Sep 18, 2026 · 1 hr 50 min · 14 segments
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Chris Timmermann — neuroscientist, psychologist, and co-director of the UCL Centre for Consciousness Research. Chris led the DMT Research Group at Imperial College…
Chris TimmermannGuest
We even have a study where we have two people going in at the same time with DMT and try to see commonalities, if they got to the same space or not.

So to me, these molecules, including DMT, they kind of like They have this enormous potential to connect people with their more authentic parts of themselves.

If I would speculate, there's an opportunity to access the mechanisms of life itself in some primordial way.

People are able to experience not only the workings of their minds, but of life itself.
There's a lot of things that they kind of show you that doesn't really translate.
For the first year, so the thing that started this whole thing is that famous frog story in which a frog being appeared in my room as real as a person showed me how to play chords on the guitar that I didn't know how to do.
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We even have a study where we have two people going in at the same time with DMT and try to see commonalities, if they got to the same space or not.

So to me, these molecules, including DMT, they kind of like They have this enormous potential to connect people with their more authentic parts of themselves.

If I would speculate, there's an opportunity to access the mechanisms of life itself in some primordial way.

People are able to experience not only the workings of their minds, but of life itself.
There's a lot of things that they kind of show you that doesn't really translate.
For the first year, so the thing that started this whole thing is that famous frog story in which a frog being appeared in my room as real as a person showed me how to play chords on the guitar that I didn't know how to do.