well of course James Oroc is the author of 'Tryptamine Palace,' a book much-in-need-of-editing that asserts the superiority of 5-MeO-DMT over DMT, despite Oroc's admission that he only experienced the latter 1 or 2 times !
other issues i have with his book are present in this article, such as a clotted & convoluted train of thought, too much quantum-this and quantum-that, & not enough maybe-logic.
his pompously titled 'oroc's first law of entheogens' is absurd:
Quote:Oroc's First Law of Entheogens: The more a compound disrupts the Ego (the sense of 'I'
, the physically safer (less toxic) that compound will be, while the more a 'drug' reinforces and inflates the sense of Ego, the more physically harmful (toxic) that compound will be.
what?! while i can't think of a totally benign ego-reinforcing substance, i can easily conceive of myriad compounds that both disrupt, or obliterate, the ego & also present toxicity. this is an excessively simplistic formulation.
he says that he only considers the physical, not psychological side effects in his 'mystical value scale,' but the psychological side effects of a 5-meo-dmt trip gone awry can be crippling, apparently more so than DMT.
the man has tons of enthusiasm for opening people to entheogens though, can't blame him for that!