“Pure awareness”: Inside the psychedelic that erases space, time, and self

5-MeO-DMT may offer a practical way to access and study consciousness in its most basic form.

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Excerpt from first link above:"Holding a Sonoran Desert toad and squeezing the slimy glands on its head to extract its toxic secretions is a strange experience. Far stranger is what one of the compounds within that mixture can do to the human mind. 5-MeO-DMT, or simply 5MeO, is one of the world’s most powerful psychedelics, capable of shattering your sense of space, time, and self within seconds.

Like its molecular cousin DMT, 5MeO occurs naturally in various plants, with effects that usually fade within an hour. But unlike other psychedelics, 5MeO doesn’t flood the mind with intricate hallucinations. Instead, it tends to erase everything except for awareness itself.

For some, the result is more than a mind-bending trip. It’s a complete deconstruction of subjective experience itself — a glimpse, perhaps, into what lies beneath all our thoughts, sensations, and stories."