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spirit molecule requires to make its way to the brain—to change the channel, to open our mind to these other planes of existence.” British scientist David Deutsch, author of The Fabric ofReality, is a leading theorist in 1 this field.’ Deutsch and I have corresponded about 316 * WHAT COULD AND MIGHT BE Channel Normal. It takes only a second or two—the few heartbeats the How might this happen? I claim little understanding of the physics underlying theories of par- allel universes and dark matter. What I do know, however, causes me to consider them as possible places where DMT might lead us, once we have rushed past the personal. Theoretical physicists propose the existence of parallel universes based upon the phenomenon of interference. One of the simplest demonstrations of interference is what happens to a light beam passing through narrow holes or slits in cardboard. Various rings and colored edges appear on the screen on which the light lands, not the simple outlines of the cardboard one would expect. Scientists conclude from this and more complex ex- periments that there are "invisible" light particles that interfere with those we can see, deflecting light in unexpected ways. Parallel universes interact with each other when interference hap- pens. There are, theoretically, an inconceivably large number of parallel universes, or "multiverses," each similar to this one and possessing the same laws of physics. Thus, there would not necessarily be anything es- pecially odd or exotic about these different realms. However, what makes them parallel is that the particles composing them are located in different positions in each universe. DMT may allow our receiver brain to sense these multiverses. whether DMT could modify brain function so as to provide access to or awareness of parallel universes. He doubted that this was possible, be- cause it would require "quantum computing." Quantum computing, according to Deutsch, "would be capable of distributing components of a complex task among vast numbers of parallel universes, and then sharing the results." Thus, its potential power is unimaginably great. One of the conditions necessary for quantum computing is a temperature near abso-