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anxiety: 190 » THE SESSIONS some kind ofroutine technological work and paid no attention to me. Ina state of overwhelmed confusion, I opened my eyes. It was at this point in Room 531 that Lucas's heart rate and blood pressure plummeted to nearly unrecordable levels. We will read about Carlos's shamanic death-rebirth experience elicited by his first non-blind high dose of DMT in chapter 15. During one of his high-dose sessions, he also met beings who tried to help him with his There's this whole different world with architecture and landscape. I saw one or two beings there. The beings even have gender. The skin was not flesh-colored. I communicated with them but there wasn't enough time. I was so strung out, excited, agitated when I arrived there. They wanted to try and reduce my anxiety so we could relate. Gabe, whose transport into a nursery or playroom we read about in the last chapter, felt an even greater sense of care and concern from "the spirits" during his first high-dose DMT session: There was an initial sense ofpanic. Then the most beautiful colors coalesced into beings. There were lots of beings. They were talking to me but they weren't making a sound. It was more as ifthey were blessing me, the spirits oflife were blessing me. They were saying that life was good. At first itfelt like I was going through a cave or a tunnel or into space, at a fast rate, definitely. I felt like a ball hurtling down to wherever it was. Many volunteers’ encounters with life-forms in these nonmaterial worlds in- volved the powerful sense of an exchange of information. The type of informa- tion varied widely. Sometimes it concerned the "biology" of these beings. Chris was thirty-five years old, married, and a computer salesman. He was quite artistically talented, too, and performed in local theater productions. He had taken psychedelics fifty to sixty times before starting our research. He hoped his DMT sessions with us would "propel me into a state of awareness I have been seeking during eight years of LSD use, but have only had glimpses of previously."