When I take DMT, there is a large energy component to it. It seems to be the component on which the entire experience is derived. All of hyperspace including the objects, machinery, entities and landscape all seem to be composed of this energy. This energy and the hyper-things made up of it are localized in time and space as if they were external to my body. They feel magnetic to the touch as if one is interacting with pure magnetism, though magnetism is not the force at play here. Upon contact with the physical body, it can create automatic autonomous movements of my body. So if the energy makes contact with my left arm for example, it will cause that limb to move on its own. There have been times when I’ve been completely flooded by this energy causing my body to assume various, very precise and symmetrical Qi-Gong-like postures even though I have no real knowledge of Qi Gong or any such postures.

Through studying my own involuntarily guided actions, I found that I was able to conjure the same energy (albeit to a weaker extent) through meditation, focus and breathing. There’s part of me that is intrigued by Qi-Gong because it should seem like there’s obviously something to it. On the other hand, the postures that my body assumes either through DMT or meditation just feel right. I ask myself why I should bother learning and forcing some postures when my body is here teaching and doing the work for me. It should seem to me that if you’re “doing it right,” there should be little need for human instruction. What I do know of Qi-Gong is that they believe the energy they interact with to be qi (life energy), which goes by many different names in different cultures. I would not be surprised if it turns out that hyperspace and its inhabitants are composed entirely of qi.

One day I was studying a crystal of mine, and I held it up to my face, so I could examine it more clearly when the arm that was holding it began oscillating forcefully back and forth as if it had this magnetic-like attraction/repulsion with my face, so now we have to take a tiny step backwards and talk about chakras for just a moment for the rest of this to make sense. Chakras are these alleged subtle energy centers that run along the spine. Each chakra is believed to be associated and aligned with a particular organ/gland and a particular color. Many don’t believe they exist. Though many religions and cultures identify them (they often form the foundation for many of their metaphysical philosophies), many remain quite skeptical, as they are not acknowledged by Western science, and they have come to be associated with an often-nauseating New Age aesthetic (along with crystals). I used to find myself in the boat with the skeptics, but the experience that I’m about to relate firmly convinces me beyond much doubt of the existence of chakras more so than I am convinced about any other claim I make in this paper. The reason why will soon become clear.

Now the sixth chakra (from the bottom-up) is located in the middle of the forehead, which was just about where the crystal I was holding was oscillating. This sixth chakra is most identifiable as the “third eye”, though that has little bearing on this story. I decided to try holding the crystal up to random parts of my body to see if I would still elicit the same energetic effect. Any old place such as the shoulder or any random part of the body would have no effect. When I tried holding the crystal up to where I believed the other chakras to be, I would get that same energetic oscillation of my arm as when it was held up to my third eye…well almost, but as you’ll see, it’s important that I “failed”.

This energy effect was present at every chakra with the exception of one, and that was the fourth or heart chakra. For a few days I thought perhaps it was the kind of crystal. Crystals are also supposed to be associated with the various chakras, and so I thought perhaps I just needed to get a crystal associated with the heart chakra. In retrospect it wouldn’t have mattered what crystal I have because it turns out the crystals probably have little to do with this whole experiment as I can do the same experiment using any mundane physical object like a television remote or whatever. Then something occurred to me. In most all diagrams I’ve seen of chakras running along the body, they always run straight up and down the spine, however the chakras are also supposed to be aligned with certain organs which creates a bit of a paradox in the case of the heart. The heart organ is slightly offset to the left so the question becomes, “is the heart chakra aligned with the spine or the heart organ?”

I designed a quick and simple personal experiment. First I held up the crystal to the center of my chest as I had done before, and where I had originally believed the heart chakra to be, and it was a “dead spot” – no energy effect. I then held it over the right side of my chest, and it too was a “dead spot”. When I held it over the left side of my chest…eureka! We have lift off! It was like turning on a battery, as my arm involuntarily and poignantly came to life with its wide, automatic oscillations.

It seems practically undeniable to me due to that experience that chakras exist. Before I stumbled across the solution to that “heart dilemma”, the thought had crossed my mind, as well as some of my peers, that it could very well easily be subconscious autosuggestion or something of the sort. Now deep down I knew that it probably wasn’t autosuggestion because the oscillations just seemed too powerful, forceful, and seemingly devoid of my voluntary command. Having and resolving the issue with the heart chakra laid that issue to rest as far as I was concerned because to the best of my knowledge and what I believed based on the numerous diagrams of chakras I had seen, there should have been no reason for it not to work when I held it up to the middle of the chest along the spine. It even took me a few days of puzzlement before I managed to straighten things out. As with the Qi-Gong-like postures, once again it was my body (or the energy acting through my body) that gave me direct knowledge of their chakras (most specifically verifying their existence and reappraising their locations). Now if the validity of chakras has been reified for me, and chakras are energy centers of qi, and should it turn out that the energy that composes all of hyperspace (as I experience it) is made out of this same qi, then it stands to reason that hyperspace should carry all the more element of “realism” with it.