5-MeO DMT and Near Death Visions

What a world! At the exact same moment, two different people experience what we have come to know as near-death visions. An 82 year old man has a car accident. When the paramedics arrive at the scene, the man has no vital signs. Next, massive jolts of energy pulsate through his body, as the meds attempt to revive him. After he is brought back to life the man explains what he saw during the experience.

While the geriatric man was crashing his car, a 19 year old college student fills up a pipe. He carefully loads the bowl with 30 mg. of 5-MeO DMT (N, N 5-Methoxydimethyltryptamine). After one inhalation, the teen is thrust into a mad world where he thinks he is dying. Even though the substance used has never proven to be terribly dangerous or fatal, the teen cannot tell himself that he will live.

Through different methods, both the 82 year old and the 19 year old have very similar visions. A bright, bright light is the main common denominator, but others definitely do exist.

Several years back, a revolutionarily speculative paper was written by Albert Most. Eros and the Pineal's main draw is it's step-by-step guide to over-production of 5-MeO DMT endogenously. If followed correctly, the brain produces abundant amounts of the tryptamine, naturally, flooding the pineal gland--what many refer to as the third eye.

The basic idea is that by mixing L-Tryptophan, a MAOI, and a candy bar, a full-on brain trip ensues. True there is much biological and scientific information in the paper, but... Believe it or not, there are legions of psychonauts that worship this method as the preferred format for tripping. There is however, little evidence claiming this evidence to be safe. I have trouble with this seeing that you are altering your brain's chemicals. True, the brain's chemicals are altered each and ever time ANY drug is used, but the way that this works seems too risky. What are the dosage levels? How long does one stay tripping? These questions are not answered in the paper, but it does mention that, to the author's knowledge, no one has ever 'not come back' from the trip. More food for thought---the author, Albert Most has not been answering his mail as late (just something to think of).

Hopefully, I am hereby setting the ground work for the philosophy that near death visions have nothing to do with the afterlife, but are simply hallucinations. While I am no biologist, I do believe that somehow during the process of the body's shutting down, in preparation for death, changes take place in the brain's chemistry just enough to evoke hallucinatory visions.

In extreme cases of each of the above scenario, the person may see the future, the past, loved ones, etc... Sometimes even alien creatures are seen and/or communicated with.