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==Other mentions of the DMT elves==

McKenna was not the first to experience or report DMT elves, even if they probably owe most of their popularization to him. In an article published in The ''Journal of Mental Science'' (now the [[British Journal of Psychiatry]]) in 1958 under the title “Dimethyltryptamine Experiments with Psychotics”, researcher [[Stephen Szara]] (the chemist who first studied the human effects of DMT) talked about how one of his subjects under the influence of DMT had experienced “strange creatures, dwarves or something” at the beginning of the trip.<ref>http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=12496</ref>

In a book entitled ''Psychedelic Monographs and Essays Volume 5'',<ref>{{cite book |title=Psychedelic Monographs and Essays Volume 5 |last=Lyttle |first=Thomas |year=1991 |publisher= P M & E PUBLISHING}}</ref> Peter Meyer, a philosopher, mathematician and developer of Terence McKenna's "Timewave Zero" software, spoke about the DMT elves. He reported a subject's experience of the elves after ingestion of DMT: "The elves were dancing in and out of the multidimensional visible language matrix". Meyer associates this experience with that talked about by [[Walter Evans-Wentz]], who expressed that a world of entities such as fairies and elves exists "as a supernormal state of consciousness into which men and women may enter temporarily in dreams, trances, or in various ecstatic conditions".<ref>{{cite book |title=The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries |last=Evans-Wentz |first=Walter |year=1990 |publisher= New Page Books|isbn=1-56414-708-8}}</ref>