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'''Machine elves''' (also known as '''fractal elves''', '''self-transforming machine elves''') is a term coined by [[Terence McKenna]] to describe the apparent [[entities]] (described as "[[elves]]") that have been reported by users of [[dimethyltryptamine]].<ref name="Dmt: the Spirit Molecule">{{cite book | author= Rick Strassman |title=Dmt: the Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of near-Death and Mystical Experiences | year=2001 | isbn= 978-0-89281-927-0| pages = 187–8, also pp.173–4| quote =I had expected to hear about some of these types of experiences once we began giving DMT. I was familiar with Terence McKenna's tales of the "self-transforming machine elves" he encountered after smoking high doses of the drug. Interviews conducted with twenty experienced DMT smokers before beginning the New Mexico research also yielded some tales of similar meetings. Since most of these people were from California, I admittedly chalked up these stories to some kind of West Coast eccentricity}}</ref> References to such encounters can be found in many cultures ranging from [[shaman]]ic traditions of [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|native Americans]] to [[indigenous Australians]] and African tribes, as well as among [[Western culture|western]] users of these substances.<ref>{{cite book | editor1-first= Ralph Metzner |title=Ayahuasca: Hallucinogens, Consciousness and the Spirit of Nature| isbn=978-1-56025-160-6 }}</ref>
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