Thalamocortical Loops and Attractors

Andrew Gallimore is a neurobiologist, pharmacologist and chemist who developed the DMTx protocol — a technology that extends the most intense psychedelic experience known to science from minutes to hours. He is the author of Alien Information Theory, Reality Switch Technologies and Death by Astonishment, and is Director of Noonautics, a nonprofit dedicated to the scientific exploration of consciousness. He currently lives and works in Tokyo.Expect to learn why your brain builds alien worlds on DMT, what thalamocortical loops and attractor states actually are, why DMT may have once been an ancient neurotransmitter, why 94% of users encounter non-human entities, what Jungian archetypes can and can't explain about DMT, where Andrew disagrees with Robin Carhart-Harris on the reality of entities, what the DMTx extended state protocol is and how it works, why DMT is the only psychedelic that doesn't produce tolerance, what happens when entities deny you access to the DMT world, what darkness retreats and breathwork have to do with endogenous DMT, and much more...Timestamps:0:00 Trailer2:11 What Is the Building Alien Worlds Thesis?4:06 What Makes DMT Unique Among Psychedelics?6:57 World Space Landscape and Consensus Reality8:11 DMT Entities — Prevalence and Types11:04 Consistency of Entity Interactions13:31 Is the DMT World Real or a Hallucination?17:34 Thalamocortical Loops and World-Model Construction20:34 Attractor States Explained24:21 Why DMT’s Stability Suggests an Evolutionary Role27:25 Parallel Lives — The DMT Sleep Cycle Hypothesis28:36 What Was the Evolutionary Purpose of the DMT World?33:35 Melatonin, Serotonin and DMT — Pharmacological Cousins35:57 Is DMT Still Doing Something Important in the Brain?36:36 Noonautics and Endogenous DMT Research38:43 Debunking DMT Breathwork Courses and Pineal Myths40:45 What Does a Stable Pattern of Brain Activity Actually Look Like?43:53 Order Within Chaos — Chris Timmermann’s DMTx Findings47:16 Robin Carhart-Harris and the Jungian Archetype Debate48:37 What Jungian Archetypes Actually Are53:36 Why Archetypes Can’t Explain Alien Entities54:32 The Directed World Model — Do Entities Control Access?56:55 DMT Lockout — When Entities Deny You Entry58:30 Can You See Entities in Brain Scans?1:00:06 Future Brain Scanning Technology1:01:24 The Speed of the Switch as Evidence1:04:40 Dimensionality and Topology of the DMT World1:06:39 DMTx — What Is the Extended State Protocol?1:09:03 Target-Controlled Intravenous Infusion Explained1:11:23 Sending Specialists Into DMT Space1:13:35 Time Perception on DMT1:16:16 Surprises from DMTx Experiments1:18:15 The Future of DMT Consciousness Research1:19:12 Andrés Gómez Emilsson and the Mathematics of DMT Space...Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com ❤️ Subscribe to our main channel - https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder?sub_confirmation=1💚 Follow on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/5m3Gta5MtIYdk59pb2GJ7M?si=Ka2rAQv7TyqiC9wvGwERpA💜 Follow on Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-giants-shoulder/id1752486249Download my FREE EBook 26 Neuroscience Books for 2026 HERE: https://thegiantsshoulder.com/