Fear of a 12th Planet: Drukqs & DNA
Some say Planet X is the twelfth planet in our solar system, and a second renaissance of consciousness will overcome humanity when it returns to our orbit. What else is out there? In this new Bloglin segment, we’ll delve into the most provocative theories and findings from the new age. Don’t call them conspiracies…and keep this between us. We don’t want to get tracked down by the New World Order!
Did you know that nobel prize winner, Francis Crick (seen above), was hallucinating on LSD when he discovered the double helix structure of DNA? As he dove further into his studies in genetics, Crick insisted that the complexity of the human DNA strand could NOT have simply developed as environmental happenstance. He subscribed to the theory of Panspermia, in which an intelligent life form in another galaxy ( or perhaps dimension) sent the human DNA strand to our planet in effort to perpetuate (and protect) some type of advanced universal code. An interesting theory when you consider that today’s science community is still unable to comprehend the functions of 95 – 98% of our DNA, labeling it as “Junk”. What exactly is our DNA? How do we tap into understanding its full capability?
DMT crystals
I doubt many of the Bloglin readers require this introduction, but for the sake of posterity, DMT is a psychotropic drug and natural chemical found in our body as well as numerous species of plantlife in the world. It’s believed to induce dream states while we sleep and trigger visuals of bright lights and tunnels during near-death experiences. Certain critical thinkers like Terrence McKenna and Graham Hancock claim it to be the key to transporting us to other dimensions where we can interact with the celestial beings we commonly refer to as aliens (McKenna describes them as Elves). The actual gateway into these other dimensions has been hypothesized to be our pineal gland, which is also suggested (though not yet proven) to be a natural DMT producer within the brain…our Third Eye.
“Net of Being” © Alex Grey
Here’s a clip from the man himself, Terrence McKenna, on his first experience with DMT.
Above is the trailer from the documentary based on the book, DMT: The Spirit Molecule, by Dr. Rick Strassman. It chronicles his case study in which he administered 400 doses of DMT to 60 volunteers. What he found was the recurring account in which the patients experienced transporting to a very similar and very specific zone of lights, color and geometry; often encountering strange and ethereal beings. This differs drastically from the conditional hallucinations yielded from LSD, mescaline, and mushrooms in which users see warped visions of their current environment. These volunteers also described an “alien abduction” like experience – all of these elements of the DMT hallucination are widely shared with recreational users. This isn’t a situation where reality is warped…DMT users are reporting to travel into some other spatial dimension. Could this be a real dimension or the effects of a very definite chemical reaction yielding in similar responses in the brain? Is the portal into other dimensions our consciousness? We’re not talking about a synthesized drug here, DMT is a natural compound in us and on Earth. It’s in the DNA of the planet.
Excerpts from Strassman’s book concerning the pineal gland and DMT:
The Pineal gland is unique in its solitary status within the brain. All other brain sites are paired, meaning that they have left and right counterparts; for example, there are left and right frontal lobes and left and right temporal lobes. As the only unpaired organ deep within the brain, the pineal gland remained an anatomical curiosity for nearly two thousand years.
One of the most powerful reasons for my fascination with the pineal gland relates to its function in the life of the spirit. The importance and the potential of this was brought home for me when, as a medical student in the mid-1970′s. I learned of a startling coincidence involving the pineal gland and the Buddhist beliefs about reincarnation. I cannot overemphasize how strong an impression this discovery made on me, and how it strengthened my search for a spiritual role for the pineal gland and, within it, the spirit molecule.
I already knew that the Tibetan Buddhist Book of the Dead teaches that it takes forty-nine days for the soul of the recently dead to “reincarnate.” That is, seven weeks from the time of death of one person elapses until the life-force’s “rebirth” into its next body. I remember very clearly, several years later, feeling the chill along my spine when, reading my textbook of human development, I discovered this same forty-nine-day interval marking two landmark events in human embryo formation. It takes forty-nine days from the conception for the first signs of the human pineal to appear. Forty-nine days is also when the fetus differentiates into male or female gender. Thus the soul’s rebirth, the pineal, and the sexual organs all require forty-nine days before they manifest.
When our individual life force enters our fetal body, the moment in which we become truly human, it passes through the pineal and triggers the first primordial flood of DMT.
As we die, the life-force leaves the body through the pineal gland, releasing another flood of this psychedelic spirit molecule, DMT.
Pineal tissue in the dying or recently dead may produce DMT for a few hours, and perhaps longer, and could affect our lingering consciousness. While our “dead” brain wave readings are “flat,” who knows about our inner mental state at the time.
Therefore, it may be that the pineal is the most active organ in the body at the time of death.
The pineal could act as an antenna or lightening rod for the soul.
Here is another clip correlating the Egyptian practice of removing the brain, and specifically the pineal gland, during mummification and DMT.
In his book, Supernatural, Graham Hancock posts the theory of multi dimensional existence in which other forms of life ( ghosts, aliens, elves, various paranormal entities etc. ) exists. Positing that humans can interact with these dimensions in altered states of consciousness, he suggests that Shamans have mastered the ability to tune in and advance through these dimensions. The most prominent Shamanic method in accessing these realms and their entities is in the form of plant hallucinogens…specifically Ayahuasca, a DMT derivative.
Graham Hancock on Shamanism and Hallucinogens.
DMT advocates believe the drug to be the gateway in understanding the full capabilities of consciousness and existence as a whole. Could there be a bridge between our human experience and a higher state of universal awareness? Is that bridge found inside our mind? Perhaps, on a grand scale, locked inside our genetic code waiting to be unlocked? What do you believe?
Any readers who have taken DMT or Ayahuasca, I’d love to hear your experience in the comments…
February 4th, 2010 at 2:40 pm
Another cracker of an article!
Oddly enough, I’ve been listening to Drukqs by Aphex Twin all day.
Even weirder, the only time I took Ayahuasca was on the day I bought Drukqs and I tripped along to it.
Shall post details later. Am at work now.
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February 4th, 2010 at 2:52 pm
I first tried DMT in Juarez, MX with a close friend in November, 2009. We smoked almost two bowls in succession..I laid down on the floor, and the room started to fade..after a few minutes, I was aware of other people coming into the room, but these people were shaped like pyramids and had incredibly vibrant colors surrounding them. They were shuffling around me, and they attempted to put something near my mouth-I assume the spirit pyramids were trying to feed me! Since then I haven’t been able to get the colors out of head!! It was amazing! I highly recommend this experience to everyone!
February 4th, 2010 at 2:57 pm
Haley – we’re you still in whatever room you first smoked it in or did you find yourself somewhere else?
February 4th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
i have tried DMT a few times. each time starts with a kaleidoscope. but one time that stays in my mind, seconds into it i burst thru it bulleting thru space so fast i cant move my limbs and i just simply appear at this place that would seem like a club or something. There are all these different monster/alien things around going into a center core or bubble dome place (hard to explain) and every one removes they’re outer shell to reveal black particles, everyone is the same black particles. then i reveal myself as the same enter the core and simply add to the stock.
i always see the same place where i became part of this mass
i always see one character whom my roommate has also seen and painted (scary shit)
February 4th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
Though I’m not strictly “straight edge” I pretty much am as close to being one without all the stupid fashion and lame lable. However, this is a way interesting article to me. Why? Why is it not just another annoying group of guys blathering on about how tripping changed their lives and crap like that? 2 reasons. 1- There’s no annoying/crap hippe music references and 2- It’s breaking down real and interesting scientific connections to the brain, DNA, conception and death and a form of spirituality.
I’m sure the blathering hippie can swindle those into his speaches but they’d usually be burned out by the constant nods to the “Grateful Dead” and somehow “The Man” putting them down.
I’ll probably never do any DMT, but if I chose a drug to hit that’d be it. I’ll stick with coffee and Pizza Hut cheesey bread for now, thanks. You wouldn’t believe the trip you have (to the bathroom the next day!)
Not my favorite post in this series (because it doesn’t involve intricate masonry plots) but still it’ll send me on an educational quest to learn more about the subject.
February 4th, 2010 at 4:57 pm
Lots of scientists have done cool shit on drugs. The dude who thought up PCR (polymerase chain reaction which allowed for the human genome to be sequenced so quickly), legend has it, did it on LSD cruising through the desert. I believe Bill Gates and a lot of those computer dudes did it too to help them visualize large code structures. I can’t find the article but there was a study where they gave people LSD and asked them to read stories that were in a foreign language with the upper half of all the letters covered and the people could read it no problem.
February 4th, 2010 at 7:15 pm
SO psyched you finally got on the topic of drugzzzz! Seriously though, loved McKenna’s reaction to his first dose of DMT – “I can’t believe it. I CAN’T believe it.” Know what that feels like.
Never done DMT unfortunately, but I came out of a salvia experience very changed once. This was a full breakthrough – I was not on earth, not a man…just a THING floating in blackness for… centuries? A really, really long fucking time. I was one “being”, of sorts, in an infinitely long chain of colored beings, and each was a gateway into a parallel universe of some kind. When I began coming out of the trance (which lasted only 5 minutes mind you), I felt myself actually get pulled up and flew through one of these gateways, saw myself fly into my friend’s apartment from an overhead view and landed on the floor where I had fallen after the salvia knocked me off my ass. My eyes opened and there I was, in my body again.
It took five minutes to remember I had even smoked a drug – I only vaguely remembered the people I was with and thought everything was a trick. It took another half hour before I believed anything in life was even real.
There is so much left to be found.
February 5th, 2010 at 1:04 am
yes! great post. i have that book, bought it before i ever tried it. i still cant really explain what happened to this day. i just remember my friend saying something before it was sent spiraling through these planes of color. thats the best description i can give. i want to try it again, one because i want to see if that happans again or if something different will occur and two, i got the shit hit!
February 5th, 2010 at 3:21 am
would people that have tried DMT and read up on mckenna and the like recommend doing the “drug” first and then reading about the theories on it or vice a versa? i’ve been interested in both things for a long time but haven’t done either.
February 5th, 2010 at 5:19 am
Joe Rogan has been preaching DMT for a while now (you can hear his voice on the Crookers Keep Watch mix yelling “You should all do DMT and join my cult! Motherfuckers!)
He owns this water chamber thing with like tons of salt in it so he lays down and just floats….and does DMT before he gets in it and just trips out….
….. if i was ever to do DMT, thats the way I wanna do it.
February 5th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
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February 8th, 2010 at 2:58 am
^ nah. he doesn’t do dmt before going into the water chamber, that is misinformation. the water chamber eliminates the need to do dmt. its a sensory deprivation chamber. you lose (sense) of all of your senses, causing you to hallucinate and have similar “near death” sensations. popes have been doing it in monasteries for mad long but by just sitting in the dark for a really long time (days and days). i am positive that he is not under the influence of DMT while going into the isolation sensory deprivation water tank.
February 8th, 2010 at 7:45 pm
I think it’s a mistake to label these experiences “hallucinations”. They lye in the unconscious mind but we are just not aware of them because our conscious minds are so dominant. It takes dream states, meditation, scrying or drugs to be reacquainted with it. Those fairys and demons that people see during trips are not separate, they are very much a part of us.
February 9th, 2010 at 2:45 am
Sinner – Check out that Graham Hancock interview on Shamanism, it touches on your point. DMT advocates are quite specific in their belief that they aren’t hallucinating when on this “drug,” though.
To take it a step further, I don’t think that our conscious dominates over unconscious, rather, we’re constantly being conditioned in society to live in a “Conscious” mind state while our unconscious is suffocated by TV and Splenda.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:46 pm
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