 However, and partially because I had made money and successes early on, I was still down with The Journey, and as each new platform that was going to save NeXT was imagined, I'd port our software to ship on it. It was truly a dark time as developer after developer abandoned Steve, like rats on a sinking vessel.
The deep lessons I was getting from the DMT kept my faith strong, and with zero overhead - I've always worked from home - I could stay true to the vision. Work the garden, work the code, cultivate contentment.
As the study finished, it had morphed into a dose-response study of Psilocybin - the active ingredient in magic mushrooms and a close chemical relative to DMT. I can definitively tell you that 0.7 milligrams/Kilogram of Sandoz Psilocybin is ecstatic and informative, whereas the 1.1 milligrams/kilogram high dose is traumatic even for seasoned travelers.
One of the most powerful aspects of the DMT study were the occasional meetings where participants shared their experiences with each other. The zippies would see Terence's machine elves, the theologians would see white light, the software geeks would see the Logos and semantic symbols.
I realized our society had much to gain from our experiences if Dr. Strassman wrote up the research as a layperson accessible book. I asked Barlow to see if the Grateful Dead's Rex Foundation would be willing to help me kickstart it, and thus arose the book "DMT: The Spirit Molecule". This book became an instant underground classic on this naturally occurring psychedelic compound.
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