Andrew Gallimore

Andrew Gallimore isn't just another psychedelic researcher — he's the man who built the technology to keep a human brain in the DMT state for hours, and he genuinely believes we should use it to establish two-way communication with nonhuman intelligences. That's not a metaphor. He has a nonprofit, a pharmacokinetic model, a brand-new luxury retreat centre in the Caribbean, and a recent Joe Rogan appearance to back it up. The GS angle here is radical and precise: Gallimore is a consciousness theorist who uses DMT as an engineering tool to switch the brain's reality channel. Most interviewers treat him as "the DMT guy" and get lost in entity encounter trip reports. The real conversation is about what his work implies about the brain as a world-building machine — and about consciousness itself. His "Building Alien Worlds" thesis (that serotonin holds the thalamocortical system in one reality configuration, and DMT switches it to another equally stable configuration) is one of the most elegant and testable models of constructed reality on the planet. It connects directly to the GS network: Anil Seth's controlled hallucination, Karl Friston's predictive brain, Donald Hoffman's interface theory, and Robin Carhart-Harris's entropic brain. But Gallimore takes it further than any of them — he says the DMT world isn't a degraded hallucination, it's an alternative stable reality the brain can access. Every other interviewer asks him to describe machine elves. Evan should ask him what his model predicts about the architecture of consciousness itself.

Andrew Gallimore isn't just another psychedelic researcher — he's the man who built the technology to keep a human brain in the DMT state for hours, and he genuinely believes we should use it to establish two-way communication with nonhuman intelligences. That's not a metaphor. He has a nonprofit, a pharmacokinetic model, a brand-new luxury retreat centre in the Caribbean, and a recent Joe Rogan appearance to back it up. The GS angle here is radical and precise: Gallimore is a consciousness theorist who uses DMT as an engineering tool to switch the brain's reality channel. Most interviewers treat him as "the DMT guy" and get lost in entity encounter trip reports. The real conversation is about what his work implies about the brain as a world-building machine — and about consciousness itself. His "Building Alien Worlds" thesis (that serotonin holds the thalamocortical system in one reality configuration, and DMT switches it to another equally stable configuration) is one of the most elegant and testable models of constructed reality on the planet. It connects directly to the GS network: Anil Seth's controlled hallucination, Karl Friston's predictive brain, Donald Hoffman's interface theory, and Robin Carhart-Harris's entropic brain. But Gallimore takes it further than any of them — he says the DMT world isn't a degraded hallucination, it's an alternative stable reality the brain can access. Every other interviewer asks him to describe machine elves. Evan should ask him what his model predicts about the architecture of consciousness itself.

What they think about

• DMT
• DMT entities
• DMTx
• extended state DMT
• Andrew Gallimore
• thalamocortical loops
• attractor states
• psychedelics
• consciousness
• serotonin
• 5-HT2A
• alien worlds
• DMT experience
• entity encounters
• Rick Strassman
• Robin Carhart-Harris
• Noonautics
• Eleusis