Helle Kaasik - Psychedelics, Other Worlds And Quantum Physics

Experiencers of altered states of consciousness often find themselves in “other worlds”. These are dreamlike perceptual spaces of varying lucidity where contents of the consciousness differ from the habitual. Experiencers identify and describe these spaces according to their vocabulary, worldview and culture. Development of space exploration and quantum physics may have contributed to appearance of other planets and parallel worlds among the experienced destinations besides more traditional spirit worlds, heaven and hell, past and future lives etc. Content analysis was applied to “other world” experiences described by 30 ayahuasca users. Findings were related to the current state of the scientific knowledge. The current state of the scientific knowledge was not in a good agreement with descriptions of “other world” experiences and no science-based explanations of described experiences were found. To conclude, contemporary physics appeared not suitable for explaining the perceptual phenomena encountered in “other worlds” visited with the help of psychedelics.
Filmed at Breaking Convention 2017 - 4th International Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness University of Greenwich London, June 30th-July 2nd 2017
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