Martin W. Ball - Entheogenic Liberation: Unraveling the Enigma of Nonduality with 5-Meo-Dmt Energetic Therapy

Since the culmination in the Spring of 2009 of my own personal process of nondual transformation and liberation, I have focused on sharing the process and possibility of self-liberation with others. All the books, articles, and essays Ive written, all the music and art Ive created, and all the interviews Ive given, have been focused on sharing what Ive learned and experienced regarding nondual liberation and transformation as mediated by psychedelic medicines, with a particular focus on the uniquely powerful and profound molecule of 5-MeO-DMT. I have dubbed this approach The Entheological Paradigm.

This book explicitly continues these efforts. Interest in not only 5-MeO-DMT, but also nondual awakening and transformation, has grown dramatically, spurring requests for further information and direction from around the globe. At this very moment, I have emails awaiting responses that have come in from Switzerland, Germany, and Spain, and these were received just within the last hour.

Many individuals seek me out for guidance and direction because my approach to these topics is largely unique. It is direct, honest, and grounded in reality. It is also something that is accessible to others and can be implemented by anyone looking to use psychedelics for the purpose of nondual awakening and transformation.

As with other works Ive written ( Being Human in particular), this book is intended as a guide. If you want to know how to achieve nondual liberation for yourself, then this book is for you. If, on the other hand, you want to learn about how to be spiritual, religious, and ceremonial in your use of psychedelics, then I advise you to put the book down and go about your day, because you wont find such information here, and in fact, such approaches are critiqued and discouraged.

Some of the concepts and details discussed here were introduced in earlier books, so readers of any of my post-Spring 2009 works will note some familiar elements. However, this book is an attempt to combine all the relevant material into a single work, while also introducing some new topics that havent been fully addressed in my previous works. Whereas Being Human was intentionally designed to be brief and to the point, this book is detail-rich in an effort to present a fuller picture of just what the process, its challenges, and rewards, really look like.

It is my hope that youll find this book to be the definitive work not only on the 5-MeO-DMT experience, but also on the process of nondual awakening and transformation, which is here presented as a form of therapy, as opposed to a spiritual practice or discipline. Everything presented here is fundamentally true, to the best of my ability to articulate and express it. There are no speculations, metaphysics or belief systems involved. As such, this is a book about reality, and about you. It is a guide to help you find, encounter, and be yourself, free from illusion and confusion.

Furthermore, everything presented here comes directly out of my own personal experience and practice Ive personally lived through everything communicated in these pages. As a result, you will not find references to anyone elses views, models, theories, or work. This is my presentation of what Ive learned and experienced directly, in myself, and in the context of working with others. I have found clarity and reality within myself, and thus see no need to rely on any exterior views, constructs, or systems of meaning. Having done it for myself and by myself, I want to share this process with others, in the hope that they might find the courage and clarity to do the same.

One of the inspirations for writing this book is the fact that dualistic confusion and attachment to illusion and beliefs is so prevalent in not only society at large, but significantly so in psychedelic culture, in particular. Psychedelic enthusiasts spend great amounts of time and energy promoting beliefs in and speculations on spirits, entities, astral beings, and alternate realities. They focus on issues of prayer, ceremony, ritual, and the desire to make everything sacred. Theres an ongoing love affair with shamanism and the sacred wisdom of plant teachers, and all of it is tightly wedded to dualistic constructs of self and other, sacred and profane, right and wrong, good and bad. In general, there is a real lack of understanding and clear recognition that it is all the self and that any sense of otherness is an illusion and projection, created by the ego.