hypermagda
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EDIT: I watched more of the vid = I think the good Dr. is behind the times. He wants to know if the information obtained in altered states (e.g. DMT Land) is "real" (i.e. information to coming to us from an external source). Well we know it is! We know that mediums (real ones), people having NDEs and OBEs (at least as far as I'm concerned on the latter) do receive veridical info that didn't come in via their brains. That's what I'm talking about when I'm going on about a shift in the focus of awareness. A shift from brain based/physical based to spirit based. So I think the Dr. is in grade school and I'm trying to talk at a college level and seeking to get to grad school.
Thank you for your comments Eric, I appreciate them.
With reference to your comment above, you will agree that there's the issue of when info obtained in altered states is incorrect or no sense can be made of it (unless of course one wishes to read into it whatever one wants, and gazillions of interpretations are possible).
I think Dr Gallimore is trying to take a science-based approach (of course, it's extremely difficult when dealing with subjective experience....), and trying to distinguish between noise and signal. We are faced with exactly the same issue when trying to make sense of dreams: we know very well that we can get incredibly important "information" from dreams (I'm thinking of precognitive dreams but also of "meaningful dreams" that the dreamer subjectively feels/"knows" are telling him something that makes sense to him), but a lot of dreams appear (to the dreamer himself) to be random and/or more or less just a jumbled assemblage of what was experienced during the day.
In the same way, some things experienced during these altered states are very likely to be just hallucinations (ie, images/ideas coming from ourselves) while others really do seem to be coming from an external source. Needless to say, it's not easy to tell which is which.
But Dr Gallimore is saying and doing much more than this. He is referring to material existence as a game (or you could say a riddle), to which the "solution" is discovering (and accessing) another ("higher"? in any case hidden) dimension. I found the final part of the interview particularly thought-provoking because they discuss the idea that the full "passage" to such a dimension can only properly happen after death, and that even if while still alive we realise that this is all just a game of sorts we should still continue to play until we die (hence we should still care about other people, nature etc etc), still take things "seriously", and not leave the game before it's over. Very thought-provoking stuff, for me at least. (Not that I am pleased that this is all a game, I would find it a very cruel prank but the idea is very plausible)