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Machine Elves (also known as self transforming machine elves) is a term coined by the writer and philosopher Terence McKenna to describe the entities that he claims one becomes aware of after having taken tryptamine based psychedelic drugs such as DMT. According to McKenna, their constant dance creates the reality as we perceive it. By following their dance, one can stay in contact with the Logos, a subconscious world of spiritual and other information. A close similarity is the hindu Dance of Shiva.

Many people have claimed to have encountered such entities, and have described them as abstract beings existing in the universe created from human and animal mental space . The term "DMT Space" has also been used.

There are numerous references of such encounters that could be found in many cultures ranging from shamanic traditions of Native Americans to Australian aboriginals, to African tribes, to the modern day " urban shamanism " like Santeria and Vodoun and the "new breed". This is something that Timothy Leary used to describe the rising generation of urban shamans, who, he claims, will augment the modern world's spiritual awareness of the world.

This concept may be related to a tendency for the brain to imagine living entities during certain altered states. The best example of this is the extremely common feeling of a living presence during sleep paralysis (which has been theorized as the origin of the succubus). Another example would be the widespread experience of a " Salvia Goddess " encountered by users of Salvia Divinorum.

The psychedelic trancePsychedelic trance (often referred to as psy trance is a form of trance music (a style of electronic music), developed in the early 1990s. Trance has a fast beat, in the range 125 to 150 beats per minute (bpm), compared to ambient trance music and other f musicians Space Tribe created a track ( TIP Records , 1996) entitled "Machine Elf" containing a voice sample of Leonard NimoyLeonard Nimoy (born March 26, 1931) is an actor, film director, poet and photographer best known for playing the character Spock in the Star Trek television and movie series. Career Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Nimoy spent much time in live theater, and saying "Visual contact established. Requesting permission to land."

Hallucinogens MythologyThis article is about a system of myths. For the 1942 book Mythology see its author Edith Hamilton. A mythology is a relatively cohesive set of myths: stories that comprise a certain religion or belief system. What is mythology? Myths are generally storie

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