Ugarit wrote:This is another interesting explanation, actually. I was looking at things from the perspective that we live on Earth, die, and go elsewhere. Perhaps, as I've heard others mention, we are simultaneously elsewhere and on Earth. If this is the case, then Earth is unlikely to be a larval stage, and more likely to serve some other purpose (classroom, dimension that needs tidying up, etc.).
I my experience we exist at the same moment in different realms. I haven't figured out why we are a split-off consciousness on earth, but I suspect that existence in this normal realm allows us to live a slow life and offers us the possibility of introspection. During a DMT experience introspection is not as easy, if possible at all.
That said, I did meditate under prolonged influences of DMT and being heavily dosed. DMT allows for understanding of thought processes themselves, what they are; it opens up a meta-perspective not available normally. Sadly, it is not easy to carry the gained understanding back.
I also tried to
crack the universe while under DMT: it could be described as an approach to escape the ever permanent frame of perception. Perception and consciousness are the mystery of mysteries, as without them experience would not be possible.
I do not take perception in the normal realm as granted and trustworthy, and I used the same approach while under DMT. In my case it lead to strange experiences, but without phenomena so I cannot describe it properly. Basically, while under DMT I used a
drill of mind to open an entrance out of consciousness as we know it -- even under DMT, we
are still a limited consciousness.