- By David J Ham
Here’s What Happened…Allegedly.
Jesus was a mushroom. There. I said it. His halo anyway.
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I was tempted to just hand the above in to Castle Loaded. But then I wouldn’t have got weighed in so I thought better of it.
My physio / white witch, Shirley, thinks I accessed an alien spacecraft, and she knows stuff.
We’ll come back to that. (As someone who’s obsessed with aliens, everything eventually comes back to that anyway, so…).
My friends. You’re reading LOADED because you are still young at heart. Passionate. Somewhere on the spectrum of not living life and living life to the fackin’ full…sits you.
The great thing about this article is, wherever your butty is on that line, it doesn’t matter. By the end of this article I guarantee you’ll A) feel less guilty about getting massive, B) know more than you did before about outer dimensional access tactics and C) have experienced Dad jokes beyond these current realms.
You have been granted one shot at the title of life. Most of us aren’t wearing the heavyweight crown and never will, but the head feels heavy anyway. I mean, there may even be limited hair on the northern point of some of your domes upon which to put a crown and that’s fine, but know this…word on the street is that you can attain a moment of pure wonder and beauty so powerful, SO powerful, that no human can describe it to you in any earth based language. “Fancy a pint Friday mate? Or do you fancy having a look beyond space and time outside of the physics known to humans and thrown into the middle of the cosmos?”. The answer obviously unless you’re a prick is “yeah go on then”. I jest. I’m not encouraging anyone to do anything, but with DMT, everything points towards somehow obtaining a peek through a portal to another place that is beyond our consciousness. I know what you’re thinking (apart from ‘this bloke’s a wanker’), you’re thinking ‘but I don’t like being out of control’ / ‘did acid when I was younger, hated it’, etc etc. SAME. You don’t need all that Fear n Loathing palava. Which is why it took me a few years to tick this off the top of my bucket list.
Don’t dip out on a fear tip. Read on. ‘Cos I’m going to arm you with all of the knowledge you need in order to make sensible decisions, and let’s face it, justify those decisions to a partner.
There is a growing movement towards psychedelics and it seems that DMT has risen to the fore. Here, we look at why that might be.
First off the bat; it’s natural, within you, and enables you to - in many cases - access another dimension entirely.
Know that it isn’t akin to an acid trip or shrooms, or an ecstasy tablet. This is older than civilisations and let’s face it, the further we slide toward returning ourselves to a hunter gatherer existence, the wiser these ancient civilisations seem to become.
I think we all feel like we live in - not just a post-truth world - but a non-truth world. It feels increasingly as if we reside inside a Black Mirror episode. A simulation even (that’s another conversation entirely). Shit’s getting weirder. The far left is the new right. Dunno where the far right are but we don’t need them knocking about anyway do we. Simon Cowell’s wearing red bins on TV and getting away with it. Everything on the radio sounds the same. Drivers are more aggressive. Famous women have pleaded the case for and pushed the need for larger women to front all adverts (and then quicker than you can say “Ozempic”, they’re the ones then appearing on TV gaunt as you like and full to the brim on themselves only). The water doesn’t taste right. The cross-platform propaganda that encourages and feeds division - left vs right, women vs men - all designed to divide and conquer, seems here to stay. And people are falling for it.
Sometimes a seismic shift is required and people turning to psychedelics in their droves might be a significant sign post of that. People are looking for meaning as they become more isolated via the ever increasing integration of social media into their lives. If you want to read about higher power strategies enacted to quell the mass adoption of psychedelics last time around, this is a good place to start: The Politics of Ecstacy by Timothy Leary.
DMT then. Dimethyltriptamine. Some of you will have heard of it.
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So what is it officially before we get into what it does to you and the fact that I most probably have accessed an alien craft?
DMT is an hallucinogenic drug that occurs naturally in many plants. It is the main active ingredient in ayahuasca and can also be made in a lab. DMT is also naturally produced in the human brain - claimed to be what the pineal gland emits just as we leave this physical realm - although the exact role and significance of endogenous DMT are still being researched. Hence why those who end up being hauled back - almost without fail - claim that they had a glimpse of something utterly utterly magnificent. Ergo, DMT is often credited with eradicating fear of death.
Over 50% of DMT experiencers visit invisible worlds or parallel realities. In his book, DMT: The Spirit Molecule, Dr. Strassman states that over 50% of research participants described journeys to these “invisible worlds” or “alternate dimensions”, beyond the known physical universe. It’s incredibly fascinating how often this is described. Are these alternate dimensions hallucinations, or is there some reality to them?
DMT users almost universally report that when they arrive in these “other worlds”, they encounter entities or beings. A survey out of Johns Hopkins University found that an incredible 95% of DMT users described these entities as conscious and intelligent. 72% of the sample believe that these entities are real, and exist independently of their experience. Perhaps most oddly of all, some people describe the experience as waking up to a truer reality than the one they have lived their whole lives, that the latter is a constructed illusion. What does this reveal about the nature of reality? Does DMT actually enable access to intelligent higher beings who seem to know the participant better than they know themself?
DMT, along with MDMA and Ketamine are now being used in regulatory settings to treat various mental disorders. Most human research with pure DMT has involved an intravenous mode of administration, allowing rapid action with a peak at c2 minutes and subsiding at around 10 minutes. This provides a uniquely malleable time frame for examining rapid changes in brain function associated with a swift transition into - and return from - a highly altered level of waking consciousness. This in turn offers researchers a unique scientific opportunity for advancing their understanding of the neurobiology of conscious states. Brain circuitry can be damaged by chronic stress, PTSD, and depression, particularly in the prefrontal cortex. Prefrontal what? David Olson, PhD, director of the Institute for Psychedelics and Neurotherapeutics at the University of California, Davis, explains “this part of the brain talks to other regions that regulate mood, motivation, fear, and reward, and we hypothesized that psychedelics could quickly regrow lost synapses”, he continues “these drugs are not rewiring the brain, but instead they are repairing damaged circuitry”. In other words, it can help rewire the brain to provide long term relief, an emotional and creative flexibility long striven for by our ancestors and for good reason.
When the UK's first ketamine-assisted therapy clinic opened in Bristol in 2020, it was deemed a pioneering treatment centre that could change how depression and anxiety is treated. It closed four years later as allegedly the NHS wouldn’t or couldn’t agree to fund it. But it shows how psychedelic treatments have been edging their way into the mainstream. Teams at Imperial College’s Centre for Psychedelic Research in the United Kingdom as well as the University Hospital of Basel in Switzerland are currently running the first studies of extended-state DMT therapy. At the Imperial College (and elsewhere), extended-state studies are putting groups of people into this state simultaneously to see if they can hook up in a shared experience of an alternate-realm. This would provide further evidence of the existence of another dimension.
John Rosen, an anchor of knowledge in the sector and also a Founder & Psychedelic Consultant writing for Innervisionpsychedelics.com provided these fascinating view points:
“When it comes to the potential of psychedelics, the possibilities extend far beyond mental healthcare and therapeutic effects. Like a telescope to our inner world, psychedelic plant medicines can actually be used as tools for exploring the nature of mind, consciousness, and reality itself”.
As famed psychedelic therapist Stanislav Grof says, “Psychedelics, used responsibly and with proper caution, could be what the microscope is for biology, or the telescope is for astronomy.”
What beautiful reading. Let it be. He goes on to add…
“Towards the psychedelic exploration of mind and consciousness, few tools are more powerful than N,N-DMT”.
DMT vs Serotonin molecular structure
What does this mean for the layman then?
As always, it hinges on the adoption and subsequent market proliferation. The psychedelic drug market globally is expected to surpass $6 billion by 2026, according to globenewswire.com. The lion’s share of that will go to treating depression. Companies are in an arms race to develop and market an ayahuasca pill as well as a DMT injection.
Those with a more than passing interest in quantum computers might know that ‘Willow’, the current chip being developed by Google, is able to solve a specific problem in five minutes that would take the most powerful computer on earth 10 septillion years to manage. Septillion? Sounds long, whatever it is. It’s basically longer than the universe has been in existence. Think Spurs’ last title win and you’re roughly there. It gets even more mind-boggley… to solve this particular problem, and because there simply isn’t enough knowledge or core data on the planet to do this, the quantum computer must be pulling in information from other places beyond our universe. Accessing a higher network of knowledge. I wonder, then, if psychedelic substances like DMT allow us to glimpse these hidden realms. After all, who can say where the organisms that birthed psilocybin - giving rise to the ayahuasca vine - truly came from? Did a chunk of another planet strike and instigate that biological process? Did shrooms basically come from somewhere else? On the back of an Octopus. Does consuming them therefore provide access to that other place from whence it came, and even its inhabitants? Are we accessing another consciousness?
I can get deeper, deeper than East17 babes, where we kicked it all off. Which if you recall, was with Jesus being a mushroom. Glad you came?
The Dead sea scrolls were discovered over a decade or more from 1947 onwards. John Allegro - the only non Christian scholar to publish his findings - made various claims that rattled the establishment.
John Allegro - The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross. Image credit biblio.co.uk
In his brilliant book The Sacred Mushroom & the Cross, Allegro argued that Jesus never existed as an historical figure but was actually a mythological creation of early Christians under the influence of psychoactive mushroom extracts such as psilocybin. Apologies in advance to all ye bible bashers, but he believes that the scrolls clearly state that Christianity was the product of a sex-and-mushroom cult, and the mushroom was the gateway to understanding God. Further to this, it was believed that fertility would also be… “promoted”. Basically Jesus and his crew were massive drug guzzling perverts. A bit like your mates then.
Allegro also argued that the powers inherent in the mushroom were kept secret, and therefore had to be written down in the form of codes hidden in mythical stories. HELLO BIBLE. “This is the basic origin of the stories of the New Testament” he says, “they were a literary device to spread the rites of mushroom worship to the faithful.” Jesus in the Gospels was code for the Amanita mushroom, according to Allegro. TINY. MIND. BLOWN. Check out some of these ancient images that quite clearly were flyers for mass shroom rave-ups. “Ya name’s not ‘Crown’ (of thorns), ya not coming in”. Sorry.
Temptation in the Garden of Eden. Chapel of Plaincourault.
Credit: leidenmedievalistsblog.nl
A painting in Canterbury Cathedral. Credit Dennis McKenna
It’s not just Christianity that was having it large. The Rig Veda is a classic Hindu text and mentions a “pressed juice” called Soma as something drunk by priests, with a wobbly outcome: “Make me immortal in that realm where happiness transports, where joys and felicities combine, and longing wishes are fulfilled.” Wetherspoons are clearly missing a strapline there.
Here are some other religions and civilisations that I now respect big time:
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Every year around 300 BC, The Eleusinian Mysteries were held in Greece and were initiation ceremonies involving a drink called Kykeon. The epic Greek poem The Illiad claims the Kykeon was made of barley, water, herbs and goat’s cheese. In the Odyssey tale, Circe adds a ‘magic potion’ to the drink. Some speculate that the psychoactive properties of the ‘potion’ were responsible for the intense experiences that people reported at Eleusis.
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‘Mushroom cults’ in Mesoamerica date back to at least 1,000 BC, indicated by mushroom stone effigies found in the Guatemalan highlands.
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In addition, frescoes from central Mexico dated to 300 AD show signs of mushroom worship.
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‘Sacred mushrooms’ feature in Aztec texts as well – the Codex Vindobonensis, for example, visually depicts the ceremonial use of psychedelic mushrooms. The Aztecs called these mushrooms “teonanacatl” which literally means “flesh of the Gods”.
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Native Americans’ ritualistic use of the peyote cactus - which carries the psychoactive mescaline - is well known. Traditionally used by a shaman to guide those suffering painful losses through an all night prayer session. This kind of practice is rumoured to have been upheld for 40,000 years or more.
Get the picture? Aside from a brief pitstop, humans have relied on psychedelics for eternity, not just for self-enlightenment but as a core tenet of whichever religion you care to name. Church, are you listening? Shake the game up.
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The horizon is attainable. Those before us got there. The end of the rainbow is there to be marched right through. If you have the ability to experience another dimension, why wouldn’t you? Why?! I haven’t come across an argument yet that stands up.
So I suppose you’re wondering what happened to me, that first cold night down at the beach hut.
Well it went like this…
Obviously I was nervous. F*ck around ‘n’ find out situation. We sat on camping chairs outside a first floor beach hut that I have keys to. Beautiful starry night. Stones playlist prepared. I’d had one of the worst days in living memory thanks to a serial local cowboy builder who shan’t be named, called Dan. My friend - one of those people who can fix / create / play any instrument type of people, but is massively humble with it, was my guide. He had the DMT in a cartridge and he had the vape pen. Cutting to the action; I took an initial drag and felt slightly nauseous immediately. I’ve had enough experience to know you have to ride these things out and you’ll be fine. I took another drag, held it slightly deeper and WHOOMPH. The sand was immediately a geometric carpet of promise. Another drag and the sky and sand started to merge, as if something was trying to show me that there is another type of physics that we are ignorant of. It was like the most beautiful insta filter beyond the imagination of any earth based person or tech giant. Then the balcony fence, once of ordinary metal and concrete, within seconds exploded into a kaleidoscope of swirling dancing colours, Mexican fiesta stylee, rippling like liquid light. It pulsed with a rhythm of its own, undulating as if woven from the intention of some cosmic frequency, shifting between dimensions before our very eyes. Without me saying it, my friend also felt a Mexican flavour to proceedings. Despite all of this visual carry on, you still knew where you were, and you were in check. It felt safe. Unlike acid or ecstasy can make people feel. The dreaded not knowing. But then the music. The Music. My God man. Maybe the most fascinating part of all of it. The music reduced itself to a form that I’ve never heard before. This has stayed with me. I can’t get over it. I felt I could hear it for the first time in my life, the vocals, the instrumentation, as if I had time travelled back to the studio with Mick n Keef. It was raw, it was as if I was in a room with 4 massive caners from Dartford with long hair trying their best to get through a studio recording. Harmonies slightly out of kilter. But 100% as you would imagine it to be if you had time travelled back to those specific recording moments in the studio pre-production. My friend felt the exact same way. Very very weird. But mind shifting in the extreme.
I found myself peering into a void, a deep, curved entrance stretching into a seemingly infinite hallway. The walls pulsed with glowing red Tron-like electro-squares, radiating an eerie, synthetic but calming energy. What struck me more recently was the uncanny déjà vu, as I saw this exact pattern replicated - almost impossibly - in a Tutankhamun immersive exhibition. Like some ancient-futuristic echo toying with me.
Tutankhamun, The Immersive Exhibition 2025
It was pulsating and welcoming me in. Then something made of the same radiant geometric aesthetic, flower shaped, appeared over my shoulder and spoke to me, not in any language, but by thought, and its instruction was to breathe. I thought it best to follow this guiding wisdom keeper, and when I started to breathe slowly, it then pulsated much more slowly and rhythmically. Incredible. No sooner than this was all blowing my mind away, it ended.
Madness.
It’s so hard to describe the experience as it’s beyond any experience known to humankind. Imagine going on a slide for the first time as a kid but knowing it’ll be ok. A really safe but incredible slide bedecked in feathers, and better than any slide you’ve ever been on. Or the first time you had a pair of boobs slowly placed on your face. That moment. Imagine those things combined - impossible I know - but you’re on the right road.
All of a sudden, the clunkiness of life has gone.
Everything is geometrically aligned and making sense.
Life becomes a hyperspace boogie in an instant.
Take me out to the jungle with a Sony Walkman and endless cassettes and leave me there.
First castles in the sand realisations.
You feel like a genius.
Death of the ego.
You can hear differently. Imagine that alone. Hearing. Music. Differently.
I have so many questions that I’m hoping will be answered on my next visit. Including: do we go to these places anyway? Is wherever I went just a manifestation of what dreams are? Why is this molecule in us? In plants? In animals? Why and how does it reveal that we’re connected to something bigger? Maybe so that we find it? Maybe it saves us in the future and those from the future are visiting us? Who knows. But I do know that there aren’t many truly life changing moments as you get older. An increasing number of my friends are choosing to fly to the same destination and are loving their decision.
I’ll leave the final explanation to the legendary psychonaut Terence McKenna:
“You’re immediately plunged into an environment that seems hyperreal, more real than real. It’s like being shot out of a cannon into a dimension made of pure meaning.
There are entities, self-transforming machine elves that are singing in color, dancing, and communicating in a kind of linguistic light. They invite you to play and show you objects made out of impossible geometries.
The entire thing lasts only minutes, but it feels eternal. There’s a deep sense of familiarity, like you’ve been there before.
And then, just as suddenly, you’re back. Trying to understand how five minutes could contain an experience more vast than anything you've ever known.
Thanks for reading. Stay safe. Keep your mind open.
I’ve compiled the playlist for you below. Enjoy.
For the seekers:
Androidjones.com for some inspired artwork.
The Trip Report ℅ The Non Duality Podcast https://youtu.be/cyJlJbHJCN0?si=GooNaxOst79ksPRu
Playlist:
Rolling Stones - Sweet Virginia
Rolling Stones - Country Honk
Rolling Stones - Sweet Sounds of Heaven
Rolling Stones - Heaven
Rolling Stones - Moonlight Mile
Rolling Stones - Sister Morphine
The Beatles - Blue Jay Way
Muddy Waters - Long Distance Call
Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda
GOAT - Join the Resistance
Led Zeppelin - In the Light
John Lennon - Watching the Wheels
Rolling Stones - I Just Want to See His Face
Rolling Stones - I Got The Blues
Rolling Stones - You Gotta Move
Rolling Stones - No Expectations
Rolling Stones - The Lantern
The Rolling Stones - You Don’t Have to Mean It
The Rolling Stones - Slipping Away
Keith Richards - Cross Eyed Heart
“I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us”. Bukowski.
