Scientists Plot to Contact Demons Through DMT—And Yes, That’s Exactly What They’re Doing

Researchers are actually using one of the most powerful hallucinogenic drugs known to man to establish “two-way communication” with the entities people encounter while high. This isn’t science fiction. It’s happening right now, and it represents a dangerous collision between academic hubris and ancient spiritual foolishness.

These aren’t fringe conspiracy theorists or street-corner mystics. We’re talking about credentialed neurobiologists and self-described ethnobotanists—because apparently, modern academia has run out of productive things to study—who are running what they call a “SETI for the mind.” They’re organizing psychedelic retreats with the explicit goal of making contact with what DMT users consistently describe as intelligent, technologically advanced, non-human entities.

Let’s be crystal clear about what’s happening here.

The Entities Are Real—And That’s the Problem

Users across the board report strikingly similar experiences. The late Terence McKenna, patron saint of the psychedelic movement, described them as “self-transforming elf machines” and “jeweled, self-dribbling basketballs from hyperspace.” Others encounter what they plainly call “dark, evil motherfuckers—horrible things.” The common thread? An overwhelming sense of encountering an intelligence that is ancient, supremely advanced, and possessing godlike power.

Neurobiologist Andrew Gallimore, who proposed this research six years ago, insists these aren’t mere “hallucinations”—a term he uses derisively. His claim? DMT unlocks a realm ordinarily hidden from our senses, populated by “unfathomably advanced nonhuman entities.”

Here’s the fatal flaw in this entire enterprise: if these entities aren’t real, then the whole project is pointless. You can’t communicate with a hallucination any more than you can have a meaningful conversation with your coffee mug. Communication requires two cognitive powers—two minds capable of thought, intention, and exchange.

But if these entities are real, as these researchers insist, then we’re dealing with non-physical, invisible intelligences that humans can only access through mind-altering substances and altered states of consciousness.

There’s a word for that in every traditional religious framework: demons.

The Spiritual Reality These Scientists Refuse to Acknowledge

Non-physical beings with cognitive power are, by definition, spiritual entities. In classical Christian theology and philosophy, these are spirits—either angels or demons. And when you’re inviting contact with spiritual beings through sinful behavior and consciousness-destroying drugs, you’re not summoning the good ones.

This isn’t superstitious thinking. It’s basic logical deduction combined with thousands of years of documented spiritual wisdom.

The scholastics distinguished between ens reale (mind-independent beings) and ens rationis (products of imagination). For this entire research project to make sense, these entities must be ens reale—actually existing intelligences. Otherwise you’re just funding an expensive exercise in talking to yourself while high.

So these scientists are operating on the premise that they’re dealing with real, independent intelligences. Non-physical ones. That can only be contacted through altered states achieved by drug use. That possess knowledge and power beyond human comprehension.

That is the textbook definition of demonic contact.

The Ancient Temptation in a Lab Coat

Why would anyone want to do this? The researchers would claim they’re seeking knowledge, expanding human consciousness, exploring uncharted territories of the mind. It sounds noble when dressed up in academic language.

But strip away the neuroscience jargon and the ethnobotanical pretensions, and you’re left with the same temptation that’s ensnared humanity since the Garden of Eden: the desire for knowledge and power on our terms rather than God’s.

If you genuinely seek truth, wisdom, and spiritual enlightenment, those things are available through prayer, scripture, sacraments, and submission to divine will. The difference is that path requires humility. It requires acknowledging a higher authority. It requires surrendering your ego to God’s omnipotence and omniscience.

Drug-induced communion with “entities,” on the other hand, promises enlightenment while keeping you in the driver’s seat. It offers transcendence without submission. Knowledge without accountability. Spiritual experience without moral transformation.

It’s the promise that you can become like God yourself—which, if you recall your Genesis, was precisely Satan’s pitch to Eve.

Why This Matters Beyond the Lab

We’re living in an age that has rejected traditional religious wisdom while desperately seeking spiritual meaning. That combination creates a vacuum that gets filled with all manner of dangerous substitutes.

When credentialed scientists at respected institutions start organizing drug retreats to contact non-human intelligences, they’re not advancing human knowledge. They’re regressing to pre-Christian paganism while calling it progress. They’re opening doors that every wisdom tradition warns should remain closed.

C.S. Lewis put it perfectly: don’t think about demons constantly, or you’ll become obsessed with spiritual darkness instead of focusing on God. But don’t ignore them entirely either, or you’ll leave yourself vulnerable to very real spiritual dangers.

This DMT research represents exactly the kind of moment when ignoring spiritual reality becomes genuinely hazardous.

The Bottom Line

Don’t do drugs with hippie scientists to talk to demons. This shouldn’t need to be said, but here we are.

If these entities aren’t real, the research is meaningless. If they are real, they’re demons, and deliberately seeking contact with them through consciousness-destroying substances is spiritually suicidal.

The researchers can dress it up in academic language and publish in prestigious journals. They can call it neuroscience and ethnobotany and consciousness studies. But when you strip away the pretensions, they’re conducting séances with extra steps.

Our ancestors knew better. They understood that certain doors shouldn’t be opened, certain boundaries shouldn’t be crossed, and certain spirits shouldn’t be invited in. Modern academia’s arrogant assumption that traditional wisdom represents mere superstition has led to this: credentialed professionals organizing drug-fueled attempts to chat with entities that every major religious tradition would immediately identify as demonic.

This isn’t progress. It’s not science. It’s spiritual recklessness masquerading as research, and it won’t end well for anyone involved.