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The Basement: Andrew Gallimore | DMT Didn't Take You Somewhere New — It Unlocked What's Always There

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-If you’re ever injured in an accident, you can check out Morgan & Morgan. You can start your claim in just a click without having to leave your couch: https://ForThePeople.com/WHY -Discover how to move your IRA or 401k into physical gold and silver — with no taxes or penalties. Get your free portfolio review and free gold & silver guide from GoldenCrest Metals: visit https://GoldenCrestMetals.com/thewhyfiles or call (888) 949-9172 now. The Basement: Andrew Gallimore | DMT Didn't Take You Somewhere New — It Unlocked What's Always There Dr. Andrew Gallimore has spent 30 years studying the world's strangest molecule — one your body already produces. As a neurobiologist and pharmacologist, he's built a scientific case that what people encounter on DMT isn't hallucination. It's contact. In this conversation, Gallimore walks through the neuroscience of how DMT hijacks the brain's world-building system, and why that distinction matters enormously. He also shares his recent collaboration with consciousness theorist Don Hoffman — work that produced a mathematical model of the DMT state that Gallimore calls one of the most profound moments of his career. From machine elves to the Barrow Scale, from near-death experiences to the nature of alien intelligence — this one covers ground most conversations never reach. #DMT #Consciousness #AJGentile #AndrewGallimore 00:07:06 — Introduction: Meet Dr. Andrew Gallimore 00:08:47 — The Monster Kid: Growing Up Obsessed With the Occult 00:15:42 — Terence McKenna and the Magazine That Changed Everything 00:20:11 — Cambridge, Tokyo, and Walking Away From Academia 00:57:53 — What DMT Actually Is and Where It Comes From 01:03:16 — The Neuroscience: How DMT Rewires the Brain 01:10:30 — The Breakthrough: Why DMT Is Different From Every Other Psychedelic 01:20:00 — The Entities: What People Actually Encounter 01:26:48 — DMTx: The Experiment to Extend the Experience 01:28:57 — Is It a Hallucination? The Case Against 01:39:45 — DMT, the Pineal Gland, and Near-Death Experiences 01:52:00 — Don Hoffman, Conscious Realism, and the Mathematics of Reality 02:26:05 — The Paper That Changed Everything: Gallimore Meets Hoffman 03:01:06 — DMT, Alien Intelligence, and the UAP Connection 03:11:13 — What Happens When We Die? 〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰 Executive Producers: Jennifer Gentile Gino Gentile AJ Gentile Patreon Members Editors: Joe Stone Drew Sullivan Brandon Snyder Ryan Fitzgerald Producers: Victoria Young Haley Burke Research: Haley Burke AJ Gentile Gino Gentile Jen Gentile Victoria Young Written/Hosted by: AJ Gentile Hecklefish J. Moriarty Thank You Mods: The Hybrid Paul Rohrbaugh Mischief SnowCrash BeezySmeezy TrashPanda MaryJaneMcweed AC Sanzel Abbaton SpookyMadison Original Jim With Music on Repeat by Victor Lundberg The Why Files lyrics by Straightjacket Spaceman 〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰 GALLIMORE LINKS Website: Alieninsect.net YouTube: @AlienInsect Twitter/X: @alieninsect Instagram: @alieninsect 〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰 🎧 The Why Files: OPERATION PODCAST 🎧 🎧 https://thewhyfiles.com/podcast 🎧 〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰 🙏 SUPPORT THE WHY FILES (Fun, Free Perks!) 🙏 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewhyfiles 🙏 YT Members: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIFk2uvCNcEmZ77g0ESKLcQ/join 👽 BUY WHY FILES MERCH 👽 👽 https://shop.thewhyfiles.com (Code: LIZZIDPEEPLE for 10% off first order) 👽 💬 CHAT WITH US ON DISCORD 💬 💬 https://thewhyfiles.com/discord 💬 〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰 🌐 OFFICIAL WEBSITE: https://thewhyfiles.com 📸 BE A WHY FILES MODEL (and get free stuff!) 📸 Send a photo of you/family/friends watching TWF, 📸 wearing TWF gear, using TWF merchandise: 📸 https://thewhyfiles.com/wild 〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰 ▪TWF ON THE WEBS ▪https://www.reddit.com/r/TheWhyFiles/ ▪https://twitter.com/OMGTheWhyFiles ▪https://www.instagram.com/OMGTheWhyFiles ▪https://www.rumble.com/thewhyfiles ▪https://thewhyfiles.locals.com ▪https://www.tiktok.com/@thewhyfiles ▪https://www.facebook.com/OMGTheWhyFiles 〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰 🐠 BETTER CHANNELS TO WATCH: 🐠 https://www.youtube.com/c/HecklefishMoriarty 🤓 https://www.youtube.com/c/TheWhyFilesBackstage 🎧 https://www.youtube.com/c/TheWhyFilesPodcast

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@burmecian123 2026-06-22

"That crazy guy that's been on Rogan." Really narrows it down.

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@strafe155 2026-06-22

Some Near Death Experiences known as "Peak in Darien Experiences" involve encounters with dead people who were still thought to be alive at the time, or were complete strangers to the experiencer. For Example, Dutch Cardiologist Pim Van Lommel has documented the case of a Male Patient who, while undergoing cardiac arrest, encountered his dead grandmother and a strange man who looked at him lovingly, but whom he couldn't recognize. Over a decade after this experience, his mother, now on her deathbed, confessed to her son that he'd actually been born from an extramarital affair, and that her husband wasn't his real father. His biological father was actually a Jewish man who'd been killed during the German Occupation of the Netherlands in World War 2. She also gave her son a photograph she had of his biological father, and he immediately recognized him as the strange man who'd been looking at him lovingly during his Near Death Experience over a decade ago.

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@pyronymph-868 2026-06-23

My one DMT experience was incredible. I was in another dimension and met a woman with green skin and dragonfly wings. She was excited I was there; the gladness for my presence there was clearly expressed. It gives me chills to this day.

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@JarrodDSchneider 2026-06-22

A few times I’ve reached higher realms via psychedelics and/or meditation, I’ve gotten a sense of “Oh…of course this is how things are!”….as if the true reality “behind” this one is much more coherent and logical than the one we typically experience. The hard part is retrieving and then articulating this realization, as it is notoriously fleeting, a fact that lends credence to the notion that this reality is a type of illusion with in-built limitations that we endure in order to teach our souls valuable lessons via the peculiarity of earthly existence.

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@marymannis1656 2026-06-22

AJ you knocked it out of the park again I've seen several interviews with Andrew and he has never opened up and expressed his views, Beyond his clinical experience, the way he did with you in this interview. So wonderful - so well done - thank you!!

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@goodshepard00 2026-06-22

Bravoooooo AJ and Why Files team. I love your deep dive interviews and the original format. Thank you. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

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@jessesmith1981 2026-06-22

My experience with DMT was on a giant rock in the forest next to a running river and it was awesome. I was aware of the energy of the trees the rocks the moss showing me 3 different dimensions just on moss. Truly an awakening movement.

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@tavenner07 2026-06-22

I don’t know if I got locked out. Because I never went back. Craziest experience of my life. Truly paradigm shifting. Reality is way stranger than we’ve been led to believe, and can even grasp.

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@javie5080 2026-06-22

I’ll never forget the arms wrapping around my soul and telling me everything will be okay. I believe it’s not only separate entities, but you can meet your own self too. “I opened my eye, and there we were.”

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@D.A.T69 2026-06-22

Im so glad that aj is doing these podcasts, i love how he sets it up

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