A cartography of the collective experience
✦ Enter the chrysanthemum ✦
A cartography of the collective experience — mapped from the reports.
A map of what people report — every entry cited. Not a claim it is a literal place or beings, and not a guide to making or taking anything.
The Atlas is an interactive, source-grounded cartography of what people report from the DMT (N,N-dimethyltryptamine) breakthrough state — the recurring entities, realms, geometry, journey stages, and themes — with every entry cited to who reported it. The map above renders in three switchable views; here is what each one shows and how to read it.
A force-directed graph in which every entity, realm, geometry, and theme is linked to the sources that report it. The cluster structure is the actual shape of the corpus — who said what — and node size tracks citation count and reported frequency. It makes visible, at a glance, that the single most-reported figure is not the famous machine elves but a feminine or maternal presence, and that the "grey"/alien and deity phenotypes are each reported far more often than the elves.
An illustrated terrain where the reported realms sit as named regions you pan, zoom, and click into — the waiting room, the cathedral, the throne, the control room, the void, the geometric palaces of the lattice. Each region opens a dossier of what happens there and the accounts that describe it.
The breakthrough arc laid out in the order it tends to unfold: inhalation and onset, the chrysanthemum, the rush, passing through the membrane, breakthrough, arrival in the waiting room, entity contact, the download or lesson, the peak, the return, and the afterglow. This order is a strong pattern in the reports, not a law — many accounts skip, loop, or reorder stages.
Everything is drawn from 103 written sources and cross-linked, so every entity knows its realm, its phase, and its citations. The territories include the 40 recurring entities (from self-transforming machine elves to the Divine Feminine), the 31 realms, the geometry and perceptual phenomena, the motifs and events, the journey, and the themes and mechanics. Every quantitative claim is catalogued on the evidence page, and every source in the library.
The Atlas stays ontologically neutral. It is a map of what people report and write — a cartography of a shared phenomenology and mythology — not a claim that these are literally real places or beings, and never a guide to obtaining, making, or taking anything. The convergence across strangers is documented and genuinely striking; whether it reflects shared brain architecture, Jungian archetypes, or a shared "space" is unresolved, and we take no verdict. The largest analysis of these reports, Lawrence et al.'s study of 3,778 accounts in Scientific Reports (2022), documents the convergence without resolving its cause.
If you want the big picture of how everything connects, start with the Constellation. If you came to understand a specific encounter, use What did I meet? to mirror it to the reported archetypes first.
No. Tap any node to open its sourced dossier. If you have questions like "why do strangers see the same beings?" or "is it like a near-death experience?", Questions from hyperspace answers them with citations and no verdict.
After the experience has plain-language, non-medical support and real peer-support and crisis resources.
Start exploring — descend into the interactive Atlas ✦
Educational only. Every entry traces to the written sources catalogued in the library; convergence across independent reports is striking but is not proof of anything external.
