Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe DMT can be produced in the pineal gland? I can't read this paper from 1976 but that's what the title says http://o

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe DMT can be produced in the pineal gland? I can't read this paper from 1976 but that's what the title says http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1471-4159.1976.tb04456.x/full http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1471-4159.1976.... DMT is hallucinogenic, similar to LSD and psilocybin (magic mushrooms), and these NDEs sound quite similar to the results of medical psilocybin trials http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/09/trip-treatment http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/09/trip-treatment. I'm surprised the author didn't mention this aspect (or if they did, it was very brief). As the author alluded to, the disappointment for me is with this false dichotomy - mystical and wonderful or scientific and mundane. Isn’t the idea that a bunch of neurons can produce these incredible experiences wonderful enough? How great is it that we can produce a drug to make the last moments of our life beautiful? Aren’t we lucky that sometimes we get a second chance, and our brain can rewire so dramatically we change the way we live our life? And just think how it will change our understanding of consciousness when we figure out how all of this happens! I think that’s a much more fulfilling explanation than the intangible mind/soul argument. But maybe that’s just me.