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Traces of the Other – Are DMT Entities Real? DMT Phenomenology in the Framework of Conscious Realism

2026-05-27

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<p>Encounters with apparently autonomous and intelligent non-human entities are a striking and recurrent feature of high-dose N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) experi-ences. Such encounters are typically interpreted as complex hallucinations derived from internally generated brain activity, although many features of the DMT state remain a challenge to explain within the standard neuroscientific paradigm. Here, we explo...

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Literature Corpus work: 74a37de2-2467-5fd9-9747-07f06b768b9a
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/8qvgy_v2

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