DMT On The Brain

Your brain is very good at building a world. In fact, your brain builds your world, your consensus model of reality, as a default. Think about it: we inhabit a functional model of reality constructed by the fantastically complex machinery of the brain. Whatever state of consciousness – whether driving a car, climbing a mountain, reading a book, drinking beer, hallucinating monsters or asleep and dreaming – our brains construct the realities we experience. We think we inhabit the real world, but we know nothing of this real world that is not mediated through the neural processing function. As such we cannot really talk of external reality at all, but only of the internal construction of external reality; and from an evolutionary perspective the model needs to be functional, coherent and consensus or we would face challenges of survivability.

The implications are huge. Alter brain chemistry and alter perception. Perturb the reality-building mechanism and perturb reality. Andrew developed this position as axiom: ‘If a world appears to the consciousness, it must have an informational representation in the brain.’ And from this he suggests that hallucinations should perhaps not be called ‘false perceptions’ but instead ‘nonadaptive perceptions.’

Reality-build an angry bear when there is no angry bear and you live in unnecessary fear, anxiety, paranoia. Fail to reality-build the angry bear when there is an angry bear and you get eaten. But, Andrew asked: ‘When you introduce DMT into the brain, something different happens.’ And that is why we were gathered in that big house with the strange temple. Something seriously different happens.

It’s not like the brain shifts from building the consensus world to building a slightly different version of the consensus world. It shifts, the channel switches, and it starts building a world that has no relationship whatsoever to the consensus world. It’s as if the brain is switched to a completely different mode, as if a different connectivity pattern has been adopted, such that the brain now builds with a beautifully effortless manner this extremely complex, extremely coherent, crystalline, beautiful, rich, bizarre world, that has no relationship to the consensus world.

Andrew R. Gallimore is a chemical pharmacologist, neurobiologist, and writer, and one of the world’s leading experts on psychedelics. He is the author of two books on the science of psychedelics, Alien Information Theory: Psychedelic Drug Technologies and the Cosmic Game and Reality Switch Technologies: Psychedelics as Tools for the Discovery and Exploration of New Worlds. He lives and works in Tokyo.

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