Rick Strassman

And I said, well, it's a really consistent worldview and so on.

I thought about it some more and I started thinking about it as comparable to the DMT state.

When you're in the DMT state, it's just there and it's very consistent, very real.

Certain things happen there.

And so I think the early version, I think what happened early on in the account of the Hebrew Bible was like the DMT world.

It was a parallel level of reality, which was happening.

And then slowly, it began to segue into this reality.

For example, the destruction of the first temple, the second temple, David's reign, Solomon's reign, the kings after them, the division of the land into two countries.

That is historical.

But before that, it was also historical, but it was occurring at a completely different, independent level of reality.

Does that make any sense?

It's a cool way to look at answering the question, how much of this is real, especially from early on.

I see what you're saying, but it's just –

Well, you know, my way of dealing with those stories is to just take them at face value.

Here's Adam.

Here's Eve.

Here's a garden.

There's two trees that are, you know, very important.

It's beautiful.

Yeah.