Acknowledgments Introduction Prologue Part I: The Building Blocks 1. Psychedelic Drugs: Science and Society 2. What DMT Is 3. The Pineal: Meet the Spirit Gland 4. The Psychedelic Pineal Part II: Conception and Birth 5. 89-001 6. Labyrinth Part III: Set, Setting, and DMT 7. Being a Volunteer 8. Getting DMT 9. Under the Influence Part IV: The Sessions 10. Introduction to the Case Reports 11. Feeling and Thinking 12. Unseen Worlds 13. Contact Through the Veil: 1 14. Contact Through the Veil: 2 15. Death and Dying 16. Mystical States 17. Pain and Fear Part V: Taking Pause 18. If So, So What? 19. Winding Down 20. Stepping on Holy Toes Part VI: What Could and Might Be 21. DMT: The Spirit Molecule 22. The Futures of Psychedelic Research Epilogue Notes