Justice, it is true that shamans everywhere have used psychotropic plants to induce trance, visions and OBE. It's also true that in many places such plants did not exist and shamans learnt to induce trance through drumming, dance, chanting and meditation.
Here's a quote from Graham Hancock's Supernatural, Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind, (Graham Hancock, 2005, pp 70-71). It shows part of one of his experiences using ayahuasca:
The nausea increases and the whole visionary experience ratchets up a notch and becomes more sinister....
I throw up over the back of the bench I'm sitting on. The visions stay strong while I'm vomiting. As I stop and return to the seated position everything ratchets up another notch. The serpents morph into Chinese dragons with beards and long serpentine bodies....
Then another crank of the ratchet. The overall atmosphere - I can't explain why - is now distinctly terrifying and sinister. I see the grey heart-shaped face of an alien again, but with an even stranger, harsher expression than before. And I see what could be space ships - flying saucers - associated with this commanding alien presence. What's frightening is something that would be easy to interpret as an abduction experience - the feeling that if I allow the vision to continue I'm going to be taken up into those metal ships....
This is, of course, only a selection and you are free to judge for yourself.
"A dream is a question, not an answer."
(Therapist and dreamworker Strephon Kaplan
Williams)
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