Key insights on 5-MeO-DMT

Written by Andrés Gómez Emilsson on 24 September 2023.

This post is a contribution to the second Qualia Research Institute psychophysics retreat, which took place from 2 September 2023 to 20 September 2023 in Kaslo, British Columbia, Canada.


  1. The “supernova effect” (see “Levels of 5-MeO-DMT”) at higher doses can be described with nonlinear optical computing effects.
  2. The discovery of all of the new ways of partitioning experience in half then syncing up and experiencing a cessation-near miss there is a way to learn all the base vibrational modes of our experience.
  3. Some models where dose of 5 increase level of relaxation, interconnection, and energy all together can do pretty well at explaining effects at different doses.
  4. The model of Shinzen Young about equanimity being equal to 1/resistance is really good, and participants’ valence reports were very consistent with this notion.
  5. Geometric frustration as the cause of dukkha and all the implications that this entails.
  6. The higher the dose, the higher the connectivity. Many effects might be modellable with ‘wormholes’ shortening the distance between parts of the experience.
  7. When you get to very high interconnected states, the number of possible vibrational model starts to drop, and there are very few but highly smooth ones close to the transition to perfect symmetry.
  8. The self-other distinction is one of the key oscillations, and it can collapse. But when it does, there are still many possible configurations of the field that don’t have it, but we don’t have names for it. The topology of 3D vector fields seems relevant here.
  9. The subconscious has resonances too. A lot of the computational power of 5-MeO-DMT is about shaking and slowly vibrating the subconscious, and getting it to interact with itself in various ways. (Possibly the subconscious could be seen as ‘deep’ amodal perceptions with memory that don’t interact with our sense of our environment).
  10. Topological features of the field seem to be at the base, the source of desires and aversions. The body seems like a rheoscopic liquid during these experiences, and the pinwheels in this fluid become significant for the phenomenology.
  11. God Realm (cf. Opening the Heart of Compassion) states have a tiny pinwheel somewhere that adds tension, but this is not apparent at first.
  12. There are various 5-MeO attractors. An equanimity one, a God Realm one, and I’m sure other ones, but I didn’t have them at this retreat. At least that I can report, I never encountered a Hell Realm. It was mostly very pleasant and enlightening.
  13. It does seem to drastically reduce Titan Realm construction for the duration of the effects.
  14. One participant mentioned that he finally understood why Ramanujan’s tongue was computationally significant for his math. By this he meant that Ramanujan reported Goddess Namagiri would write equations on his tongue. Taking this phenomenology seriously and 5-MeO-DMT-induced flexibility of body schema, he reported that he could imagine equations in a new way. We can hypothesize that mathematical facts can only be apprehended by a human by using body schema computations, and no doubt there will be theorems that only make sense when you’re grabbing your little toe in the right state of consciousness.
  15. It very much seemed that the degree of non-duality present in internal representations was a function of the degree to which “attention field lines” would be parallel or convergent around and inside them. Entirely parallel flow would always come with a sense of non-duality and high valence. The “natural” relaxed state of the field, as it were.

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Gómez-Emilsson (2023, September 24). Key insights on 5-MeO-DMT. https://heart.qri.org/retreats/2023-canada/andres-gomez-emilsson/key-insights.html

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@misc{gomezemilsson2024key,
  author = {Gómez-Emilsson, Andrés},
  title = {Key insights on 5-MeO-DMT},
  url = {https://heart.qri.org/retreats/2023-canada/andres-gomez-emilsson/key-insights.html},
  year = {2023}
}