The simplest explanation is to look at the data, people's experiences and accept the simplest explanation for what it is - that it is actual meaningful phenomena with a meaningful message for us, rather than explain it away as phenomena which is an abheration and therefore not valid.
The explanations that attempt to explain it away as a phenomena just don't stand up to those who have actually done the tests and experienced the phenomena.
The clarity, sophistication and intensity of the data received clearly indicate the phenomena should be valued.... and not negated as an abheration.
If this is your brian "hallucinating" to itself... it is telling you to listen! Very clearly!
Mr Wobble wrote:
One interpretation posits 1. the existence of a hyperdimensional space 2. the existence of intelligent entities therein. 3. that some psychoactive drugs somehow enable one to access this hyperdimensional space.
For one thing, hyperdimensional space is basically assumed in the field of quantum physics. If there is hyperdimensional space, why wouldn't there be some kind of "life" within it? Or, how would we know it, unless *something* appears IN IT to define it.
We only know physical outer space, by what defines it, other planets and stars.
In DMT experiences people often experience some sort of terrain or even have experiences of visiting another world.
The alternative interpretation posits that 1. ingesting psychoactive drugs can induce brainstates that manifest as convincing hallucinations of an overwhelming nature.
This is a kind of negating reductionism - not the simplest, or most elegant explanation. It opens up a reductionistic pandoras box which collapses in upon itself into a self generated nihlism which is actually closed mindedly illogical.
So then we would have to explain what a hallucination is, why people are hallucinating beings who are communicating with them, why the brain would do that to itself and why is it overwhelming? if there wasn't some MEANING or message within it?
This position opens up so many more questions and the requirement for theories and understandings than the position - IT JUST IS AS IT APPEARS TO BE!
OR, this position states, a kind of nihlistic perspective, whereby none of that matters - the kind of death of proactive logic which fails to posit any sense or meaning. Then, we negate a very valid and interesting phenomena and say it is an abheration and has no value, and the case is supposedly closed! (and so becomes the mind)
This "case closed" position goes against the intensity and breadth, human value reported by human beings in the DMT state, which strongly suggests the experience is not an abheration, but appears to have a certain kind of validity and experienced VALUE which effects people's notions about themselves and their reality.
The simplest explanation is that what people are experiencing is as valid as anything else they experience. Nobody has satisfactorily explained why people's brain would generate entities or these experiences? anyway! There is no logical reason known why the brain would do that.
Please nobody reference James Kent, who clearly needs to visit Nanobrain...and experience the one true way. ;-)
At this point it is not really worth commenting on his work except to say, he contradicts himself by saying two completely opposing things here.
http://www.tripzine.com/listing.php?id=dmt_pickover
"I've done DMT a number of times, each time with the intent to find some deeper truth or insight about the experience. The only thing I can say for certain is that it is different every time."
"As it is, DMT appears to produce amazingly consistent visual patterns in all users. That is a significant fact, and it points to the conclusion that DMT is very simple in it's action without a lot of room for variation."
Julian.
![:\](https://bluelight.org/xf/BL_Images/Orig_Emoji/wrygrin.gif "wry grin :\")
(similar views are probably 'common sense' within most of society)
. this is exactly the description i would use. these 'elves' were not only stitching/drawing reality together, they are all parts of reality, they were the 'parts' being stitched together. god, dmt is profoundly amazing.
