved human studies on DMT in the 90s.
                                         
                                        Crazy.
                                         
                                        And then, author of the spirit molecule.
                                         
                                        Dang.
                                         
    
                                        Yeah, it's kind of amazing that he got permission.
                                         
                                        to work with that.
                                         
                                        I think there was a combination of things.
                                         
                                        I mean, one, he said that he was trying to prove that it was bad,
                                         
                                        which is something that the government's anti-drug policy would be all about.
                                         
                                        And I don't think people knew a lot about what DMT was.
                                         
                                        He stuck it in the back door kind of thing.
                                         
                                        They were kind of focusing on other drugs that they, you know, they thought were worse.
                                         
    
                                        They're like, oh, this is just a whatever thing.
                                         
                                        Hi, he didn't, he didn't, I don't think he hit them directly with, this is the most powerful psychedelic ever created and you see aliens.
                                         
                                        You might see God and become a better person.
                                         
                                        Maybe, maybe.
                                         
                                        Yeah, and now he has a new book.
                                         
                                        So he has a new book coming out, a bit of a deep dive into his memoirs.
                                         
                                        My Altered States, a doctor's extraordinary account of trauma.
                                         
                                        psychedelics, and spiritual growth.
                                         
    
                                        I'd like to check it out.
                                         
                                        You know, I find that stuff very interesting.
                                         
                                        And, you know, it kind of, he said it spans, like, trauma, consciousness, reality.
                                         
                                        Kind of, there's like a biblical mysticism element that he was kind of bringing in.
                                         
                                        I guess he's been studying the Hebrew Bible or something.
                                         
                                        Yeah, he learned ancient Hebrew.
                                         
                                        He can't speak the modern kind, but he can speak the ancient one.
                                         
                                        Wow.
                                         
    
                                        It's crazy.
                                         
                                        That's massively nerdy.
                                         
                                        Dedication to your craft.
                                         
                                        Yeah, what did he say?
                                         
                                        It took him 16 years to do that.
                                         
                                        16 years.
                                         
                                        Is it the same as the, like, no one speaks it?
                                         
                                        No.
                                         
    
                                        Only like Jewish priests.
                                         
                                        Yeah, nobody speaks it.
                                         
                                        You can't understand it if you speak modern Hebrew.
                                         
                                        Okay.
                                         
                                        There is a period of time when they revamped that whole language,
                                         
                                        adding consonants.
                                         
                                        There was only, or adding vowels, there was only consonants, I think.
                                         
                                        Hmm. That's interesting.
                                         
    
                                        Same thing happened with Arabic.
                                         
                                        Yeah. Well, you know, I mean, the English language, a thousand years ago, like the Beowulf poems or whatever they're called, you like can't understand what that is.
                                         
                                        It's like the language changed too much. You probably couldn't understand anyone until like about Shakespeare's time.
                                         
                                        Probably.
                                         
                                        They were too drunk on Scrumpy.
                                         
                                        Yeah. They were just fighting each other.
                                         
                                        No teeth.
                                         
                                        Surviving the plague.
                                         
    
                                        So it was a tough time out there.
                                         
                                        Hard times.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        So trauma and psychedelic therapy.
                                         
                                        So, you know, that's a big point of conversation these days.
                                         
                                        And especially in the world of therapy.
                                         
                                        I know some people that are trained or getting trained to be able to administer.
                                         
                                        Well, they don't technically administer the psychedelic, usually have someone else do that.
                                         
    
                                        and then, you know, the therapist will kind of guru you through the experience,
                                         
                                        kind of integrate it and process things with, you know, help you process things.
                                         
                                        And, you know, they're finding, especially with like psilocybin, ketamine, MDMA.
                                         
                                        They're finding fantastic results for people with addiction, depression, PTSD, major traumas.
                                         
                                        I do the ketamine one.
                                         
                                        That sounds interesting.
                                         
                                        Sounds interesting, yeah.
                                         
                                        It's relatively safe.
                                         
    
                                        Mm-hmm. And I think it does highlight something quite impulsive,
                                         
                                        which is like the limitations of talk therapy.
                                         
                                        And, you know, they exist.
                                         
                                        People are bound by their egos and their habits and their knee-jerk responses.
                                         
                                        Maybe that stuff can knock them out of it and get them into a deeper realm.
                                         
                                        Yeah, exactly.
                                         
                                        I think what the psychedelics are doing is, like,
                                         
                                        your ego and making the emotions you feel and whatever is troubling you, like, you can't
                                         
    
                                        hide from it in any way. You can't put up walls. You can't be in denial. Like, it's right
                                         
                                        in front of you, staring, reflecting right back into your consciousness. And, you know, in talk
                                         
                                        therapy, you can sit there and say all the right things to the therapist and become like
                                         
                                        agreeable or start working in the direction of like wanting to please them and these are all things
                                         
                                        that a good therapist should watch out for and should be cautious of and you know many of them are
                                         
                                        but many of them just take the paycheck and say see you next week so um you know you get people in
                                         
                                        therapy forever sometimes right where there seems to there might be more of a cure with the
                                         
                                        psychedelic stuff, is what you're saying?
                                         
    
                                        Sure, I think there's a path potentially for some people.
                                         
                                        You know, it's like if you're open to it.
                                         
                                        But the way you get there is research, and that's exactly what Strassman kind of started
                                         
                                        in his way with DMT.
                                         
                                        I don't necessarily know what the therapeutic advantage of DMT is.
                                         
                                        I think, you know, because they will go to this particular realm, they see these entities.
                                         
                                        entities. I think it just puts existence into a different type of perspective.
                                         
                                        You're like, maybe, maybe this shit that we deal with here in this plane is just not as important as we think, which probably would take a lot of pressure off us.
                                         
    
                                        I would love that to be true.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        It's ubiquitous, too, that the DMT molecules are across the whole planet in different plants.
                                         
                                        Yeah, they're in us.
                                         
                                        And they're in us.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        Which, does that mean we make them?
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
    
                                        We make them.
                                         
                                        We make them then.
                                         
                                        We're making them with our bodies somehow.
                                         
                                        There we go.
                                         
                                        In our stomachs?
                                         
                                        Probably.
                                         
                                        Yeah, probably down there.
                                         
                                        Down there?
                                         
    
                                        I would imagine.
                                         
                                        Let's get strasping on this.
                                         
                                        Yeah, well, they were saying it's like pineal gland makes them.
                                         
                                        I think in rats, they found that the liver makes them.
                                         
                                        But I don't know if it's...
                                         
                                        That liver does a lot for us.
                                         
                                        Lots of stuff is making all kinds of things.
                                         
                                        days. But yeah, it's in there. It's natural. You know, it's not like LSD,
                                         
    
                                        lysurgic acid, which is very synthetic, and other compounds that are. So damage-wise,
                                         
                                        when it comes to physical damage, it's probably low, you know. It's like cannabinoids. They're also
                                         
                                        in our system. Right. You know. We all have cannabinoid receptors in our brains.
                                         
                                        Exactly. And the crows do. Is that right? Those stoners.
                                         
                                        Stupid stoner birds
                                         
                                        They smoke weed
                                         
                                        They do, they love it
                                         
                                        That's why they're always like
                                         
    
                                        Eating my food
                                         
                                        Yeah
                                         
                                        Just looking for Cheetos and Funions
                                         
                                        Shiny objects
                                         
                                        That's what they go for
                                         
                                        Yeah so I
                                         
                                        You know
                                         
                                        I think because it's like a part of us
                                         
    
                                        The only question is
                                         
                                        You know
                                         
                                        I guess doing anything too much
                                         
                                        Even if it doesn't kill you
                                         
                                        It would be a lot
                                         
                                        Sure if you did DMT every day
                                         
                                        You'd be pretty spaced out
                                         
                                        and massively disconnected from the reality here,
                                         
    
                                        which I'm sure would have its own negative consequences for your own mental health.
                                         
                                        Makes its own problems.
                                         
                                        Sure.
                                         
                                        But who knows?
                                         
                                        Maybe under the right therapeutic conditions, some guidance, you know,
                                         
                                        dip in and out once every six months.
                                         
                                        Who's to say?
                                         
                                        Would you do ayahuasca journey or would you go like more clinical if you were ever to try something like this?
                                         
    
                                        You know, when it comes to ayahuasca, I think it would be cool to go to like, where is it?
                                         
                                        Like Peru and do it with those shamans and forest down there?
                                         
                                        Yeah, I don't have to do it with a doctor necessarily.
                                         
                                        They're all running the mud.
                                         
                                        Yeah, I mean, look, when you're down there, you're not breaking the law.
                                         
                                        I mean, most of these compounds aren't legal.
                                         
                                        And they've done it for a long time.
                                         
                                        So they really know what they're doing.
                                         
    
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        Not to say the clinicians up here that are recently training or getting trained to administer
                                         
                                        of this stuff don't know what they're doing like i'm sure they do but they don't have like generational
                                         
                                        experience with it probably our buddy graham hancock is all about it oh yeah he loves it he's done like
                                         
                                        six or seven journeys down there deep dives yeah what a brave guy you know and i've known plenty of
                                         
                                        people i've actually interviewed somebody um for another podcast i have um where they talked in detail about their
                                         
                                        with ayahuasca.
                                         
                                        So they basically started it off with, I think, a really heavy night of mushrooms.
                                         
    
                                        Wow.
                                         
                                        And that was to kind of get you in the zone, I guess.
                                         
                                        I don't know.
                                         
                                        And then the next day there was like a fasting period and kind of integration of the night
                                         
                                        of mushrooms.
                                         
                                        And then the next night, so you have like a day off, and then the next night you do the
                                         
                                        do the ayahuasca and yeah while talking to i mean it sounded incredible like something that i can't
                                         
                                        even imagine very strange i was trying to draw you know like most people try to draw the connection
                                         
    
                                        between drugs right they're like is it like this one or is it like this but when you think about them
                                         
                                        i mean just take alcohol and marijuana that it's completely different oh yeah you can't really like
                                         
                                        be like well it's a bit like this one and that it's not they're all different they all take you to
                                         
                                        kind of a different spot. And that's what he was getting across to me when I was interviewing
                                         
                                        him about ayahuasca. Some of the visions were really interesting. That to me was like
                                         
                                        something that would be new. I hadn't done anything at that time that would have elicited that
                                         
                                        type of, you know, kind of very visceral hallucinations almost or visions. They say you definitely go
                                         
                                        somewhere it's like you're not in your realm anymore yeah or maybe maybe you just get access to
                                         
    
                                        other dimensions like layers on top of what we already see maybe these things are just existing
                                         
                                        around us and it just for a short blast gives you gives you a vision of it like supposedly he said
                                         
                                        what was one of the things that he said i think it was something like a spider he saw like a giant spider
                                         
                                        like just roaming past
                                         
                                        but it wasn't like scared of it
                                         
                                        often these things have messages
                                         
                                        for the individuals
                                         
                                        and all of that's very strange
                                         
    
                                        and of course it's a very long time
                                         
                                        like seven hours or something like that
                                         
                                        but he said you know there was like bongo music
                                         
                                        and people just kind of walking around
                                         
                                        in this like garden area
                                         
                                        just keeping you chill
                                         
                                        if you were like getting worried
                                         
                                        they'd like give you a blanket
                                         
    
                                        or usher you somewhere
                                         
                                        Just turn the bongo music up a little bit, please.
                                         
                                        That's it.
                                         
                                        If you could just turn the bongs up, that'd be solid.
                                         
                                        You know, but my question to this person was, and this is why I wanted to do the podcast with him, just to kind of record the experience, because you don't always get really good data or stories on this stuff, and especially not firsthand.
                                         
                                        And also, because it's kind of like a fleeting memory, I wanted to capture it before.
                                         
                                        even he forgot about it, clearly.
                                         
                                        Gotcha.
                                         
    
                                        So try and keep it as fresh as possible.
                                         
                                        And my question was like, what is the change?
                                         
                                        What's the integration?
                                         
                                        Because he was so sure immediately, he was like, oh, dude, this changes everything.
                                         
                                        I'm like a different person now.
                                         
                                        I've seen it all.
                                         
                                        I've done it.
                                         
                                        I've been there.
                                         
    
                                        I've gone through the wormhole.
                                         
                                        He's all wise now.
                                         
                                        I've experienced through my traumas and I went deep.
                                         
                                        And I'm like, I love all.
                                         
                                        that. And I love maybe even just feeling like that for a second because so many people feel so
                                         
                                        trapped in their own psyche and their own issues mentally that even just the belief for a
                                         
                                        short period of time that you've solved something might be enough for you to be a bit more
                                         
                                        positive. I really wanted to know, well, what were the changes? Are they long term? Did it really
                                         
    
                                        change your behaviors? Is there an understanding that you gain that is long term? Or is this
                                         
                                        just a very fleeting thing like holding a snowflake and then it just melts away and it's all
                                         
                                        gone and you're like oh there was a thing it was it was it cold i can't remember and no it was cold
                                         
                                        and round it's pretty cold wait a minute are you on DMT right now okay yeah i took some before
                                         
                                        the podcast good idea out of respect yes out of respect but but yeah the the real answer at the
                                         
                                        end of it was just like the jury's still out on this one for me because it seems like these people
                                         
                                        behave and act and work and do everything the same as they did before that so you're saying
                                         
                                        that maybe there's more of an illusion of a cure or a difference than there actually is yeah I don't
                                         
    
                                        know I mean maybe it's just so much more subtle and it was it's just like a slight adjustment but
                                         
                                        it's at least in the positive direction, but I don't know. I don't really know what the value
                                         
                                        of it is. Again, I haven't studied it. This is just kind of chatting with people and being
                                         
                                        interested. But at the same time, they definitely are, I know clinicians that use ketamine for
                                         
                                        therapy. They specialize in that. I've heard great stuff comes from those sessions. Yeah, they're seeing
                                         
                                        that it really helps people with their depression and alcoholism. Yep, addictions. The native
                                         
                                        American Church has used psychedelics peyote mushrooms for decades, at least, to treat addiction.
                                         
                                        Now, peyote is mesculine, right?
                                         
    
                                        Mesculine, which is a bit like mushrooms?
                                         
                                        I would have never done it.
                                         
                                        I'm sure it's between mushrooms and DMTs in a way.
                                         
                                        Okay.
                                         
                                        It has that more true.
                                         
                                        Some rattlesnake hallucinations?
                                         
                                        Yeah, more deserty vibes.
                                         
                                        Deserty vibes, cacti type stuff.
                                         
    
                                        Yeah, Jim Morrison.
                                         
                                        I believe it.
                                         
                                        He's putting that out there.
                                         
                                        Is that what he did a lot of?
                                         
                                        I think he did a lot of mesculine.
                                         
                                        Okay.
                                         
                                        He liked LSD too, I think.
                                         
                                        I could be wrong.
                                         
    
                                        Who knows?
                                         
                                        We giggle it.
                                         
                                        We giggle it.
                                         
                                        But yeah, you don't hear a lot about masculine these days.
                                         
                                        It's not too strong.
                                         
                                        It's not.
                                         
                                        If you just chew on a button, it doesn't really zoom you to the moon.
                                         
                                        Okay.
                                         
    
                                        Like DMT would.
                                         
                                        But don't they make some sort of drink that you?
                                         
                                        you take and then it's like concentrated and then also you feel really sick I think you do puke
                                         
                                        at some point you throw up I'd like to get into that a little bit hmm masculine seems same it
                                         
                                        just seems like cool one well I think that the you know like I was saying there are some
                                         
                                        therapeutic advantages you're potentially and I think they should be studied and explored and
                                         
                                        if there are values there for some people that are really stuck you know that has
                                         
                                        have tried everything they can with talk therapy but still feel terrible, can't, you know,
                                         
    
                                        kick the addiction or they're just stuck in this like negative cycle that's interfering with
                                         
                                        their life if there's a potential for helping those people. I think we have an obligation to find
                                         
                                        it. And it's research. We can always throw it out if it doesn't show any therapeutic benefits
                                         
                                        once we've like tested it with the scientific method
                                         
                                        then it's perfectly reasonable to say
                                         
                                        well no there's nothing there so keep it illegal
                                         
                                        and don't let it don't tell everyone not to abuse it
                                         
                                        or of course there's the other part of this
                                         
    
                                        where they do keep it illegal because it works so well
                                         
                                        and they don't make any money on it
                                         
                                        that's it
                                         
                                        uh yeah
                                         
                                        you know who they are can you just sell it like another product
                                         
                                        like just get a big peyote growing
                                         
                                        you know farm
                                         
                                        and then grind it into pills
                                         
    
                                        and then sell them like a supplement
                                         
                                        but with a prescription for way too much money
                                         
                                        and you make money that way, surely.
                                         
                                        Come on.
                                         
                                        Do you have to, have to, have to always have a pattern on it?
                                         
                                        I guess so.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        I guess so.
                                         
    
                                        Every plant, every medicine is from a plant anyway.
                                         
                                        That's true.
                                         
                                        We just have to get to the bottom of these ones.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        Do you think any medicines come from animals?
                                         
                                        Andrina chrome
                                         
                                        I heard
                                         
                                        I heard rhino bones
                                         
    
                                        Give you bonus
                                         
                                        Oh yeah
                                         
                                        Tiger
                                         
                                        Tiger
                                         
                                        Tiger blood
                                         
                                        Makes you Charlie Sheen
                                         
                                        Ah
                                         
                                        Winning
                                         
    
                                        I wonder if he's ever had
                                         
                                        Some DMT experiences
                                         
                                        No I think he was more
                                         
                                        Of a crack guy
                                         
                                        Crack
                                         
                                        Yeah
                                         
                                        He like getting real excited
                                         
                                        About stuff
                                         
    
                                        banging seven gram rocks because that's just how I roll.
                                         
                                        Bless them.
                                         
                                        In this part, they did a bit of a revisit to the spirit molecule,
                                         
                                        you know, just kind of a recap on his IV DMT blast,
                                         
                                        where he'd send these subjects into hyperspace.
                                         
                                        What he was saying is the IV quantities they were using were quite a lot.
                                         
                                        Because, again, well, they were kind of relying on him as the expert to say,
                                         
                                        what the dough should be, so they just kind of approved, I think, a range that he suggested
                                         
    
                                        or his team, which kind of gave him free reign. But now they know a lot more. They wouldn't
                                         
                                        let you go there. But I mean, DM, like, IV'd in. That's incredible. Yeah. I don't know how long
                                         
                                        those, I think they were like over an hour, though. These people were in there. In their states?
                                         
                                        In this space of just... So the DMT, not the...
                                         
                                        So the DMT is just a quick acting, right?
                                         
                                        And then the, what, the MOI inhibitor is what?
                                         
                                        They use in ayahuasca.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
    
                                        So even though it would be quick acting, if you have it IVed, it just isn't stopping.
                                         
                                        Gotcha.
                                         
                                        So it did, like, your body is very good at getting DMT out of its system or, like, break it down.
                                         
                                        So it's not affecting your mind, right?
                                         
                                        That's why your body can break it down all in five minutes and it's gone.
                                         
                                        When you wake up from a dream, it's gone.
                                         
                                        Right.
                                         
                                        But it turns out if you IV it into somebody, you can't.
                                         
    
                                        Your body is doing everything it can to stop it.
                                         
                                        And it's like, where's the rest of this coming from?
                                         
                                        Oh, no.
                                         
                                        And they just blasted through space.
                                         
                                        But, you know, the interesting thing about that, and I remember the documentary, it was cool.
                                         
                                        They had it on Netflix for a while.
                                         
                                        And Rogan actually narrates it, which is kind of cool.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
    
                                        It's a good documentary, dude.
                                         
                                        And, you know, a lot of the...
                                         
                                        it talks about kind of how Strassman really kind of freaked out and that's why he stopped
                                         
                                        doing the experiments because the subjects kept coming back over and over again with more and
                                         
                                        more um stories that were like lining up overlapping stories a bunch of them the types of things
                                         
                                        that shouldn't be able to line up and you know I don't know if I think
                                         
                                        I think he must have done the DMT before he did these studies,
                                         
                                        but obviously not in this kind of concentration.
                                         
    
                                        But I think it just did kind of freak him out.
                                         
                                        And then there's something that he actually brought up
                                         
                                        the last time he was on, Rogan,
                                         
                                        and it's about this kind of new finding,
                                         
                                        and I don't know who found it,
                                         
                                        but there's a laser experiment theory, I guess, is what it.
                                         
                                        I guess it's what it is, where it's like DMT might tune perception to the point of accessing this sort of universal field of information that's everywhere all the time.
                                         
                                        So the videos that I've seen of it, and obviously a lot's lost because it just basically looks like a really high person staring at a laser beam on a wall.
                                         
    
                                        So you're like, what?
                                         
                                        That looks ridiculous.
                                         
                                        But the idea is you get one of those, like a laser, you know, like a red part.
                                         
                                        pointer, whatever, and they have different types of lasers like that.
                                         
                                        And then you refract it somehow.
                                         
                                        So you put it through a prism or like a lens or a glass, you know, curved glass, something
                                         
                                        like that.
                                         
                                        And then it refracts on the wall.
                                         
    
                                        So it's like spread on the wall.
                                         
                                        You got your thin line.
                                         
                                        People administer DMT.
                                         
                                        And then they look into the laser and supposedly there's characters and letters and
                                         
                                        things just moving around like a code like actually seeing into the matrix like the matrix
                                         
                                        the matrix was so ahead of its time if it turns out you can DMT laser into the code of the
                                         
                                        universe like did those guys just guess it all maybe they have some insider knowledge i should actually
                                         
                                        now say those ladies those lovely ladies yes but i was talking in past tense of what they
                                         
    
                                        who they were then.
                                         
                                        The Winooski, Winninsky,
                                         
                                        Winninsky, sisters?
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        Something like that.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        Excellent movie.
                                         
                                        Excellent movie and an incredible story.
                                         
    
                                        I mean, it were just so many pieces of that.
                                         
                                        But yeah, what do you make of the laser experiment?
                                         
                                        I mean, can anyone make anything of it?
                                         
                                        It's like this code is it just...
                                         
                                        Tripping?
                                         
                                        People tripping.
                                         
                                        Right.
                                         
                                        You know, lasers have little parts about their...
                                         
    
                                        Like, when you put a laser on a wall, it's not just a dot.
                                         
                                        It's bubbling in there.
                                         
                                        It's like moving around.
                                         
                                        It's a bunch of photons.
                                         
                                        Is that what that is?
                                         
                                        From a very small spectrum of light.
                                         
                                        That's why they're just certain colors.
                                         
                                        It's like a dog fight going on outside.
                                         
    
                                        Yep.
                                         
                                        Dog attacks.
                                         
                                        Is this dog on DMT?
                                         
                                        Get him out of here.
                                         
                                        dogs this hippie.
                                         
                                        The smartest people that
                                         
                                        Rogan has Zon often
                                         
                                        say that they believe
                                         
    
                                        that we're in a simulation.
                                         
                                        Right.
                                         
                                        You know, but is that it?
                                         
                                        Is that it lining up?
                                         
                                        Could be.
                                         
                                        You know?
                                         
                                        The only annoying part about this whole thing
                                         
                                        is you can't record any of it.
                                         
    
                                        It's not like through your DMT lens
                                         
                                        you can take a picture of this code,
                                         
                                        you know, and so it's
                                         
                                        so it's just like a very,
                                         
                                        high person trying to remember it right and that always gets annoying yeah like i think i saw a fish
                                         
                                        and an upside down pee and uh squiggly line two dots i'm going to put my pen down it's not worth
                                         
                                        writing it's not it's just complete mess they just eat the page yep yeah that's kind of
                                         
                                        it's what makes it tricky about these experiences is there's just no way to record
                                         
    
                                        any of it. I mean, if someone could bring something back, almost the same as like from the dream
                                         
                                        world. It's like, I guess from the dream world, sometimes people have ideas that maybe could
                                         
                                        turn into inventions or businesses. Like, that could be real. And I've heard of a lucid dreamer
                                         
                                        in this book that I was reading once that he was a chemist. And he could lucid dream so effectively
                                         
                                        that he could write out equations on boards that he was working on, like chemical,
                                         
                                        biochemistry, that kind of thing.
                                         
                                        organic chemistry reactions and solve them and find the answers.
                                         
                                        So you could do work and leave and, you know.
                                         
    
                                        Double dipping.
                                         
                                        That is.
                                         
                                        That's super nerd.
                                         
                                        Well, you don't lose a dream of your work home with you.
                                         
                                        Right.
                                         
                                        Keep doing homework.
                                         
                                        But, you know, the question there is, it's like, are you able to bring anything back
                                         
                                        from, like, if there are entities in the DMT world, couldn't they?
                                         
    
                                        give you something
                                         
                                        to come back with?
                                         
                                        Maybe they just don't care.
                                         
                                        They impart feelings
                                         
                                        to people.
                                         
                                        Tickling.
                                         
                                        They give them a little scratch here and there.
                                         
                                        Uh-huh.
                                         
    
                                        Like a soul tickling,
                                         
                                        let's say,
                                         
                                        where they feel lighter
                                         
                                        or maybe more
                                         
                                        like heavier,
                                         
                                        like more responsibility.
                                         
                                        I think that there's,
                                         
                                        we have to be careful of quick solutions
                                         
    
                                        and driving towards
                                         
                                        seeking those.
                                         
                                        another big one is like the encounters with machine elves or aliens and many people talk about experiencing that
                                         
                                        machine elves yeah so they're just tiny little creatures that can make things i like that and they just
                                         
                                        kind of here you go check that out look at this what about this here you go just handing you all this
                                         
                                        just floats in front of your brain and you're like i can't i can't make sense of any of this right now interesting
                                         
                                        Yeah. It's sheen elves. Terrence McCannett talked about it a lot. He was machine elves.
                                         
                                        Get into that one. Yeah, not everyone sees him. One account I heard of, and it was just a YouTube video that interviews people that have done it, is there was this guy that said there was like this dancing alien female that was always kind of interacting with him. And they would like, was somehow kind of getting mad at him, like he'd cheated on it or something.
                                         
    
                                        That story kind of went in a direction.
                                         
                                        I was like, I don't think.
                                         
                                        Sounds erotic.
                                         
                                        But maybe that was just his experience with what he was seeing.
                                         
                                        And another thing that lines up, too, with the many videos I've seen it, it's like, if people do it too much,
                                         
                                        it kind of gets to a point where there's this energy where they're like, that's enough.
                                         
                                        You shouldn't be here anymore.
                                         
                                        Like for right now.
                                         
    
                                        Take it easy.
                                         
                                        Come back, but yeah.
                                         
                                        Hang out in the real world for a minute.
                                         
                                        Mm-hmm.
                                         
                                        You're going to lose your...
                                         
                                        You know, maybe they just see him like, material, like shaking into their universe.
                                         
                                        And it's like, no, no, no, no.
                                         
                                        You need to get back over there, dude.
                                         
    
                                        You go nuts.
                                         
                                        You got a job.
                                         
                                        You got a job to do.
                                         
                                        Those blockbuster movies can't hand themselves out.
                                         
                                        Not anymore.
                                         
                                        Not today.
                                         
                                        It's missed that place.
                                         
                                        They have one left, supposedly.
                                         
    
                                        It's like a Fairbanks, maybe.
                                         
                                        Is that in Canada?
                                         
                                        Alaska, right?
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        Alaska.
                                         
                                        Is it legit blockbuster, or was it just some nerd that bought a bunch of them and just kept the name?
                                         
                                        Probably legit.
                                         
                                        Huh.
                                         
    
                                        That's interesting.
                                         
                                        It is kind of a shame that you don't go to the movie store anymore.
                                         
                                        On the weekend as a kid, that was like the best thing to do.
                                         
                                        New releases, you're like, oh, God, I hope there's one there.
                                         
                                        Right.
                                         
                                        And then you check all those packets, they're all empty.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        And the shame when you were the ones to choose the movie and it sucked.
                                         
    
                                        Oh.
                                         
                                        Oh, that was rough.
                                         
                                        I was, I'm always getting the one about aliens or flying or something, 80s.
                                         
                                        Everyone's like, boo.
                                         
                                        I'm like, I liked it.
                                         
                                        Well, there's like it added pressure.
                                         
                                        When you're the guy that picked the movie and you're, like, hoping people will be into it the whole time you're like laughing extra.
                                         
                                        It wasn't that good?
                                         
    
                                        Oh, I'll get the popcorn.
                                         
                                        Everyone just looks bored.
                                         
                                        Like, damn it.
                                         
                                        Damn it.
                                         
                                        All right, let's finish this up with some of the biblical weirdness, I would say, book of Enoch.
                                         
                                        That's a good book.
                                         
                                        He got into it.
                                         
                                        He really dived into it.
                                         
    
                                        Rogan's done something similar, which is just kind of have AI, just tell them about it.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        So what do you know about the book of Enoch?
                                         
                                        Well, I know the two parts of the Bible, the old test or the New Testament, at some point,
                                         
                                        were, like, you know, canonized, and some books were excluded and some were added.
                                         
                                        And I, the book of Thomas, I believe, Mary Magdalene, the book of Enoch.
                                         
                                        There's a couple others.
                                         
                                        Jeff.
                                         
    
                                        Carl, the book of Carl.
                                         
                                        And I just read about the book of Enoch moments ago, and it was, it's like, it tells a story of the Nephilim being created, I think, where it was.
                                         
                                        That's the angels coming down, mating with humans, and then, like, causing chaos.
                                         
                                        Really?
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        Whoa.
                                         
                                        That's what they, Rogan talked about in this pod.
                                         
                                        Yeah, yeah, yeah.
                                         
    
                                        I really want to, I'm downloading the book, the book on Audible Book.
                                         
                                        I'm going to listen to it.
                                         
                                        Oh, so they've, like, translated and made it into a story that is just easier to digest than listening to someone breed the Bible.
                                         
                                        Exactly.
                                         
                                        I can listen to it while I'd take a walk or something.
                                         
                                        Yeah, yeah.
                                         
                                        Well, get on that.
                                         
                                        Let me know what you think.
                                         
    
                                        You know, what's interesting about it?
                                         
                                        It's like, well, where does that fall in?
                                         
                                        It's like, this is part of the history.
                                         
                                        Was it a story that for a long time existed that people read and worshipped and believed and knew to be true?
                                         
                                        The people of that area.
                                         
                                        Like the, I forget they're called, but the desert Jews.
                                         
                                        Okay.
                                         
                                        They were in the enclaves.
                                         
    
                                        Yeah, yeah.
                                         
                                        Had these books.
                                         
                                        Wow.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        and they tell some incredible stuff there's even um it's kind of a weird thing like getting rid of the book
                                         
                                        it's kind of like well you're changing history because like at that point that was history right
                                         
                                        so now we don't believe it obviously but that's because someone changed history if someone hadn't
                                         
                                        we'd be like oh yeah of course those like alien angel creatures had sex with a bunch of humans and then
                                         
    
                                        made some whatever else and giants giants and the um there's there's a book on there's a book
                                         
                                        that they excluded that talks about jesus coming from the stars as a traveler who's like an alien
                                         
                                        yeah that's that's a cool cool read why don't we have that in there and why didn't that why did
                                         
                                        they exclude those and not the other ones that are ridiculous like the 900 years or walking on water
                                         
                                        Walking on water.
                                         
                                        Making everything in the wine.
                                         
                                        Drugs.
                                         
                                        Thank God he didn't get too close to the ocean.
                                         
    
                                        Uh-huh.
                                         
                                        That's why they called the Red Sea, though.
                                         
                                        Would have been a wine.
                                         
                                        That would have made a huge...
                                         
                                        Imagine if he could only turn it into wine, but then not back.
                                         
                                        And he's like, whoops, and all the sea.
                                         
                                        And it's like, well, we're going to have a couple of good weeks, a couple of fun weeks, and then we're going to struggle.
                                         
                                        Death.
                                         
    
                                        We're going to struggle out.
                                         
                                        after that. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Well, let's read the book of Enoch.
                                         
                                        Let's get into it. Yeah, let's get into it, try and figure out what's happening there and go from
                                         
                                        that. Lastly, they finished up with Neurrelink and AI, future consciousness. I mean, that kind of
                                         
                                        ties into like DMT type stuff, like, but more in a technical, futuristic kind of way.
                                         
                                        And it's like, yeah, is there some sort of point that we're going towards
                                         
                                        where all these things just kind of connect at the same time, the singularity event?
                                         
                                        We will be obsolete and flesh and blood, humans will be no longer around.
                                         
    
                                        I mean, dude, neurolankan, like, augmentation is 100% going to be a thing.
                                         
                                        Yes.
                                         
                                        I mean, if it's not.
                                         
                                        not done with, with, like, nanotech medications.
                                         
                                        I mean, imagine that.
                                         
                                        Just, like, a pill that just, like, goes through your system.
                                         
                                        And then it's little nanotechs.
                                         
                                        And they're like, right, stem cells here, peptides there, fix all these things, you know, turn back the age of all these organs, grow some hair, you know, like literally just reform you.
                                         
    
                                        Cutting cancer out or burn it or something.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        Make them faster.
                                         
                                        make them like super ripped even though you don't like barely work out i would like would love that
                                         
                                        and then on top of that i mean just think of just regular AI enhancements like basically the chip
                                         
                                        in your brain that gives you infinite access to all things just like an infinite like a chat
                                         
                                        immediately just all the answers yeah just a thought away yeah somebody says something to you
                                         
                                        and you're just not sure what to say back.
                                         
    
                                        So you just, like, run it through all these systems.
                                         
                                        And you're like, give me the best, nicest, cleanest answer here
                                         
                                        that gives me the outcome I want.
                                         
                                        It's all br-br-br-br-they're doing the same, though.
                                         
                                        So it's, like, a real problem.
                                         
                                        A couple of polite guys trying to sell the car to each other.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        Who knows?
                                         
    
                                        Who knows?
                                         
                                        But AI is coming up a lot.
                                         
                                        It's coming up a lot everywhere.
                                         
                                        People have complained recently that it's like,
                                         
                                        oh, AI again with,
                                         
                                        Rogan, I'm like, it's AI again with everyone.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        No one knows what the hell this thing is going to do.
                                         
    
                                        It's freaking people out.
                                         
                                        It's putting jobs out of business.
                                         
                                        Whole industries are gone.
                                         
                                        Gone.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        It's wild stuff, dude.
                                         
                                        And it's good for some stuff, but like, I guess, I think they've been using it to write scripts
                                         
                                        because they've been terrible lately in all these movies.
                                         
    
                                        Oh, yeah, yeah, definitely.
                                         
                                        Well, on that note, and yeah, movies do suck.
                                         
                                        need to get better. Let's hope there's more research in these areas for these psychedelics
                                         
                                        and for therapy and help. God bless Strassman for getting that past and being able to do
                                         
                                        that research in the 90s. Like, well done. He's a good man and I hope to see him back on. And I'm
                                         
                                        going to check his book out while Pete reads the book of Enoch. We'll get back to you.
                                         
                                        God bless you. Talk to you next time. Bye. See you.
                                         
                                        You know,
                                         
    
                                        Thank you.
                                         
