“Some People See Aliens While on DMT. Researchers Want to Find Out What They Can Teach Us”
March 4th, 2026Via: Wired:
For Gallimore, one of the goals behind DMTx is to study an especially strange aspect of the DMT experience: perceived encounters with nonhuman, seemingly superintelligent entities. On March 18, he and a team of experts will launch a new psychedelic retreat center-slash-research facility on the tiny Caribbean island of Bequia aimed in part at establishing sustained, two-way communication with these beings. A “SETI for the mind,” Gallimore calls it, referring to the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence.
Called Eleusis, the facility is named after an ancient Greek city that once attracted spiritual pilgrims for the ritual consumption of what some experts believe was a psychedelic potion. DMT is currently a Schedule 1 drug in the US, the federal government’s most tightly controlled category, but it can be administered legally in Bequia by licensed care providers.
