David Luke, Ph.D., is associate lecturer of psychology at the University of Greenwich and honorary senior lecturer at the Centre for Psychedelic Research, Imperial College. He has published more than 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, fi lmmaker, 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 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 RealmA 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 MetznerDISCUSSION 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 DISCUSSIONChapter 6 Stories from a LifeA 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 BiographiesIndex

"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."

David Luke, Ph.D., is associate lecturer of psychology at the University of Greenwich and honorary senior lecturer at the Centre for Psychedelic Research, Imperial College. He has published more than 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, fi lmmaker, 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 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 RealmA 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 MetznerDISCUSSION 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 DISCUSSIONChapter 6 Stories from a LifeA 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 BiographiesIndex

"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."

David Luke, Ph.D., is associate lecturer of psychology at the University of Greenwich and honorary senior lecturer at the Centre for Psychedelic Research, Imperial College. He has published more than 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, fi lmmaker, 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 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 RealmA 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 MetznerDISCUSSION 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 DISCUSSIONChapter 6 Stories from a LifeA 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 BiographiesIndex

"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."