Luke, David Visions of DMT. #bk. 5

Read by David Sterling

This book opens the doors to one of the strangest puzzles in contemporary consciousness research: why do so many people who take DMT report meeting autonomous "entities" that feel intelligent, alien and uncannily real? Structured around a series of live dialogues between scientists, shamans, philosophers and seasoned psychonauts, it reads like a four-day symposium captured on the page. Clinical researchers bring data from human trials; anthropologists bring ayahuasca cosmologies from the Amazon; philosophers resurrect ideas of daimons and imaginal realms; cosmologists speculate about fields, dimensions and information. No single perspective is allowed to dominate. Instead, each chapter turns the question of entity encounters in a different light-psychological, spiritual, neurological, esoteric-while the round-table discussions reveal points of agreement, sharp disagreement and genuine surprise. More than a catalogue of trip reports, this is a serious attempt to think about DMT beings without reducing them to "just hallucinations" or inflating them into unquestionable gods. It invites the reader into a rare kind of conversation: one where mainstream science and visionary experience meet on equal footing, and where the mystery is kept intact even as new conceptual tools are forged to face it

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