Unresolved
Entities encountered during DMT experience are genuinely external, not projections of the subject's mind but autonomous intelligences that exist independently.
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True Hallucinations; Food of the GodsCurrent evidence · confidence: low
Similar entity encounter reports are common among people who report them (Davis et al. 2020, J. Psychopharmacol. 34(9):1008-1020, a survey of 2,561 self-selected respondents who had already had an encounter); cross-cultural consistency has not been tested. The neurological framework (agent-detection systems running without content-filtering inhibition) is plausible. Reports that entities conveyed accurate information the subject did not already have are anecdotal and have not been verified in any controlled study.Citation
Davis et al., J. Psychopharmacol. 34(9):1008-1020 (2020); Hunter (ed.), Paranthropology Vol.2 No.2 (2011)