I abandoned Catholicism as soon as I could, even from an early age I knew it was all bullshit. In my 20’s I took plenty of acid and mushrooms, and saw stuff that I still cannot rationally explain, even come to the conclusion that there is much more for us to learn on this subject, but as of yet, I am sceptical, but open about reincarnation, in one sense we are all born anew as our bodies are broken down and reabsorbed by planet and born new in a different form, but whether or not our consciousness remains intact and carries on in a different plane or dimension, who knows?
Psychedelics have been used to gather and pass on knowledge in tribes and cultures for thousands of years, where are they gathering this knowledge from? Do they enter different planes of existence/ dimensions/ of consciousness? There are tribes in South America that have extensive pharmacological knowledge that has only just begun to be researched by western scientists, the shaman of these tribes state that the knowledge is given to them by the earth/ forest, could our consciousness be absorbed by our global ecosystem in the same way our bodies are.......