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Andrew Gallimore is a neurobiologist, pharmacologist, and chemist based in Tokyo, Japan, where he writes about and researches psychedelics as molecular technologies for interfacing with alternate realities and the intelligent beings that reside therein. Source: Danny Jones Podcast

A recent study revealed a connection between regular DMT use and belief in a higher power – four people discuss their newfound faith “It feels like the universe is holding you,” says 21-year-old Gemma*, “and that faith is enough. Things are going to be OK.”  A year and a half ago, Gemma started believing in God after an experience with DMT. Previously an atheist, she thought “religious people were just desperately trying to hold onto something – false hope, or something to rationalise pain”. Now, she says that her newfound belief stems from her regular use of acid and magic mushrooms, combined with meditation. “I had the craziest experiences during meditation on psychedelics that have been the most convincing in my path to God,” she says. Gemma is just one of many who have found God after taking psychedelics. Last month, a study revealed that most people who regularly use DMT – a hallucinogenic rumoured to mirror a near-death experience – develop beliefs in some kind of higher pow...

The "DMT language" refers to the complex visual, auditory, and symbolic communication frequently reported during high-dose dimethyltryptamine (DMT) experiences, often described as "breakthroughs" or "hyperspace" encounters. Users often report seeing, hearing, or interacting with a "language" that feels more real than everyday reality, consisting of intricate, self-transforming patterns, glyphs, or "alien code". Key Aspects of the DMT Language Experience Visual Glyphs and Symbols:  Many report seeing glowing, metallic, or fluorescent symbols, hieroglyphs, or "alphabet-like" shapes that appear in 3D, suspended in space. The "Machine Elves" Communication:  Terence McKenna famously described entities, or "self-transforming machine elves," that communicate with the user using a "hyperdimensional language". These entities use sound or visual manifestations to construct objects or convey information. Lan...

Known to produce out-of-body states and profound changes in sensory perception, mood, and thought, DMT (N,N-dimethyltryptamine) is a potent short-lasting tryptamine that has experienced growing appeal in the last decade, independent from ayahuasca, the Amazonian visionary brew in which it is an integral ingredient. Investigating user reports available online as well as a variety of other sources consulted in extended cultural research, this article focuses on the “breakthrough” event commonly associated with the DMT trance. The DMT breakthrough event coincides with significant revelatory outcomes associated with perceived contact with “entities” and the transmission of information often in the form of visual language. Examination of the breakthrough event offers insight on the liminal phenomenology of DMT and other tryptamines, a liminality that is given primary expression in reported travels in “hyperspace.” The article examines user reports of DMT “hyperspace” observing a transitiona...

We explore the mysterious alien languages reported by seekers in altered states, as Alex shares insights from his participation in a groundbreaking extended-state DMT study. He also opens up about a profound non-dual experience encountered during a separate Imperial College research session. Along the way, we muse on the meaning crisis, the evolving face of spirituality, and what might lie beyond the veil of consensus reality. Source: Third Eye Drops

Do psychedelics let us visit other dimensions, or is it all merely a figment of our imagination? Having worked in the cannabis industry for several years, it wasn’t uncommon for me to brush shoulders with people working in psychedelics. And while I considered cannabis to be underutilized from a medicinal perspective, the plant didn’t fascinate me nearly as much as psychedelics did and still do. As an adolescent, I would regularly listen to the late Terence McKenna, the nasal-voiced lecturer and psychonaut who would speak at length about his experiences with various psychedelic compounds. To me, McKenna’s most fascinating talks are those he gave about the ‘self-transforming elf machines.’ The machine elves, according to Terence, are entities that one encounters when they consume the requisite amount of Dimethyltryptamine—or, more commonly, DMT. Here is Terence’s description of the beings: ‘You pass through a membrane of some sort, and you’re in a place. You’re pushed through, and you se...

Entanglement on the Verge of Extinction DMT is the building block for most psychedelics. Ayahuasca, mushrooms, and LSD all take advantage of the properties of DMT, which is in the tryptamine family of amino acids that are naturally produced in mammal and plants alike. When isolated and stabilized in the system, it drives the psychedelic experience. It has been called “ The Spirit Molecule “. In Michael Pollan’s most recent book, “ How To Change Your Mind “, some of the scientists suggest that, once DMT is activated in the brain, it shuts down what is called the ‘default mode network’. (Let me just say from the outset, while not a scientist, I read a lot of science and the more I read about brain research, it seems to me the less we know. So I always take these ideas about how the brain works with a grain of salt.) The DMN is, and forgive here my lack of poetic language to describe this, are the components and structures of the brain that create the ‘voice in my head’ that narrates your...

Alexander Beiner was dosed intravenously with the powerful hallucinogenic DMT as part of a clinical trial at Imperial College London. In the months afterwards, he found himself changing in some interesting ways It’s a rainy autumn day, and I’m lying on a hospital bed in West London. I’m surrounded by scientists and doctors. Plastic tubes are attached to the veins in my arms, and my head is covered by hundreds of tiny electrodes. As the minutes pass, I feel more and more anxious about what’s about to happen. I’m not there for an operation. I’m there because the scientists are about to inject me with a high dose of a powerful psychedelic drug. For six months, I was one of a handful of volunteers on a world-first study at Imperial College that explored the effects of the molecule DMT, or Dimethyltryptamine, on healthy volunteers. When ingested normally, DMT elicits a powerful altered state that lasts for around ten minutes. The team at Imperial, led by Dr. Christopher Timmermann and resea...

The prestigious medical university at Johns Hopkins wants to know if you’ve ever taken so much dimethyltryptamine (DMT) that you’ve broken through reality and met the benevolent machine elves that live in the center of the universe. Researcher Roland R. Griffiths is the neuroscientist in charge of the study and he’s been on the forefront of scientific research into psychedelic experiences for decades . Participating in the study is anonymous and as easy as following this link and filling out a survey . Specifically, the researchers are interested in, “The experiences of people who have had encounters with seemingly autonomous beings or entities after taking DMT. This anonymous internet survey involves asking about your experiences, including the short-term and long-term effects.” Some people who ingest DMT—the hallucinogenic ingredient of Ayahuasca—describing breaking through reality and meeting with creatures on the other side. Some describe them as angels, demons, and even elves. It’...

A study has found that most people who regularly use the psychedelic drug DMT develop beliefs in a higher power such as God, according to a new study by Johns Hopkins University. An online survey of more than 2,500 people undertaken by researchers from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine revealed that after taking DMT—nicknamed “the spirit molecule” for its ability to create deeply spiritual experiences—58 percent of respondents said tripping on DMT had triggered a belief in divine beings and powerful supernatural entities. The study, published in the new issue of Journal of Psychopharmacology , aimed to better understand the weird experiences people have on DMT—called “entity encounter experiences”—and how they impacted their outlook. The survey was shared globally on websites such as VICE and is the largest questionnaire looking at DMT entity encounters to date. The results were published by some of the pioneers in modern psychedelic research: Alan K. Davis, Roland Griffiths, and Matthe...

When David Luke committed to studying psychedelics and parapsychology, it felt like double career suicide. Today, elite institutions have his back as he explores DMT “entities,” near-death experiences, and the mind’s strange forecasting powers in dreams. The first time David Luke tried the hallucinogen DMT, he wasn’t looking for elves or apparitions. He didn’t even really know what DMT, chemically known as N,N-Dimethyltryptamine, was. Within minutes, though, small luminous figures appeared, “taking all the light from the sun and shoving it inside my solar plexus,” he remembers. Only later did Luke, PhD, realize that thousands of people around the world were describing strikingly similar DMT-induced encounters. That recognition came when he began formally collecting and analyzing large numbers of trip reports through his academic work on DMT entity encounters and through his involvement in the Challenging Psychedelic Experience Project, which tracks the long psychological fallout of...

Have you ever wondered why people who nearly die often describe speeding toward supernatural light, or seeing their life flash before their eyes? You may have also heard about the powerful psychedelic dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a class A illegal drug in the UK, and how it might generate the so-called near-death experiences. In a recent study I compared both types of experience and found they share fascinating similarities – but also critical differences. Some studies have suggested there are some basic overlaps between the experiences people have during a near-death experience and taking DMT. But my doctoral research was the first to make an in depth and nuanced qualitative comparison between DMT trips and NDEs. It was also the first field study of its kind, capturing authentic experiences instead of asking participants to take DMT in a laboratory. Thirty-six participants took vaporised high-dose DMT, typically inhaled from a glass pipe, in familiar settings like their own homes. My col...