Personally I'm not questioning that people have experiences of the kind you're talking about. What I question is the conclusions drawn from them. What use is an 'elevated state of consciousness' if it can't be shown to be anything more than natural electro/chemical phenomena in the brain, and not a special connection to anything external, just the brain doing what it does? Now I'm not stating that it's not "unusual" in the sense that it may not happen very often, or only when the brain is tapping into certain brain centers that it doesn't stimulate very often, but it's still Natural all the same. But what use is it and why bother?
Easy Answer Equus---TRY IT AND FIND OUT!!! It wont cost you a DIME. All the info you need to assist you in getting to the elevated state of consciousness is on the internet. Just add the the desire sincerely find out, then take some time to try some tried and true methods for accessing the higher states. what you keep repeating is that since we cant use the observable 3-D material world to prove something immaterial it can exist in any other state. We all THINK and the electrical impulses can be measured but still CANT be reconstructed into cohesive THOUGHTS/consciousness by our measuring devices. Yet our brains do that EASILY. So then you say since we cant externally reconstruct THOUGHTS with our science then our thoughts dont exist? They are REAL in our minds and we use them all the time but cant measure EXACTLY what they are or figure out how they are formed. We just see it as bunches of firing synapses. Does that automatically invalidate the fact that they exist in our minds? Same thing with the higher states. It is elevated THOUGHT thats all and a lot more interesting than the mundane stuff we normally access and process. Peace out. I have no more to say about this.