Hi! I've been assigned a magazine article exploring the intersection of extraterrestrial encounters and psychedelics. Just figured I'd post a call for personal experiences, perspectives and views on the subject. Also, I'm looking for recommendations of who I should reach out to speak with or what I should watch or read for research. Given the amount of people online claiming to channel alien entities, or meet them in meditation, or during a psychedelic experience, in addition to Dr. Greer's CE5 techniques seeming to successfully invite visual ET phenomena (orbs, lights, crafts), the hypothesis I want to explore from as many angles as possible is: Perhaps ET contact is coming from inner space, and psychedelics are a portal into that space where communication and contact can occur, and have been occurring. Terrence McKenna often described his psilocybin experiences as feeling like communication with an "other" or alien entity. People are regularly reporting meeting entities on n,n-DMT. Humans have limited sensory perception abilities. Visually, we only see roughly 0.0035%—of the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Could ETs be among us, but we can't perceive them, unless we open up the doors of perception using psychedelics or other mind-expanding techniques? Should serious UFO investigators be tuning more into psychedelics as a means of contact and research? I've personally done a fair amount of psychedelics (LSD, psilocybin, 5-MeO-DMT, salvia) but never felt like I met an entity from another dimension or realm, with the exception of a recurring gentle psilocybin presence I call "Mother Mushroom," who feels like a nurturing divine feminine spirit, while 5-MeO blasted me to an experience of Oneness several times. I plan on taking a dose of n,n DMT for the first time for this piece to get a glimpse into that world. Theories. Stories. Contacts. Opinions. Would love to hear what you think! submitted by /u/evilguy59 [link] [comments]