On DMT - Coming Down
This brief audio fragment captures Terence McKenna describing the descending phase of a DMT experience. He describes how the entity or presence retracts and withdraws, likening it to a boat pulling away from a dock. A precise crystallization of the phenomenological texture of the DMT come-down.
transcriptmachine-transcribed, unedited
And then after about three, four, five minutes, it retracts, it loses its vitality, and it
begins to pull away from you, almost like a boat pulling away from a dock.
And in fact, I had one trip where, metaphorically not having hands, they all turned and waved
and said, déjà vu, déjà vu, which is, of course, absurd.
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