By Scott A. McGreal — 2012
Psychedelic drug phenomena do not justify radical new views of reality.
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Now, researchers are attempting to catalog these experiences to figure out just what, or who, those DMT entities are.
The phenomenon of encountering non-human entities under the influence of DMT has inspired debate about what these might actually be.
When people consume enough DMT (N,N-Dimethyltryptamine) to have a "breakthrough" experience, they often encounter beings that seem autonomous, existing in a reality separate from our own.
Many people have a spiritual experience on psychedelics. How they make meaning of it could be influenced by the metaphysical beliefs of their therapists.
What I will focus on are the psychological factors that influence people’s judgments about what is real and how these might explain why people come to believe in the existence of such beings.
While the existence of extraterrestrials has always been a fascination driven by science fiction and supposed UFO sightings, this is not a claim you regularly hear from people who have actually been to space.
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Even if you'll never meet those other yous, some physicists say they're out there.
Futurist Michio Kaku sees humans doing ballet on Mars and projecting their brains into the cosmos. And aliens? Oh, they're coming.
We need to make the normal strange.
Astronomers have been tracking fast radio bursts for years, but they’ve never caught one like this before.