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Luke, D. (2022, May). DMT, death, entities, and beyond. Invited talk for The Plant Spirit Summit, EntheoNation (online), 18th May.
DMT Entities: Chaired symposium at Breaking Convention: The 3rd International Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness, University of Greenwich, London, 10th-12th July, 2015 Videos of the lectures here: Dr David Luke - https://vimeo.com/135548341 Jack Hunter - https://vimeo.com/136625145 Dr Andrew Gallimore - https://vimeo.com/136079047 Dr William Rowlandson - https://vimeo.com/136092426 Daniel Pinchbeck - https://vimeo.com/136132753 Dr Rick Strassman - https://vimeo.com/136132739 DMT ENTITIES PT.1 Chair: David Luke 14:30 HOW DOES ONE PROVE ONE’S-ELF? EXPLORING THE ONTOLOGY OF DISCARNATE ENTITIES IN THE DMT REALM David Luke 15:00 ON THE NATURE OF THE PSILOCYBE FOLK: PSYCHEDELIC ENTITY ENCOUNTERS AND THE PROBLEM OF SPIRITS Jack Hunter 15:30 WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE A MACHINE ELF? Andrew Gallimore 16:00 ALTERED STATES OF UNCONSCIOUS William Rowlandson 16:30 BREAK DMT ENTITIES PT.2 Chair: David Luke 17:00 THE ENIGMA OF DMT ENTITIES Daniel Pinchbeck 17:30 THEONEUROLOGY: ONE NEW MODEL FOR RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE PROVIDES AN ALTERNATIVE TO TWO Rick Strassman (Skype)
A talk by Peter Meyer delivered in September 2015 at Tyringham Hall, England, as part of a Symposium on Entheogenic Tryptamines. It discusses, from a philosophical point of view, contact induced by the use of DMT (N,N-dimethyltryptamine) with apparently intelligent entities in an apparently alternate reality and speculates on their nature. This paper attempts to understand what the DMT entities are by situating them in a metaphysical framework derived from the teachings of Origen and Plotinus, and showing how the consciousness of individual humans might originate in the consciousness of individual DMT entities.
Luke, D. (2017, June). Summing it up: What we think we know about DMT entities. Invited lecture for Exploring Entheogenic Entity Encounters II, Tyringham Hall, Tyringham, 1st June.
DMT, and entity encounters. Symposium of submitted papers at Breaking Convention: 5th International Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness, 16th-18th August, 2019, University of Greenwich, London. Saturday 17th August 14:30 Is DMT an Endogenous Meta-Neurotransmitter? Tom Ray 15:00 Psychedelics, Occulture and the Mediation of Entity Encounters Cavan McLaughlin 15:30 Music, Psychedelics and The Limitations of The Scientific Approach to Studying DMT – Mark Agacan 16:00 Preliminary Results of The DMT Field Study: Acute Phenomenology and Qualitative Analysis – Pascal Michael 17:00 Hyperspatial Journeys With Your Goods’elf: Experimental DMT Field Research – David Luke 17:30 Towards a DMaTrix Machine – Developing DMT as a Technology for Communication with Interdimensional Alien Intelligences Andrew Gallimore
The DMT symposium - Breaking Convention: 6th International Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness - University of Exeter, 20th- 22nd April, 2023 The DMT symposium - Friday 21st April, Hofmann Hall Chair: David Luke 10:00 - The Neuroscience of DMT: Past, Present, and Beyond Chris Timmerman 10:30 - Formosahuasca, Acacia Confusa ayahuasca analog from Asia: Notes toward Re-enchantment, ancestral healing and creative expression Marina Li Chun 11:00 - Shamanic Snuff Tryptamines Jonathan Ott 12:00 - Journeying with 5-MeO-DMT and Space Holding: Navigating Profound Experiences for the Benefit of Community – Natasja Pelgrom 12: 30 - Artificial Entities: How DMT can help us make sense of AI and The Internet – Alexander Beiner 13:00 - PANEL
Prof Chris M Bache - LSD and DMT Entity Relation. Divine Molecule Talks at Tyringham – Part II Exploring Entheogenic Entity Encounters, a private symposium, Tyringham Hall, September 2015 (curator and compère).
Journal of the Society for Psychical Research
Discarnate entities and dimethyltryptamine (DMT): Psychopharmacology, phenomenology and ontology2011 •
The highly psychoactive molecule N,N -dimethyltryptamine (or simply DMT), is found naturally occurring in the brains of humans, mammals, and some other animals, as well as in a broad range of species of the plant kingdom. Although speculative, neurochemical research suggests that DMT may be made in the pineal gland, and it is hypothesised that, as much as melatonin helps activate sleep cycles, DMT activates dreaming, and may also be implicated in other natural visionary states such as mystical experience, near-death experience (NDE), spontaneous psi and psychosis. Amazonian shamans have made use of this chemical for its visionary properties for thousands of years, most likely, and take it as part of a decoction frequently called ayahuasca, which translates from Quechua as “vine of the spirits” or “vine of the dead”. The psychedelic brew is taken because it gives rise to extraordinary mental phenomena that have shamanic and supposed healing qualities, such as synaesthesia, ostensible extra-dimensional percepts, out-of-body experiences, psi experiences and perhaps most commonly, encounters with discarnate entities. When described by independent and seemingly naïve DMT participants the entities encountered tend to vary in detail but often belong to one of a very few similar types, with similar behavioural characteristics. For instance, mischievous shapeshifting elves, preying mantis alien brain surgeons and jewel-encrusted reptilian beings, who all seem to appear with baffling predictability. This opens up a wealth of questions as to the reality (i.e., the ontology) of these entities. The discussion of the phenomenology and ontology of these entities mixes research from parapsychology, ethnobotany and psychopharmacology – the fruits of science – with the foamy custard of folklore, anthropology, mythology, cultural studies and related disciplines. Hopefully however, given the varied readership of this journal, it won’t prove to be a trifle too interdisciplinary.
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