The contradictory nature of the soul is hard to conceal for any length of time. The psyche wants to expand its Umwelt to include its own concept of its limits, but, given such opportunities as delivered by DMT, it encounters new and formidable limits in the very process of transcending the old. The soul with DMT is like a handsome and narcissistic basilisk before a full-length mirror: DMT delivers a revelatory flash in which the forces of attraction and repulsion precisely balance each other. DMT is a catalyst of a dynamic equilibrium in which one pole of the psyche shrinks in awe at the very moment that the other pole dissolves old limits and solidifies new existential territories. While the psyche inebriated by DMT experiences dynamic changes, something in its nature remains unshaken. There is no net change in the nature of being, just awesome fluctuations of energy at the level of awareness; but the fundamentals of ontology are unchanged. The Self remains a stranger, and the Other, as it has of old, becomes, by minute increments, increasingly familiar. DMT energises this eternal process, raising it to an encounter with awareness, and in this, despite its imperfections, it is a tool for the fusing of psychic opposites, for individuation.