Another excellent interview!
Jurgen Ziewe's out-of-body journeys mirror my experiences with journeying with ayahuasca. I had a similar experience of traveling through levels of increasing darkness to the depths of hell. It was similar to what he describes. And the way out was also similar. That may be a better media than virtual reality for systematizing these experiences.
Your riff on people meeting Jesus and confusing that with validating Christianity is spot on. In the early 1980s when I was living in Bethlehem, I had an epiphany of Jesus. As a Jewish man living in Occupied Palestine, I was not looking for Him. However, there we was. I learned two things from him that night. One was that his spirit is real. Two was that the last thing he ever had in mind was to start a church. I agree, Alex, that religion is designed to disconnect people from these realms of extended consciousness. Science has the same preoccupation. The former does it by introducing priests as intermediaries. The latter gave us the dead universe.