This is what fascinates me the most about it all... Aren't the fact that there are so many overlaps in experiences--
so much that one could even, say, construct something like a map of circuits of consciousness with different paths, or something--that so many people do see the same things, Jesus, jesters, and aliens, that something empirically fascinating HAS to be going on, whether brain- or hyperdimensionally-generated? Wouldn't it be bad science to say otherwise?
The question, to me, seems not to be IF, but HOW. Let's find more empirically feasible ways to communicate...
Again, too, on the subject of brain circuits (I heart these models!), not all of them are rational. If entities are somehow emprically accessible manifestations of non-rational but equally valid and functioning circuits, tests based on rational thought processes are going to mean squat. I'm a huge fan of The Cosmic Serpent and tryptamines tuning us into our own biology... and, yes, possibly far more. But honestly, if you see a mantis and it somehow represents your liver, how much do you think it's interested in prime numbers? Great that we've made contact, but I think we need to expand ideas about the nature of the communication.
I do totally think communication is possible, and I'm not shooting anyone down.
Archetypes are deeply intriguing me right now... I want to know more. I feel like there is a map, and some entities are guardians, or processes, that exist within everyone's mind... and... hum... goes so deep...
Maybe I've been listening to too much "Where I end and you begin"... 8)