Full Description
Cutting-edge explorations and discussions of DMT experiences and plant sentience from leading luminaries in the field of psychedelic research.
Encounters with apparently sentient beings are reported by half of all first time users of the naturally occurring psychedelic DMT, yet the question of DMT beings and plant sentience, interspecies communication, discarnate consciousness, and perhaps even dialoguing with the divine has never been systematically explored.
Offering cutting-edge insights into this visionary domain, this book distills the potent exchange of ideas that occurred at Tyringham Hall, including presentations and discussions on DMT entities, the pineal gland, the possibility of DMT as a chemical messenger from an extraterrestrial civilization, the Amazonian shamanic perspective on Invisible Entities, morphic resonance, and the science behind hallucinations. Contributors to the talks and discussions include many leading thinkers in this field, including Rupert Sheldrake, Rick Strassman, Dennis McKenna, Graham Hancock, Jeremy Narby, Erik Davis, Ede Frecska, Luis Eduardo Luna, Peter Meyer, Jill Purce, David Luke, and Cosmo Feilding Mellen, among many others.
Contents
Foreword
About the Entheogenic Plant Sentience Symposium
Rory Spowers
Preface
Objectives of the Symposium
David Luke
Acknowledgments
DAY ONE
The Origins, Evolution, and Esoteric Culture of DMT
Introduction
Exploring Entheogenic Entity Encounters
Anton Bilton
Chapter 1
The Pineal Enigma: The Dazzling Life and Times of the "Spirit Gland" Graham St. John
DISCUSSION
Chapter 2
Is DMT a Chemical Messenger from an Extraterrestrial Civilization? Dennis McKenna
DISCUSSION
DAY TWO
Frameworks for Thinking about DMT
Chapter 3
Amazonian Perspectives on Invisible Entities
Jeremy Narby
DISCUSSION
Chapter 4
Concerning the Nature of the DMT Entities and Their Relation to Us Peter Meyer
DISCUSSION
Chapter 5
How to Think about Weird Beings
Erik Davis
DISCUSSION
Chapter 6
Why May DMT Occasion Veridical Hallucinations and Informative Experiences?
Ede Frecska
DISCUSSION
DAY THREE
Exploring the Whole of Reality
Chapter 7
The Neurobiology of Conscious Interaction with Alternate Realities and Their Inhabitants
Andrew Gallimore
DISCUSSION
Chapter 8
Morphic Resonance, Psychedelic Experience, and Collective Memory Rupert Sheldrake
DISCUSSION
Chapter 9
Psychedelics, Entities, Dark Matter, and Parallel Dimensions
Graham Hancock
DISCUSSION
Chapter 10
The Nature of DMT Beings: Perspectives and Prospects
Rick Strassman
DAY FOUR
Summary and Departure
Chapter11
What We Think We Know about DMT Entities
David Luke
Afterword
What Next?
Rory Spowers
Speaker Citations
Speaker
Biographies
Discussant Biographies
Editor and Symposium Curator Biographies
Index
