When I take DMT, there is a large energy component to it (it seems to be a component on which the entire experience is derived), and through some practice and meditation, I've learned to harness the energy to some extent while sober. It's a very physical feeling thing. It has a force to it that moves my limbs autonomously upon contact. Through much experimentation I've found that this energy is directly connected with attention as well as breath. One day while I was studying one of my crystals, holding it up close to my face so I could examine it, my arm began oscillating forcefully back and forth as if the crystal had a magnetic attraction/repulsion with my face.

So of course I come to theorize that perhaps it was interacting with my third eye chakra, so I decide to hold up the crystal to other parts of my body to see if I can elicit the same energetic effect. It doesn't really do anything when I place it just anywhere, but when I put it in front of my throat, I got a very large effect, as well as with the solar plexus and sacral chakra. The only chakra it really didn't seem to want to work with was my heart chakra. When I placed it in front of that chakra, nothing happened. There was absolutely no energetic activity like it was a dead spot. I tried different crystals...nothing. As I sat and thought about chakras and what I had heard about them, I recalled that the chakras were all associated with different glands and organs.

So "there it was" I thought. If the chakras are aligned with the different organs and not perfectly straight down the spine, then the heart chakra would be offset to the left. So I took my crystal, held it in the center of my chest: nothing happens. I hold it on the right side of my chest: nothing happens. I hold it on the left side of my chest: eureka! It was like turning on a battery. My arm began forcefully oscillating back and forth. It is because of this experience that I believe in chakras. I feel I can say that it goes beyond subconscious auto-suggestion or something of the sort because according to my prior beliefs, as far as I knew all the chakras went straight down the spine (as it is so often depicted) and so by that logic, my arm would have been oscillating where I had initially believed my heart chakra to be, but that just wasn't the case at all. I think several days had elapsed even before I made the connection with the offset organ.

Once I tried DMT, it was as if every held notion of the universe shattered. I remembered that the world I perceive is just the dream of a reality, the people I know are just projections of others in my mind. I am the consciousness of the universe, and so is everything else. This opportunity to look at myself from the outside is ineffably valuable to me, and it blows my mind how simple it is to achieve this mindset. I do not see how I could have reached these conclusions without entheogens.

This sounds like the Wachowski Brothers view of the Matrix...

I've only seen the first, years ago. I swear that wasn't what I was thinking at the time. :facepalm