[devwastaken]

The mind is the source of all senses. Is an Ayahuasca trip hallucination any different in reality than say schizophrenia hallucinations?

If there truly are beings of other advanced "planes", and they are communicating, why are they only doing it in vague ways that mimic dreams? And why is that information never something novel? If they're beings more advanced than us then we should be able to ask and get answers.

Same problem with ghosts. If there is evidence for their existence, then we can collect that. But every time the evidence is never there when it's no longer he said/she said. Even if ghosts were real and sentient they have to mess up eventually.

Sounds a lot like a limited intelligence human mind undergoing a bombardment of chemicals that change how the senses input/output information.

[lmarcos]

> why are they only doing it in vague ways that mimic dreams? And why is that information never something novel?

I would say: why not? I've never done Ayahuasca or taken drugs to hallucinate, so I have no idea about what people experience, but if what they experience is not only a product of their mind, why would we be so surprised of the hidden structure of the universe (if any)? We literally know very little about everything, so "our way" is probably not the "only way".

[pmoriarty]

Measuring and evaluating factual claims these entities make is only one way of approaching them.

Some people can forgive themselves or their parents on psychedelics, can completely come out a different person, can have their cripplingly severe depression cured..

Can these be fairly described as "hallucinations"? A better word is needed.