Brazilian Scientist: Ayahuasca/DMT Can Effectively Treat Cancer
image source: http://tinyurl.com/mk3wv8o
by Cassius Methyl
Activist Post
Jan 30, 2014
Eduardo Schenberg, of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, recently published a piece in Sage Journals, detailing his belief that Ayahuasca has cancer-fighting abilities, essentially encouraging the legalization of research in the field.
He says, “There is enough available evidence that Ayahuasca’s active principles, especially DMT and harmine, have positive effects in some cell cultures used to study cancer, and in biochemical processes important in cancer treatment, both in vitro and in vivo,” and “Therefore, the few available reports of people benefiting from Ayahuasca in their cancer treatment experiences should be taken seriously, and the hypothesis presented here, fully testable by rigorous scientific experimentation, helps to understand the available cases and pave the way for new experiments.”
“In summary, it is hypothesized that the combined actions of β-carbolines and DMT present in Ayahuasca may diminish tumor blood supply, activate apoptotic pathways, diminish cell proliferation, and change the energetic metabolic imbalance of cancer cells, which is known as the Warburg effect,” Schenberg wrote. “Therefore, Ayahuasca may act on cancer hallmarks such as angiogenesis, apoptosis, and cell metabolism.”
“If Ayahuasca is scientifically proven to have the healing potentials long recorded by anthropologists, explorers, and ethnobotanists, outlawing Ayahuasca or its medical use and denying people adequate access to its curative effects could be perceived as an infringement on human rights, a serious issue that demands careful and thorough discussion.”
Similar to the way cancer has been successfully treated with cannabis oil, or vitamin B-17 from the apricot pit, it is emerging as a viable possibility that Ayahuasca is another herbal, ancient cure to disease found in abundance in the new world of synthetic consumption.
Ayahuasca, as many viewers of this article likely know, is a psychoactive, ancient, sacred ancient brew, with deep roots in South American shamanic practice. Since at least 500 BC, South American shamans have used Ayahuasca for ceremonial purposes, and as a medicine of many functions.
Many people believe that DMT is created in the pineal gland of human beings when we dream, when we are born, and when we die. Critics of this theory say there is no evidence to back up these claims, but as of 2013, studies from the University of Michigan have shown that indeed dimethyltryptamine is created in the pineal glands of rats, and with the biological similarities us mammals share, it is very likely that DMT is synthesized in our pineal glands as well. According to Dr. Rick Strassman, author of the critically acclaimed book DMT- The Spirit Molecule, the human body metabolizes DMT rapidly, almost eager to consume the substance. Seretonin, the primary source of pleasure for us human beings, created in our brains and bodies daily of course, is 5-hydroxytryptamine, almost chemically identical to dimethyltryptamine. Yet, the US government classifies this molecule that may be part of our very being, as a schedule I, highly illegal drug.
DMT is a very complex substance, with complex experiences had by those who consume it, complex origins, and many, many functions. One must do their own hard research on Ayahuasca and DMT, as explaining a good depth of it would be too much for this article. Many of you who have read this far, probably already know what you need to know about Ayahuasca/DMT, as the popularity of it is skyrocketing.
Adam Winstock, founder of the Global Drugs Survey, claims the drug has ‘a larger proportion of new users’ compared to these other powerful drugs.
He says this suggests ‘its popularity may increase’.
It should be noted that Ayahuasca/DMT has characteristics similar to almost no ‘drugs’ except perhaps psilocybin mushrooms. Psilocin (what psilocybin metabolizes into), is also almost identical to chemicals already in our brains, similarly metabolized quickly by the body, more characteristic of a vitamin than an intoxicant.
Study: Magic Mushroom Compound Could Help with Depression
by Paul Fassa
Natural Society
Jan 3, 2014
Photograph by Martin Godwin.
At least three different formal psychiatric studies on the effects of psilocybin, extracted from “magic mushrooms”, were performed on voluntary subjects who had never experienced psychedelics before. All had similar positive results. The motive for these studies was investigating the potential for treating depression and other psychiatric maladies with psilocybin.
Two of the studies (done in the UK) were conducted by Professor David Nutt, who was considered nutty by superiors when he was chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD). He was fired from the ACMD by Home Secretary Alan Johnson for resisting the decision to toughen laws on cannabis and publicly stating that alcohol was more harmful than cannabis and the magic mushroom compound, psilocybin.
The other study was performed by Johns Hopkins University Medical School, an institution that is never considered nutty. All three studies were conducted circa 2011 – 2012. All of them did follow up surveys 14 months after the subjects’ psilocybin experiences. The compound was often administered while participants were in MRI (magnetic resonance imagery) machines that were scanning their brain activity.
[related: The Secret History of Magic Mushrooms]
Astonishing Photographs Of Drugs Prove Substances Look Just Like They Feel
HuffingtonPost.com
Dec 23, 2013
Have you ever wondered what ketamine, speed and Prozac really look like? You may or may not be familiar with the sensory experience of the various legal and illegal substances, but we’re pretty sure you’ve never sat down with a microscope and pored over the celestial images that are hiding inside within.
Speed
Enter German artist Sarah Schönfeld, who’s performed a similar experiment in her project “All You Can Feel.” Whether depicting methamphetamine, heroine or ecstasy, her images present an astonishing side of pseudo-alchemy, the result of sprinkling psychotropics and neurotransmitters onto photographic negatives and subjecting the swatches to the typical photographic process. What remains are tumbling landscapes, planetary scenes and crystallized universes, dancing about in a manner eerily similar to the feelings you might associated with each respective substance.
Ecstasy
So what moved the Berlin-based artist to take a deeper look at the mystical world of drugs?
“I worked in the club Berghain for many years,” she explained, “and my father has been on Haldol [or Haloperidol] since I was born, so I was kind of surrounded by the question of what substances do to your character and soul.”
Ketamine
[READ THE FULL ARTICLE and see the rest of the pictures]
[h/t: SacredGeometryInternational]
DMT Use Skyrockets Among American Users
by Danny Schechter
disinformation
Dec 18, 2013
Disinfonaut DMT tales welcome in the comments! Addiction and recovery site The Fix takes an interest because “Despite powerful hallucinogenic effects and intense vomiting among users, DMT has also been seen as an alternative treatment for addiction”:
DMT, a powerful hallucinogenic compound used in religious rituals among Amazon tribes, has now become a popular recreational drug among U.S. residents.
According to recent reports by the Global Drug Survey and the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, the number of people in the U.S. who have used DMT in some form has risen every year since 2006, with over a million users reported in 2012. The drug is a key component in ayahuasca brew, a combination of two plants grown in South America that has been used as a medicinal and religious aid for tribal peoples in the region for countless years.
One of the plants in the brew, Psychotria viridis, contains dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, which is a common element in many plants and even the human body itself, which neutralizes the potency of the drug. However, when combined with Banisteriopsis caapi, which prevents the body from warding off the drug, the brew – known as yage to Beat literature aficionados who were introduced to it in Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs’ The Yage Letters (1963) – produces intense and long-lasting hallucinations that users profiled in the Global Drug Survey have cited as stronger than ketamine or LSD. Physical reaction to the drug is also often ferocious, with violent vomiting and gastrointestinal distress among the immediate symptoms.
Despite these issues, ayahuasca has cited by independent scientists and researchers as an effective alternative treatment for addiction, due in part to its ability to raise the levels of serotonin transporters, which regulate mood. Its efficacy in this regard has been hampered by the U.S. Controlled Substances Act, which lists dimethltryptamine as a Schedule 1 drug alongside LSD, marijuana, MDMA, and GHB…
[continues at The Fix]
[related article: MUST READ — Manufacturing the Deadhead: A product of social engineering… by Joe Atwill and Jan Irvin]
MUST SEE — MK ULTRA, LSD and the Hippie Movement [Neil Sanders]
WeAreChange Manchester
Jan 27, 2013
MK ULTRA, LSD and the Hippie Movement
Neil Sanders! – a meticulous researcher and author, details the history of LSD, how it was utilised by the US in the MK ULTRA mind control programme and the various experiments that were carried out. He also addresses the worryingly close relationship between the military and the musicians of the 60’s. The LSD explosion was seen as an organic youth culture event stoked by the benevolence of the love generation and the LSD cooks that distributed their wares across the USA and the UK. But was it all that it seemed? Sadly the CIA, Tavistock and the military industrial complex have their fingerprints all over the entire movement.
Neil Sanders can be contacted at: neilsandersmindcontrol@hotmail.co.uk
http://www.neilsandersmindcontrol.com
http://www.NewHorizonsStAnnes.com
http://www.Freedom-NorthWest.com
MUST HEAR — Gnostic MediaNEW MKULTRA DISCOVERY: Terence McKenna admits that he’s actually a “deep background” and “PR” agent (CIA or FBI)
Gnostic Media
August 23, 2013
This explosive audio clip that was just brought to my attention today by “Scott” reveals, in Terence McKenna’s own words, that he was in fact an agent.
This audio clip comes from Dec. 1994 from his lecture at the Esalen Institute which may be found here:
Questioner: I’m real curious about one thing. Why is important for you to do this?
Terence McKenna: I wonder myself. Um. You mean am I the, uh, alien ambassador whether I like it or not? [laughs]. Well often when asked this question I’ve said it beats honest work. I mean, my brother is a PhD in three subjects and works in hard science and uh yet I don’t think it’s brought him immense happiness. Not that he’s despondent. But uh I was always kind of a slider. You know?
And certainly when I reached La Churerra in 1971 I had a price on my head by the FBI, I was running out of money, I was at the end of my rope. And then “THEY” recruited me. And said, you know, with a mouth like yours there’s a place for you in our organization. And, uh, I’ve worked in deep background positions about which the less said the better. And then about 15 years ago they shifted me into public relations and I’ve been there to the present.
I think ideas get me high. And I like the feeling of understanding and I love diversity to the point of weirdness.
Questioner: it seems that there’s more to it than that for you. Because, you know, being tuned in to ideas and turned on by ideas is one thing, but you can keep that just to self. The sharing of it is something else. I think that’s what we’re getting at. [??
Terence: well one thing is, I’m really fascinated… I think of myself as a pretty savvy person, and not easily led into false dogma…
The question remains: which agency did he work for? Was it the FBI, or the CIA? Since it was mostly the CIA doing the psychedelic studies on the masses, I think it’s likely that he was CIA and is why the Agency was blocking my requests for his files several months ago: http://www.gnosticmedia.com/urgent-release-the-cias-terence-mckenna-foia-request-response-positive-affiliation/
Hear the entire lecture here (See hours 4:21:50 – 4:24:05):
This explosive audio clip that was just brought to my attention today by “Scott” reveals, in Terence McKenna’s own words, that he was in fact an agent.
This audio clip comes from Dec. 1994 from his lecture at the Esalen Institute which may be found here:
Questioner: I’m real curious about one thing. Why is important for you to do this?
Terence McKenna: I wonder myself. Um. You mean am I the, uh, alien ambassador whether I like it or not? [laughs]. Well often when asked this question I’ve said it beats honest work. I mean, my brother is a PhD in three subjects and works in hard science and uh yet I don’t think it’s brought him immense happiness. Not that he’s despondent. But uh I was always kind of a slider. You know?
And certainly when I reached La Churerra in 1971 I had a price on my head by the FBI, I was running out of money, I was at the end of my rope. And then “THEY” recruited me. And said, you know, with a mouth like yours there’s a place for you in our organization. And, uh, I’ve worked in deep background positions about which the less said the better. And then about 15 years ago they shifted me into public relations and I’ve been there to the present.
I think ideas get me high. And I like the feeling of understanding and I love diverse city to the point of weirdness.
Questioner: it seems that there’s more to it than that for you. Because, you know, being tuned in to ideas and turned on by ideas is one thing, but you can keep that just to self. The sharing of it is something else. I think that’s what we’re getting at. [??
Terence: well one thing is, I’m really fascinated… I think of myself as a pretty savvy person, and not easily led into false dogma…
The question remains: which agency did he work for? Was it the FBI, or the CIA? Since it was mostly the CIA doing the psychedelic studies on the masses, I think it’s likely that he was CIA and is why the Agency was blocking my requests for his files several months ago: http://www.gnosticmedia.com/urgent-release-the-cias-terence-mckenna-foia-request-response-positive-affiliation/
Hear the entire lecture here (See hours 4:21:50 – 4:24:05):
– See more at: http://www.gnosticmedia.com/McKenna-Agent#sthash.F82D17eR.dpuf
This explosive audio clip that was just brought to my attention today by “Scott” reveals, in Terence McKenna’s own words, that he was in fact an agent.
This audio clip comes from Dec. 1994 from his lecture at the Esalen Institute which may be found here:
Questioner: I’m real curious about one thing. Why is important for you to do this?
Terence McKenna: I wonder myself. Um. You mean am I the, uh, alien ambassador whether I like it or not? [laughs]. Well often when asked this question I’ve said it beats honest work. I mean, my brother is a PhD in three subjects and works in hard science and uh yet I don’t think it’s brought him immense happiness. Not that he’s despondent. But uh I was always kind of a slider. You know?
And certainly when I reached La Churerra in 1971 I had a price on my head by the FBI, I was running out of money, I was at the end of my rope. And then “THEY” recruited me. And said, you know, with a mouth like yours there’s a place for you in our organization. And, uh, I’ve worked in deep background positions about which the less said the better. And then about 15 years ago they shifted me into public relations and I’ve been there to the present.
I think ideas get me high. And I like the feeling of understanding and I love diverse city to the point of weirdness.
Questioner: it seems that there’s more to it than that for you. Because, you know, being tuned in to ideas and turned on by ideas is one thing, but you can keep that just to self. The sharing of it is something else. I think that’s what we’re getting at. [??
Terence: well one thing is, I’m really fascinated… I think of myself as a pretty savvy person, and not easily led into false dogma…
The question remains: which agency did he work for? Was it the FBI, or the CIA? Since it was mostly the CIA doing the psychedelic studies on the masses, I think it’s likely that he was CIA and is why the Agency was blocking my requests for his files several months ago: http://www.gnosticmedia.com/urgent-release-the-cias-terence-mckenna-foia-request-response-positive-affiliation/
Hear the entire lecture here (See hours 4:21:50 – 4:24:05):
– See more at: http://www.gnosticmedia.com/McKenna-Agent#sthash.F82D17eR.dpuf
This explosive audio clip that was just brought to my attention today by “Scott” reveals, in Terence McKenna’s own words, that he was in fact an agent.
This audio clip comes from Dec. 1994 from his lecture at the Esalen Institute which may be found here:
Questioner: I’m real curious about one thing. Why is important for you to do this?
Terence McKenna: I wonder myself. Um. You mean am I the, uh, alien ambassador whether I like it or not? [laughs]. Well often when asked this question I’ve said it beats honest work. I mean, my brother is a PhD in three subjects and works in hard science and uh yet I don’t think it’s brought him immense happiness. Not that he’s despondent. But uh I was always kind of a slider. You know?
And certainly when I reached La Churerra in 1971 I had a price on my head by the FBI, I was running out of money, I was at the end of my rope. And then “THEY” recruited me. And said, you know, with a mouth like yours there’s a place for you in our organization. And, uh, I’ve worked in deep background positions about which the less said the better. And then about 15 years ago they shifted me into public relations and I’ve been there to the present.
I think ideas get me high. And I like the feeling of understanding and I love diverse city to the point of weirdness.
Questioner: it seems that there’s more to it than that for you. Because, you know, being tuned in to ideas and turned on by ideas is one thing, but you can keep that just to self. The sharing of it is something else. I think that’s what we’re getting at. [??
Terence: well one thing is, I’m really fascinated… I think of myself as a pretty savvy person, and not easily led into false dogma…
The question remains: which agency did he work for? Was it the FBI, or the CIA? Since it was mostly the CIA doing the psychedelic studies on the masses, I think it’s likely that he was CIA and is why the Agency was blocking my requests for his files several months ago: http://www.gnosticmedia.com/urgent-release-the-cias-terence-mckenna-foia-request-response-positive-affiliation/
Hear the entire lecture here (See hours 4:21:50 – 4:24:05):
Hear only McKenna’s audio clip that is quoted above:
MUST SEE/HEAR — A Conversation with Joe Atwill – “Mind Control and Weaponized Anthropology” – #167 – Gnostic Media
Gnostic Media
July 3, 2013
Recorded on Wednesday, July 3, 2013.
In this episode we discuss our article Manufacturing the Deadhead: A Product of Social Engineering, as well as Weaponized Anthropology used against the American Public.
Update: 7/12/2013 – updated with new version that has the audio corrected.
Recorded on Wednesday, July 3, 2013.
In this episode we discuss our article Manufacturing the Deadhead: A Product of Social Engineering, as well as Weaponized Anthropology used against the American Public.
Update: 7/12/2013 – updated with new version that has the audio corrected.
– See more at: http://www.gnosticmedia.com/a-conversation-with-joe-atwill-mind-control-and-weaponized-anthropology-167/#sthash.ZIt5yr4c.dpuf
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sdsdcorded on Wednesday, July 3, 2013.
In this episode we discuss our article Manufacturing the Deadhead: A Product of Social Engineering, as well as Weaponized Anthropology used against the American Public.
Update: 7/12/2013 – updated with new version that has the audio corrected.
– See more at: http://www.gnosticmedia.com/a-conversation-with-joe-atwill-mind-control-and-weaponized-anthropology-167/#sthash.ZIt5yr4c.dpuf
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