Nostr-Anon on Nostr: "Any reasonable government needs to have a small outlet for things that seem crazy. ...

"Any reasonable government needs to have a small outlet for things that seem crazy. In other words, you need X Files.

Not because you believe everything, most things, or even any thing in them, but because having an open mind is important. If you think you know everything, you will miss a lot. Being open minded means spending some time at the tail edges investigating things that look like utter garbage woo, even if the result is that they are invariably utter garbage woo.

Also, it is not complete nonsense.

Altering conscious states is absolutely real and there are many avenues to it. Altered consciousness is also solidly in the interests of an intelligence agency and research is only natural.

There is definitely a flavor of pseudoscientific nonsense that comes along with altered consciousness experiences, but you can look past that.

Reports like this look to me very similar into pre-flight experiments. There were a whole lot of people making patently ridiculous flying contraptions but with hindsight many of them had some important ideas right.

See also: alchemy as a precursor to chemistry

Studying and treating the brain by developing methods to alter conscious states is, I think, going to be a major achievement of the 21st century, and things like this are precursors."

~ cholechristensen