"Another substance used in South America, especially in the Amazon basin, is a drink called ayahuasca, caapi, or yajé, which is produced from the stem bark of the vines Banisteriopsis caapi and B. inebrians. Indians who use it claim that its virtues include healing powers and the power to induce clairvoyance, among others.
Another method of divination was to drink ayahuasca, a narcotic that had profound effects on the central nervous system. This was believed to enable one to communicate with the supernatural powers."
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Ok, so this substance is widely acknowledged to produce some interesting sensations and effects.
@Free. So you took this stuff and experienced what you believe to be kind of remote viewing or something. Seeing with your eyes closed. But you actually attempted to apply some scientific controls to account for the possibility that it was just in your imagination.
The controls you applied was that your girlfriend changed something in the room and with your eyes closed you worked out what it was.
After succeeding in this challenge you have concluded that there definitely wasn't a boring mundane explanation for this. Instead, you literally saw through closed eyes because of reaching a higher plane/dimension through this substance?
Am I right so far?
Yes pretty much. It definately felt like I was observing "out of body", and I could even see through physical objects also, I could see what I had in my fridge for example or how my bedroom looked "through" walls. If a table might look and feel solid, it's only atoms packed densely and at the time it felt like atoms we're pretty "loose", I could see and feel the sofa when I went to lay there, but I could also see through the sofa.
I haven't studied remote viewing that much but experiencing out of body (sober, sleeping, not under substances) I have no problems believing that it can be done on certain settings.
For me the experience was as Real as me sitting here on the computer and typing this reply.
Check this out, this guy claims that he could understand AND speak Japanese without ever even studying it after coming down from Ayahuasca session
http://forums.ayahuasca.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=22026 (he speaks that his "friend" experienced this but it's a common thing to write to psychedelic forums like your friend experienced that, probably legal issues, might be his friend also though)
I understand WHY it might be hard to believe my experiences as I wouldn't believe either without having these experiences, I can relate and understand but after many WTF moments, supernatural feels pretty natural for me.
@ropa
You've always been the forum troll as long as I can remember and when you start disrespecting Ayahuasca (just because you don't know any better) and my "dealer friends" your crossing the line in my books since these are serious topics for me. I can troll with you in other threads. It's totally okay to not believe anything I say but have some respect at least.