Let’s talk about drugs.

This week we learned that some doctors have figured out how to make DMT trips last as long as you want. They can dial it up or down, or turn it off if things go south. And in the ultimate hack to do this legally, they formed an actual church, and they’re recruiting members for what they call “expeditions.”

Their stated goals are to develop therapies, solve advanced problems, explore consciousness, and build something called “the Matrix Machine.”

Probably a long shot, but maybe this is how we’ll find out who and what DMT aliens really are.

And speaking of non-human entities: it turns out there’s a mushroom in China that makes pretty much everyone see itty bitty little people. And this thing has absolutely no relation to psilocybin, if you can believe it. In fact, it doesn’t contain a single psychoactive compound that we know about.

So, once again, we’re left wondering if these are hallucinations, or…something else.

Highlights:

The Extended State DMT program (DMTX) has figured out how to stabilize and extend DMT experiences

The International DMT Church

Consistency of DMT experiences

Jordan conjures a comically horrible mental image of people handcuffed to beds with IV drips, trapped in thousand-year experiences they can’t escape

Are we exploring the architecture of the human mind, or accessing something external to ourselves?

Most psychedelic insights are “just vibes” (Paul McCartney, for instance)

A mushroom that makes 96% of people see tiny people or elves, often dancing, jumping, or marching (the story)

Reports span Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, and a third-century Taoist text about a “flesh spirit mushroom” that lets you “see a little person”

The mushroom is genetically closer to porcini than to psilocybin—contains NO known psychoactive compounds

Chemical analyses reveal nothing

Experiments on mice

Does this explain why every culture throughout history has legends of fairies, elves, and sprites?

Are the mushrooms making you hallucinate little people, or only allowing you to see the little people that are already there?

(Picture a Lovecraftian world full of squirming horrors just outside our normal perception)

Victorian art depicting sprites smoking pipes while sitting on mushrooms

No epilogue this week. Blame the holidays. But also, if you’re not one of the handful of heroes with paid subscriptions — well, now you’ve got time to catch up, don’t you?

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