DMT On The Brain

The DMT world transcends archetypal form. So alien. So other. As such, the brain tries to make sense of the experience by translating the perception into some archetypal form: the Insectoid, the Elfish, the Reptilian, the Trickster.

‘The DMT state, at its deepest levels, is the apotheosis of the alien. It is a world that the brain should not know how to build. It is a world that should not exist and yet there it is, irresistible in its construction and undeniable in its presence. To smoke DMT means to confront not merely a different world, but one that is, frankly, impossible.’

So it’s not a dream. It’s not a hallucination. It’s not an 'Archetype of the Collective Unconscious'. It’s not even a drug. It’s a reality switch.

How best to express this notion of sudden reality switching – instantaneous journeying – than by the metaphor of the radio first used by Henri Bergson over a century ago, and updated by Andrew (and many others) to the television. The radio and the television do not generate the content. They receive it and present it. Change the channel and change the show. Turn the dial of consciousness and tune into a different reality.

'After more than a decade of studying, writing, speaking, and thinking about DMT, I’d finally found myself compelled to reach a conclusion I’d never have thought possible when I began – that DMT was allowing us to interface with some kind of intelligent agent external to the brain. I couldn’t make sense of DMT without such an agent.’

An agent. An autonomous, self-aware, self-defined, self-selfed agent. These agents control the experience to the extent that they can expel the tripper. Literally slam the door in their face. Andrew rules out simple drug tolerance. That’s to say, it is not that some fellow has been hitting the pipe so much that he now cannot get the hit without upping the dose. No. He’s kicked out of the hyper-room. Barred from returning until the time comes when access is permitted again. The agents control the experience, which leads to Andrew’s question, ‘Who are they?’

Ancient and indigenous reports of other-than-human entities. Fairy-lore and elf-lore. Shamanism. UFOlogy and alien abduction experiences, especially with reference to Jacques Vallée and John Mack. 

We live in a populated universe. That the universe is filled with consciousness, with conscious beings, with discarnate entities who are invisible most of the time. We are not taught that. Maybe kids are taught that in Sunday school about angels and demons. Our dominant cultural worldviews – scientific, social, cultural – do not teach us that. Ok, maybe there’s extraterrestrial life somewhere out there. This is what Carl Sagan was working on.

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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