<div dir="ltr">"Maybe the benefit of beauty is that it inspires us to care about the
world. It certainly impacted neuroscientist Michele Ross’s life that
way, when she tried DMT, the potent psychedelic, in an effort to release
her childhood trauma.<br><br>Her story’s more compelling, in some ways, because she’s more
disposed than most to wrap her mystical experience in words, in
chemistry and graphs – and yet the real embodied source of every
spiritual experience that’s ever happened is within us all, irrespective
of our job descriptions. In her own words, here’s how awe, no matter
how it’s triggered, leads to moral action.
<p>At first, her DMT experience was merely pretty: “Most beautiful sunset ever!…but then things started <em>changing</em>.”
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<p>“Time and space was bending. I was falling into a black hole…and then
I felt like I was floating in a white, sparkly type world…it felt like I
was with deceased, amazing, really important people…who wanted me to be
safe. It felt like I was sitting at The Last Supper and it was
completely normal.”
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<p>We have to accommodate the experience of the sacred in society; it is <em>from</em> this
experience that all our best impulses flow, self-evident that
everything’s deserving of the Universal Love. Even as a
hyper-intellectual, the explanations only carried Dr. Ross so far. The
passion in her voice and eyes as she recounts her moral evolution as a
doctor is an echo of the heavy-beauty-true-surrender to the darkbright
Source she exudes:</p>
<p>“The old me would have never been able to rationalize that. I felt
that power and love and compassion and felt like I needed…to bring it
back into the world with me. My focus is now on healing people, helping
people…it really wasn’t about that before.”</p><br><a href="http://inspireamaze.com/neuroscientist-michele-ross-describes-her-first-experience-with-dmt/">http://inspireamaze.com/neuroscientist-michele-ross-describes-her-first-experience-with-dmt/</a> <br></div>