Did the entities you encountered show any sign of intelligence? If yes, why are you discarding them as unreal? I have never used DMT, but if I had a chance, I would ask questions I don't have answers for to check whether these entities are real intelligent entities or just mere hallucinations.I am on drugs. What kind of logic is it that says you alter your consciousness in a way that reliably causes hallucination, yet you take hte entities as real?? Seems utterly bizarre to think they are real without further. — AmadeusD
How do you define mind?I've actually had one dream where i was with Graham Hancock on a vine-covered river cruiser speaking at length about the possibility that psilocybin mushrooms graduated through ancient Welsh ceremony to the Druids. Two days later, I fell asleep and hte dream picked up in the exact same place. I was able to report hte entire conversation. This simply means my mind is agile. — AmadeusD
If yes, why are you discarding them as unreal? — MoK
How do you define mind? — MoK
Are you saying what you experience is made by you, yet you are not aware of how you make these experiences? That is a very odd position.Because I am intelligent, and it is occurring inside my head. — AmadeusD
I mean, if they are intelligent entities and can answer questions and continue conversations, etc., then why do you consider them to be unreal? There must be other real entities if they answer your questions, since you don't have answers to your questions. I cannot imagine how you could make these entities in your head, answering your question while you don't know the answers.I cannot understand the question, in some sense, because it seems to reverse the general course of assessment. — AmadeusD
Are you saying what you experience is made by you, yet you are not aware of how you make these experiences? That is a very odd position. — MoK
I cannot imagine how you could make these entities in your head, answering your question while you don't know the answers. — MoK
There must be other real entities if they answer your questions, since you don't have answers to your questions — MoK
So, you are saying that you create those entities with your mind?This is exactly wrong. You don't know how you produce your every-day experiences, let alone hallucinations. There is simply zero reason to entertain hte idea that these entities are real beyond my mind's creation. It is not an odd position in any sense of that word. — AmadeusD
But the guy in the video mentioned intelligence in entities he encountered.There has never been any evidence that this has occurred. — AmadeusD
I don't know about that. Do you mind elaborating?That you can access your pre-conscious when in an altered state is very well understood. — AmadeusD
Why?Which makes this, also, exactly wrong. — AmadeusD
So, you are saying that you create those entities with your mind? — MoK
But the guy in the video mentioned intelligence in entities he encountered. — MoK
I don't know about that. Do you mind elaborating? — MoK
Why? — MoK
Really? And you think that Jesus is made in your mind, too?I could tlel you that Jesus spoke to me in a dream and told me 9/11 would happen a week before it did. Big whoopee. — AmadeusD
I would say that you get access to the content of the subconscious mind when you are on a drug.You do have answers to your questions. That's logically deducible from the facts at hand: You are the only person around. You answer your own questions. Presto! — AmadeusD
Really? And you think that Jesus is made in your mind, too? — MoK
I would say that you get access to the content of the subconscious mind when you are on a drug. — MoK
When it comes to the conscious mind, preconsciousness is a term that refers to the accumulation of data in the conscious mind. If the data is proper, then a chain of thought is generated by the conscious mind. The conscious mind has an important duty: processing the delivered data very fast. The conscious mind has a very limited memory; this memory is registered for important topics only. But if you read what I wrote once more carefully, you will then realize that the conscious mind cannot do its job without a perfect intervention of the subconscious mind. You work on a topic given the limited related data, finish the job by creating a new idea, and then the conscious mind is done and stays silent. That is what you are, the conscious mind. Like it or not, without the subconscious mind, you can do very limiting things. There would be no long stream of thoughts, no long stream of words, no communication, etc. The subconscious mind is huge. It has access to all the ideas generated by the conscious mind. It also knows what kind of data might be relevant when it comes to processing the data, which might lead to the creation of a new idea. I think you at least face the subconscious mind when you are on the drug! What do you expect to find? Wonder!That does not seem possible. The subconscious is not thought to be accessible. The pre-conscious, however, is. If that's all you meant, then I agree, but the chances that you can access anything you've not, at some stage, consciously come into contact with, is next to zero. I'm open, but no one's ever been able to show that they've gained information they couldn't have had previously on psychedelics. Despite claims of such. — AmadeusD
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