DMT Dialogues: Encounters with the Spirit Molecule

by David Luke

What do they teach us? Well, for one thing, they teach us symbiosis; that’s probably the main lesson. They teach us an appreciation of the interconnected and interdependent nature of everything on Earth, of all living things on Earth. They teach us that we’re part of this process and that we are immersed in this web; we’re not separate from it. This is something that in the contemporary era we’ve forgotten. This is a big part of our problem—we think of ourselves as separate from nature, and this way of thinking is something we have to get over. They also teach us biophilia. Basically on a fundamental level you come out of psychedelic experience with a feeling for the sacredness of all life and a love for life, and that’s an important thing to integrate. They teach us animism: the perception that everything is alive and intelligent. And on the global level they teach us pantheism—the notion that the universe itself, the world itself, is alive and intelligent. This is the world-view of most indigenous cultures that use psychedelics, and it becomes the worldview of individuals in our culture that use psychedelics.