The fountain of higher consciousness
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For those who have had mystical, near-death experiences, or those who have experienced the pure, deeper side of meditation, it is obvious that there is a source of higher consciousness that brings the observer outside the realm of reality. Even taking psychedelic drugs like LSD, psilocybin mushrooms, or mescaline can take one out of the daily mental processes and change the range of filters through which the physical world is perceived. These experiences call to question the true nature of reality and what it really is. How does our brain possess the ability to mute the material and focus on the metaphysical? If even the most abstract and complex functions of the mind are dependent on the physical brain, we still have to answer what and where the source for recognizing universal energy, meeting “God,” expanding the consciousness, near-death and out-of-body experiences, and even psychosis is. The answer may simply lie in the pineal gland and its secretion of a psychedelic compound called DMT.