Psychedelics don’t directly teach you anything. They just bring you to the front of the classroom.

I'm open to all possibilities. I hate limiting myself to one train of thought and one perspective. I entertain all ideas as if they're true to gain more insights.

I entertain the western materialist view of reality because it keeps me grounded. But due to my personal encounters, I can't stop the feeling that there's something more to these experiences.

Perhaps these entities are inside of us and we only see them when tripping, sort of like our subconscious/ higher consiousness personifying itself.

Or maybe these drugs alter the wavelength of reality we experience. Think of your perception as a filter with different dials and buttons. Your sober, baseline experience is our normal "human filter."

When you take a drug, you're messing with the dials and buttons. Your perception has shifted to a different wavelength of reality. So, when on psychedelics, you're experiencing a wavelength of reality entirely unique and out of reach to us humans. And the entities people meet there? Perhaps they reside there all the time, and we can only interact with them when our minds are "tuned in" to their specific wavelength.

If you tend to be a "rational" psychonaut, you might not want to subscribe to this idea. I entertain all ideas cause it makes things interesting. If you don't know, then you don't know. I can't put the spiritual aspects of psychedelics into words that you'd be able to understand. If you aren't into spirituality, magick and the occult, it might seem foreign to you.

Im a firm believer that we create our own realities. So, the one I create is going to be interesting. Materialist reductionism isn't it for me. Sure, it explains the mechanism for why things work. But it misses something crucial.

Anyways, I'm tired from working and just smoked, this is probably garbled so sorry if it's hard to follow

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