5A8R3 wrote:what do you do to communicate with entities you experience and do you feel they are internal or external?
My communication has been very limited. It is more like they communicate with forced emotions and thoughts. In some ways this feels like a manipulation if the thoughts and emotions are negative. I have felt like I was being toyed with a few times.
Smoking some changa from a bong one night I had a very odd experience with an entity. I laid back in my bed and it was dark and silent. I was in and out of this reality. Soon I could not tell if my eyes were open or closed. The visions were swirling all around me. I felt like something was with me. The swirling visions would transform into horrific faces and seemed antagonistic they way the approached me and got into my face. Like they wanted a reaction.
I was in a very good state of mind this night and laughed. A deep and hearty laugh! The sounds reverberated the whole environment. The entity that was with me instantly transformed and was laughing with me. It seemed to transform from a terrifying face into one of joy in a split second. Everything changed because I laughed.
I learned a lot from this particular journey. It showed me that I have more power than I think I do in hyperspace. It can all seem so out of control sometimes. My set and setting were perfect. My mind was at ease and I didn't buy into any fear. It was ignored. It just simply could not exist with the frame of mind I was in.
Long way to answer your question I know. I feel like something was with me. Something was trying to communicate with me or at least interact with me, even if just to get a reaction. It had no power unless I gave it. It was in my control in some ways. That tells me that this entity was from within. I think emotions and thoughts translate their vibration into a psychedelic experience. Everything comes from within. Its all the illusions of the mind presenting itself as imagination.
These entities could very well be real. It's feels so real! It feels like it is more real than this reality sometimes. But I still think that much of how we experience these entities has to do with perspective. How do you see these entities? In an instant they can transform according to how we perceive them. That is odd.
The Chonyid Bardo, mentioned in the Tibetan book of the dead, is the intermediate period in which one experiences visions of deities, Heaven and Hell, and Judgment. From my understanding you face peaceful and wrathful deities. One can not progress further in the bardo until they pass the deities tests. One must recognize these deities as part of the self. The peaceful and wrathful deities are the same. We only perceive them differently because we buy into the thoughts and emotions that create fear and retreat when we are cornered by a wrathful deity.
I dunno. I read this stuff before I had that odd changa trip. Perhaps I am reading into. I will tell you that it feels real, like you can recognize yourself in these entities, whether they are internal or external. I have thought about this a lot and I feel that what I am trying to say here applies to every entity that I have ever encounter on DMT. That is why I feel it is like practicing dying. If what the Tibetan book of the dead says is true than I am on the right track.
I don't look forward to dying at all but I would say that the knowledge I have gained from taking this perspective could prove to be very valuable should I end up in hyperspace when I die. I will know where I am and can calm my mind. That's a tough set and setting though. I mean your stuck there. There would be no escape. It would be tough to keep your fear at bay and pass the tests of the entities or deities.
Anyhow.. Just kind of putting my thoughts out there. Plain and simple is I have no idea. The questions are unanswerable, but I do enjoy thinking about it. Its a puzzle to keep my monkey brain busy. It will never solve the puzzle. The mind will never solve it. May sound cliché but the heart is what knows. That's how I feel.
"In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamans call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link." ~Carlos Castaneda