&gt;<i>As anyone who has worked with DMT or Ayahuasca can tell you, you don&#x27;t need to travel far to reach the outer limits of space or even have contact experiences</i><p>Well, with DMT etc. you don&#x27;t need to travel far to BELIEVE you&#x27;ve reached &quot;the outer limits of space or have contact experiences&quot; -- which is not the same as actually reaching it and meeting anyone...<p>There&#x27;s a reason they&#x27;re called &quot;hallucinations&quot;.<p>&gt;<i>Its like, Fermi&#x27;s Paradox is almost completely irrelevant if you come from the position that any sufficiently advanced civilization is aware of the possible non-local properties of consciousness.</i><p>Also if you believe in magic and teleportation.