What if the strangest thing about DMT isn’t the hallucinations, but the possibility that we’re not alone in them?

In this episode, we explore Traces of the Other — a serious attempt to ask whether DMT entities could ever become a scientific question rather than simply a psychedelic mystery.

In this opening episode of Keeping Going, I introduce the people, ideas and questions behind the show. Much of my work is with high-agency men — unusually capable, driven people, many with substantial financial freedom. What happens when money, status and achievement cease to be the main problems, but the fundamental questions remain?

At its heart, Keeping Going is about relentlessly humanising the other. Guests will be chosen not simply for brilliance, but for being brilliant and decent. Curiosity, rather than ideology, will determine where the show goes.

IIn this episode of keepingGOING, I look at DMT — something that first came onto my radar through working with highly capable people and the questions that can remain when conventional measures of success have stopped being the problem.

We’ll cover the basics of DMT and phenomenology, the extraordinary strangeness of what people report, and why it matters in psychedelic integration. More importantly, I want to ask why an experience this consistently strange has so little place in the wider public conversation.

This is the primer for a series of deeper dives into the phenomenology, neuroscience, psychology and philosophy of the DMT experience.