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1/poll results not in yet, but i've been inspired by @HanjoYoutaku to tender my take on this traditionally tabooed topic, gleaned mostly from 3 sources: first, this fascinating book https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51654.DMT, https://twitter.com/wildbuddhini/status/1343698706885963776
2/second, Jacques Vallee's interdimensional hypothesis, and last but not least my experiences (not via psychedelics, i have high endo DMT). some casual notes:
DMT is a damn interesting chemical! it occurs naturally in our bodies. But
in high (injected) doses,
DMT is a damn interesting chemical! it occurs naturally in our bodies. But
in high (injected) doses,
3/ it induced in some of Strassman's study volunteers "abduction"/contact experiences so intense that he retracted his tulpa hypothesis. participants insisted beings they contacted were physically real. the word "real" is revealing! a sense of hyperreality marked the experiences
4/ DMT occurs in our brains, could it modulate or generate our sense of "realness"? consciousness itself?
the word "hallucination" suggests pathology, but our everyday thoughts share an essential quality with hallucinations. the difference is in "realness" level + assigned source
the word "hallucination" suggests pathology, but our everyday thoughts share an essential quality with hallucinations. the difference is in "realness" level + assigned source
5/ we hear words, see images, etc., not *obviously* from our senses, and assign their source to our heads: thought. if we assign a thought's source to a thing outside the head and experience it as more "real" (audible speech vs internal monologue): hallucination
6/ realness and perceived source of obviously sensory data also varies!
attributing thoughts to our heads is normal. it's also a perceptual construction. observing the similarity of thought w hallucination broke me out of the cognitive-linguistic ego!
normal consciousness is
attributing thoughts to our heads is normal. it's also a perceptual construction. observing the similarity of thought w hallucination broke me out of the cognitive-linguistic ego!
normal consciousness is
7/ a narrowly selective channel for integrating perceptual data. dmt, endo or exo, dose-dependently expands this bandwidth to admit normally omitted data. we process it as other worlds and alien beings. insofar as we construct ourselves and our worlds, the beings are ourselves
