An ancient medicine, a modern protocol, and a way to travel through the inner cosmos at human pace.
DMT occurs throughout the natural world — in thousands of plants, in the ayahuasca brew, even in the human lungs and brain. A small dose elicits a "more real than real" experience: profound, brief, often featuring encounters with entities that seem alive, aware, intelligent, and infinitely complex.
The experience is so intensely real that many psychonauts question their understanding of reality itself.
A typical DMT experience lasts 5–7 minutes — a glimpse of a vast inner experience that ends just as it begins. The pharmacokinetic model developed by Dr. Gallimore and Dr. Strassman uses target-controlled IV infusion to stabilize DMT in the bloodstream, allowing the experience to be safely extended.
The DMTx peak can be five times stronger than ayahuasca, lasting many hours. Intensity, acceleration, and duration can be dialed in — even adjusted mid-journey. And if anything ever feels unsafe, the experience can be quickly turned off.
We don't barrel into the breakthrough. We meet each space at the door, get to know it, then go deeper only when you're ready.
It is a common misconception that the DMTx experience simply takes the psychonaut to a breakthrough level experience and stabilizes it. We initially followed the research and did just that, but for many folks, the typical rush was similar to a vaped DMT session and remained uncomfortable. It was hard for the psychonaut to self-regulate, even experienced psychonauts, and the sessions were often shorter than they needed to be.
Instead of a "rocket ship" analogy, we began to explore the metaphor of the "space plane" — a path with a gentle slope that brought the psychonaut into deeper spaces after acclimation and nervous-system regulation were achieved. This process gave our journeys an opportunity to look around and get to know the "terrain" of the inner experience. Some of these "threshold," or lower-level states, were often the most meaningful part of the experience for many of the journeyers.
The entities also taught us how to "meet them halfway," and to "knock on the door" of the thresholds so we can be guided into deeper spaces by the entities themselves, rather than barreling through them like a space monkey. It turned out to be "more respectful" that way, and the entities appreciated that we respected the boundaries of their "home." It was like we were ambassadors, representing humanity, and this level of respect felt important.
In the end we learned to slow the process down, and to relish each moment, and each stage of the DMTx experience. We begin with ceremony. And we end in ceremony. And there is magic in the between places of the greater Cosmos.
We begin in sacred ceremony. The infusion turns on; small doses bring you to the edge of the experience. You remain "more here than there" — able to communicate normally, looking around, getting to know the general terrain. In a typical DMT session this lasts seconds. Here, we hold it for 15–30 minutes.
We begin the journey in sacred ceremony, giving reverence to the sacrament with gratitude for the opportunity, turning the infusion on and providing small doses of DMT until a threshold state is reached. This includes an awareness of the sacrament in the body, and an inner, if not subtle, DMT visual experience. This is the first threshold. The journeyer remains "more here than there" and can communicate normally. We stay in this space until the nervous system acclimates, and any pre-journey jitters calm down. The journeyer has a chance to look around and get to know the general "terrain" of the DMT experience. This level is generally blown past in a matter of seconds in a typical DMT session, but with DMTx, it is a lovely, gentle state that we usually maintain for 15–30 minutes.
An inner guide — an entity, often very happy to see you — arrives. With another dose, you follow them into a deeper space. This is the horizontal path: full immersion in a realm of lifeforms, sacred presence, and divine light, while still able to communicate and adjust. Most psychonauts are content to stay here.
It is in this space that the journeyer reaches the second threshold. Here, the psychonaut is often met by an inner guide, an entity, who is typically very happy to see them. Often the journeyer can maintain this state as long as they want, getting to know this edge between here, and the "more there than here."
When the journeyer is ready, they are given another dose of DMT and the infusion is increased, giving the journeyer the necessary "fuel" to "follow" their guide into a new, deeper space. While some journeyers maintain a very strong sense of presence "in the room" with their guide, the general feeling is one of dual awareness — being fully immersed in a space beyond this one, full of lifeforms, sacred presence, and divine light.
Again, the psychonaut can maintain this state as long as they wish, and many journeyers are content and happy to stay here for the remainder of the journey. This is the power of the horizontal path. Deep realizations occur in this space; we are given messages about our lives and the nature of reality itself, given "tours" of that realm, and deep physical healing takes place. For some journeyers, the body trembles or shakes as it discharges old injuries and returns to a baseline of wellness and healing. This is often a very complex, hyper-visual experience for the journeyer, fully immersive and meaningful.
If you wish, the infusion can deepen again — into the transcendent. Beyond time, beyond space, beyond comprehension. The ego dissolves into pure consciousness and profound bliss. Some psychonauts maintain this state for a long time; for others, a few moments is enough for a lifetime.
If the journeyer wishes, they can explore a third threshold to an even deeper state of consciousness. When ready, the infusion can be increased again, with an additional boost of DMT, to achieve a state of consciousness that is beyond the entity encounters and the inner psychedelic terrain.
This is the transcendent space — beyond time, beyond space, beyond comprehension, dissolving, unfolding, allowing the ego to surrender into pure consciousness, sacred unfolding, and profound bliss. Even here, the journeyer can acclimate, communicate, and sometimes even share details about their experience while in this state.
Some journeyers are able to maintain this state for a significant amount of time, and for others, just touching it for a few moments is enough for a lifetime of gratitude. These are the peak DMT experiences that are often at the top of a vaped DMT journey, previously only lasting a few moments to a few minutes. Even in the most profound states, DMTx psychonauts are able to maintain their agency, ask for what they need or want, and can even request that the experience be dialed down or turned off if they feel complete.
When the journey is complete — sometimes the entities let us know, sometimes you simply know — the infusion is slowly reduced. A long, gentle return back through the thresholds to this wild world we call the physical plane.
Sometimes the entities let us know when the journey is complete, or the intrepid adventurer intuitively knows that the journey has come to a close. Either way, we begin a long slow glide back home. Here the guide gently reduces the infusion and allows a gentle return through the three thresholds back to this wild world we call the physical plane.
The journey may feel complete — or it may be the end of a chapter. If you took a break or paused for any reason, there is no loss. We can repeat the entire process and return through the thresholds, exactly where you want to be.
But wait, there can be more. Sometimes the journey feels complete, but if there is time, it may be just the conclusion of a chapter. If the journeyer aborted the experience because they needed to take a break from the intensity, or needed to use the restroom, there is no loss, as we can always repeat the entire process all over again, gently returning through the thresholds until the journeyer is exactly where they want to be.
For some, the experience isn't hyper-visual at all. Instead, a state of complete wakefulness arrives. Aware of yourself, your habits, your hindrances — without defensiveness. Pure compassion and deep self-acceptance. The space where eureka moments and critical problem-solving happen.
For some journeyers, the experience is hyper-visual and fully immersive. For others, sometimes there are no visuals, and the psychonaut enters a place where they become fully awake. This is as close to an enlightened state us non-Buddhas can reach. We become fully aware of ourselves, our habits, our hindrances, without defensiveness — pure compassion and deep self-acceptance.
From there we can see our struggles in a new light and have resolution and very real and meaningful understandings. It is in this state also that we can explore our intentions, either solutions to our personal struggles, or the advanced world-transforming critical problem-solving that used to only come in fleeting moments of flow, leading to the eureka moments of clear insight and understanding.
The typical DMT experience is a vertical line — straight up, straight back down. DMTx opens a horizontal axis that was unavailable until this technology existed: a stable plateau where the body becomes saturated with the medicine's healing potential, without being overwhelmed by the peak.
During every step, your guide is with you. You retain your sense of self, your agency, your voice. The infusion only deepens when you're ready.
The Profound Beauty and Potential of the Horizontal Path. Instead of just the "straight up and back down" vertical path of the quick-onset, vaped DMT experience, the DMTx session opens a new pathway for journeyers — a path that was unavailable until this technology came along. We call this the Horizontal Path. It opens when the experience is stabilized at a certain level. This is where the DMTx psychonaut can slow the experience down, look around, regulate, and let the body become saturated with the healing potential of this medicine without becoming overwhelmed by the peak, breakthrough experiences.
During each step of the journey, your guide will be in communication with you, and yes, you can communicate back quite easily, to assess where you are and where you want to go. The infusion only increases when you are ready to go deeper. We have found that with this process, clients retain their sense of self and their agency, until they are fully ready to surrender into the most profound states of consciousness humans can achieve.
Our sacrament is natural N,N-DMT, derived from Mimosa hostilis root bark, sustainably sourced, and extracted in compliance with the Colorado Natural Medicine Health Act in a professional lab by an incredibly gifted organic chemist. It is triple-tested (by the lab, and two other independent labs) for safety and potency.
Our sacrament is not synthetic and contains trace amounts of NMT, another tryptamine and precursor to N,N-DMT. No endotoxins are present and it has been used previously without any problems. Administering the sacrament through an IV poses the same risks as any IV infusion and are low; however, the IV start may require more than one attempt.
Everyone asks. Yes, it is real in its own way. Can it be verified? A lot of people are working on that very question.
For us, the more useful question is different: how can this practice support healing, transformation, and positive cultural change? That one is much easier to answer — we get to experience it every time we guide a journey.
New psychedelic-assisted clinical therapies developed from real-world journey data.
Advanced protocols for innovation — applied to climate and the other challenges of our time.
Defining the "realness" of the experience. Exploring the nature of mind itself.
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