The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost

A friend and former coworker told me something quite a while ago. It sparked some curiousity and I plunged into every source I could think of to get more info about it. A few bowls later, I had constructed a hypothesis shaped by the information presented to me. According to sketchy sources, the drug dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is naturally produced in the brain and is a very intense hallucinagenic. DMT is believed to be released at extremely high doses twice in a person's life, at birth and at death. This occurrance, if true, provides an explanation for near death experiences. The stories of experiences provided by people who've 'seen the light' all describe effects of DMT. The light at the end of the tunnel, the out-of-body experience, seeing and communicating with dead relatives. This intense dream-like experience is alot like dreams themselves; Lasting nearly hours, while, at the same time, not long enough. The experience, in fact, only lasts an average of 30 minutes. Can you imagine the uninhibited dreams you could have at extraordinary lengths with DMT? take, for example, the length of a 'normal' dream; Lasting a few seconds in real time, but seeming to sometimes stretch out through the entire length of your sleep. Multiply these few seconds of dreams by the 10 or so minutes it takes for the brain activity to stop after you die. Combine that with a potential dose of DMT and you've got yourself your own personal afterlife. The movie that gave me this idea was Pan's Labyrinth - stop reading and go watch it before reading on - at the end when the little girl dies and slips off into her last dream after death. It was a beautiful ending despite her death. Perhaps death will bring that last final trip. An intense dream that makes us see who we really are. Our bodies sending our minds off with one last farewell gift: Heaven or Hell (depending on how we treated it)