Tryptamine Palace: 5-MeO-DMT and the Sonoran Desert Toad

Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Alex and Allyson Grey
Preface
Introduction: How This All Began

ONE—The 5-MeO-DMT Experience

TWO—5-MeO-DMT: Science, Discovery, and the History of Human Use
What is 5-MeO-DMT?
Chronology of Scientific Discovery
A Chronology of Human Use
Legality Issues
Strassman and the Scant Scientific Research on DMT
Entheogens and the Ancient Search for the Sacred

THREE—The Aftermath

FOUR—Welcome to the Power Zone

FIVE—Into the Quantum Realm
The Trap of Material Realism
A Quantum Reality
The Implicate Order

SIX—Enter the Zero-Point Field
The Aether Field
Heisenbergs Uncertainty Principle
Hal Puthoff
Newton Meets the Zero Point Field

SEVEN—Toading

EIGHT—Burning Man

NINE—India

TEN—The High Priest: Timothy Leary and the Legacies of the Psychedelic Age
A Psychedelic Movement?
The High Priest
LSD and the Beheading of the New Left
Leary and the CIA
Tim Learys Redemption: The High Scientist Returns
Leary and the Tibetan Book of the Dead

ELEVEN—The Zero-Point Field and the 5MDE: A Quantum Explanation
1. What Is the Source of the Brilliant Laser-like Light That I Encounter?
2. How Can I Feel as If I Am Occupying a Reality Outside of Time?
3. How Can This Dimension Outside of Time Seem to Contain All Possible Permutations and Information?
4. How Can I Exist as Consciousness without Ego or Identity, and Yet Clearly Still Be Me?

TWELVE—A Quantum God
Ervin Laszlo and the Akashic Field
Resonating with the Mind of G/d
Bernard Haish and The God Theory

THIRTEEN—The Role of Light in Eastern Philosophy
A New Model of Consciousness

FOURTEEN—A Transcendent Future for Humanity?
Experience Is the Only Path to Understanding
A Healthy Dose of Skepticism?
The Immutable Genome
New Visions of God
Fading Metaphors and a Transcendental Remedy
5-MeO-DMT and the Potential for Transcendental Realization
The Power of Absolute
Consciousness
Liberation Theology
Extinction Denial
Abraham Maslow and Transcendence
A World in Crisis
The First Shaman
A New Consciousness?
God Consciousness Is Real

FIFTEEN—So Begin the Days of Strangeness
Epilogue

APPENDIX 1.—Resources
APPENDIX 2.—Tryptamine-Containing Plants
APPENDIX 3.—Serotonin, Melatonin, 5-MeO-DMT, and the Pineal Gland
APPENDIX 4.—Is 5-MeO-DMT the Most Potent Entheogen Known to Humanity?

APPENDIX 5.—William S. Burroughs, the Godfather of DMT
Burroughs and Ayahuasca
Burroughs and DMT
Was DMT an Influence on Burroughs Writing?

APPENDIX 6.—Heaven and Hell—Potential Negative Effects of 5-MeO-DMT
Two Sides to Ego-Death
Entheogenic Paradox

Footnotes
Endnotes
Bibliography
About the Author
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