Description
Book Synopsis• Includes contributions from the late Ralph Metzner, Chris Bache, Whitley Strieber, Jeffrey Kripal, Angela Voss, Bill Richards, Chris Timmermann, Michael Winkelman, Luis Eduardo Luna, Anton Bilton, Bernard Carr, Daniel Pinchbeck, Dennis McKenna, Ede Frecska, and David Luke
• Explores DMT beings, alien abduction, plant sentience, neuroscientific DMT research, the connections between LSD and DMT entities, and the nature of mind and reality
Found throughout the plant and animal kingdom, DMT (dimethyltryptamine) is also naturally occurring in humans, and may be released during near-death and actual death experiences, earning it the title “the spirit molecule.” When taken as a psychedelic, either via ayahuasca or in pure form, DMT is experientially considered to be one of the strongest and strangest of all entheogens. The majority of high-dose users report visions of unknown yet curiously familiar alien worlds and encounters with sentient nonhuman presences.
At a four-day symposium at Tyringham Hall in England in 2017, twenty of the world’s psychedelic luminaries gathered to discuss entheogenic entity encounters, consciousness expansion, visionary experiences, and the future of research in this field. Contributors to the talks and discussions include many leading thinkers, including the late Ralph Metzner, Chris Bache, Whitley Strieber, Je rey Kripal, Angela Voss, Bill Richards, Chris Timmermann, Michael Winkelman, Luis Eduardo Luna, Anton Bilton, Bernard Carr, Daniel Pinchbeck, Dennis McKenna, Ede Frecska, and David Luke.
This book distills the potent exchange of ideas that occurred at Tyringham Hall, including discussions about DMT beings, encounter experiences, alien abduction, plant sentience, the shamanic use of ayahuasca, neuroscientifi c DMT research, the connections between LSD and DMT entities, and the nature of mind and reality.
Trade Review"A stellar collection of scholars digs deep and wide into the remarkably common encounter with 'beings' in the DMT state. Viewpoints cover this phenomenon from every possible perspective, including neuroscience; psychology and parapsychology; anthropology and shamanism; philosophy, theology, and religious history; quantum physics and cosmology; and self-experimentation and alien abduction. The definitive, and most thorough and exciting, treatment of this extraordinary experience." * Rick Strassman, M.D., author of DMT: The Spirit Molecule *
"An invaluable contribution to the growing library of information concerning Medical Psychopharmacology; Popular Psychology Psychopharmacology; and ESP,
DMT Entity Encounters: Dialogues on the Spirit Molecule with Ralph Metzner, Chris Bache, Jeffrey Kripal, Whitley Strieber, Angela Voss, and Others is an important and unreservedly recommended addition to personal, professional, community, college, and university library collections. For the personal reading lists of students, academia, DMT researchers, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject, it should be noted that
DMT Entity Encounters: Dialogues on the Spirit Molecule with Ralph Metzner, Chris Bache, Jeffrey Kripal, Whitley Strieber, Angela Voss, and Others is also readily available in a digital book format (Kindle, $12.99)." * Midwest Book Review *
Table of ContentsForeword About the Exploring Entheogenic Entity Encounters Symposium
Rory Spowers and David Luke
Preface Symposium Objectives David Luke
Introduction The Marrying of Science and Spirituality
Anton Bilton
Chapter 1
On Encounters with Entities in the Ayahuasca Realm
A Phenomenological View Luis Eduardo Luna
DISCUSSION Chapter 2 Visionary Experiences, Entities, and Alien Worlds
A Natural Evolved Psychology Michael Winkelman
DISCUSSION Chapter 3 Entheogens, Radical Empiricism, and the Nature of Reality
Ralph Metzner
DISCUSSION Chapter 4
Subjective Experiences and Sensed Presence Phenomenon in Human Research with DMT Chris Timmermann
DISCUSSIONChapter 5Ineffability and Revelation on the Frontiers of Knowledge
William Richards
DISCUSSION
Chapter 6 Stories from a Life
A Lifetime of Anomalous and Unexplained Experiences Whitley Strieber
DISCUSSION Chapter 7 What Is the Daimon?
An Exploration of the Oracular Intelligence
Angela Voss
DISCUSSION Chapter 8 Making Space and Time for Mind and Psychedelia
Bernard Carr
DISCUSSION Chapter 9 LSD and DMT Entity Relation Chris M. Bache
DISCUSSION Chapter 10 Biological Gods Science (Fiction) and Some Emergent Mythologies Jeffrey J. Kripal
DISCUSSION
Chapter 11 Initiation, Spiritual Science, and the Limits of Reason
Daniel Pinchbeck
DISCUSSIONChapter 12 Summary of Divine Molecule Talks
Exploring Entheogenic Entity Encounters David Luke
Speaker Citations Speaker Biographies Discussant Biographies Editor and Symposium Curator Biographies
Index
