This leads me to ponder the connection between this event and my seeing a UFO in 2004 and my descent into schizophrenia. In those 5 years so much changed within me, I became far more driven to learn all I could about this world we share. Was my perception changed as a result of taking a psychedelic? I've never been able to satisfactorily answer that question. But there are a few clues. In 2005 I was living back home in Wales following my breakdown the year before. My extended family went on a trip to an amusement park with the young-uns one summer evening. The weather was terrible, heavy rain and thunder. I made my excuses and didn't go with them. I chose to stay at home and avoid the chaos of all that mayhem, never liked amusement parks. But I had a very strange and some would say amusing evening of my own, just staying at home pottering about the house.
Heavy thunder and drenching rain ensued. Then things got a bit trippy. I was just reading in my room when I noticed a looming dark presence in the corner of my room. No hearing voices as far as I can recall, but my perception suddenly changed. I stopped reading because the thunder was putting me off, but then my attention was focused on my hands as I put down the book. It was insane, my fingers were giving off this intense light and glow; I recall wiggling my fingers and seeing this glow stretching off from them, they were about double in length with the glow. For some reason I stayed calm and just went with the flow of things. Nothing else of note happened, but I recall those long glowing fingers, so I just entertained myself during a thunderstorm by marvelling at these huge spindly glows on my hands, I think it lasted about an hour. Never happened before, or since. Very weird but no harm done. And I was completely stone cold sober too.
All I'm musing on is whether my 2005 experience was directly related to 1999 and 2004 (this was when I saw a UFO) events? That's another thing to plonk on my questions for 5d when I die. It probably was but I'd just like the closure of a confirmation. We live in a strange cosmic jungle for sure, and it really helps to have an intuitive mind to deal with such things.
The C's have suggested the taking peyote results in hallucinations. or it could be that your mind was re-patterned... something that is an ongoing process.
Q: (L) Carlos Casteneda writes about the peyote beings called "Mescalitos." This being supposedly is part of the peyote plant, a sort of being from the plant. Is this true?
A: No.
Q: (L) What beings does one encounter when one eats a bunch of peyote?
A: Hallucination.
Q: (L) Why are these hallucinations so consistent?
A: Because those that do have that expectation. If you ate enough peyote you would encounter Santa Claus if that was your expectation. (Much laughter)
So when you took the mescaline, it could be that you were just hallucinating?
But how do we square the hallucination claim with all of the data of hyperdimensional influence linked to psychedelic use? Surely all those people weren't just hallucinating all that stuff? Or were they? What do the C's mean by hallucination in precise terms?
There's a book called
Pyschedelic Information Theory: Shamanism in the Age of Reason by James L. Kent. In it, he describes what he calls the information process of psychedelics. His idea is that there's an objective cellular process that produces a psychological state which is subject to interpretation.
The psychedelic information process is an observable phenomenon that has influenced cultures throughout history and is now affecting modern global culture. At the center of this information process is the pharmacological action of a small number of molecules hitting a tiny subset of neural receptors for a relatively short duration of time. The ongoing information process generated by this small pharmacological interaction goes far beyond the normal range of what we expect drugs to accomplish.
Because psychedelics defy pharmacological rationality they are misunderstood, feared, and revered as spiritual in origin. This misunderstanding drives the psychedelic information process into divergent streams of theory and mythology, creating the tapestry of psychedelic propaganda, confusion, and disinformation we have today.
The divergence of psychedelic information and existence of competing schools of psychedelic ideology demonstrates there is no one objective and true psychedelic ideology; any ideology can be influenced and amplified by the psychedelic information process. The psychedelic information process is neutral and ideology non-specific; it applies equally to learning, creativity, mind-control, brainwashing, mysticism, sorcery, and healing. The psychedelic process and psychedelic archetypes can be co-opted by any religious or political group for personal power gain, and psychedelics can be used as weapons as easily as they can be used as medicines or sacraments. The only constant between all divergent schools of psychedelic ideology is the physical process that stimulates the flow of novel information through human neural networks. The study of this information process is known as Psychedelic Information Theory.
He's also coming from the school that claims that psychedelics generate information. This seems to corroborate what the C's have said - that all peyote or other psychedelics do is generate new neural info that leads to hallucinations. But then there's stuff like
this testimony that sounds like peyote usage can result in seeing hyperdimensional realities:
I walked around the property until the sun started to come up. By this time the peyote really was starting to wind down, but as soon as I saw the sun reflecting on the clouds things got intense again. The clouds began to look like space ships, and there was a flurry of activity as some kind of insects or very tiny birds moved in flocks from one ship to another. I thought they were actual birds at first but when I looked at them they disappeared. Suddenly I realized that multi-dimensional beings who live right next to us are tracking our eye movements in real time. They carry on some kind of nefarious plan in plain sight, then when we look at them, they stop moving before our eyes can finish the saccade to where they are, and that's why we never see them. Peyote somehow clogs up their eye tracking technology and introduces a delay in transmission, so they don't know right away that we're looking at them and that's how I could see them in their cloud ships now, and that's why "they" are trying to make peyote extinct. I actually considered this a realistic hypothesis for about thirty seconds (later I realized it's pretty wacky).
Is this a hallucination? Kent would probably say yes, but then again, I don't think he has a grasp of alternate dimensions, let alone levels of density. He's fairly materialist.
Psychedelic Information Theory posits that the uncoupled sub-functions of modular consciousness, acting either alone or in novel peer groupings, are responsible for the subjective altered states classified as hallucinogenic, dissociative, and psychedelic. All hallucinogens must first destabilize top-down coherence of consciousness to produce novel states of spontaneous organization between the modular sub-units; this is how all hallucination begins. Dissociatives disrupt top-down coherence by blocking the excitatory pathways that allow the modular units to communicate. Psychedelics have a more subtle effect on top-down coherence; they periodically interrupt or excite the modulatory frequency of multisensory frame binding, causing perception to destabilize into energetic nonlinear configurations. By destabilizing the top-down control of consciousness, psychedelics allow the modular sub-functions to wander and/or interact with coupled peers in dedicated subsystems; similar to the dedicated circuit created between perception and memory when dreaming.
Destabilizing or splintering consciousness into novel configurations is the essence of psychedelic exploration. When consciousness bifurcates or splits, subjective perception instantly becomes more chaotic and complex. Splintered consciousness may actually appear to be in two places at once, stuck in a superposition between waking and dreaming, finding stability in two simultaneous perceptual states, also know as multi-stability a multi-stable state. Novel configurations of splintered or multi-stable consciousness can be described as nonlinear, complex, meta, transpersonal, depersonalized, faceted, holistic, higher-dimensional, expanded, mystical, subconscious, semi-consciousness, and so on. Splintering, re-configuring, and rebuilding the modular sub-units of identity are techniques that may be applied in brainwashing or metaprogramming, but also fall under the rubric of mysticism and shamanism.
I find his writing interesting, tho he's prone to making generalizations. As we've learned, the way in which one enters an altered state of consciousness, an the intent in doing so, seems to make all the difference. Wouldn't there be some real difference between some kinda wizened Taoist master and a young ayahausca tourist?
Anyways, this all leaves me with some questions. If there is such an objective process going on in the brain with psychedelic use, does it interfere with top-down coherence by 'splintering' in the way Kent describes?
If so, does the resulting state lead only to the creation of information, as in a hallucination? Or can it also lead to sometimes actually seeing reptoids and ships and whatnot?
Do 'aliens' also use a similar 'mind-splintering' process during abductions? Like with beamed frequencies and not ingested substances? Hence the similarity of certain drug trips and certain abductions in terms of images seen, behavioural change, etc.
At any rate, having a population with a large number of brains caught halfway between waking and dreaming (whether through psychedelics or otherwise) seems to be a crucial part of the priming process of accepting 'our new saviours'. So in that sense, I think Desouza was onto something.
From Ernest Gellner's
Anthropology and Politics:
“The way in which you restrain people from doing a wide variety of things, not compatible with the social order of which they are members, is that you subject them to ritual. The process is simple: you make them dance around a totem pole until they are wild with excitement and become jellies in the hysteria of the collective frenzy; you enhance their emotional state by any device, by all the locally available audio-visual aids, drugs, dance, music and so on; and once they are really high, you stamp upon their minds the type of concept or notion to which they subsequently become enslaved. Next morning, the savage wakes up with a bad hangover and a deeply internalized concept. The idea that the central feature of religion is ritual, and the central role of ritual is the endowment of individuals with compulsive concepts which simultaneously define their social and natural world and restrain and control their perception and comportment, in mutually reinforcing ways. These deeply internalized notions henceforth oblige them to act within the range of prescribed limits. Each concept has a normative binding content, as well as a kind of organizational descriptive content. The conceptual system maps out the social order and required conduct, and inhibits inclinations to thought or conduct that would transgress its limits.”
Just replace 'dancing around the totem pole' with 'scrolling on the iPhone', and 'savage' with 'average citizen', throw in some catastrophes to soften up the population, and you have the recipe for a shiny new apocalyptic religion.
