Through his description of “machine elves,” McKenna donated trip terminology that has been widely adopted by psychonauts who follow in his footsteps.īut machine elves are not unique to McKenna many people who try DMT relate to features the ethnobotanist described in his trips. McKenna’s openness and honesty about his personal experiences on DMT created a pathway that others could eventually use to describe and interpret their own psychedelic experiences. The answer to this question is simple: They’re called “machine elves” or “clockwork elves” because that is the terminology that McKenna introduced to the world. “I felt totally focused on it, like I was going to understand it, but I’m not sure that I ever did.” What Ali did understand was the deep-seated feeling of tranquility that presided despite the intense visualizations. “It was like captions coming out of their mouths, very cartoon-like,” he adds.
Instead, this mysterious speech drifted out like rainbow-glowing vapors constructed out of an indiscernible rune-like language. “They were speaking and words were coming out of their mouths, just floating along,” he says. Language took on visual quality in Ali’s trip, too. But, many who try DMT do so looking for something, or rather, someone(s) specific-spirits. There’s a reason why DMT has well-earned its nickname as “ the spirit molecule.” For some, the molecule may only inspire intense and awesome visuals. “It felt like completely arbitrary, kinda scary like maybe you could live like a year in there.” “It was such sensory overload, it was so dense, that even if I describe it, it doesn’t really give any indication of what was actually like,” says Ali.
(Yes, DMT is found in the mammalian brain.) In all of 15 minutes, the molecule can inspire a bombardment of visuals that begin with a snow of overwhelming shapes and colors and peaks-if you’re lucky-with an entry into another realm, a step into what feels like a different world. Machine Elves or DMT Elves?ĭimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a powerful and fast-acting hallucinogen produced naturally by many plants and animals, humans included. Ali had the uncanny sense that these beings were of their own world entirely.Īli had journeyed into the spirit world. Their faces were jumbled, abstracted, and leaking colored light.
And yet, these entities weren’t just his friends they were distinctly different.
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