This Is What Encounters With Supernatural Entities Due To Drug Effects Are Like
Throughout history, encounters with supernatural entities have been described, whether gods, aliens or beings from other worlds and dimensions.
These types of encounters are a key element in all religions, with historically recorded cases such as the case of Saint Teresa of Jesus. However, to what extent is modern pharmacology capable of explaining these events?
Next we are going to see what are, in general, the characteristics of encounters with supernatural entities due to drug effects discovering the specific case of the recently most in-depth study of ayahuasca.
What do we know about encounters with supernatural entities due to drug effects?
Throughout history, there have been many characters who have claimed to have experienced near-death experiences or to have interviewed supernatural entities. Some of the most notable cases are the mystico-religious experiences of Saint Teresa of Jesus, Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, among many other cases. We do not know exactly if they were taking any type of drug, but the truth is that these types of experiences have been related to the consumption of certain narcotics.
Recently, the effects of the active compound in ayahuasca, N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), have been investigated, a serotonergic psychoactive substance that is responsible for this indigenous drink living up to its name in Quechua, “the rope of the spirits.” In the culture where it comes from, it is believed that taking ayahuasca makes the soul free itself from its corporeal chains, abandoning the body and traveling to other worlds.
Yes ok The type of paranormal effects that this drug induces are practically the same regardless of the way in which it is consumed, its duration and peak varies. If consumed orally, that is, in the form of the traditional indigenous drink, its effect can last up to hours. On the other hand, if it is consumed inhaled or intravenously, its effect is much faster and briefer, peaking after 5 minutes and lasting half an hour.
It is curious to know that The active component of ayahuasca, DMT, has been found in the brains of mammals, and the human brain is no exception It is for this reason that the possibility has been raised that this substance is behind dreams and, as it has hallucinogenic effects, it has been related to experiences of alien abductions and other supernatural events, such as near-death experiences. Even though this hypothesis exists, it has also been seen that the concentrations of endogenous DMT are very low, too small to cause a psychotic condition.
Among the most common and striking effects of ayahuasca, attributed to DMT, we have all types of paranormal experiences, especially related to encounters with supernatural entities. Among them we have encountering celestial beings, such as gods or their emissaries, beings typical of science fiction such as aliens or monsters and mythological creatures, depending on what the individual believes or what is part of their beliefs, both religious like more paranormal.
An attempt has been made to see to what extent suggestion could be behind seeing one or another type of supernatural being after consuming ayahuasca. Surprisingly, and according to several investigations in which people have been asked who have ever consumed this substance, few people dare to try it with the clear intention of meeting a special being. In most cases the person planned to try it to know what it feels like.
This draws attention, given that it seems that encounters with supernatural entities associated with the consumption of ayahuasca They are not, for the most part, the result of prior suggestion linked to any psychedelic There is something about DMT that causes things to be seen, regardless of what the person believes.
What are these hallucinogenic experiences like?
In the specific case of ayahuasca, the supernatural encounters after consumption are emotionally intense. In most cases, those who experience them see it as something that does not leave anyone indifferent, and They are combined with multisensory sensations, extrasensory perceptions and striking visual effects Olfactory and taste perceptions may also appear, as if you were smelling and tasting something real.
In most cases, after consuming ayahuasca, it is the supernatural entity who initiates the encounter. It speaks to the consumer and can be shown as a celestial being, coming from another world or dimension, such as gods, aliens, or even elves. In most cases the entity is conscious and benevolent, with sacred powers and intentions, even capable of “interacting” with the real world, in peace and love, and with the intention of entrusting it with a mission. In very few cases this entity has bad intentions.
The encounters are perceived as more real than reality itself, something that affects the person’s belief system and even his conception of the world in which he had lived until that moment. In most cases, the ayahuasca experience is experienced as the most important event in the person’s life, so powerful that it has come to change their life. There are many cases of convinced atheists who, after trying this indigenous concoction, joined a religion. After the effects of the drug have passed, many believe that the entity they interviewed is real, and continues to exist.
Based on everything explained, it is not surprising that, from a more scientific and modern perspective, it is being considered the possibility that great religious revelations, such as those of Saint Teresa of Jesus, were a product of the effects of DMT It is difficult to imagine that this mystical saint consumed ayahuasca, given that the brew was first described by Europeans in texts no older than 1637, and she lived from 1515-1582.
However, taking into account his mystical revelations and those of other “enlightened ones”, both of the time and more modern ones, several questions arise: could he have had especially high endogenous DMT? Did you consume anything that contained it? What happened in his brain to see and hear what he saw and heard? Of course, his mystical experiences and those of many more saints and not so saints must have a pharmacochemical explanation… or do these supernatural entities really visit us?
