The Meaning Hormone

I have received a lot of mail since my post last week. Very different people (I now know there are at least two forklift operators in our community), with different stories and questions, but all finding what we’ve been doing here at PsyPol meaningful. I’m very grateful for these messages and am going to respond to all in due time. I’ll make some of this correspondence public, starting with the excerpt below.

A dakini named Vajrayoginī, who reminds me of the lady I met in my trip.

Shawn O’Brien, a retired psychologist with whom I had exchanged some comments before, congratulated me on giving up tobacco and asked some questions about DMT:

Do you ever wonder whether DMT might also affect your health? If it helps your mental health, maybe it would be worth it, I don’t know. 

Do you think your interest in DMT is related to existential anxiety? I’m very interested in Terror Management Theory and the work of Sheldon Solomon, as I’ve noted in several comments.

I wrote back:

…On DMT: I don't think…