Well, according to Graham Hancock, the man who wrote the book on DMT
"It is highly probable that between 1-2% of every human population has always been born with brain chemistry in just the right state of flux to permit them visions, prophetic knowledge, and encounters with spirits."Can't really say it's something I 'achieved'. I started seeing the eyes when I was small. Over. And Over. And OVER. Really started freaking out about it, drawing pictures of eyes everywhere. Kept telling the adults around me about the eyes. They were very conservative christian and hadn't the faintest clue about mysticism to even being to understand what I was experiencing. When I first got old enough to read about "The Watchers" I was like "Ah ha!" One thing that happened frequently was being 'up in heaven' talking to these beings and them forcing me to return to my body down on earth. The adults told me this was "God and Jesus." I didn't say but, they had never identified themselves to me as God and Jesus.
One part of Hancock's book that really struck me (a friend recommended I read it) was the part where he says "All Shamans come from trees" and that all cultures have a myth where the gods leave a baby shaman in a tree to be found. My constant and repeating experience, which I told all the adults about on numerous occasions, was of being up in a high tree with these being talking to me and telling me I had to go to earth, encouraging me to jump. I desperately did not want to go and they would have to remove the branch I was standing on. I hated the sensation of falling to earth. Even now it makes me tear up. (I was shocked to learn an uncle of mine had the same experience also. Maybe it runs in certain families?)
They made a more formal introduction to me later after I had grown. I know their name. They are Archangels. When I am between lives, I am with them. They are so intelligent as to be almost emotionless, because they understand the reasons behind why things have to be the way they are. I really don't know why I'm here. But they check up on me and I guess they have things under control.
The dragon I met was also an intelligent being which spoke to me. Though not nearly on the level as the Archangels.
You realize, that the Angels are Stars "Always watching us from the heavens above." Our ancestors were avid astronomers. There are many verses in every holy book of every culture, dating back thousands of years, that make it clear the Angels and the Stars are one in the same. Those Stars are their Eyes. When I go out at night and look up at them now, I wonder about them watching me back. I talk to them.
Ha, how funny, a news site just posted this picture from NASA
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/.../details.php?id=PIA03678