Friday, October 15, 2021

Striking Similarities in Psychedelic Experiences

One thing that's always fascinated me about the psychedelic substances is the way that certain substances can cause such similar experiences, even in vastly-different groups of people. Right off the bat I can recall doing acid with close friends or girlfriends back in the day, and having basically the same trip...seeing the same things, feeling the same way, etc. That's really interesting, and to me is an example of shared brainwaves, but it's not definitive proof that the substance itself is causing that. 

 Certain members of the cacti family for example, can produce similar "visions" of Native-American-type or Aztec-ish patterns and colors. What's further interesting about that is people all over the world report similar experiences with the same substances, so it can't be related to culture or surroundings or circumstances or anything else- there must be something intrinsic to the substance itself. Or could it be there's something beyond the substance itself? Could these things actually be a gateway into other dimensions, that are just as real as ours? 

 Many people would immediately scoff at that notion, but for the record, a good many Physicists these days (the people who are really smart) subscribe to the "Multiverse" theory, where there are many universes stacked together just like the pages in a book. It's just like stations on a radio dial- each has its own frequency, and we can only tune-in to one at a time. That's not to say that you couldn't theoretically visit another one for a bit, however you got there. I believe I have. I also believe in at least two other dimensions we can't currently see- Heaven and Hell. 

 The people who'd call bullshit on it would say the shared-experience thing is just a coincidence, and chalk it up to the drug itself, and quote such things as serotonin-cascade, the "dream-gate," which keeps dreams from creeping into waking life is temporarily blocked, the person has simply lost their minds or whatever else, but luckily for me I rarely buy that, at least not 100%, and I think there may be something to it. 

 I just heard someone tell a story on YouTube about using a substance called DMT. I watched a bit of a marathon of "trip reports" produced by the Comedy Channel. Seems like comedians do incredible amounts of powerful psychedelics these days. I can't remember exactly who it was but it's on there, and it's someone who's very well-known in comedy. In the interest of research on this topic, and for true hilarity, I've read hundreds of trip-reports, but the great thing about a video is that you can see their faces when they tell the story. 

 So this guy had used DMT quite a few times, and related similar experiences. DMT is pretty much the most powerful hallucinogen known, and the effects can vary from lasting hours, if brewed naturally and taken orally, or only about three minutes, when smoked in the refined form. Another difference worth mentioning is when taken orally, as in an Ayahuasca ceremony, especially for first-time users, is that vomiting is almost guaranteed, as is often evacuating the bowels as well. 

 This is known as "La Purga" and is aptly named. Smoked, it doesn't produce those effects, and is over and everything is completely back to normal in less than five minutes, almost like Nitrous Oxide, but a trillion times more intense. In fact it makes taking acid seem about as strong as a cup of coffee, and that's no joke. They say those three minutes can equal a thousand lifetimes of tripping. Back in the 60s and 70s they called DMT the "Businessman's High," since it only lasted a few minutes. 

 The guy did the smoked version. In about half of his journeys he'd encountered a "purple Gypsy woman." She'd talk to him and was extremely friendly, and he even sensed that she was jealous of his girlfriend. After encountering her four or five times he said he began to feel almost like he was having another relationship in another world. He also encountered the "Machine Elves" that are so often reported. They were feeding him information but at a rate much too fast to be absorbed. It always felt like a loving and welcoming environment. 

 It's interesting enough that he had the repeated experiences with the purple woman. He'd heard about the Machine Elves but the woman was unexpected, although many people have reported communicating with other beings, often women, and often sort of "Mother of the Universe" figures. No one told him anything about purple women though. Of course you have to be skeptical at first, of anything, but you also have to be truly open-minded, not just in word. The skeptics might say that his little brother had a comic book with a purple Genie on the cover and that made it into his trip, but the story gets really interesting, and should leave people at least scratching their heads. 

 Someone he knew wanted to try DMT for the first time, and since he had experience, he agreed to give him a dose and supervise. The other guy knew nothing about DMT really, and all he was told was that it was unlike anything he'd ever taken by lightyears, and to strap-in and just go with it. He didn't want to color the guy's experience in any way. He said the guy had the typical blank look on his face and went still for a minute or two, but as he started to come back down he yelled "They love you there!" "Yes, they do love you there. It's a loving place." "No, I mean they love you there. There's a woman there who told me she loves you. She's purple." 

 Needless to say it freaked the guy out, and you could see it in his face as he told the story. He hadn't said a word about the purple woman or the elves or anything else as far as what to expect. That's some compelling evidence for something going on I say. is it just coincidence, or are there really other worlds we can briefly visit, with recurring themes and characters that are as real as we are, only vibrating in a different plane? It's all a frequency deal. 

 The thing is, no matter how smart someone may think they are or what they know or what they may or may not believe, the truth is that nobody can say with 100%-certainty whether it is or it isn't the case. I can't say that you can actually be transported into another dimension through the use of a specific substance, and that certain scenarios are repeated, just like visiting another place in real-life, much less that you could have a "relationship" with a purple woman, and she even tells someone else about it, and I get how batshit-crazy it sounds, but then again I also can't say it isn't real. Whether or not someone thinks something is real or not has no bearing on whether or not it is. Maybe it's just the drugs, or maybe not. 

 It's one thing to take a substance and trip your brains out, but it's another thing to have repeated, similar experiences with the exact same characters each time, and still another for someone in Boise, Idaho and someone deep in the jungles of Wherever, to take the same substance and have virtually identical trips, and even see the very same entities, without any prior knowledge of other people's experiences. This has been documented time and time again, going back centuries in some cases, and far too many times to be considered coincidence. They've done papers on it. 

 But the guy trying DMT for the very first time, and coming down from a trip and being certain he'd actually visited another realm, which happened to be the exact same realm the first guy had visited many times, and describing it down to a purple woman, not to mention one who has affection for the first guy? That's extremely difficult to call a coincidence if you ask me. It's rather specific. 

 So is it just random effects of the substance, or is the substance a doorway into another universe that's completely out-to-lunch, but quite real, as real as the one we're presumably in now? Could the substance be a "key," and temporarily change someone's frequency so that they could visit one that vibrated at that frequency? Remember, everything in the Universe is a frequency, when you break things down as far as they'll go. Google it, Dylan. To me this story is some strong evidence, and my Bullshitometer is barely registering. Those who've "been there" certainly think it's real, but that proves nothing. Having similar experiences on the same thing is actually fairly common. A purple woman? Now that's some shit.

 

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