DMT drug study investigates the ‘entities’ people meet while tripping

Re:DMT drug study investigates the ‘entities’ people meet wh... by dingdingdang on Thursday September 17, 2020 @06:12AM (#24502854)

Like the idea of using music but since we have to take into account that the participant's mind acts as the "gate" to the entity it makes little sense to expect the entity to be able to repeat a pattern that has not entered the participant's consciousness.

One way this could work however would be if the same entity revealed itself to two participants. Then it would be quite straightforward to see if information/music/other shared by between one participant and the entity could be accessed by the other when participant when communicating with the entity.

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Re:DMT drug study investigates the ‘entities’ people meet wh... by tsumnia on Thursday September 17, 2020 @11:48AM (#24506081)

True; I think the rational stems from the following research questions:

R1 - Is the entity a projection of the participant or manifestation of a separate entity?

R2 - If the entity is a manifestation, can it process information that is not presented by the participant?

R3 - Can that information be presented to another participant with the entity acting as an intermediary? This would expand on your idea of "if the same entity revealed itself to two participants", then perhaps having Person 1 receive musical input, describe the entity's reaction, Person 2 does not receive the musical input and describes the entity's behavior. If there is are common reaction behaviors between the entities, it wouldn't prove they are separate from the host, but could lead to additional types of studies.

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