Journey with us beyond the veil in this interview by Luke Hancock, where Batuhan Bintas, drawing on firsthand experience in the Imperial College London DMT Study, recounts strange tales of encounters with DMT Entities, abduction by Mantidae surgeons, being haunted by a Succubus, the Cosmic Serpent, DMT Elves that sing creation into existence, the Universality of the experiences, and the greater implications of contact with that Realm. Rather than focusing on spectacle, the discussion centers on meaning, integration, and what these extraordinary states may reveal about the nature of consciousness and humanity’s place within a much larger and stranger cosmos than we ever dreamed possible.
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See Batuhan’s featured video on GrahamHancock.com: “Anatolian Shahmeran & Ayahuasca Shamanism”
Filmed on the 2025 Winter Solstice. Interview by Luke Hancock.
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Batuhan Bintas is an animator, independent researcher, and global speaker exploring the deep intersections of consciousness, ancient mythology, and altered states.
He has spoken internationally at gatherings such as Boom Festival, Ozora Festival, and Breaking Convention, while his visuals have been presented at major cultural events, including Glastonbury Festival. Alongside his public work, Batuhan is also a volunteer participant in DMT research conducted at Imperial College London, grounding his creative and mythological inquiry in lived research experience.
He is currently developing a documentary series exploring DMT entities and the history of psychedelics, examining recurring visionary archetypes across ancient civilizations and cross-cultural shamanic traditions alongside insights from modern psychedelic science. Through AI-driven visual storytelling and comparative research, his work traces symbolic patterns that appear across humanity’s oldest cultures and today’s psychedelic experiences, asking enduring questions about origin, memory, meaning — and whether these extraordinary encounters point to a shared symbolic language or a deeper continuity within human consciousness itself.
