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Rick Strassman

1990

University of New Mexico clinical psychiatrist who ran the first U.S. government-approved human psychedelic study in a generation - DEA-cleared DMT trials at UNM from 1990-1995 - and wrote DMT: The Spirit Molecule (2001). His volunteers' recurring reports of contact with autonomous "entities" turned the question of whether DMT opens access to a real non-physical realm into a serious research topic.

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Connections (2)

confirmedAndrew Gallimore
co-authored the 2016 extended-state DMT (DMTx) target-controlled infusion model with him
Source: Gallimore & Strassman, Frontiers in Pharmacology (2016)
confirmedJeffrey Kripal
Kripal engages his DMT 'entity' research in arguing anomalous contact is a real non-physical phenomenon
Source: Kripal, How to Think Impossibly (2024); Strassman, DMT: The Spirit Molecule (2001)
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