By Scott A. McGreal — 2014
The phenomenon of encountering non-human entities under the influence of DMT has inspired debate about what these might actually be.
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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.
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Now, researchers are attempting to catalog these experiences to figure out just what, or who, those DMT entities are.
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