>>19452286Allow me to dispel some confusion around psychedelics.
1. They make you lack discernment. You can confuse fantasy with reality.
2. They make you disassociate. Some of the "old you" you will potentially not get back.
3. They make the subconscious bubble up to the surface of the consciousness. This leads to everything from erroneous sensations (ie hallucinations) to witnessing the archetypal elements of the mind.
Now, how all this ties into religion is kind of important. On psychedelics, you can experience a very lucid dream state. You will be "awake" (unlike totally without consciousness, as during dreaming), but your brainwaves can match that of a dream state. So, you could experience an image of an archetype or an entire scene with multiple people or an entire dream sequence. All of these things are ultimately the same, from lesser to greater complexity.
When you experience that dream but in a disassociated and undiscerning state, you won't realize that the character you're seeing IS in fact you. It's a part of you, a version of you, something you've internalized about how to be or act or a goal to aspire to. If you are primed before the experience (such as if you are in a cult and told what to expect when you experience this), you might become convinced that you saw "god". This is the great blunder.
It's somewhat true that whatever you experience could be loosely related to your genetics and thus something you might project onto your ancestors, but it's nothing like an "akashic memory record" or whatever.
There is no astral travel either. That's simply a result of witnessing a dream and then becoming convinced that it was real, not a dream. You'll notice astral travelers never have any real knowledge to bring out of their experience because the only thing it can teach them is something they already knew or could guess.
