DMT Users

I read the following article.

Three DMT Users Share — and Sketch Out — Their DMT Experience

Blaine, 26, Colorado says:

That first trip made me rethink my stance that there were no spirits, ghosts or aliens, but it didn’t convince me, and I’m still not entirely sure what to think about the entities. It did catalyze my first spiritual experience with meditation a few months later though, which convinced me for sure that there’s more to life than what we can see. Now I’m a more whole, resilient person without a trace of anxiety or depression.

Yes, I agree that there is much more to reality than we might naively assume on the surface. I think reality is beyond our ken, quite frankly. That it is ultimately mysterious, that we're all living in a kinda "dream" where our understanding, our perception, is attempting to penetrate an impenetrable fog. I think we simply cannot understand anything. And no, I've never taken DMT nor any other psychedelics, nor have I had an NDE or any mystical experience.

Jacob, Mid-30s, Southwestern U.S says:

During the peak of the experience, I had no awareness of my body, no idea if I was still breathing or if my heart was still beating. I had thoughts of a parent who recently passed away. But the astonishment and shock I was experiencing left little room for processing emotional and spiritual lessons.

As a cognitive scientist, I can comfortably assert that no living person has the faintest clue what’s going on with consciousness, so the facile idea that psychedelic experiences — especially DMT — are something akin to distortions of reality or simply outright hallucinations doesn’t have much purchase. Consciousness, in fact, is a total mystery, scientifically and philosophically speaking, and the DMT experience is something like the capstone of that mystery.

 Makes a change for a cognitive scientist to talk some sense!