✦Description
A step past examination: something is put INTO the experiencer, or an operation is performed. Strassman's volunteer Ben reported saguaro-cactus-like beings, one of whom implanted a probe under his skin; other volunteers described procedures, injections, and 'experiments.' Lawrence 2022 coded device implantation in 3.4% of entity encounters and surgery/procedure/operation/injection/experimentation in 3.3%. Reports split between violation ('they did something to me') and repair ('they were fixing me').
✦Interpretations
Some experiencers read it as surgery or upgrade, others as trespass; researchers note the striking overlap with abduction-lore surgery scenes (Mack, Clancy) and treat shared cultural scripts as one candidate explanation — the reports themselves are the data.
✦What the sources say
Implantation of a device in 59 encounters (3.4%); surgery, procedure, operation, injection, or experimentation in 56 (3.3%).
Ben: cactus-like beings on an examination table, one implanting a probe under his skin.
Abduction research documents the same implant/procedure script in non-drug contexts, marking it as a circulating cultural motif.
Questions
What is 'The Insertion — implant, probe, procedure' in DMT reports?
A step past examination: something is put INTO the experiencer, or an operation is performed. Strassman's volunteer Ben reported saguaro-cactus-like beings, one of whom implanted a probe under his skin; other volunteers described procedures, injections, and 'experiments.' Lawrence 2022 coded device implantation in 3.4% of entity encounters and surgery/procedure/operation/injection/experimentation
Is 'The Insertion — implant, probe, procedure' commonly reported?
Rarer than the scan: Lawrence 2022 found implantation in 3.4% (n=59) and surgery/procedure/experimentation in 3.3% (n=56) of entity encounters. Vivid but firmly a minority report.