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The Spirit Molecule
Dimethyltryptamine or DMT is a substance found all over the globe, in trees, in shrubs, in grass, and in your body. Alexander Shulgin, world renowned biochemist is quoted asking “...but the important question is, what isn’t DMT in?”. Its described well by Dr. Rick Strassman, the only scientist given permission to study it in the last 40 years as; “The Spirit Molecule”. Many believe this substance, which flows through every human’s veins may be a link between the mundane world and spiritual world.
DMT use, albeit nothing like the pure substance that is used today has been traced back to 8th century Chili in snuff concoctions derived from plant matter. The western world was introduced to it by indigenous peoples of the Amazon
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