On DMT - How To Get Off On DMT
A brief audio recording of Terence McKenna teaching the practice of deeper DMT breakthrough through sustained courage and commitment at the perceptual threshold. He describes the experience of penetrating through the perceptual membrane and entering into a series of compressions that push consciousness forward toward what he calls the elf dome or hive. His concise guidance distills the essential psychology and practice of psychedelic breakthrough into a focused and pragmatic teaching.
transcriptmachine-transcribed, unedited
The way to get off on DMT is after you feel completely peculiar, you have to do one more enormous hit.
This is where courage comes in.
Most people, they take it and they say, it's working, this stuff feels really weird, it's really working.
Say, do one more hit.
And they say, no, no, it's working.
Say, no, do one more hit.
So then you do, or we say you do.
You penetrate that membrane and you go through a series of like, to me it's like a ramp, but it's like a series of diastolic compressions that push me forward.
Birth canal analogy, obviously.
And then I break into the elf dome or the hive, as I call it.
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