DMT: The Spirit Molecule
A visually ambitious documentary follows DMT research into the uncertain territory where neuroscience, spirituality, and theories of reality converge.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Moderate
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- None
- curious
- provocative
- philosophical
- late night viewing
- consciousness exploration
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The film places Rick Strassman's clinical DMT research alongside neuroscience, quantum physics, religious experience, and spiritual interpretation.
Scott Draves's Electric Sheep visualizations and cutting-edge motion graphics represent DMT experiences and cosmic theories through visual phantasmagoria.
Strassman's government-sanctioned human trials provide the documentary's chronological spine while experts and volunteers expand its questions.
The discussion connects DMT effects with near-death experiences, alien-abduction reports, ancient religious texts, and theories of other realities.
Films like DMT: The Spirit Molecule, and why
The Reality of Truth
psychedelic documentary inquiry combining scientific research, consciousness studies, spirituality, and striking abstract imagery
The Way of the Psychonaut
documentary exploration of altered states, mysticism, consciousness, and the cultural history of psychedelics
A Glitch in the Matrix
science-oriented investigation of consciousness and anomalous experience using interviews, speculation, and conceptual visualizations
Movie Details
- Director
- Mitch Schultz
- Release Date
- 2010-10-15
- Runtime
- 75 min
- Rating
- 6.1 / 10 (82)
Cast
- Joe Rogan
- Ralph Abraham
- Joel Bakst
- Steven Barker
- Cynthia Geist
- Susan Blumenthal
- Patricio Dominguez
- Neal Goldsmith
- Alex Grey
- Roland Griffiths
Common questions
- What is DMT: The Spirit Molecule about?
- A visually ambitious documentary follows DMT research into the uncertain territory where neuroscience, spirituality, and theories of reality converge.
- What is DMT: The Spirit Molecule like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of DMT: The Spirit Molecule as measured, its intensity as moderate and its storytelling as layered.
- Is DMT: The Spirit Molecule violent?
- No — Ember's analysis finds no violence in DMT: The Spirit Molecule.
- Which films are like DMT: The Spirit Molecule?
- Films with a similar feel include The Reality of Truth, The Way of the Psychonaut, and A Glitch in the Matrix.
- How long is DMT: The Spirit Molecule?
- DMT: The Spirit Molecule runs 75 minutes.
