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you mean, the religious experience, sort of thing? I've read somewhere that they would show up as very, very similar to psychedelic sessions in brain activity; don't think I have a link ready for that one tho
The closest I can think of to a place studying metaphysics is The Monroe Institute but I’m ignorant to the specifics. I just know lucid dreaming and OBE tests/workshops
And yes, so technically I figure they fit under the umbrella of "metaphysics" as many people have spiritual experiences bc of perception altering substances
8:58 PM
It doesn't depend on it, I think seeing things differently just allows us to notice it or at least get life from a different angle for a bit
I've really heard differently about ayahuasca. It really doesn't lose in the potency of the experience, and that also in a spiritual growth sense. It's not just the same experience over and over
I've got a bsc and I'm (on and off) working on a msc in psychology if that counts
9:08 PM
I feel like it would be interesting, though probably illegal, to do some DMT tests with afterlife. I have seen some stuff that is hard to explain but I still haven't seen any positive evidence of an afterlife and stuff like that -- doesn't mean I'm not open to ideas on actually running experiments.
There's plenty in the meta community who believe that after you die, your spirit goes on. There's some ways we can test that though, if we can just figure out how to measure it.
They don't have to remember having a conscious experience because we can detect working memory in the brain, even if you won't remember it after the fact
All of this however is dismissing the experiences of many many people who claim to have done things in the nonphysical with another only to have that other person confirm what they did. Same with seeing/knowing something that would have otherwise been impossible to know with literally no physical sensory information on said subject
See, that's what is really interesting. The part where they had no sensory information on the subject.
9:18 PM
I had someone "prove meta" to me once upon a time, and I couldn't explain it. Was up several days trying to come up with an explanation -- I'll try to prune my original document on it to me more specific and send it over at some point (though that didn't touch, specifically, afterlife stuff)
9:19 PM
But the question we need to ask ourself is how can we measure this with good reliability, and how can we make it repeatable?
9:19 PM
Rather than just waiting around the ER for NDEs
9:20 PM
Well DMT is an interesting venue if it was less legally questionable
9:20 PM
It would be nice if we could get people to OBE on que
9:20 PM
Then they can look at things in the other room that they had no knowledge of
9:20 PM
And tell someone else that has no knowledge of things in the other room to record it(edited)
