So last April, I had an experience that was rather unique. I've recounted it several times over the months which keeps it about as fresh in memory as it's gonna get. One of my friends had some ketamine. I had never tried any, nor was I planning on trying it ever, but I saw the opportunity, and he was offering to anyone present, so I took him up on his offer. I was hoping to experience the full-blown dissociative effects I've heard so much about, but it wasn't in the cards. It was just some mild euphoria. After a little bit, when I began to realize that it wasn't going to be that strong an experience, I decided to take advantage of the fact that I was on ketamine, and I wasn't planning on taking it again, that I would see what a combination of ketamine and DMT was like.
I took a couple rips from the GVG and was well on my way. I found myself as a small ball (or at least my consciousness was tracking the motion of this energy ball). There were two entities. They were both rather human-esque in that sort of perfect archetypal kind of way. They were each standing on separate icy islands on opposite sides of a planet/planetoid. They were throwing the ball (me) back and forth to one another, having a catch. Each throw would arc around the globe, and each time they caught the ball, I would be hit with a massive wave of ecstasy. I went back and forth, back and forth, it was progressively speeding up so that the waves of euphoria were occurring quicker and quicker. The intensity and speed was increasing with each toss, until everything dissolved into blissful pink and white fractals.
Now here's the eerie part. That happened like 3/4 a year ago, and then yesterday, I was reading about Hebrew mysticism, and here's what I came across.
Quote: Hebrew sages say that "two angels stand at each end of the world and toss the soul from one to the other," with these two opposing forces trying to rid the soul of its accumulated psychic dust by putting it through a kind of cosmic centrifuge until only pure consciousness remains.
Were this treatment not administered to the soul, it is believed that it would be unable to silence all the sense images, noises, and mental chatter that are carried with it from this world and mode of communication into the next, and the soul would then have to wander in the world of Tohu (confusion and emptiness) forever.
Upon reading that, I was instantly reminded of my earlier experience that it seemed to be describing. It's interesting to note that even though that experience was decently long ago, the integration process still feels as strong as ever. It's interesting and gratifying to think that in some of these experiences, we may actually be living out or witnessing a representation of age-old ancient mythology. I think if as a culture we were more in touch with mythology and their symbols that many of these DMT experiences could take on a multitude more layers of meaning. For those about to ask, there's no way I stumbled upon this information regarding the angels and soul purification before my experience.
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind" - Albert Einstein
"The Mighty One appears, the horizon shines. Atum appears on the smell of his censing, the Sunshine- god has risen in the sky, the Mansion of the pyramidion is in joy and all its inmates are assembled, a voice calls out within the shrine, shouting reverberates around the Netherworld." - Egyptian Book of the Dead
"Man fears time, but time fears the Pyramids" - 9th century Arab proverb