Mystery School in Hyperspace: A Cultural History of DMT

The Mystery School of Hyperspace is the first cultural history of DMT, an enigmatic compound whose psychopharmacological action has been known for sixty years. While DMT is known for producing powerful short-lasting effects including complex geometric patterns, out-of-body states and encounters with disincarnate entities, the tryptamine compound occurs throughout world flora and is naturally present in the brains of humans and other mammals. The celebrated status of DMT as the brain’s own psychedelic has fired speculation about its role as a gateway to higher dimensional hyperspace, a spirit molecule that facilitates the soul’s reincarnation, God’s own neurological medium, a compound that mimics the function of an ancestral neuromodulator, among other theories prying open the lid on the Pandora’s Box of consciousness.