Mapping the DMT Realm
The Revelation of How Little We Know About Everything and the Interconnectedness of All Things
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Psychedelics & DMT: The Revelation of How Little We Know About Everything and the Interconnectedness of All Things
The Rogan Aether (@theroganaether, tiktok): Graham Hancock & The London Imperial College, The Experiences of Neal Brennan, Paul Stamets + Shane Mauss (@mark__kaos, tiktok), Psychonauts and Jordan Peterson’s Take
In recent years, there has been increasing scientific interest in psychedelics, including the ever-powerful DMT, for their potential therapeutic uses and the search for meaning in these seemingly religious experiences. Institutions like Imperial College London are at the forefront of this research as they have conducted several groundbreaking studies into the effects of psychedelics on the brain and their potential for treating a range of mental health disorders. Their data on psilocybin (amongst other psyches) in treating anxiety and depression unambiguously points to the notion that psychedelics are indeed the most effective medicine that we have on the planet, but their most groundbreaking project of ‘Mapping the DMT realm’ has the potential to change the way we perceive reality.
The Rogan Aether is one of the best Rogan-based tik tok accounts not only because they post about some of the most interesting and mind-bending topics discussed on the JRE but because their visuals and the way the videos are produced almost always make for a fascinating watch. The account often dissects some of the ‘questioning-reality’ type of topics that has made the JRE the most popular podcast in the world over the years. The account warns us of its intentional profundity as aether, also known as the fifth element or quintessence, is the material that fills the region of the universe beyond the terrestrial sphere. Rogan’s ultra open mindedness is on full display when bringing in guests like Graham Hancock who usually chops it up about lost civilizations and psychedelics – namely the most influential substance mankind has ever experienced: DMT.
Today’s analysis will revolve around this utterly absurd psychedelic that is often regarded as ‘a taste of death’ and ‘more real than real’. In this clip, Hancock informs Joe that the Imperial College of London has developed a technology for releasing DMT into human volunteers in a very slow drip that will keep them in the DMT state, if they wish, for hours on end. For those that aren’t aware of the differences between dimethyltryptamine and other psyches that usually have lasting effects for hours, the effects of DMT last ~15 Earth minutes while users describe their experience as having been hours, days, months or even years. These experiences are obviously highly subjective and many cannot fathom or remember what they just went through, but the many shared experiences of encountering the same entities and visions have led scientists like Hancock to believe there is indeed a DMT dimension that you go to, “The intention is to use this technology to explore and map the DMT realm”. As someone who lacks first hand participation to this other-worldly trip, I can’t testament to the actual experience but I can testament to the countless number of tik toks and social media posts I have seen of people describing their experience as
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‘being in the presence of God’ or ‘by far the most spiritual moment of my life’ and so on and so forth. It was the psychedelic adventurer Joe Rogan himself who said that it’s crazy that the knowledge of this experience isn’t on the cover of every newspaper and it’s weird how some people go their whole lives without ever experiencing this completely different life. There has long been a negative connotation regarding psychedelics but the more research and science there is, the easier it is to recognize the fact that these are not just recreational drugs that people take to get high and escape reality, they are rather alternate pathways to different realities. The below quote by one of the leaders at the Imperial College London is particularly telling, “If we’re serious about understanding human beings and their consciousness, we need to understand psychedelic experiences,” Christopher Timmins, a PhD student at Imperial College London and author of the study, told VICE. “DMT [is] particularly relevant because, at normal doses, it generates this very strong sense of immersiveness. It feels a lot like being dead, or what you imagine being dead feels like, and then you’re sucked back into your body feeling somewhere between terrified and peaceful. But what’s weird is that for such a chaotic ride, there seems to be a pattern to the experience. The trip tends to follow a similar trajectory each time, and everyone seems to experience some variation of the same thing”. Many have described this ‘variation of the same thing’ as an ego death in which we experience the interconnectedness of all things and the idea that ‘we are all one’.
Of the many clips I’ve come across of people describing their seemingly insane psychedelic trips, these two clips of Paul Stamets (who also stopped stuttering after his first wild psilocybin trip) and Shane Mauss probably take the crown. In the first few seconds of the Paul Stamets clip, we hear why Joe Rogan has been able to build the media empire that he now controls: not because he’s an extremely intellectual guy or because he’s the hardest working person ever but because he is quite simply curiosity in the purest form. As Paul begins to tell Joe about his absurd trip, “I’m not really sure how to describe this” the Bald Eagle instills a sense of comfort in his guest, assuring him that there’s no downside in trying, “just give it a shot”. The importance of these subtle words of encouragement cannot be understated as they epitomize a man who yearns to learn more about the experiences of others in order to refine his own perspective on reality. The words remind us that, in a similar yet opposite way the Kardashians are famous for being rich and sexy, Joe Rogan is famous for being open minded. Rogan’s words act as the catalyst for Stamets’ MultiVerse experience as he tells us the day he was tripping sack off a high dosage of psilly mushrooms in his bedroom and had a lucid dream in which he “saw thousands of dead cattle baking in the sun” and thus radically predicted that the world would end the following weekend. He tells us that in the days leading up to that weekend (in his home state of Washington) there were massive amounts of rain, snowfall and then temperature inversions to 80 degrees post snow-fall. As there were extreme levels of flooding, he drove to his cabin next to a river in order to save his manuscripts and work from being eaten alive and after a few days of waiting for the roads to clear, he began his drive back home when he saw thousands of dead cattle baking in the sun. The clip ends fittingly as Stamets begs “how do you explain that?” and then remarks “I think I entered into the multiverse”. There will still be those who believe people like Stamets are lying for clout, but his academic body of work and incredible pioneering efforts to save the bees (and us) speaks for itself. His voice that has been featured on multiple Rogan podcasts, dozens of other popular podcasts and multiple TedTalks is the clear antithesis for the narrow-minded folk who blindly label Stamets as a pseudoscientist. He is a scholarly psychedelic adventurer who lives in a small cabin and has limited taste for materialism; he gains nothing from lying or exacerbating his stories and his voice seems consistently authentic throughout all of his media appearances. This is precisely why Rogan abides by 3 hour long conversations – you can’t fabricate ideas or hide behind a teleprompter when it’s just you and another person conversing for consecutive hours.
The second video posted on Mark Kaos’ tiktok features the craziest story of Shane Mauss’s life and maybe the craziest DMT story of all time. Similar to the Rogan Aether, mark__kaos is a thisandthat focal account as it provides not only informative psychedelic information but also seemingly impossible yet legitimate recollections of psychedelic experiences that serve as nutritious food for thought. The clip tells us that Shane took DMT for the 20th time with the intention of proving that these experiences existed outside of his own head. He starts off lightly in a “kitchen that collapsed and deconstructed into a movie set” from the perspective of someone that he thought was him, learning that he had been living in a movie set his whole life, like Truman Burbank. Things begin to ramp up a bit as he is catapulted into the cosmos and thrusted through a purple rip in the universe where he worked with another version of himself on keeping a portal open. He tells us that after working on this gateway to alternate dimensions one day, he met this ‘dancing, purple gypsy woman’ at a carnival and it was like he had known her for lifetimes. As the trip was wearing off, the gypsy woman and the DMT version of Shane began to get sad because they had to leave each other and she “exploded into fractals that became everything in the universe”. It was just a normally baffling DMT trip until he gave his friend some dimethyl for the first time the next day and a few minutes into his trip he told Shane “wow they love you here”. As he urged his friend to explain more during his trip, Shane learned that he was having the same experience at the carnival where he saw similar visions and met the purple woman who told him that she knows Shane and wants him to know that she cares about him. After he told him this, they were both silent for the last ten minutes of his trip. When he got out of the trip he told Shane that he encountered these little elf things and they were both scared of each other until Shane started talking, and they said “oh you know Shane? He comes in here all the time”. The end of the clip tells us that this story was not an anomaly as Shane has now encountered this purple, dancing, gypsy woman 5-6 times after and she has gotten jealous of his ‘real-life’ girlfriend. Mauss remarkably notes that he is now “basically dating a being from a different dimension” and “I’m pretty sure we’ve known each other for thousands of lifetimes but I have no idea what her name is”. In one of the most miraculous psychedelic tales ever, Shane Mauss all but proves that the DMT realm is not some drug-induced fairy tale land but it includes beings that actually exist in different dimensions of reality. We can all make opinions how we see fit, but to dismiss these phenomenal stories as fiction and label Shane Mauss + Paul Stamets as delusional liars would be shortsighted and ignorant.
The Imperial College of London isn’t the sole source of mapping the DMT realm as there are other Psychonauts Training to Explore Another Dimension. In this article, we are introduced to the Americans who are exploring new frontiers in hallucinogenic research through the similar nascent technology known as extended-state DMT. The article posits that, with a constant stream of DMT supplied to a user and blood serum levels of the molecule regulated, the trip can last hours or even days—seemingly an eternity, iterated “An extended-state experience would provide a more leisurely approach to characterizing the DMT effect,” Strassman wrote. It also enables a “more stable and fulsome communication with the beings,” as he doesn’t discount the scientific value of documenting those semi mystical encounters. The DMTx program offered by Medicinal Mindfulness has a long term goal to “develop and implement FDA-approved clinical research” into DMT but also notes that “working outside some of the cultural constraints of the FDA allows us to explore a model that is congruent with the passionate interests of the psychedelic community. Namely, to explore the important question: What in the world is really going on here?” Rick Strassman also highlights the immense difference in how his mission to learn more about human consciousness through DMT was perceived decades ago versus now, “Within the scientific community, at least the larger academic one, my initial results were either barely noticed or referred to in a bemused manner,” he said. “No one told me I was going to kill my career by studying DMT”. He recognizes the initial lack of credibility towards his other-worldly studies as being due to the fact that “no one knew what DMT was yet”. These perceptions have changed completely in recent years as the major uptick in psychedelics research facilitated by Teams at Imperial College’s Centre for Psychedelic Research in the United Kingdom as well as the University Hospital of Basel in Switzerland are currently running the first studies of extended-state DMT. The once alien and non-scientific drug is now commonly viewed as one of the most important areas of research by both the public and scientific community because people have come to understand that the “the goal is that this would be like an advanced creative problem-solving tool for technological advancement”. As psychedelics continue to broaden minds and enhance perspectives, Daniel McQueen (co-founder of the Center for Medicinal Mindfulness and principal organizer for the DMTx) optimistically believes that eventually narrow minded folks will change the way they think about psyches. Rather than brainlessly labeling them as ‘just drugs’, he speculates that more people will adopt the aphorism dubiously attributed to Albert Einstein: “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” The era of psychedelics being perceived as druggy poisons with degenerative tendencies is coming to an end, but we must absolutely remember to use these substances with utmost caution and treat them like the RELIGIOUS experiences that they are. The article speaks to this concept as it categorizes psychedelic users into two categories: first there are those who merely like to party—dorm-room floor disciples who don’t gain much intuition or perspective from their trips. But, the other type looks at it as more of an introspective experiment, with a desire to explore and really understand these medicines at a deeper level. In order for the world to really lose the negative connotation that has plagued the potential for widespread research, we must recognize that psyches are not meant to be used recreationally (unless you microdose ferda) and that if we want to experience their invaluable nature and infinite bag of benefits, we must be calculated users that fall into the latter category. The last important concept this astounding Psychonaut article touches on is that Chunky Pharma is in the process of adapting to the game. Despite a near research ban on psychedelics during the drug war in the 1970s and ’80s, studies are increasingly showing that psychedelic-assisted therapy can help a host of mental ailments, including depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder and pharmaceutical companies are now abundantly aware, “The global psychedelic drug market may reach over $6 billion by 2026, doubling in size. The largest share of that business will go to treating depression as companies are developing an ayahuasca pill and DMT injection”. Although Big Pharma’s implementation is obviously due to the crazy profit margins (not the mental + spiritual benefits nor the reflective nature that makes you realize the world is a grand stage and pharmaceutical companies don’t actually care about your health) it’s still exciting that these treatments will soon be normalized and omnipresent.
This last short that’ll fittingly bring this writeup to an end features the staunch psychologist who eats steak and drinks sparkling water for every meal of his life… Jordan ‘Facts Don’t Care About Your Feelings’ Peterson. As much as we have come to learn about psyches in recent history, JP instills in us the underlying truth – the more we learn, the less we know, “what we don’t understand about psychedelics is a very thick book. They bend the structure of reality. I have no conceptual framework for what they are. I have no idea what they are. They could literally be anything. What they reveal to me is how little we know about everything and that’s a terrifying thing”. Despite the agnostic attitude towards psyches, JP acknowledges some of the many benefits of psilocybin recounting that 85% of smokers quit smoking if they had a mystical experience on psilly and that their use was conducive to a religious transformation - crucial in curing alcoholics detached from the human experience. Overall, JP recognizes the clear clinical benefits of psyches but is skeptical of the fact that we have no real schema for what they are. He concludes by urging users to be systematic and careful “they can help you orient yourself morally but you better look the hell out”.
Peterson’s powerful admittance of an utter lack of understanding is meant to lead us down a humble road toward the destination of one of the most important universal truths in existence: there are two types of people in this world, those who know that they don’t know and those who don’t know that they don’t know. By this token, and with regards to modern religions and polarizing politics, it’s vital to have a hunger to learn via objective/independent research and possess a willingness to question everything that we think we know. This mindset doesn’t mean that we should whole-heartedly trust Alex Jones when he tells us that the government is using psychedelics to communicate with aliens but it does mean that we shouldn’t rule anything out because absurd theories like that one are just as absurd as the absence of these types of theories. Whether you think that early human societies had been egalitarian and embraced consciousness-altering medicines until the rise of “dominator culture” and patriarchal monotheism which despised entheogens for the way they allowed people to transcend their individual egos, or you simply think Terrence McKenna was a mentally diseased pseudo-scientist, we must be open to preposterous explanations about reality because existence itself is an absolute miracle that we cannot explain. We don’t need to use psychedelics to realize the interconnectedness of all things and carry a deep sense of gratitude for the marvel of human life, but they certainly seem to impart this mindset.