burnt wrote:Yes I was looking for knowledge like ms manix described as being in the yes category. I'd like to go over things like that in more detail when we have enough reports.
Of course knowledge about the dmt experience can only be had through a dmt experience. Like how you can't describe red to a blind person you can't describe dmt without losing out on some information without experiencing the dmt experience. So yea thats not the kind of knowledge I was talking about.
Fair enough. But the kind of knowledge you’re looking for is very narrow in scope, and this should have been more explicitly stated in your original post.
burnt wrote:Also I should add that while sometimes its highly unlikely to have certain revelations about oneself unless one takes psychedelics its not impossible. By impossible I really mean impossible. Like seeing the future / seeing things in places you were not at / gaining health knowledge. I want to understand these kind of revelations more.
There are certain personal revelations that are indeed impossible to have without the presence of entheogens in one’s system. Those revelations include our physical and psychological reactions to the entheogenic experience in general and our reactions to entheogenic-specific mind states in particular. Also, certain reactions and changes following an entheogenic experience are impossible to know otherwise.
Until you’ve actually had the prerequisite entheogenic experience, it is impossible to answer questions such as “How will I react if I see something that appears to be a being from another world?”, “How will I feel as my ego is being annihilated?”, “How is sex with an alien (regardless of the objective reality of the experience) different from sex with a human?”, “How will I think about the world differently after numerous deep experiences?”
The list goes on and on.
There may also be other sorts of personal knowledge that can be attained only via the particular brain state that entheogens bring about, but this is speculative. There may be certain neural circuits that are established during an experience that, for example, allow access to memories that are ordinarily no longer accessible due to an absence of neural connections. In a case such as this, it would be impossible to access the memories in other ways. The entheogen creates a temporary “neural bridge” that is removed after the experience is over.
Personally, my experiences have very little to do with this world, so the knowledge I gain cannot be verified or tested.
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