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Isaw a different space with bright bands ofcolor. I couldn't raise my hands, I tripped so hard. It is a mental Mecca, an excellent reference pointfor all 8 * PROLOGUE It made strong telepathic impressions, causing mental bonds with the people around me. This was confusing and overwhelming. I became very excited as an inner voice spoke to me. This was my intuition directly relat- ing to me. It was the most intense experience ofmy life. I want to go back. other psychedelics. Those around me looked like alien space insects. I real- ized they were all part ofit, too. Nils received 0.2 mg/kg intravenous DMT about a week after Philip's first IM dose. My feelings were similar to those I had for Philip's injection; that is, while the actual day was a landmark, it also seemed like a dry run, a rehearsal for the real thing. It was very likely we would go beyond this dose. On the day of Nils's 0.2 mg/kg session, I found him lying on the hos- pital bed in his research center room, underneath his familiar Army sleeping bag. He took this bag with him whenever he traveled, both liter- ally and figuratively: when he would journey on the road, or when he would take a psychedelic drug trip. Cindy and I sat on either side of Nils. I gave him a brief preview of what to expect. He nodded for me to begin. Halfway through the injection, Nils said, Yes, I taste it. Nils turned out to be one of the few volunteers who could taste intra- venous DMT as the drug-rich blood rushed through his mouth and tongue on the way to his brain. It was a metallic, slightly bitter taste. I thought, "This seems fast enough." My notes are sketchy as to the effects of this dose of [V DMT on Nils. This may have been due to his taciturn nature, or because neither of us were especially impressed with the intensity of the experience. He did remark, however, that 0.2 mg/kg was "maybe one-third to one-fourth" a full dose, relative to his experience smoking DMT. Perhaps feeling a little overconfident from how easy these first two sessions—Philip's IM, and Nils's [V—had been, I decided to proceed immediately to triple Nils's IV dose: from 0.2 to 0.6 mg/kg.