skinwalker
Rising Star
Tek said:Sorry to hear about your negative experience (an understatement I'm sure).
I'm reminded of the words of Don Juan in Casteneda's material: "We are luminous beings and for a luminous being only personal power matters."
Overall would you consider yourself to be an empowered person, one who knows who he is and his value as a spiritual being? How connected do you feel to your essence? How much love fills your heart each day? (I'm not trying to insinuate that any one of these could be your problem, just trying to offer perspective)
Are you afraid of hell? What's your upbringing like as far as fire and brimstone religions are concerned?
I ask all these things because as we often speculate with regards to hyperspace that it is a door into the collective unconcious and there are many, many themes of hell, fire, and brimstone echoed throughout the collective psyche. It could be possible that if you had already had a certain aspect of your mind attached to some of these concepts (you mentioned the place seemed familiar so maybe you were even aware that it sits in the back of your mind) that, with just a dash of fear thrown in, you could spiral into a truly hellish experience.
Another thought. Have you read Stanislav Grof's booke The Holotropic Mind? He devotes four chapters of his book (available for free in pdf format, just google it) to correlating different negative experiences in psychedelic states to potential complications during birth. For instance, he claims that right before the fetus is born, it experiences an absolute confusing hell with no possible way to know what is happening to it or why or if it will ever stop. The womb starts to contract on the fetus causing extreme discomfort, chemical agents are released causing the unborn child to experience unpleasant sensations, etc. He claims that during psychedelic therapy sessions he was able to revert people back as a witness to their own birth to help them sort out some of the complications that caused them to have all sorts of psychological disadvantages in life. The correlation he draws between psychedlic archtypes of hell and punishment are directly related to this physical process we all go through with varying degrees of difficulty.
I'm only speculating I haven't had the torn-to-shreds trip yet (I hope not to but it may be unavoidable for everyone). I would really recommmend you download the pdf and at least read those first four chapters (only about 50 pages or so) and I think it might really help shed some insight into why you might have experienced that hellish place and why it might have seemed so familiar to you.
Until then, I'm sending you all my compassion and healing love![]()
very interesting stuff here. Heavy, yes i apparently did have complications when i was born, cord wrapped around my neck and i guess i came out blue... was quite a emergency i'm told. Also no i do not have the hell and fire upbringing regarding religion. Nor have i really cared that much about it. Prior to DMT i did not believe in a hell. also what i experienced was NOT FIRE AND BRIMESTONE by anymeans it was far worse. Another point is that the majority of my dmt trips I was shown asiatic artitechture and hindu gods, both of which i have no prior experience with. Yes i was brought up as a christian but became somewhat athiest as i got older, and pledge to no singular themed relgion.
I will read the pdf file you mentioned and really appreciate the lead. Who knows maybe some answers there. I assume being born would be a process of suffocating (I was) confusion, abuse, loud noise, and pain. One interesting point is that when this happened to me i was in a fetal position and naked.... (which would lend some credance to your suggested theory) thanks