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272. * TAKING PAUSK interested in people or social lubrication situations that don't have a lot of meaning to me. Friendships that aren't that important are fading away." We haven't met Frederick before; his experiences with DMT were not espe- cially noteworthy above and beyond the "average" 0.4 mg/kg encounter. One morning, however, after receiving a low dose of the spirit molecule, he had this to say about how the effects of DMT spread out over time: "I'm more relaxed now in general after that 0.4 dose. It seems to have cleared out some energy blocks. The momentum from two years of push- ing really hard at my job is hard to get rid of. When I was coming down from the big dose, I saw how the energy was blocked by fears and holding on to things. Nothing specific, but more alertness and awareness of my state. I'm not in such a hurry to get things done now. I am more relaxed in general. I am less goal-oriented. If things don't get done now, they will sooner or later." Gabe, the physician whose nursery and being contact experiences we read about earlier, described some positive repercussions from his meetings with the spirit molecule.sThis conversation took place during the morning he received four saline injections in the tolerance study. He said, "I've been feeling a peacefulness from having been in the study. It's a whole different realm than other high-dose psychedelics. I can access deep stuffin the psyche. It's right there, it's like a movie screen. It's in your face. With LSD it's not as much a movie as with DMT. For two or three weeks after the tolerance study, I was much more there for the people I work with. I was super-there." Philip's 0.6 mg/kg DMT overdose occurred in the initial stages of the study, when we were testing to find the right dosages for "high" and "low" DMT sessions. He went on to develop over the next several months mild panic symptoms whenever he found himself in unfamiliar or uncertain circumstances. It was as if he had become overly sensitive to any inkling of losing control. Nevertheless, he worked these through himself and suc- cessfully negotiated his way through the dose-response project.