>Researchers recently surveyed more than 2,000 DMT users about their encounters with 'entities' while tripping
>The majority of respondents believed the beings they encountered were not hallucinations
>The encounters felt more "real" than reality. This was true for 81 percent of respondents during the encounter, and 65 percent after the encounter
>About two-thirds of respondents said they received "a message, task, mission, purpose, or insight from the entity encounter experience." Some people were shown that death isn't the end, that everything and everyone is connected. Others had personal insights revealed to them, such as bad behaviors that they should stop
>About one-quarter of respondents said they were atheist before the encounter, but only 10 percent said they were after. Additionally, approximately one-third (36%) of respondents reported that before the encounter their belief system included a belief in ultimate reality, higher power, God, or universal divinity, but a significantly larger percentage (58%) of respondents reported this belief system after the encounter
>The study also noted that DMT encounters have a lot in common with near-death and alien-abduction experiences, which also have been shown to produce long-lasting changes in personal beliefs
What exactly is going on here?
>The majority of respondents believed the beings they encountered were not hallucinations
>The encounters felt more "real" than reality. This was true for 81 percent of respondents during the encounter, and 65 percent after the encounter
>About two-thirds of respondents said they received "a message, task, mission, purpose, or insight from the entity encounter experience." Some people were shown that death isn't the end, that everything and everyone is connected. Others had personal insights revealed to them, such as bad behaviors that they should stop
>About one-quarter of respondents said they were atheist before the encounter, but only 10 percent said they were after. Additionally, approximately one-third (36%) of respondents reported that before the encounter their belief system included a belief in ultimate reality, higher power, God, or universal divinity, but a significantly larger percentage (58%) of respondents reported this belief system after the encounter
>The study also noted that DMT encounters have a lot in common with near-death and alien-abduction experiences, which also have been shown to produce long-lasting changes in personal beliefs
What exactly is going on here?
