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Rick Strassman
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Rick Strassman's personal blog at rickstrassman.com covers science and philosophy. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Rick Strassman's site for his DMT research, including his 1990s human trials and the near-death-like experiences they produced. Commenters cite his publications as sources, and one mentions his book.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
I've just read a very interesting book after seeing it mentioned in HN's earlier discussion of LSD. It's by Dr. Rick Strassman, who conducted the first trials of a psychodelic held in the US in 20 years (using a potent psychodelic called DMD). Even after his trial was approved by the FDA and DEA, he struggled to find a supplier for human-quality DMT, although he had already procured a sufficient quantity of laborato…
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on “Psilocybin shows success in medical trials”While I'm certain this doesn't qualitatively compare to a thumbprint of LSD, I have had the most INTENSE experiences with pure DMT. So much so I'm very hesitant to ever consider doing anything within that class again. Just like Strassman described in his research studies ( http://www.rickstrassman.com/index.php?option=com_content... ), the "entity" / "alien" contact that people report is utterly inexplicable and rea…
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on “Massive Dosing - the LSD Thumbprint”I don't know if they can claim "the first scientific framework for the near-death experience". Dr. Strassman ( http://www.rickstrassman.com ) experimented on humans in the mid 90's could consistently reproduce near-death experiences by administering DMT intravenously.
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on “Electrical signatures of consciousness in the dying brain”There's some theories that the burning bush was an acacia tree, which could contain DMT. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_bush#Biblical_entheoge... also https://www.rickstrassman.com/publications/dmt-and-the-soul-...
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on “Archaeologists Identify Traces Cannabis in Ancient Jewish Shrines”