Graham Hancock

It's made from the ayahuasca vine and the leaves of another vine, Diploploris cabrerana, which contain not only NNDMT, which is the DMT that everybody's pretty much familiar with these days, but also 5-MeO DMT. And the Yahé experience, which I have also had, in my view, is more intense and more powerful, almost to the point of being overwhelming, than the ayahuasca experience.

But the result of this sophisticated chemistry that we find taking place here is a brew which is hideous to drink. The taste, I find it quite repulsive. I almost retched just smelling it in the cup, but then unleashes these

But the result of this sophisticated chemistry that we find taking place here is a brew which is hideous to drink. The taste, I find it quite repulsive. I almost retched just smelling it in the cup, but then unleashes these

But the result of this sophisticated chemistry that we find taking place here is a brew which is hideous to drink. The taste, I find it quite repulsive. I almost retched just smelling it in the cup, but then unleashes these

extraordinary experiences and it isn't just pretty visuals it's the sense of encounters with sentient others that there are sentient beings that somehow we're surrounded by a realm of sentience that is not normally accessible to us and that what the ayahuasca brew and certain other psychedelics like like some psilocybin mushrooms in a high enough dose can do it as well

extraordinary experiences and it isn't just pretty visuals it's the sense of encounters with sentient others that there are sentient beings that somehow we're surrounded by a realm of sentience that is not normally accessible to us and that what the ayahuasca brew and certain other psychedelics like like some psilocybin mushrooms in a high enough dose can do it as well

extraordinary experiences and it isn't just pretty visuals it's the sense of encounters with sentient others that there are sentient beings that somehow we're surrounded by a realm of sentience that is not normally accessible to us and that what the ayahuasca brew and certain other psychedelics like like some psilocybin mushrooms in a high enough dose can do it as well

LSD can do it, but ayahuasca is the master in this, of lowering the veil to what appears to be a seamlessly convincing other realm, other world. And of course, the hardline rational scientists will say that's just all fantasies of your brain. But I don't think we fully understand or even close to understanding exactly what consciousness is.

LSD can do it, but ayahuasca is the master in this, of lowering the veil to what appears to be a seamlessly convincing other realm, other world. And of course, the hardline rational scientists will say that's just all fantasies of your brain. But I don't think we fully understand or even close to understanding exactly what consciousness is.

LSD can do it, but ayahuasca is the master in this, of lowering the veil to what appears to be a seamlessly convincing other realm, other world. And of course, the hardline rational scientists will say that's just all fantasies of your brain. But I don't think we fully understand or even close to understanding exactly what consciousness is.

And I remain open to two possibilities, that consciousness is generated by the brain, is made by the brain in the way that a factory makes cars. But I also am open to the possibility that the brain is a receiver of consciousness, just as a television set is the receiver of television signals. And that if that is the case, then...

And I remain open to two possibilities, that consciousness is generated by the brain, is made by the brain in the way that a factory makes cars. But I also am open to the possibility that the brain is a receiver of consciousness, just as a television set is the receiver of television signals. And that if that is the case, then...

And I remain open to two possibilities, that consciousness is generated by the brain, is made by the brain in the way that a factory makes cars. But I also am open to the possibility that the brain is a receiver of consciousness, just as a television set is the receiver of television signals. And that if that is the case, then...

we locked into the physical realm we need our everyday alert problem-solving state of consciousness and that's the state of consciousness that western civilization values and and and and highly encourages but these other states of consciousness that allow us to access alternative realities are possibly more important.

we locked into the physical realm we need our everyday alert problem-solving state of consciousness and that's the state of consciousness that western civilization values and and and and highly encourages but these other states of consciousness that allow us to access alternative realities are possibly more important.

we locked into the physical realm we need our everyday alert problem-solving state of consciousness and that's the state of consciousness that western civilization values and and and and highly encourages but these other states of consciousness that allow us to access alternative realities are possibly more important.

It may be apocryphal, but it was reported after Francis Crick's role and his Nobel Prize for the discovery of the double helix, that he finally got it under the influence of LSD. There's the classic example of Kerry Mullis and the polymerase chain reaction. He said he got that under the influence of LSD.

It may be apocryphal, but it was reported after Francis Crick's role and his Nobel Prize for the discovery of the double helix, that he finally got it under the influence of LSD. There's the classic example of Kerry Mullis and the polymerase chain reaction. He said he got that under the influence of LSD.

It may be apocryphal, but it was reported after Francis Crick's role and his Nobel Prize for the discovery of the double helix, that he finally got it under the influence of LSD. There's the classic example of Kerry Mullis and the polymerase chain reaction. He said he got that under the influence of LSD.

So the notion that the alert problem-solving state of consciousness is the only valuable state of consciousness is disproved by valuable experiences that people have had in a visionary state. But the question that remains unresolved is those entities that we encounter, and not everybody encounters them, and you're certainly not going to encounter them on every ayahuasca trip.