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The Spirit Molecule
2020 · Film · short · 2 min
Directed by Thomas Rebour
A surreal, horror-esque music video for Absenol's delightfully dark and grungy track "The Spirit Molecule". A scruffy, dishevelled and visibly sleep-deprived man is obsessed with an old 1950s LSD documentary. In his unsettling and somber lair, he prepares for a psychedelic trip, in sync with what he sees on his sacred television screen. But is he venturing into a harmless, hallucinatory experience, or something more?
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I loved that little essay.
If anyone is interested, there's a 27-video playlist of the author speaking about his experiences with DMT for the Spirit Molecule documentary.
His commentary is my favorite out of all the participants. Very heart-felt and fascinating:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM_PJoDA2lo&list=PLC3FC3395C9495B69
This is interesting research, but it's poorly described and honestly I doubt the NYT reporter even really understands it. A few errors also, for example:
"the active ingredient in psilocybin"
Should be the active ingredient in psilocybes (i.e. psilocybe mushrooms). Psilocybin is a chemical itself, so it doesn't even make sense to describe it as having active ingredients. (It gets broken down into psilocin by the body, which is what actually causes the effect.)
If you want to see something on this that is actually kind of interesting, check out these YouTube videos that were made to promote The Spirit Molecule, a documentary about DMT:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+spirit+molecule&search_type=&aq=f