' I heard about something called 5-MeO-DMT. It's made from, or consists of the venom of the Sonoran Desert Toad. And when you milk that toad of its venom, the venom crystallizes and you can smoke it.'
Visuals for an Audible segment of Pop-Up Magazine's spring tour – bringing an extract from Michael Pollan's latest book "How to Change your Mind" to life.
' Take a series of short puffs then hold one big one as long as you can. And then exhale. This is the Everest of psychedelics.'
' Well before I exhaled, I had left this world entirely. Not only had my ego completely disappear, but everything disappeared.'
' There was no anything. There was no being.'
' It was like a category five mental hurricane. I felt like I was strapped to a rocket, with the G-forces pulling down on my face.
Fortunately it didn't last very long. As I reconstituted and being happened again I was happy as I had ever been. It was the bliss that I existed. That anything existed.'
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