Posthuman Blues

Application of Transcerebral, Weak Complex Magnetic Fields and Mystical Experiences: Are They Generated by Field-Induced DMT Release from the Pineal Organ?

During the last 15 years weak, complex magnetic fields have been applied across the two cerebral hemispheres at the level of the temporoparietal lobes of more than 500 volunteers. Most of these subjects have reported visual, vestibular, and proprioceptive sensations as well as experiences of detachments from the body of 'sentient being'. Similar but more intense experiences were reported by Strassman in 2001 for volunteers who were injected with N,n-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a compound St[r]assman hypothesized as the primary mediator of these experiences. If this speculation is valid, then subjects who are exposed to a very weak, complex field known to elicit similar experiences should display significant increases in the metabolites of this compound within their blood.