(2022-07-31, 05:55 PM)Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: Yeah, DMT seems quite divorced from NDEs in several respects...
Posted this in the Spirituality and Light thread awhile back, but Strassman talks about how DMT offers spiritual experiences but these are different than NDEs:
Made of Bright Light: Scientist reflects on his psychedelic research
Marisa Demarco
Quote:I found that DMT reliably caused people’s consciousness to enter into an apparently freestanding independent universe made out of bright light—intensely colored, intensely saturated bright light. It was quite reliable in doing this.
Consciousness of the volunteer in that state was also disembodied. The experience to the volunteer felt as if they no longer had a body, and they were just pure consciousness entering into this world of light.
Also, it was quite a common occurrence and reported by volunteers that they encountered beings made of light who were sentient, intelligent and interacted with volunteers. Those were probably the most common things that we found. I was expecting near-death experiences to be more common, but they were quite rare. I was expecting mystical states, like the Buddhist enlightenment experience, to be quite common, and they were quite rare.
Quote:It would be interesting to compare the experiences of people on DMT that have had an encounter with alien abduction experiences. There was a striking amount of overlap between some of the reports of my volunteers and people who claim having been abducted. That would be cool, to give DMT to them and ask them to compare the two states.
In my own readings I would say DMT experiences seem more like the kind of thing Vallee talks about than NDEs.
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