DMT Dialogues: Encounters with the Spirit Molecule Paperback – August 14, 2018

Man, I wish I had been able to attend in person the gathering that gave rise to this book. Instead I was visiting and participating in San Pedro ceremonies at Chavin in central Peru which inspired me to write my book 'Long Road to Chavin' (Amazon 2018). Short of actually attending the gathering it is gratifying to be able to read this account of talks and dialogues between some of the world's leading researchers in the field of plant spirit medicine. I enjoyed every chapter and recommend this work to all interested in questions of ultimate reality, disincarnate spiritual beings, shamanism and natural healing.Really fascinating reading!Martin StevensTarapoto, Peru

Very interesting compilation of talks on the subject of DMT. I was especially intrigued by a discussion around the thought that our brains are just as capable of creating a DMT consensus reality as the one we currently experience as "real. While I personally have not encountered other beings after taking mushrooms or LSD, I have always felt that the reality I experienced especially while on LSD was something more and different than my normal state. Not just a hallucination, but more of an altered perception or a look into another world. I recommend reading the dialogues as they are so thought-provoking giving philosophical, theological and scientific rationale for the validity of the psychedelic experience.

The subject matter is presented so well. The concept of this strange brain chemical is explained clearly and in a wonderful manner.

DMT is that magical hallucinogen that takes one off to another world inhabited by unusual entities. Some of these entities look like insects, some look like animals, some look like weird humans and some look like strange cross-breads between humans and animals. Still other DMT entities seem like something else entirely: beings more like machines or machine intelligences and beings that appear as almost ethereal higher dimensional geometries. Some entities may just be felt as a mere presence, perhaps a presence of good, perhaps a presence of evil, yet a strange presence and nothing tangibly more. But just what is the ontological nature of these DMT entities? Are they mere hallucinations created by the rush of DMT into the neural circuits of the brain? Are they a reflection of our Freudian or Jungian unconscious manifest as visions? Or perhaps they are real beings in their own right? Perhaps they are our future selves coming to speak with us or extraterrestrial aliens from another planet or dimension. Maybe they are spiritual beings: angels or even Gods, perhaps some are demons or even Satan himself? All these weird and wonderful questions are asked at this conference meeting of brilliant enquiring minds eager to know what DMT tells us about reality. The book is a recording of a series of lecture presentations followed by general groups discussion on DMT and its philosophical, biological and cultural implications. Anyone with an interest in psychedelics and other esoteric thought will recognise some of the conference presenters: Dennis McKenna (ethnobiologist and brother of famous psychonaut Terrance McKenna), Graham Hancock (Fingerprints of the Gods' author), Rupert Sheldrake (biologist renowned for his theory of Morphic Resonance) and Rick Strassman (psychopharmocologst and 'DMT: The Spirit Molecule' author). Hancock's presentation is basically a summary of his book "The Supernatural," while Sheldrake rehashes his Morphic Resonance theory and critiques materialistic paradigms of science. The most interesting presentations to me were from psychiatrist Ede Frecska who suggests that DMT activates quantum processes in the brain that allow the mind/brain to access actual other worlds, and neurobiologist/pharmacologist, Andrew Gallimore, who speculates that DMT entities may be higher dimensional entities that have created our world as a kind of virtual reality simulation. Gallimore speculates that DMT acts as our 'red pill' out of the "The Matrix" reality we live in and that perhaps it enables us to lift the veil of our own perceptions and see the world of our true creators. Of course, none of this is provable and those who were gathered for this conference speculate on whether we can scientifically establish the ontological nature of the DMT world and its entities. One of the speakers suggested seeing if they could possibly put willing experimental participants under a DMT "trip" for extended periods of hours or even days, to see what they can discover and learn from being in the DMT world for such a prolonged time. Interesting idea if it were possible, but good luck getting it past a university ethics committee! Other speakers speculate if it is possible to ask DMT entities specific questions that only these other dimensional beings can answer for us. This sounds exciting, but sadly none of those gathered at the conference mentioned the well known fact that what is profound knowledge in psychedelic worlds often translates rather poorly when shared in our everyday consensus reality. Under psychedelics, the profound words of Angels and Gods often translate into general silliness or sometimes plain non-sense when one records them and reads them with a more sober 'non-tripped-out' mind. Maybe one day the journal of Nature will present an article that winds up in Newsweek magazine with the sensational heading "Psychonaut experimenters prove they can communicate with alien entities for the first time via DMT!" Until then, perhaps the only way one can decide on the ontological nature of DMT entities is to try some experimenting on one's own self and then decide. This book is a pretty fun read.

I had read this amazing book before but lent it to someone who suddenly picked up and moved without telling no one taking my book with her... DMT is an extremely powerful natural hallucinogen that is not for the faint of heart... The main question... Why do people who find themselves in the presence of beings while under the influence of DMT meet the same beings... Simple enough question...

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Overall, I was mildly disappointed by this transcript of the 2015 meeting of top minds discussing DMT-related phenomenon. I love Graham Hancock, Dennis McKenna, Andrew Gallimore, Jeremy Narby, and others, and it’s nice to read their very compressed theories presented and debated. Nearly the entire conversation is speculative, since at this time we know so little about DMT. If you have personal experience with the substance, there may be a few ideas you’ll enjoy, but if you have read all of the available literature on the topic, there’s not much new here. The most informative book on DMT remains “DMT: The Spirit Molecule” and “340 Trip Reports”.Ultimately, little is said about DMT entities (which is specifically why I bought this book). Not exactly a must-have in helping one to understand the phenomenon, but if you are as obsessed as some of us, it’s worth a read.