👽 A Field Guide to DMT Entities

📕 A Book That Was Inevitable

It started in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Two longtime friends, writer David Jay Brown and artist Sara Phinn Huntley, found themselves deep in conversation about something many psychonauts whisper about but few try to explain: the entities.

Not abstract feelings or fleeting colors. Entities.

Praying mantises performing energetic surgery. Machine elves made of light. Jesters that mock. Deities that teach. Guides that feel older than time.

And the strange part?

These stories weren’t isolated. They were repeating - across cultures, decades, and disciplines.

That’s when an idea took hold: what if there were a way to document them?
A field guide for the realm.

Part art. Part research. Part living mythology.

The seed was planted that day. But the wave caught up years later.

As DMT moved from mystery to mainstream - thanks to podcasts like Joe Rogan’s, studies from institutions like Johns Hopkins, and thousands of online trip reports, it became clear: people were meeting something real to them, and trying to make sense of it. This wasn’t just a niche fascination anymore. It was a cultural moment.

David and Sara got to work. Over two years of deep focus, they created something that hadn’t been attempted before: a full-color guide to the most commonly reported DMT and ayahuasca entities, drawn from art, science, and lived experience.

Along the way, they both had the same realization.

The timing wasn’t coincidental.
They were following a signal.

➡️ And that signal pointed straight into the heart of hyperspace.

🧠 Categorizing the Beings of Hyperspace

To identify the 25 entities featured in the book, they pulled from everything they could:

🧠 Clinical research and brain imaging studies
🎙️ Expert interviews with Rick Strassman, Andrew Gallimore, and David Luke
📜 Trip reports spanning decades of underground exploration
📚 Religious iconography, folklore, alien abduction lore, and mystical visions
🧬 Personal experiences - some ineffable, others exact

And what they found wasn’t noise. It was pattern.

Across thousands of accounts, certain entities showed up with striking regularity. Whether described as jesters, angels, aliens, ancestors, or architects - many carried the same tone, form, function, and intent.

They didn’t always introduce themselves. But they left impressions that were shared.

The colors changed. The archetypes shifted. But the energy remained consistent.

That was enough to treat them seriously.
And enough to begin documenting.

➡️ So who are these beings, and what do they teach?

🤖 The Entities Themselves (And the Realm They Live In)

David’s introduction to the realm came in 1983. After three deep inhalations of a vaporized orange powder, he was suddenly in a high-tech hyperspace, surrounded by a presence that looked like a giant praying mantis… with his own face. It was performing surgery on his mind.

Sara’s first encounter happened in Santa Cruz. A massive, star-sized intelligence filled her vision - then shape-shifted into dazzling fractal acrobats that danced and spun with precise symbolic motion. At first, they looked like clowns. But instead of fear, she felt fascination. A lifelong phobia dissolved in minutes. And something deeper took root.

Both returned with the same questions most experiencers have: What is this place? And who lives here?

Across their research, these are just a few of the entities that appeared again and again:

👾 Machine Elves
Shapeshifting architects. Hyperintelligent, childlike, mischievous. Often show users how thought creates reality.

🧬 Praying Mantis Surgeons
Precision-oriented insectoids. Emotionally neutral but deeply focused. They often conduct energetic “procedures” on the traveler.

🌀 Jesters & Tricksters
Symbols of chaos, humor, and inversion. They tease, confuse, and dissolve seriousness, especially when the ego refuses to let go.

👽 Greys, Reptilians & Octopus Beings
Common across UFO abduction lore, these beings appear in DMT states with telepathic communication and deep, often indifferent intelligence.

🌿 Ancestors & Plant Spirits
Earth-based guides. Sometimes gentle, sometimes stern. Appear most often in ayahuasca journeys, but present in smoked DMT as well.

🔮 Deities & Light-Beings
From Hindu gods to the Virgin Mary, radiant archetypes often reflect a user’s personal or cultural background. Sometimes they arrive with no prior expectation at all.

And beyond all this - the realm itself communicates.

Not through voice or form, but through color, geometry, rhythm, and feeling. Some describe the entire environment as an intelligence. It notices. It adapts. It responds.

And as we've talked about before: it can stop you from entering altogether.
Some users report being blocked. Turned away. Even ejected mid-entry. The door doesn’t always open just because you knock.

As David puts it, the experience is sometimes like lucid dreaming.
You don’t always meet a figure.
Sometimes, the dream itself is speaking.

➡️ But how do you bring any of this back into our world, and show it to others?

🎨 The Art That Gave the Beings Form

To visualize the beings of hyperspace, she crafted over 3,000 images, layered with prompts, post-processing, digital painting, and raw creative intuition.

Each entity required a different approach. Some took weeks to render properly. Others came together quickly through pattern recognition.

Sara developed a highly specific language to prompt visuals that resembled what people actually saw:

• Hyperdimensional crystalline symmetry
• Recursive organic tessellations
• Bioluminescent geometry
• Fractal anatomical intelligence

She then remixed outputs, collaged forms together, overpainted the details, and ran the process again, until something clicked.

For each image, the measure of success wasn’t realism. It was recognition.
That moment when someone looks and says:

As the work evolved, a poetic symmetry emerged.

Terence McKenna once said that DMT beings speak in visual language, and use sound to shape matter. Sara was now doing the reverse: using human language to shape images of the beings who first shaped her.

➡️ So what does the future of this exploration look like?

🚀 The Future of DMT Exploration

When asked what they’d do with full creative freedom and infinite funding, David and Sara didn’t hesitate.

David wants to expand on what researchers have already begun: extended-state DMT.

By slowly infusing DMT over time, participants can remain in hyperspace for 30–90 minutes, long enough to make contact, ask questions, and stabilize the experience.

This opens new possibilities:

• Could two people meet the same entity in real time?

• Could they explore the same “place” together?

• Could they bring back data, knowledge, even art?

Sara’s vision expands even further.

• She imagines DMT exploration with specialists:

• Mathematicians who recognize non-Euclidean structures.

• Physicists who see beyond three dimensions.

• Artists who can draw in real time.

• Mystics who understand the language of symbols.

• Even animals - once we’ve built the tools to understand their consciousness.

She points to neural interfaces and potential dream-mapping tools as new ways to document the journey - so others can see what’s been hidden behind closed eyes for generations.

Together, they believe this work isn’t about escaping reality. It’s about expanding our map of it.

➡️ So where does that leave the book, and what comes next?

👁️ A Field Guide to the Realms Between Worlds

📕 The Illustrated Field Guide to DMT Entities is available now.

I’ve honestly never come across anything like this. This isn’t the kind of book you’ll read once and forget. It’s the kind you’ll keep nearby - something you’ll come back to after a trip, after a dream, after a feeling you can’t quite explain.

Drawing from trip reports, clinical studies, and direct experience, it profiles each entity in detail, covering their appearance, behavior, energetic presence, and the lessons they often carry. Presented in the style of a naturalist field guide, it offers structure and clarity for anyone looking to better understand their own encounters - or prepare for future ones.

The book features visionary artwork by:

🎨 Sara Phinn Huntley
🎨 Alex Grey
🎨 Luke Brown
🎨 Juliana Garces
🎨 Erial Ali
🎨 Harry Pack
🎨 … and more!

Whether these beings are expressions of mind or independent intelligences, this guide gives language and imagery to the experiences that so many have had—and few forget.

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