They Shimmer Within: Cognitive-Evolutionary Perspectives on Visionary BeingsThe use of psychedelic drugs plants is rising, and with it the number of reports narrating encounters with otherworldly visionary beings. Approaches to these experiences have often been literal, archetypal or dismissive. Evolutionary psychology and the cognitive science of religion suggest innate and non imagistic mental foundations for these phenomena arising from easily triggered evolutionary functions during emotive periods of high cognitive