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Tryptamine Palace: 5-MeO-DMT and the Sonoran Desert Toad
SynopsisA
journey from Burning Man to the Akashic Field revealing how the natural
psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT triggers the human capacity for higher knowledge
through direct contact with the zero-point field. The author explains a
new connection between ancient shamanic wisdom and modern physics.
- Publisher: Inner Traditions International, Limited
- Pub. Date: May 2009
- ISBN-13:
9781594772993
- 365pp, Paperback
BiographyJournalist,
photographer, and artist James Oroc was born in the small South Pacific
nation of Aotearoa. Since 1998 he has been pursuing and reporting on
the cutting edge of extreme sports in more than 40 countries around the
globe, his work appearing in magazines, films, and on MTV Sports. He
has been a member of the Burning Man community since 1999, and he is
also involved in the documentation and advancement of “Alternative
Culture.” Oroc resides in the Dominican Republic.
From the PublisherENTHEOGENS “James
Oroc writes about wresting spiritual insights from the mind-storms
catalyzed by psychedelics, and along the way wrestles with his culture
and his role in it. His principal drug ally, 5-MeO-DMT, is not easy to
use well, but Oroc emerges grounded and inspired with tales worth
sharing.” --Rick Doblin, founder and president of MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies)
The venom from Bufo alvarius,
an unusual toad found in the Sonoran Desert, contains 5-MeO-DMT, a
potent natural chemical similar in effect to the more Common entheogen
DMT. The venom can be dried into a powder, which some researchers
speculate was used ceremonially by Amerindian shamans. When smoked it
prompts an instantaneous break with the physical world that causes
out-of-body experiences completely removed from the conventional
dimensions of reality. In Tryptamine Palace, James
Oroc shares his personal experiences with 5-MeO-DMT, which led to a
complete transformation of his understanding of Himself and of the very
fabric of reality. Driven to comprehend the transformational properties
of this substance, Oroc combined extensive studies of physics and
philosophy with the epiphanies he gained from his time at Burning Man
and his travels in India. He discovered that ingesting tryptamines
unlocked a fundamental human capacity for higher knowledge through
direct contact with the zero-point field of modern physics, known to
the ancients as the Akashic field. In the quantum world of nonlocal
interactions, the line between the physical and the mental dissolves.
5-MeO-DMT, Oroc argues, can act as a means to awaken the
remarkablecapacities of the human soul as well as restore experiential
mystical spirituality to Western civilization. Journalist,
photographer, and artist JAMES OROC was born in the small South Pacific
nation of Aotearoa. Since 1998 he has been pursuing and reporting on
the cutting edge of extreme sports in more than 40 countries around the
globe, his work appearing in magazines, films, and on MTV Sports. He
has been a member of the Burning Man community since 1999, and he is
also involved in the documentation and advancement of “Alternative
Culture.” Oroc resides in the Dominican Republic.
Table of ContentsForeword Alex Allyson Grey ix Preface xiii Introduction: How This All Began 1 1 The 5-MeO-DMT Experience 6 2 5-MeO-DMT: Science, Discovery, and the History of Human Use 19 3 The Aftermath 39 4 Welcome to the Power Zone 67 5 Into the Quantum Realm 85 6 Enter the Zero-Point Field 96 7 Toading 106 8 Burning Man 120 9 India 132 10 The High Priest: Timothy Leary and the Legacies of the Psychedelic Age 147 11 The Zero-Point Field and the 5MDE: A Quantum Explanation 166 12 A Quantum God 184 13 The Role of Light in Eastern Philosophy 201 14 A Transcendent Future for Humanity? 217 15 So Begin the Days of Strangeness 260 Epilogue 276 Appendix 1 Resources 281 Appendix 2 Tryptamine-Containing Plants 284 Appendix 3 Serotonin, Melatonin, 5-MeO-DMT, and the Pineal Gland 286 Appendix 4 Is 5-MeO-DMT the Most Potent Entheogen Known to Humanity? 290 Appendix 5 William S. Burroughs, the Godfather of DMT 299 Appendix 6 Heaven and Hell-Potential Negative Effects of 5-MeO-DMT 308 Notes 329 Bibliography 346 Acknowledgments 353 Index 355
Tryptamine Palace
5-MeO-DMT and the Bufo alvarius Toad
By James Oroc
Park Street Press
Copyright © 2009
James Oroc
All right reserved.
ISBN: 9781594772993
THREE
The Aftermath
If
it were not for the following two experiences, I may have continued
smoking 5-MeO-DMT with the same carefree abandon that marked this first
three months. But as fate would have it, the character of my 5-MeO-DMT
experiences was about to change.
The first of these
experiences is my most sacred tryptamine experience of all. It
challenges the last shreds of my worldview so soundly and touches a
place so deep inside my soul that it is hard for me to share.
This 5-MeO-DMT experience began at close to midnight on October 30th in
New Orleans, in a neighborhood famous for its association with Haitian
voodoo. I was with an old friend, Rene, who was completely sober at the
point that I inhaled the 5-MeO-DMT while sitting cross-legged on a
couch opposite her.
On this occasion, I sailed through the
usual progression of steps, and I remember hitting the stage during
which the enormity of the knowledge and the timeless nature of my
environment frightens me into a return to my physical form. I recall
opening my eyes at that point, before bursting into a realm that can
only be described as pure light. But this was not ordinary white light,
nor even the white tunnelthat I dissolve into when I exhale; instead,
it was a fractal-filled prismatic light of indescribable radiance and
beauty that pulsed with its own intelligence.
I then
inexplicably felt a strong sense of the presence my friend Brigid, who
had died several years earlier. It was as if we were walking together,
hand in hand, through towering shadowy trees on a field of stars, and
she was laughing, her smile radiant. This was not a memory, but a
feeling of actually being there with her.
The next thing I
knew, I found myself back in normal reality, lying peacefully on the
sofa and feeling totally calm after what was my least tumultuous return
from the tryptamine palace. All I said was, “I just remembered an old
friend.”
At this point Rene came over and sat down beside me
where I lay and gripped my arm quite hard. I realized that her face was
covered with tears. “There was a woman in the room,” she said, as she
wrung her hands with her eyes closed, seemingly occupying some place
between two worlds. “She was young and beautiful. She was laughing. And
she wanted to tell you that she was sorry she did not get a chance to
say good-bye, and that she loves you. She is still here, but she’s
fading away.” Rene went on to further describe my dead friend’s
appearance and personality as if she knew her. She was obviously
agitated and very emotional.
Rene’s version of the events went
like this: After I exhaled the 5-MeO-DMT, she saw a beam of light the
size of an American quarter come out of my chest, and then I split into
two perfect copies of myself, sitting side-by-side on the couch. Since
she was completely straight, she found it hard to believe what she was
seeing. Yet she said that she could open and close her eyes, rub them,
and the vision was still there --apparently for a period of several
minutes. This is when the spirit of my dead friend suddenly appeared:
an encounter she described in convincing detail. Rene did not know my
dead friend at all, nor do I ever remember mentioning her.
Rene is a mother with a grown son, and she was completely sober during
my trip. But if you had walked into the room, you would have sworn that
she had taken some kind of a drug and that I was the sober one. I had
no idea what to think, since I did not believe in life after death.
I have always felt that I had a strange karmic bond with my beautiful
friend who died, and I had last seen her in New Orleans. A few years
earlier, I attended my first Mardi Gras. On its climactic final
day--Fat Tuesday--I was standing on the street watching the Zulu parade
when a sudden deep depression descended upon me, causing me to cry. My
friends were concerned, but I managed to shake off this severe feeling
and made it through the rest of the day with just a general sense of
unease.
The following week I telephoned my home country to
check on a pair of old friends who were expecting a baby. Upon hearing
that their bouncing baby boy had been delivered premature but fine, I
breathed a sigh of relief. Then I asked, for no real reason, if my
friends had seen Brigid recently. Complete silence was the response
before my friend told me that Brigid had died suddenly of a brain
embolism. He had assumed that I had already heard. She had died on what
was, on the other side of the world in New Orleans, Mardi Gras day.
Coincidences like these occur naturally enough in life and can easily
be discredited by logical disbelievers. I certainly would not consider
this a proof of any kind myself. But whatever happened between Rene and
me while I was under the influence of that brain-full of 5-MeO-DMT is a
much harder experience to discredit. Did the spirit of my deceased
friend enter the room? Or did my mind, supercharged from three months
of regular 5-MeO-DMT smoking, project that image randomly into the
ether?
All in all, this was a heavy experience. I decided to
take a break from tryptamine smoking so I could give myself adequate
time to reflect on the variety of possibilities that this last
experience had opened up. I no longer consider 5-MeO-DMT to be a
“drug.” Rather, it is a sacrament. Smoking 5-MeO-DMT up to this point
had been mind-blowing good fun and spiritually enlightening. But after
this experience in New Orleans, my interpretation and understanding of
it took on a deeper meaning.
Continues...
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About Tryptamine Palace
A
journey from Burning Man to the Akashic Field that suggest how
5-MeO-DMT triggers the human capacity for higher knowledge through
direct contact with the zero-point field
• Examines Bufo alvarius toad venom, which contains the potent natural psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT, and explores its entheogenic use
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Proposes a new connection between the findings of modern physics and
the knowledge held by shamans and religious sages for millennia
The venom from Bufo alvarius, an unusual toad found in the
Sonoran desert, contains 5-MeO-DMT, a potent natural chemical similar
in effect to the more common entheogen DMT. The venom can be dried into
a powder, which some researchers speculate was used ceremonially by
Amerindian shamans. When smoked it prompts an instantaneous break with
the physical world that causes out-of-body experiences completely
removed from the conventional dimensions of reality.
In Tryptamine Palace, James Oroc shares his personal
experiences with 5-MeODMT, which led to a complete transformation of
his understanding of himself and of the very fabric of reality. Driven
to comprehend the transformational properties of this substance, Oroc
combined extensive studies of physics and philosophy with the
epiphanies he gained from his time at Burning Man. He discovered that
ingesting tryptamines unlocked a fundamental human capacity for higher
knowledge through direct contact with the zero-point field of modern
physics, known to the ancients as the Akashic Field. In the quantum
world of nonlocal interactions, the line between the physical and the
mental dissolves. 5-MeO-DMT, Oroc argues, can act as a means to awaken
the remarkable capacities of the human soul as well as restore
experiential mystical spirituality to Western civilization.
About the Author of Tryptamine Palace
Journalist, photographer, and artist James Oroc was born in the small
South Pacific nation of Aotearoa. Since 1998 he has been pursuing and
reporting on the cutting edge of extreme sports in more than 40
countries around the globe, his work appearing in magazines, films, and
on MTV Sports. He has been a member of the Burning Man community since
1999, and he is also involved in the documentation and advancement of
“Alternative Culture.” Oroc resides in the Dominican Republic.
Praise for Tryptamine Palace
“James Oroc writes about wresting spiritual insights from the
mind-storms catalyzed by psychedelics, and along the way wrestles with
his culture and his role in it. His principal drug ally, 5-MeO-DMT, is
not easy to use well, but Oroc emerges grounded and inspired with tales
worth sharing.”
Rick Doblin, founder and president of MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies)
“With this book, Oroc has proved that the impossible can in fact be put
into words. WOW indeed! A must-have for any serious psychonaut on
(arguably) the most important subject matter of all time.”
Dimitri Djanbani, moderator of http://dmt.tribe.net, a DMT discussion group
“If DMT is the ‘Spirit Molecule,’ then 5-MeO-DMT certainly qualifies as
the ‘God Molecule’ as illustrated in this highly significant
contribution to entheogenic literature. The immediate opening to full
God consciousness that 5-MeO-DMT occasions demands careful attention by
all those interested in spiritual states of consciousness, entheogenic
experience, and the true nature of reality. Oroc’s book is a great
beginning to the fascinating exploration that awaits us with
5-MeO-DMT.”
Martin W. Ball, Ph.D., author of Mushroom Wisdom: How Shamans Cultivate Spiritual Consciousness
“Tryptamine Palace is destined to be the seminal study of 5-MeODMT, just as The Spirit Molecule personifies DMT and My Problem Child evokes LSD.”
Andrew Sewell, M.D., LSD cluster-headache researcher
“A gripping account of a mind transformed by the powerful psychoactive
5-MeO-DMT struggling to understand its unexpected conversion from
atheist to true believer. Oroc fuses hard data and engaging
speculations to fire the imagination. Tryptamine Palace is ‘Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride’ for entheogen aficionados, where the firsthand experience of God may be just a toke away.”
Jon Hanna, mindstates.org
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