Is his art for sale? How is he capitalizing on his story? I haven't seen it anywhere besides his flickr account.

To me it doesn't matter where the inspiration for his art comes from. I find it fascinating that it reminds me of some of my own experiences. As do many other artists' works. It leads me to believe that such imagery is inherent to our being. Whether strictly neurological or something beyond. If it's just a by product of bio chemical processes, then why?

It's peripheral and cranial, I don't know which effect is more profound, but it is thought that cranial vasoconstriction caused by 5-HTR agonism that makes psychedelics such effective treatments of migraines and cluster headaches. The current working theory is that these headaches are caused when blood vessels press down on sensitive nerves in the head -- taking a psychedelic causes those veins to constrict and relieves the pressure.

If you ever want to read something interesting, go wander over the a Cluster Headache Support Forum and read what they have to say about psychedelics and the psychedelic experience. It's a pretty different perspective from what we've got here.

Blessings
~ND

Thanks for the info..yes, I've seen a lot of studies surrounding relief from cluster headaches and psilocybin mushrooms, LSD-LSA, cannabis etc. I think it depends which compounds we are speaking of, too..each one having other varied effects.

Amazing!

Been a while since I was on the Nexus, saw this article this morning and was awe struck by his works.

Does anyone know if his works can be bought somewhere?

I was always very skeptical of the idea that the pineal produces psychedelic molecules. This man's experience, as well as somewhat recent evidence of DMT in human pineal glands has suggested to me that it may very well be possible.

As far as I'm aware, there is no evidence yet to show the occurrence of DMT in human pineal glands. Going on the assumption that one would likely need to measure it in situ in a living human pineal gland (like they did with the rat study), I'm not sure how they will be able to achieve this, let alone get it past an ethics committee! Still, its presence in rat pineal, including supposed evidence for its synthesis there, is definitely intriguing, as on a cellular, biochemical level there is a great deal of similarity between us and rats. What I also found intriguing from that rat pineal study was the complete lack of pinoline there, this supposedly being another compound produced in the pineal.

I thought I heard that it was in some podcast that Strassman did, but I think I might be mistaken. He was a bit vague on the issue.

Rick Strassman said that DMT was found in the "brain" and that it is likely created by the pineal (@56:29)

http://www.eviltwinpodca...sode-039-dmt-part-1-of-3

Strassman: "The main source of DMT within mammals is within the lungs. It was just recently discovered that it is made in the pineal gland- or rather it was found in the pineal, it isn't yet established that it's made in the pineal, but there isn't any DMT in the brain to speak of, so if it's found in the pineal, and it's not found in the brain, it's most likely made in the pineal as well."

Yeah Strassman can be a bit vague on the details sometimes! This linked interview with Dr Ede Frecska will be of interest, he would definitely be considered one of the world experts on DMT, and knows a great deal more about its physiology in humans than Rick Strassman does.

Where is DMT found?

Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is abundant in the plant kingdom, countless plant species’ specimens have DMT in significant amount and ethnobotanists suppose that DMT is a very ancient compound in nature. A metabolite of DMT, indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) is the most common, naturally-occurring, plant hormone of the auxin class. Animals can synthetise DMT under special circumstances (and pee out as IAA). Indolethylamine-N-methyltransferase (INMT) the synthesizing enzyme of DMT can be found with the highest levels in the lungs, thyroid, and adrenal gland. Intermediate levels are found in placenta, skeletal muscle, heart, small intestine, stomach, pancreas, and lymph nodes. Contrary to the commonly held view, it is not the pineal gland which can synthetise DMT in large amount. Nevertheless, the presence of DMT in the pineal gland was proved in 2013.

https://walacea.com/interview-with-ede-frecska/