David Luke, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Greenwich and a guest lecturer at the University of Northhampton. He has published over 100 academic papers on transpersonal experiences and altered states of consciousness and regularly gives public lectures and conference presentations. A cofounder and director of Breaking Convention, a biennial international conference on psychedelic research, he lives in East Sussex, England. Rory Spowers is an ecological writer, filmmaker, and author. He is the founder of The Web of Hope, a UK charity and ecological education resource, and the creative director for the Tyringham Initiative. He lives in Ibiza, Spain.

• 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

“DMT Dialogues is a courageous attempt in the best tradition of the scientific process to wrestle with the meaning of anomalous DMT experiences, reported by a substantial number of people, involving the sense of being in touch with alien intelligences. Like all great mysteries, there is no single interpretation that everybody who participated in the DMT Dialogues arrived at by consensus. Reading DMT Dialogues will not bring you certainty but rather will bring you in direct contact with profound minds struggling to plumb the depths of consciousness.”

David Luke, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Greenwich and a guest lecturer at the University of Northhampton. He has published over 100 academic papers on transpersonal experiences and altered states of consciousness and regularly gives public lectures and conference presentations. A cofounder and director of Breaking Convention, a biennial international conference on psychedelic research, he lives in East Sussex, England. Rory Spowers is an ecological writer, filmmaker, and author. He is the founder of The Web of Hope, a UK charity and ecological education resource, and the creative director for the Tyringham Initiative. He lives in Ibiza, Spain.

• 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

“DMT Dialogues is a courageous attempt in the best tradition of the scientific process to wrestle with the meaning of anomalous DMT experiences, reported by a substantial number of people, involving the sense of being in touch with alien intelligences. Like all great mysteries, there is no single interpretation that everybody who participated in the DMT Dialogues arrived at by consensus. Reading DMT Dialogues will not bring you certainty but rather will bring you in direct contact with profound minds struggling to plumb the depths of consciousness.”

David Luke, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Greenwich and a guest lecturer at the University of Northhampton. He has published over 100 academic papers on transpersonal experiences and altered states of consciousness and regularly gives public lectures and conference presentations. A cofounder and director of Breaking Convention, a biennial international conference on psychedelic research, he lives in East Sussex, England. Rory Spowers is an ecological writer, filmmaker, and author. He is the founder of The Web of Hope, a UK charity and ecological education resource, and the creative director for the Tyringham Initiative. He lives in Ibiza, Spain.

• 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

“DMT Dialogues is a courageous attempt in the best tradition of the scientific process to wrestle with the meaning of anomalous DMT experiences, reported by a substantial number of people, involving the sense of being in touch with alien intelligences. Like all great mysteries, there is no single interpretation that everybody who participated in the DMT Dialogues arrived at by consensus. Reading DMT Dialogues will not bring you certainty but rather will bring you in direct contact with profound minds struggling to plumb the depths of consciousness.”