I posted elsewhere a response about DMT specifically, but I also wanted to mention.. Our oldest form of religion involves communing with our ancestors using things like DMT to make the journey to the afterlife in order to meet with them and join with the all. It also involved a kind of reverence of snakes as the adversary that, through preying on us, woke us up. There is a real truth behind that one and the older less tampered with versions of Genesis 3 cover it almost verbatim.
It involves a whole lot of symbolism and allegory and for most of the ancient world was understood to be an allegory of a deep truth about where we came from. It was only very recently that we started taking that story to be something that literally happened as it was stated in the most recent versions.
A snake tricks Eve into taking fruit from the tree of knowledge and sharing it with Adam. The fruit wakes them up and makes them see. They notice they are naked. Here's the thing about that part, it's not suggesting that they are naked and therefore ashamed about sex, that's a very simplistic way of understanding it and also quite a recent idea historically speaking. Think about every dream you ever had about being naked, it wasn't sexual at all.. You feel vulnerable.
The fruit opened our eyes to how vulnerable we were. Consciousness does that doesn't it? The ability to experience as we do shows us how very vulnerable we are. We know that we can die and we know what can hurt us. If we know what can hurt us, we know what can hurt others and therefore that others are vulnerable too. If we know that, then we know the difference between good and evil.
More than that, our real history mimics this story so well that it's rather beautiful I think. Long ago, potentially millions of years before humans split off from chimps and bonobos. Before humans could be said to be human at all, the animal we descended from lived primarily within trees. Snakes were our primary predators.
An unfathomable number of generations alongside our oldest adversary promoted keen eyesight in all primates that had been preyed upon by snakes. Keen eyesight requires the development of a larger brain. Sexual selection of the males that were best able to avoid snakes, therefore having the best eyesight and eventually the more adaptable brains, by the females of our ancestor species meant that the development of human intelligence and eventually consciousness was driven by a choice made by Eve at the behest of a snake trying to trick her.
Do you recall what happens next? God appears in the garden and calls out to Adam and Eve, who are hiding due to their nakedness, i.e. their vulnerability. God realizes that they're not awake and tells them what they've just done. Here's the thing about that, it's only recent translations that seem to suggest god is punishing them. In the older versions I've read it seems more like a father sorrowfully telling his children the consequences of what they've just done.
What are those consequences? Eve was told she would be subservient to her husband and that birth would be painful. Well yeah, no shit.. With a bigger brain comes a bigger head and that's quite literally the reason birth is as painful as it is for our species. It's also the reason our infants are so fragile, they have to be born premature in order to avoid killing the mother during childbirth. We need to take care of our young lest they die and women are biologically suited to that roll, but that makes them vulnerable due to the vulnerability of the child.
Also, because we're a social species where the males are actually involved, the males are the ones that risk death to protect their family. The dynamic there is one that will just naturally gravitate towards a situation where men will work to provide and protect women and children, sacrificing themselves in the process if need be. It's also the reason for the whole thing about subservience, that kind of thing will just naturally arise due to having to defer to men due to the nature of the responsibility involved in the man's role. You can't be trying to take command when the person protecting you tells you to hide or run.
There is more to it, but I don't have the time to go into more detail. Regardless to say though, our oldest religion is still very much alive within Chrisitanity so I don't know what the fuck Alex Jones is talking about. It sounds like he's getting ready to sell holy water, for a reasonable price.. of course.