Udo, this is an honest, sincere question because I really didn&#x27;t expect this strict of a response to my words from the community. It was meant from the get go to be a discussion, not an argument for or against the reality of this thing or that. So I&#x27;m trying to learn. How should one approach highly speculative questions like this, scientifically? The reason why I originally posted was simply to put forth a possibility based upon the fact that we don&#x27;t yet understand what consciousness is. I&#x27;m simply trying to understand -- from your perspective, is it possible to even posit this possibility of a non-local consciousness, or some kind of <i>&quot;external&quot;</i> relationship that exists entirely within the <i>interior</i> of the mind that may be influenced by the ingestion of certain types of drugs? If you have a wide variety of <i>informal</i> testimony that claims that something strange is going on, should one investigate? Isn&#x27;t that the role of science? We&#x27;ve already learned so much from research into psychedelics from the 50&#x27;s and the 60&#x27;s; don&#x27;t you think there is quite a bit more we could still discover? We obviously don&#x27;t have the experimental evidence yet to say things are this way or that, so where does one begin? Or is the sort of strict responses that I&#x27;ve received due to my delivery?