The Midnight Academy with Dr. Heather Lynn
In this episode of The Midnight Academy, we explore DMT entities, ayahuasca visions, and the frontiers of consciousness through the lens of modern psychedelic research and visionary art.
This is The Illustrated Field Guide to DMT Entities, a detailed map of the beings most often encountered in altered states. The guide explores 25 entities frequently reported in DMT and ayahuasca experiences, including machine elves, insectoids like mantids, tricksters, and divine figures such as Gaia, Grandmother Ayahuasca, and the Virgin Mary.
Through vivid reports, cross-cultural symbolism, and stunning art, it offers a grounded look into the patterns, messages, and intelligence found in these altered realms. Today, we’re speaking with the creators of this guide about what these encounters reveal about human consciousness, the nature of reality, and the boundaries between psychology, mysticism, and metaphysics.
GUESTS
Sara Phinn Huntley
Sara Phinn Huntley is an artist, writer, and researcher whose work has explored the intersection of psychedelics, technology, and philosophy for the past two decades, pushing her understanding into pioneering VR mediums for psychedelic exploration and research.
An intrepid DMT psychonaut and cartographer of hyperspace, her current focus involves using VR to explore representative visual and spatial imagination in real time—and the subsequent remapping of the brain that occurs.
Her past work has utilized a multimedium and multidisciplinary approach to document and explore the states revealed by dimethyltryptamine and other psychedelics, and cargo cult higher-dimensional artifacts through the intersection of chaos mathematics, Islamic geometry, and 3D diagrammatic performance capture.
Her work has been published by the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), featured in Diana Reed Slattery’s Xenolinguistics, and most recently, in The Illustrated Field Guide to DMT Entities with David Jay Brown.
David Jay Brown
David Jay Brown is the author of Dreaming Wide Awake: Lucid Dreaming, Shamanic Healing, and Psychedelics and The New Science of Psychedelics: At the Nexus of Culture, Consciousness, and Spirituality.
He’s also the coauthor of seven bestselling interview anthologies featuring leading-edge thinkers, including Mavericks of the Mind, Voices from the Edge, Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse, Mavericks of Medicine, Frontiers of Psychedelic Consciousness, Women of Visionary Art, and Psychedelics and the Coming Singularity.
In addition to nonfiction, Brown is the author of two science fiction novels (Brainchild and Virus) and the coauthor of the health-science book Detox with Oral Chelation.
He holds a master’s degree in psychobiology from New York University, and contributed research to two of Rupert Sheldrake’s books on unexplained phenomena: Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home and The Sense of Being Stared At.
His writing has appeared in Wired, Discover, Scientific American, and many other publications. He also served as Senior Editor for a special themed edition of the MAPS Bulletin (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies).
Currently, Brown is developing an oracle deck with Sara Phinn Huntley for Inner Traditions, based on Timothy Leary’s 8-Circuit Model of Consciousness—and inspired by the DMT entities explored in their fieldwork.
📘 Book Link:
The Illustrated Field Guide to DMT Entities on Amazon
SPONSOR
The Midnight Academy is Sponsored by Acre Gold
Most people still imagine that gold is something reserved for the wealthy. Yet gold has been the foundation of value across civilizations—for kings, temples, and divine rites.
Acre Gold changes that. They help people begin stacking real physical gold for long-term security without spending thousands up front. For as little as $30 a month, you steadily build toward receiving actual gold bars you can hold in your hand.
Their new Ancient Collection draws f
Show more...