This long-form essay examines something rarely discussed: the structural overlap between different "doors of perception."
From the 2021 *Frontiers in Psychology* study analyzing DMT experiences:
– Humanoid but distinctly "other" beings (Greys, insectoids, reptilians)
– Telepathic communication
– Medical examinations by entities working in groups
– "Spaceship-like" settings with advanced technology
– Participants insist the experience was "more real than real"
– Time distortion, loss of agency
The phenomenology matches alien abduction reports studied by John Mack (Harvard psychiatrist). Same entities, same procedures, same conviction of reality – whether accessed through chemistry or spontaneous experience.
The article asks: Are we looking at different doors to the same underlying phenomenon?
Also covers: why the FDA rejected MDMA therapy, what happens when thousands of tech workers microdose without containers, and why ancient cultures embedded these experiences in ritual.
Thoughts on the convergence between contact experiences and altered states?
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This long-form essay examines something rarely discussed: the structural overlap between different “doors of perception.”
From the 2021 *Frontiers in Psychology* study analyzing DMT experiences:
– Humanoid but distinctly “other” beings (Greys, insectoids, reptilians)
– Telepathic communication
– Medical examinations by entities working in groups
– “Spaceship-like” settings with advanced technology
– Participants insist the experience was “more real than real”
– Time distortion, loss of agency
The phenomenology matches alien abduction reports studied by John Mack (Harvard psychiatrist). Same entities, same procedures, same conviction of reality – whether accessed through chemistry or spontaneous experience.
The article asks: Are we looking at different doors to the same underlying phenomenon?
Also covers: why the FDA rejected MDMA therapy, what happens when thousands of tech workers microdose without containers, and why ancient cultures embedded these experiences in ritual.
Thoughts on the convergence between contact experiences and altered states?
That doesn’t sound correct. From all the DMT experiences I’ve read about, there aren’t spaceships / medical exams / Greys. The people report interacting with small “machine elves”, but that’s it.
Phenomenologically is a badass word to use on a Monday man. 👍
Wow great article. I have often wondered about death and what happens after. It might be that what death is, is a release of some chemical that changes our “channel” Maybe thats all it is. Maybe, our current human chemical composition is tuned for this reality and when we die, we enter this different consciousness. NDE’s and DMT, may be a temporary view into these places. The entities are either checking in by instructing us to use these chemicals, or we show up and they check us out to see that it is only temporary and send us back. Like children coming home to mom to wipe our tears away, and then send us back to play.
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The human brain is, generally, wired very similarly amongst individuals. That’s why most drugs, for example, have a predictable effect on individual humans.
Because of this shared architecture, humans also have predictable perceptions in response to certain stimuli. Pareidolia, for example, causes humans to see faces where there are none, probably an evolutionary result of the advantages of being able to detect hidden humans and other mammals.
There’s a famous Canadian case where a woman would always smell burnt toast before a seizure. The neurosurgeon performed ioen-brain surgery on her while she was conscious and was able to locate the source of that.
My point is that the similarities between subjective human experience cant, without more, be used as evidence that the experience/perception is objective/outside of our own minds.
Even if there are similarities between DMT experiences, alien abductions, sleep demons, spirit guides, etc., that doesnt mean theyre real, that we are perceiving something external to us.
The lady with the seizures wasnt smelling spirit burnt toast, part of her brain was malfunctioning in a particular way.