Evidently this is to promote the North-American edition of her book, "Seeing Myself: The new science of out-of-body experiences," which was published in the UK two years ago.
One thing I hadn't appreciated was that before her own OBE she experienced about half an hour of hallucinations (or "pseudo-hallucinations"), including the formation of a tunnel along which she rushed "accompanied by a thunderous noise as though I were a horse galloping down a tree-lined avenue towards a distant light." Apparently she viewed all this as "familiar drug effects" which were quite different from the out-of-body experience that followed. Evidently at the time she attributed them to a joint she was smoking.
But as far as I can see, visual hallucinations are actually quite uncommon as a result of cannabis. I'd have thought in her 50-year quest to understand this experience, a pertinent question would be whether she really experienced hallucinations whenever she used cannabis, and what that might imply. Another question would be whether that was really the only drug involved that night, or whether a real hallucinogen might have been responsible, perhaps after she'd been given it unwittingly.
One thing I hadn't appreciated was that before her own OBE she experienced about half an hour of hallucinations (or "pseudo-hallucinations"), including the formation of a tunnel along which she rushed "accompanied by a thunderous noise as though I were a horse galloping down a tree-lined avenue towards a distant light." Apparently she viewed all this as "familiar drug effects" which were quite different from the out-of-body experience that followed. Evidently at the time she attributed them to a joint she was smoking.
But as far as I can see, visual hallucinations are actually quite uncommon as a result of cannabis. I'd have thought in her 50-year quest to understand this experience, a pertinent question would be whether she really experienced hallucinations whenever she used cannabis, and what that might imply. Another question would be whether that was really the only drug involved that night, or whether a real hallucinogen might have been responsible, perhaps after she'd been given it unwittingly.