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CONTACT THROUGH THE VEIL: 2 + 211 Before one of his last pindolol days, he asked me to look at a festering mole on his leg. I urged him to immediately consult with a dermatologist, who diagnosed malignant melanoma. Rex could not be in any more stud- ies until his cancer was worked up and treated. Thankfully, the melanoma had not spread, and he was treated successfully with simple removal of the tumor. By that time, though, I had left New Mexico. Sara entered the DMT project when she was forty-two years old. She was living with her second husband, Kevin, their young child, and two older children from her first marriage. Sara worked as a freelance writer and was attending graduate school. She was a solidly built woman with red hair and twinkling blue eyes. Her manner was direct, and her mischie- vous grin often emerged during conversations about any and all topics. Sara probably had suffered from the most serious depression of any of our volunteers, having overdosed on prescription tranquilizers in her mid- twenties. She had to be involuntarily hospitalized for two weeks after her suicide attempt and subsequently took antidepressants for several years. Nevertheless, her mood had been excellent without any medication for over a decade, and she was one of our most content and insightful re- search subjects. Sara told us that an "angel" had visited her once when she had had a high fever as a child, and she now had "spirit guides" with whom she communicated for advice and support. She considered herself "more sen- sitive than most people to healing and psychic energies." Sara practiced the Wicca religion, as did Rex, and they knew each other through the greater Wiccan community. Sara volunteered for this study for "personal understanding and ex- pansion of consciousness. I hope I will come to a deeper understanding of myself and my relationship to the universe and unseen worlds." Her fears hinged on "being lost in an abyss, and of not being brave enough to face the challenge." Sara's low-dose experience was typical of that of the other volunteers— pleasant, relaxing, with a sense of more to come. Her high-dose session