The Joe Rogan Experience

#2403 - Andrew Gallimore

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Oct 30, 2025
Andrew Gallimore, a leading chemical pharmacologist and neurobiologist focused on psychedelics, dives into the mysterious world of DMT. He discusses how DMT challenges our understanding of neuroscience and questions the nature of reality itself. Gallimore explores the brain's role in constructing perception and contrasts DMT experiences with dreams. He raises intriguing ideas about DMT potentially acting as a communication channel with external intelligences, the implications of consciousness, and the intersection of psychedelics with ancient rituals and cultural shifts.
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INSIGHT

Scientific Path Triggered By DMT Fascination

  • Andrew Gallimore decided to study chemistry and pharmacology after reading Terence McKenna about DMT as a teen.
  • He wanted to understand how a molecule can replace your entire perceived reality so completely.
ADVICE

Experience Before Explaining

  • If you want to understand DMT, experience it rather than theorize from afar.
  • Joe Rogan bluntly urges trying a proper breakthrough dose before dismissing it as a hallucination.
INSIGHT

Perception Is A Constructed Model

  • Gallimore frames perception as a brain-constructed model rather than passive observation.
  • DMT first induces chaos then collapses the brain into a different ordered model, creating a wholly new reality.
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