There have been people that took 'magical substances' that claim seriously and congruently that they absolutely were taken to a different world, different place, different family and possibly a different time, and they DID live there for 20 years or whatever, and then, and only then, returned back to 'normal reality', and that it was as real as anything they experience normally.
Now, people should, of course, take any 'drug user' ramblings with a lot more than just a grain of salt, but it has to boggle the mind a little bit - why are they so adamant at telling this kind of a lie, and why is it so common? Heck, even I have experienced some kind of reality/dimensional shift, when we were dumb teenagers and were trying all kinds of ways to 'get high', and someone figured out that if someone pushes your lungs hard enough, you lose consciousness, you 'faint' - but it's a different kind of experience from your normal fainting, and every individual it was done to, including me, experienced PROFOUND confusion for a few seconds when they 'came back', and watched a group of aliens laughing at them.
Only slowly they started remembering who they really were and realizing these aliens are actually their friends, laughing their buttockses off at the scared and confused expressions the 'experiencer' was making.
We can easily brush off this kind of stuff, but to me, it tells something about the reality beyond the mere physical boundaries, mere 'status quo' stuff. If I add every 'mystical' experience I have ever had, people here wouldn't even believe me, but it also crystallizes as a worldview of the Universe as something way more magical and interesting than our mundane everyday reality with our routines and everyday materialism.
So when nihilistic people try to suppress worldviews that actually know there's more to life than shadows in a cave, because it's experiencable, not just a theory, I don't really suffer fools gladly at that point.
Time travel is REAL, deal with it.
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