LSD & ESP: Scientists Study Psychic Phenomena and Psychedelic Drugs

Of course another interpretation of at least some psychedelic experiences is that they are in reality actual glimpses of other realms of existence (some containing strange beings) separate and profoundly different from the afterlife realms that appear to be revealed by the paranormal experiences of NDEs, CORTs and mediumistic communications.

Remembered something that might point to this - NDEs seem to specifically say someone's time hasn't *yet* come, whereas IIRC at least a few DMT experiences involve entities that feel the experiencer is, in some sense, in the wrong place.

So NDEs may map to worlds we are "supposed" to cycle into, whereas DMT experiences may be places that are "foreign" in some sense.

OTOH there have been healing DMT experiences, and it seems there is at times a feeling of maternal love. @manjit & @Valmar may have more to say here since I've never taken psychedelics...

See What do we know about the risks of psychedelics? & free documentary What's in My Baggie? There is an incredible danger in thinking you can just find good psychedelics via illegal markets, I can say that from personal experience as I was attacked by a friend who thought LSD could cure his depression.

Neurobiologist and pharmacologist, Dr. Andrew Gallimore enters the mind meld! In this one, we explore how our brains build the human model of “reality.” We dive deep on visionary molecules like DMT and how they seemingly transport our consciousness to a totally alien world. We also muse about the notion that alien intelligence could be non-physical or informational, as well as an unbelievable recent study that kept participants in an extended IV-induced DMT state.

Links for Andrew Gallimore:

Andrew's Books 📚 https://shorturl.at/rsEFY

Andrew's Twitter 🐤   / alieninsect  

Website 👾 https://www.buildingalienworlds.com/

See What do we know about the risks of psychedelics? & free documentary What's in My Baggie? There is an incredible danger in thinking you can just find good psychedelics via illegal markets, I can say that from personal experience as I was attacked by a friend who thought LSD could cure his depression.

...Neurobiologist and pharmacologist, Dr. Andrew Gallimore enters the mind meld! In this one, we explore how our brains build the human model of “reality.” We dive deep on visionary molecules like DMT and how they seemingly transport our consciousness to a totally alien world. We also muse about the notion that alien intelligence could be non-physical or informational, as well as an unbelievable recent study that kept participants in an extended IV-induced DMT state.

Neuroscientist and DMT researcher, Dr. Andrew Gallimore returns to the mind meld! In this one, we dive deep on visionary molecules like DMT. Is it possible that it opens your brain up to alien communication or even other realms? What do these experiences of high-strangeness tell us about consciousness? We also riff on the incredible DMTx (extended-state) studies coming out of Imperial College London, the unbelievable research on the horizon, and much more.

See What do we know about the risks of psychedelics? & free documentary What's in My Baggie? There is an incredible danger in thinking you can just find good psychedelics via illegal markets, I can say that from personal experience as I was attacked by a friend who thought LSD could cure his depression.

Psychiatrist, author and seeker, Dr. Rick Strassman MD enters the mind meld!

We muse about the hyper novelty of DMT, from the scientific to the spiritual. Rick shares a number of personal life-altering mystical experiences that he perviously kept private. We also speculate about the role of endogenous DMT in  the brain, consciousness and mystical experiences.

Check out Dr. Strassman's books, including his latest, My Altered States: https://www.rickstrassman.com/publica... 

Dr. Strassman's website: https://www.rickstrassman.com/

See What do we know about the risks of psychedelics? & free documentary What's in My Baggie? There is an incredible danger in thinking you can just find good psychedelics via illegal markets, I can say that from personal experience as I was attacked by a friend who thought LSD could cure his depression.

Can a new science bridge the gap between the noumena and the phenomena, the 1st person and the 3rd person perspective? A bit more provocatively: what is the relationship between physics, psychedelic experiences and shamanism? Glattfelder makes a plea for ‘syncretic idealism’: a worldview that synthesises ancient idealist texts and mystical experiences with physics, complexity science and analytic idealism. Syncretic idealism could lead to a scientific spirituality, a form of empirical mysticism that acknowledges a purposeful universe, wanting to know itself through ever increasing complexity.

Glattfelder’s book can be ordered here: https://www.amazon.com/Sapient-Cosmos...

0:00 Introduction
05:11 When did you encounter the hard problem of consciousness?
06:26 Why aren't physicists more exposed to philosophy?
08:48 The West only got interested in consciousness in 1994!
14:52 Can science bridge the divide between the noumena and the phenomena?
17:42 Physicalism vs Shamanism
19:52 Schopenhauer and psychedelics
29:02 Scientific spirituality is what we need
33:42 How physics and complexity science encounter consciousness
36:14 The problem of emergence
39:19 The game of life: how complexity emerges out of simplicity
44:49 On consciousness being fundamental
47:15 The Model of Syncretic Idealism
51:00 The new paradigm of 1st person physics
53:15 Why James loves solipsism
55:27 James on his psychedelic experiences
59:28 Empirical mysticism
1:04:25 The price of physicalism
1:09:11 James' work in relation to Federico Faggin's theory
1:11:57 Consequences of bad metaphysics
1:13:26 The difference between physics and complexity science
1:20:16 On time in physics
1:23:29 On syncretic idealism
1:26:00 On the magic of 'ontogeny'
1:30:05 Can people experience a mathematical realm through DMT?
1:33:41 On the LSD research from Christopher Bache
1:36:05 Diamond luminosity and the sea of suffering
1:39:58 On the meaning of suffering
1:43:00 How does your work influence your life?

See What do we know about the risks of psychedelics? & free documentary What's in My Baggie? There is an incredible danger in thinking you can just find good psychedelics via illegal markets, I can say that from personal experience as I was attacked by a friend who thought LSD could cure his depression.

Re-enchanting the Universe

James Glattfelder, PhD

With humanity at a crossroads, we are invited to ponder a novel vision of existence that inspires wonder and ethical accountability. A radical and groundbreaking perspective emerges, challenging conventional beliefs by placing consciousness at the foundation of reality. In this essay, Dr. Glattfelder delves into some ideas meticulously researched and carefully presented in his latest book, The Sapient Cosmos: What a Modern-Day Synthesis of Science and Philosophy Teaches Us About the Emergence of Information, Consciousness, and Meaning, published by Essentia Books.

To this day, physicists have not recovered from these metaphysical blows. Indeed, the situation has become even more dire. The following technical terms describe some of the quantum phenomena that appear to transcend our human cognitive capabilities: superposition, complementarity, uncertainty, tunneling, non-locality, decoherence, and contextuality. These are all aspects of reality, suggesting a ghostlike, intangible, contradictory, constrained, but fundamentally interconnected metaphysical essence underlying the seemingly physical world.

Another glaring blind spot of physicalism lies in its inability to account for emergence organization in the cosmos. Unsurprisingly, science remains mostly silent on the reasons behind the unfathomable complexity we see around us and within us. This pocket of order we inhabit, stubbornly persisting in a sea of entropic decay, appears particularly bewildering. The mechanistic response is to shrug and proclaim this as yet another brute fact, simply a random coincidence with no meaning. Yet, one cannot help but wonder whether the self-organizing structure formation we observe throughout the universe is guided by an as-yet-undetected force shaping its evolution. Such a perspective would suggest teleology, a cosmic purpose, a notion strictly prohibited under physicalism.

However, the greatest challenge to the physicalist worldview lies in the mere existence of consciousness. It is a remarkable historical fact that the academic inquiry into the enigma of consciousness only started to emerge in the mid-1990s. Indeed, to this day, our best definition of what consciousness essentially is goes back to a question the philosopher Thomas Nagel asked in 1974: What is it like to be a bat?

Worth comparing this essay by Glattfelder with the last lecture of Nobel biologist George Wald.