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180 * THE SESSIONS Eli went on to describe the "room" into which he burst. With this report, the view DMT provides now starts enlarging. /was in a white room, experiencing certain emotions andfeelings that gave me an intense feeling of being a co-reality. Like a dream I had of bumping into some Hispanic kids with my car, into their car. They were really mad at me. I said to them "Ifyou hate me, you hate yourself. Our cultures are merged, so there's no defending against that." Their culture, our culture, they were co-real, existing simultaneously. The white room consisted mostly oflight and space. There were cubes stacked with icons on the surfaces, like a Logos ofconsciousness. It was light but there was a lot ofother information coming in. Other volunteers found themselves in rooms that seemed like "playrooms," or "nurseries," some sort of holding space, made especially for them, full of meaning and depth. Gabe, a thirty-three-year-old physician, lived and worked in a remote rural community. He was one of the few volunteers who previously had smoked DMT. After receiving 0.4 mg/kg DMT in combination with cypro- heptadine, he reported the following: There were some scenes or forms like in a nursery. No babies, but there were cribs and different animals, vibrant. I went to a childhood scene, or feeling. It was like I was ina stroller, kid images. It was sort of scary. Iean't describe it. I could draw it maybe. It was like being in a room, as a child, with a stroller. There were cartoonlike people in the room, but they weren't what I wanted to see. Aaron was at the cutting edge of consciousness enhancement using legal technologies: electronics devices such as brain-wave-driving machines, supplements and vitamins, and Eastern spiritual disciplines. He was forty- six years old when he started working with us. Aaron was one of the few Jewish volunteers in our study, and I felt a certain kinship with him at that level. He was hopeful but skeptical, looking forward to the experi- ence, but praying he would survive intact. During his DMT-plus-pindolol session, he beheld two elements of