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CONTACT THROUGH THE VEIL: 2 + 219 either provide reproductive material for the hybrid project or decide to spread the message of environmental degradation to a wider audience. As Mack's work with his subjects has progressed, he notes another common, perhaps even basic, element of the abduction experience. This is the transformational and spiritual nature of the encounter: "[t]he col- lapse of space/time perception, a sense of entering other dimensions of reality or universes ... a feeling of connection with all of creation." Abductees' sense of belonging in that realm may be so acute as to create a yearning for it—a desire "not to come back." Many abductees no longer feared death, knowing that their consciousness would survive the body's death. One even considered the idea of killing himself so that he could return to the blissful state he encountered during his abductions. The resemblance of Mack's account of the alien abductions of "experiencers" to the contacts described by our own volunteers is unde- niable. How can anyone doubt, after reading our accounts in these last two chapters, that DMT elicits "typical" alien encounters? If presented with a record of several of our research subjects’ accounts, with all refer- ences to DMT removed, could anyone distinguish our reports from those of a group of abductees? Shocking and unsettling as they were, contact with life-forms from an- other dimension was never on the list of volunteers’ reasons for partici- pating in our research. Neither was it something I expected with any frequency. Rather, it was the transpersonal, mystical, and spiritual states to which they aspired. It is to these that we now will shift our attention.