Hello!,

I've been reading these and other forums for some time.  I wish to state first that I am by no means an expert on psychedelics, but they (more specifically DMT) interest me as a tool for self-discovery.  I was raised in an extremely conservative manner as a child, but in the process of traveling extensively since reaching adulthood (partially due to a stint in the US Marines) and living in Japan for a number of years, I found that the spectrum of human experience I had discovered (itself a subset of a limitless realm of possibility) lay outside the parameters of the religion/worldview I was taught.  By that I do not mean that I have overgrown religion or that it is false or meaningless, merely that what I had learned in childhood is insufficient to properly explain or even to provide a context for the world as I perceive it.  Personally, I think that many religions reflect a great deal of truth, but fail in attempting to delineate and define (reduce to a system) that which is beyond communication in written or spoken language.  

I enjoy reading out of mainstream philosophers and teachers, of all cultures and beliefs.

I consider anything possible that cannot be demonstrably disproven, but lean towards skepticism in evaluating supernatural occurrences, etc., in order to come to a more perfect understanding of the truth.

Look forward to reading more of your thoughts and contributing some of my own.