Top Highlights

• Smoking DMT is like being shot from a cannon into another dimension and returning to this world in less than ten minutes.
• Enveloped by media and technology, we have come to prefer secondhand images to inner experience—what Jung called “the adventure of the spirit.” The self-knowledge achieved through personal discovery and visionary states seems alien, even repellent, compared to the voyeuristic gaze, the virtual entertainments and hypnotic distractions of contemporar...
• Anyway, I had no interest in received wisdom or traditional faith. I wanted inspiration of my own, inner knowledge.
• My ability to have visions seemed extremely meager. A hardhead, I lacked the capacity to “hallucinate.” Even my dreams were meager gray voids.
• I now think of the brain (as distinct from the mind) as a kind of radio. With “normative” levels of serotonin, the brain is tuned to the “consensual reality”—something like the local pop or talk radio station.