I dont mean to sound impertinent, but one recurring comment that im coming across whilst researching DMT is the sudden change in spiritual attitude that it incites in users.
Jaza you mentioned your trip changed you from an Atheist to Agnostic.
I'll be the first to say I've thought a lot of fucked up things when im intoxicated but when i reach sobriety again i am able to overcome those thoughts with logic and reasoning, regardless if they were negative or positive. So my question is what leads to this pseudo-faith that comes from the DMT experience and how do people distinguish it from a false, drug-induced concept to an idea or belief that has some validity.
Sorry if this is slightly off topic but i just find this subject so interesting as is all spirituality; and please don't take this post in a condescending way.
Basically the best way I can answer this question is that DMT is nothing like other drugs. It's not like you take some LSD and think things and get all mixed up between the real world, and the hallucinations.
It kind of makes you realise there's something else out there that us humans have absolutely no understanding of. How does it do this? Well basically it just blasts whatever this mysterious thing is directly into your body, and takes over your mind and soul.
You're gone 10 minutes, and then you come back gibbering about what the fuck you just saw, and I even ran to the mirror to make sure I was alive.
It's a whole new experience.
Actually feeling something that is more powerful than you could have EVER comprehended, just three minutes ago when you were smoking a pipe of some new drug you hadn't tried yet, this is what changes you.
Of course you don't figure any of this out until you get back.
DMT is truly amazing, and yes terrifying until you just accept that you're there for at least 10 minutes, you relax and the wave of peace that washes over you is like a spiritual shower.
About as close to a meeting with God as you can get, whatever you interpret God to be.