DMT

Let me expand the context. I agree with everything you're saying, particularly about MDMA and Psilocybin. We haven't discussed 5-MeO-DMT yet. My visionary experience suggests we're entering a time of profound social catharsis, crisis, and transformation. Looking ahead 10 or 20 years, the background context will be profoundly different due to eco-environmental, economic, and...

Given the synchronicity of the atomic bomb's birth and LSD in the same decade, I don't think it's accidental. I see it as an amplifier and catalyst of consciousness, akin to Psilocybin, Ayahuasca, DMT, and 5-MeO-DMT. Each substance has its own characteristics. LSD, relatively new, has little historical background, making it unusually clean compared...

I have experience with other psychedelics besides LSD, though my LSD work is primary. I have experimented with Psilocybin, MDMA, San Pedro, and 5-MeO-DMT, an extremely powerful short-acting psychedelic. I don't have a lot of experiences with 5-MeO-DMT. After a long period of not working with psychedelics, I nibbled on that for integration rather...

Many psychedelics come to mind: LSD, psilocybin, MDMA—though that's probably more of an entactogen than a straight psychedelic—5-MeO-DMT, salvia divinorum, San Pedro. Most people are familiar with these. There are also derivatives, like of MDMA, tweaks along the way.

I'm sure we can learn to enter these states more skillfully. Some have a natural aptitude, but we can practice these states, enter carefully, process, and debrief carefully. It establishes the baseline for future non-ordinary states. Integration and careful debriefing, recording your session, processing it, and sitting with the content really matter. In my...

First of all, I've never used Ibogaine, so I'm not really qualified to speak to its function or value. Just looking at the window issue, there are other issues with psychedelics. Every psychedelic has a mind-amplifying quality, but the texture or nuance, the way it opens consciousness, and the spectrum of consciousness it opens,...

There's a lot of discussion about entities, especially with DMT and its derivatives, which often expose people to entities. I'm not suggesting these entities aren't real or don't exist, but to me, personally—and acknowledging my limitations—those entities reflect different levels of reality. As you go deeper, the granular quality of many individual beings tends...

I think your description of ego death is spot on. What dies is what is consumed—our self-representation, our sense of identity amassed from our physical experience and our time-space existence. I also want to mention that every medicine has a certain range, a certain signature and power. Psilocybin, for instance, has a depth of...

Each psychedelic opens consciousness differently. LSD, a high ceiling psychedelic, pushes cosmic boundaries. Psilocybin is more body-grounded and emotion-focused. Ayahuasca integrates with the body and emotional system but has limited experience on my part. 5-MeO-DMT is profound but short-acting, a different exploration. Short versus long-acting psychedelics is a complex area. Longer sessions allow sustained...

Maybe it may vary by substance and the agenda, of course. The tricky part about the 5-MeO experience is how fast it is. It's short, and it's incredibly fast. The LSD experience is very, very long. It's an eight-hour window. Each of them pose distinct challenges for recall and integration.

First of all, I don't have a lot of experience with 5-MeO-DMT. I've only had a couple of sessions, which were ecstatically wonderful and luminous. I did this years after my LSD work. So, the mind I brought to the 5-MeO-DMT experience wasn't the mind I had at the beginning of my LSD work;...

Well, you have to go back to 1978 and think about the landscape then. It was before the era of Ayahuasca, Psilocybin mushrooms were around, and it was really before the era of DMT. More importantly, my work was founded on Stanislav Grof's work, and most of his early work was done with LSD....

I'm really comfortable with the 5-MeO-DMT discussion. I think it's a fascinating substance with the capacity to catapult us through many layers, giving us a short immersion into deep cosmic territories. However, I think the situation shares similarities with people who have near-death episodes. They might be walking down the street, have a heart...

Now, what's the difference between tripping and serious psychedelic work? First, there are many psychedelics, each needing individual consideration—LSD, Psilocybin, MDMA, DMT. I never use the term hallucinogen, as it's a pejorative materialist description. Hallucination implies seeing something that isn't there, making a metaphysical judgment I avoid. Some use "entheogens" for substances that awaken...

If I were talking to my younger self, or if I'm talking to my own children, who are young adults now, I would recommend it partly depends on what you're trying to accomplish. When I got into this work, I was seeking enlightenment, like what most of us were seeking—to be a better human...