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Rick Strassman is best known for conducting FDA-approved DMT trials at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine from 1984 to 1995. His speculative hypothesis that the pineal gland synthesizes endogenous DMT in quantities sufficient to produce mystical states, popularized in his book 'DMT: The Spirit Molecule,' has been influential. He collaborated with Slawek Wojtowicz, Luis Eduardo Luna, and Ede Frecska on the book *Inner Paths to Outer Space*.
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Mixed reception
Rick Strassman's foundational work on DMT and visionary states is real and the phenomenological overlap between high-dose DMT experiences and NDEs is striking, but DMT release in dying humans has not been measured and the mechanistic bridge remains suggestive rather than established
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Undergraduate studies in biological sciences, graduated with departmental honors.