Psychedelics and Human Destiny: Notes from the Horizons Conference

“And Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world,” were the words etched in stone behind the speakers at the recent “Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics” conference at Judson Memorial Church in New York City. And I will add that Christ Consciousness is especially with one at the end of the world, when psychedelics dissolve the ordinarily stable confines of reality, and reveal one of underlying transcendent glory and truth. I will now review the most important insights into the nature of the psychedelic experience that were expounded by some very inspiring and peculiar researchers...

One of the more anticipated researchers was Rick Strassman, who oversaw the administration of 400 doses of Dimethyltryptamine to 60 volunteers in a study at the University of New Mexico that finished in 1991. His recent research however, was on the prophecies in the Hebrew Bible and their relation to the psychedelic state. He hypothesized that prophecy is the perception of “invisible worlds,” which is experienced under a “prophetic state of consciousness,” which no doubt involves the endogenous release of DMT or its chemical relatives. DMT is, at least visually, the most powerful hallucinogen known to man, and tends to make “invisible worlds” visible and immediate. It is also synthesized naturally in the lungs and red blood cells. Strassman spoke of, quote, “History as fulfilled prophecy, end of days, and the messiah.” He also mentioned a passage in the Hebrew Bible which was particularly psychedelic, involving entities, which were frequently encountered by subjects in his DMT studies.