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Originally Posted by August West  I'm not sure this is a fact...do you have a source for this cat? |
Afetr a BRIEF search, this is what I found- basically it is a THEORY put forth by Rick Strassman, author of "DMT- the Spirit Molecule".
He says it is unconfirmed due to ethical concerns.
Taken from this site....
http://hypography.com/forums/medical...d-death-2.html
First paragraph:
Dr. Rick Strassman, while conducting DMT research in the 1990s at the University of New Mexico, advanced the theory that a massive release of DMT from the pineal gland prior to death or near death was the cause of the near death experience (NDE) phenomenon. Several of his test subjects reported NDE-like audio or visual hallucinations. His explanation for this was the possible lack of panic involved in the clinical setting and possible dosage differences between those administered and those encountered in actual NDE cases.
last paragraph:
Ethical concerns do not allow for the testing of this hypothesis in humans, as the biological samples must come from the living human brain.
I'm sure there's more, but this likely to be the most definitive answer I could give, as RS is probably the premier authority on the subject.