Many people report in their DMT trips a Chrysanthemum like flower that appears, usually before breakthrough, it's usually very complex and rotating. These reports are quite common, here are some examples:   - "The visuals were interlocking sinusoidal patterns arranged in a Japanese chrysanthemum pattern that filled my entire visual field." - "The effects where still building fast and I began to see within this 3D space the chrysanthemum pattern associated with DMT. It was very beautiful — crystalline and colourful." - "The perimeter goes black, speckled with light, and from the center the chrysanthemum machine begins to unfold from the distance."   Terence Mckenna has also mentioned this Chrysanthemum pattern in many of his talks: https://youtu.be/BvTG8wEjtzA?t=80   Now what is interesting is how this flower/mandala/Chrysanthemum is also talked about in Zhuan Falun. Check out this excerpt, in my opinion it sounds like it is talking about the same phenomenon: "At this time, a situation called “three flowers gathering above the head” will occur. It is a very obvious state that is also eye-catching. Even with a low-level celestial eye one can see it. One will have three flowers above the head. One of them is a lotus flower, but it is not the lotus flower of our physical dimension. The other two flowers are also from another dimension and are extraordinarily beautiful. These three flowers take turns rotating above one’s head. They will rotate clockwise or counter-clockwise, and each flower can also rotate by itself. Each flower will have a big pole as thick as the diameter of the flower. These three big poles will reach all the way to the top of the sky, but they are not gong columns—they are just in this form and are extraordinarily wonderful. If you can see them, you will be shocked as well. When one’s cultivation reaches this stage, one’s body will be white and pure, and the skin will be fair and delicate. At this point, one will have reached the highest form of In-Triple-World-Fa cultivation, yet this is not the ultimate end. One still needs to continue cultivation and move forward." From: Zhuan Falun (Turning The Law Wheel)  http://en.falundafa.org/eng/pdf/ZFL2014.pdf