I was going to come in here and mention grounding.
A book whose content I think should be more discussed on forums like this is the psychedelic experience by Timothy LEarty, Richard Alpert and Ralph Metzer.
They pave a way for a framework for the discussion of these kinds of experiences that the insights into reality, psychology, the human mind, religion and spirituality that go along with it.
Getting back on the topic of entities for example, I very much agree with the insights some of you have already expressed. One way to look at entities is to see them as aspects of yourself (or of Reality, since ultimately we are Reality) that lie outside your current identity and self understanding. Its also possible to see them as eternal to oneself in the same way you see your neighbor as external.
That is the point that should be understood, especially when you run into people who are skeptics of entities and try to push a materialist agenda or claim exclusive rights to what is "rational". They need to be gently reminded that your nextdoor neighbor is also an "entity".
Just because you see your next door neighbor when you knock on his door does not make him any more or less real than the entities you see when you smoke DMT (ei, knock on their door). In both cases the entity is seen/experienced in the province of the mind, in both cases the entity is formed from your own conscious awareness. It's up to you to decide how you want to define your reality, not some guy in a lab coat telling you what you're allowed to think or what you can consider real/unreal and what is off limits. The authority to define reality that was once given to religious authorities, priests, kings, noblemen etc has now been given over to scientists and so called experts. just like having this much power corrupted a lot bishops and church officials in the past, it has corrupted the arena of science today.
people naive believe in science
I agree that its beneficial , often times necessary to maintiain a connection with consensus reality. You need this in order to function in the world and trick people into thinking youre sane. This is what is often called grounding.
But beyond that, you are free to define your reality however you want to. Of course throwing off all the ways which society has conditioned you to think and see things is no simple task, so dont be surprised when you find yourself caught in your old psychological traps again and again.
In terms of religion, a lot of people who explore these nether regions of the human consciousnesss are calling themselves spiritual but not religious and that's fine, i its not necessary to bring religion into it. however in my case i found these kinds of experiences immensely helpful in understanding where religion was coming from in the sorts of things it was saying and the claims it was making. I fear that religion is terribly misunderstood in this day and age and i want to point out that many fo the great prophets and religion founders like the Buddha for example, had great insight into human consciousness and that is what they drew on in order to create their religions.
as religion is adapted for the masses, it tends to get dumbed down a bit or over simplified. Sometimes this is done out of necessity with the general public not being ready to understand the deeper spiritual truths and other times it is done with the intention of controlling people by keeping them ignorant obedient and in fear.
for example, this is why Christianity became so focused on sin, hell and the devil. by instillingfear into a society that was highly religious and obsessed with God and changing the focus away from a message of spiritual freedom, the religious authorities were able to gain great political influence and power.
However I want to point out that despite the abuses and misunderstandings about religion, there is actually a lot of spiritual knowledge and wisdom in it if you can understand what its saying. For example I recently have been learning kabbalah. A lot of the ideas discussed in this thread, the nature entities, grounding, how to work with energy and perform healing or acts of magick, was already known about it/is discussed in kabbalah.
studying kabbalah has helped me to better integrate some of my psychedelic experiences. The tree of life povides a map of human consciousness. Another good map is the 8 circuit model of consciousness by Tim Leary and Robert Anton Wilson.
But the real point I am getting at here is that this spiritual knowledge/understanding of the human condition and whats possible not possible/real which psychedelics can unveil is not something new but it is something that ancient people had varying degrees of awareness of and this knowedge was passed down through mythology, religious stories, parables and occult practices.
If you go around the world and speak with shaman/healers from different traditions who had no cross contact, they will invariably all have some sort of spiritual element to their ideas about health and sickness, in some cases what they have to say is remarkably similar. and of course this includes plato (see the alloeory of the cave) aristotle, socrates and many great poets, phisosophers, scientists like einstein etc.
our culture does not have a place for these ideas any more because we've bought into the materialist consumerist paradigm, but it still exists within our subconcious. That is part of why religion is so powerful and can actually make soemwhat inteliigent people believe things like the earth is only 6,000 year old. Its because deep down in their hearts, these people know something is lacking in the materialist reductiionist "scientiific" explanation of life and they sense their is truth in the religious myths. matarialism doesnt satisfy the soul's yearling. But mainstream religion also, struggles to satisfy the soul because it has become rigid and dogmatic, like an imposter church that looks nice on the outside but lacks the sword of real spiritual truth. So people grow up with twbpointd ogo opposing mainstream science vs mainstream religion. psychedelics can help to disengage this programming and show people how they have been mislead and lied to by society their whole life.
But its difficult and painful to see this and many would rather rather remain ignorant whether that means believing in scientism or some outdated religious idea.
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