(2023-01-10, 11:14 PM)quirkybrainmeat Wrote: Interesting. How can the skeptics explain those experiences happening espontaneously (That is, without distress in the brain at all; so without endogenous DMT or something like this.)
Skeptics always have explanations for these things:
1) People do have occasional psychotic episodes when the brain retunes its defences against such illusions. Ask your doctor if they happen more than once!
2) They are just hallucinations - with no significance!
3) You may have eaten some food that had been kept a bit too long, and it picked up some ergot fungi contamination.
4) If you get such hallucinations frequently, you are mad, and nothing you say should be taken as evidence for anything!
etc etc.
David