Typerwritermonky said:

TNK said:

Define autonomous entities please.

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An autonamous entity is an entity you encounter that seems to operate completely independent of your thoughts, emotions, and actions - instead acting on its own will.  Basically, its saying that you experience an entity that isn’t under your “will”.

Amanita86 said:

You should post this in TPE, you might get some more indepth responses.

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For the person who posted this, that means “The Psychedelic Experience” and is another subforum on the Shroomery.

TNK said:

I've done DMT about eight times but am puzzled by what exactly they want to know.

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They want to know if you’ve or if you have not experienced an autonomous entity, and entity that has will other then you’re own.  So even if you’ve done DMT and haven’t had an experience where an entity manifested itself and “seemed” autonomous, still reply.  They need those answers to contrast the people who have had those experiences.

bodhisatta said:

I dislike the study is set up to only talk to people who have perceived entities.

Ive done dmt a boatload of times its cool but theres no entities trying to make contact.

Imagine if there was some entities using dmt to contact us only dmt is worse than dial up because no one ever seems to actually get to be shown anything by these entities

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It is not setup like that - I took the study, and if you haven’t percieved entities it doesn’t discount your experiences and also wants to know what you’ve experienced otherwise.

Amanita86 said:

Good point.

I’m just saying, one could read many reports about people’s visits to Mt Rushmore and know very well where washington’s nose is on the map.  But they could also get in the car and go see it personally to know exactly where it resides within this life.

I suppose if you’re crunching numbers, the reports work in your favor, on paper.  But, you’ll really never know what it really is.  And who better than one of the smart guys who understands all those structures within how they work and catalog?  It would be dope if a terrence or dennis worked for John Hopkins.

Either way, I feel I’m derailing from the origional point so, my blessings to all involved.  There’s gold in them thar hills and I’m glad this sort of thing is an ‘acceptable topic’.  It’s an exciting time.

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It’s a very exciting time, and Amanita86 you bring up a great principle represented well by the parabole of the man in the ivory tower with a book that contains all the information in the world.  This man knows everything about a flower there is to know, yet has never experienced one for himself; the question becomes does this man learn something knew when he finally smells, tastes, experiences a flower for himself?  Is there a certain knowledge that can only be gained through a subjective “taste” of said thing?

Can you ever really know honey without trying it?  Can you ever really know DMT without trying it?  Of course not - Sufi philosophy dictates this clearly as well as many other methods of belief - yet there is still a lot to gain and further science and mass understandings of these substances and the experiences we thusly have from them that to me, personally, are worth spending an entire life trying to uncover, discover, and figure out.

Yes, ideally - a frontier researcher would be someone who has tried these substances for themselves and can retain a subjective and objective view - only merging them for final theorems - yet that is VERY hard as to prevent subjective experience from bleeding in to objective results is tought... actually much science fails very much because of this - because the scientist is so passionate about proving his experiment right, he messes up the experiments, fudges results, subconsciously/unconsciously influences and creates his results and theses.

I agree - very, such exciting times we live in.  I would love to see this discovered in a way we can physically understand in my life.  I hope I can find a greater step to take on this path as I have tried to give as much as I can (not much).

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Thanks for your support and hope you enjoyed the survey! Valid points to bring up across the board. "Entities" can be a very elusive and subjective term, so if you think you might have encountered anything that you might consider an "entity" or "being" in any form at all after taking DMT, please take the survey!

We are at the very rudimentary stages of the research into DMT, and hopefully this study can serve as an exciting stepping stone for the future of psychedelic research. Feel free to PM me with any comments or concerns

TNK said:

Define autonomous entities please.

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Mycolorado said:

That type of imagery is what hits right at the beginning for me and I know I'm going in deep when that happens.  Then the waiting room and portal(mckenna's chrysanthemum)...mine is a chrome tripartite with salmon pink/orange around the perimeter .  Often, I'll pass through a series of wormholes, though it's more like I'm the wormhole and end up exiting in what seems to be space and witnessing what looks like a golden mist that I've dubbed "The Pool" and have interpreted as the collection of all the souls or sparks in the universe.  The serpent coil in my sig is a representation of the wormholes I travel through.  Another phenomenon I experience every time i take it is the loop at the beginning...typically the last action I've done before the experience begins (like hitting the pipe and setting it down), repeating itself.  The loop is so real, hyper-real even, to the point that it's like I'm actually doing it again, which leads me to believe that all experiences are relivable/repeatable/time travel is possible and we're likely in a simulation.

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nooneman said:

I just want to say thank you so much for all of your hard and often thankless work studying psychedelics.

Studying psychedelics is a difficult and often thankless job, so I really want to thank you and your team for doing such an incredible job on such a hard and controversial subject. Keep up the great work, and know that many of us here are deeply thankful for the time and effort you put into studying psychedelics.

Thank you. You are amazing.

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Thanks for the support