The Illustrated Field Guide to DMT Entities: Machine Elves, Tricksters, Teachers, and Other Interdimensional Beings

by David Jay Brown, Sara Phinn Huntley

Overview

• Examines 25 of the most commonly encountered DMT entities, from machine elves and fairies to insectoids, Reptilians, and divine beings such as Grandmother Ayahuasca

• Discusses each entity in depth, including people’s encounters with them from trip reports and scientific studies, descriptions of how the entities appear and behave, and communications or teachings they impart

• Features visionary art by Sara Phinn Huntley and other artists, including Alex Grey, Andrew Jones, Luke Brown, Juliana Garces, Erial Ali, and Harry Pack

One of the features consistently noted by visitors to the hyperspace realm invoked by DMT is the existence of many different entities. In this full-color illustrated handbook for understanding the intelligent alien species of hyperspace, psychedelic explorer David Jay Brown and visionary artist Sara Phinn Huntley explore 25 of the most commonly encountered DMT beings and ayahuasca spirits, from “self-transforming machine elves,” ancestor spirits, tricksters, and metallic spheres to insectoid mantis beings, reptilians, gray aliens, nature spirits, and divine beings, such as the Virgin Mary, Gaia, angels, Grandmother Ayahuasca, and deities from Hindu, Egyptian, and South American spiritual traditions.

Profiling the DMT entities in the style of a naturalistic field guide, complete with evocative illustrations by Huntley and other artists such as Alex Grey, Andrew Jones, Luke Brown, Juliana Garces, Erial Ali, and Harry Pack, the authors discuss the entities in depth, including people’s encounters with them, descriptions of how they appear, and summaries of the communications they impart. They explore whether these beings are generated by our minds or if they exist independently of the DMT trip.

Providing a comprehensive exploration of this world, this guide seeks to describe the alien residents of interdimensional space and help people who have encountered DMT beings integrate their experiences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781644119204
Publisher:	Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Publication date:	02/04/2025
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352

About the Author

David Jay Brown holds a master’s degree in psychobiology from New York University. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Psychedelics and the Coming Singularity. He lives in Santa Cruz, California. Sara Phinn Huntley is a visionary artist, writer, and researcher whose work explores the intersection of psychedelics, technology, and philosophy. She lives in San Diego, California.
David Jay Brown holds a master’s degree in psychobiology from New York University. A former neuroscience researcher at the University of Southern California, he has written for Wired, Discover, and Scientific American, and his news stories have appeared on The Huffington Post and CBS News. A frequent guest editor of the MAPS Bulletin, he is the author of more than a dozen books, including The New Science of Psychedelics and Frontiers of Psychedelic Consciousness. He lives in Ben Lomond, California.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Artist’s Statement
By Sara Phinn Huntley

Introduction

Part 1 The Terrain

1 Entering the DMT Realm

2 Scientific Studies on DMT Entity Contact

3 Cataloging the Entities

Part 2 The Entities

4 Self-Transforming Machine Elves,
the Tykes, and Clockwork Elves

5 Mantis Entities, Mantids, and Other
Insectoid Aliens

6 Reptilians, Reptoids, and Lizard People

7 Grays

8 Blue- and Purple-Hued Beings

9 Clowns, Jesters, Tricksters, Harlequins,
Imps, and Jack-in-the-Box Entities

10 Gatekeepers and Threshold Guardians

11 Spirit Guides

12 Eastern, Middle Eastern, and Indigenous
American Deities and Demigods

13 Jesus Christ

14 The Virgin Mary

15 Angels

16 The Devil and Demons

17 Therianthropes and Animal-Human
Hybrids

18 Ancestors, Dead Relatives,
Friends, and Strangers

19 Fairies

20 Gnomes, Kobolds, and Goblins

21 Mother Ayahuasca, Grandmother
Ayahuasca, and Aya

22 Nature, Plant, and Fungi Spirits

23 Snakes, Jaguars, and Other Animal Spirits

24 Octopus and Octopoid Beings

25 Chemical Spirits

26 Mother Gaia

27 Beings of Light, Pure Energy, and
Bodiless Beings

28 God

APPENDIX 1 My Artistic Journey and Entity
Contact with DMT
By Sara Phinn Huntley

APPENDIX 2 Performance Art Inspired
by DMT Entities
The Work of Maya Bracknell Watson

Further Reading on DMT Entities and
the Psychedelic Hyperspace

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Author’s and Artist’s Biographies

Editorial Reviews

DMT is fascinating for many reasons, but not least because it seems to provide ready access to a hyperdimensional realm populated by a vast collection of non-human, intelligent, and apparently independent entities. Often these entities seem to have a message (or many messages) for our species or the individual psychonaut, weighted with portent. Whether DMT opens a portal to universes not mapped in any cosmology, or whether these entities are denizens of the unexplored depths of the mind, they definitely seem to have a classification system and characteristics that are familiar to many psychedelic voyagers. In this book, writer David Jay Brown and artist Sara Phinn Huntley unpack and present, in detail, what is currently known about the DMT entity phenomenon and provide a helpful field guide to those you are most likely to encounter in your rambles in the outer fringes of psychedelic experience.

Dennis McKenna

While you’re tripping on DMT
Often beings come out of the Me
Brown and Phinn’s new anthology
Is a good xenobiology
Of some creatures you’re likely to see.

author of Quantum Reality Nick Herbert

The best bestiary on hyperspace denizens so far. A must-read for all intrepid psychonauts, interdimensional diplomats, and cosmos passport holders. David and Sara have created the ultimate guide and extraterritorial exploration of the dazzling variety of DMT entities lurking within your mind or just beyond your glass pipe. A real hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy.

David Luke

This stunningly illustrated and comprehensive field guide is an essential item for the map compartments of travelers of the Nth-dimensions.

author of Mystery School in Hyperspace Graham St. John

The psychedelic version of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. We know where to find them, and now we know what to expect. New species will be discovered, others may die out; but this compendium of DMT beings provides a most exhaustive snapshot of our day’s varieties.

Rick Strassman

The DMT experience is fundamentally about exploring and traveling to unknown or forgotten realms: realms that are unutterably strange and yet strangely familiar. These realms are inhabited by intelligent beings with much to teach. Like any challenging and perhaps even perilous journey, it is important to prepare and to be willing to learn from the experiences and hard-won knowledge of others. David Jay Brown’s Illustrated Field Guide to DMT Entities, with entrancing images by Sara Phinn Huntley, is an essential companion for all serious travelers whose mission is not only to go boldly but also to return with lasting and worthwhile insights.

author of Visionary: The Mysterious Origins of Graham Hancock

A perfect balance of interesting and informative text alongside visually spellbinding images that spectacularly capture a glimpse of the DMT experience with astonishing accuracy and aesthetic splendor. The collaboration between author David Jay Brown and graphic artist Sara Phinn Huntley has resulted in nothing short of a masterpiece.

Rachel Naia Turetzky

From the Lilliputian to the Brobdingnagian, from the magnificent and multi-armed to the demonic and to the divine, this is the most beautiful, comprehensive, and, I dare say, indispensable guide to the resident fauna of the DMT realms. You won’t want to venture into the hyperdimensional hinterlands without this field guide in your back pocket.

Andrew R. Gallimore