Regarding "woo," I am neither pro nor con. There have been many incidents (like the Chris Bledsoe accounts) that are certainly indicative of "woo" but I remain skeptical for now.
In the podcast I was watching last night, Jim Semivan, who has spent time with Chris Bledsoe at his farm, said that the Bledsoe stories seem to have ventured into "religious" territory. That is particularly interesting when one considers that Bledsoe was very religious prior to his experiences and was in fact spurned by members of his church after said experiences.
My issue with “woo” is that I do not trust any human perception that “frames” the “other” to fit in their existing world-view.
Near death experiences are a good example—Christians tend to see angels, Hindus tend to see Hindu deities, etc—it looks like they are getting their own beliefs reflected back to them.
I am more impressed with experiencers (as you know Terence McKenna is one of my favorite story-tellers) that are totally outside of—or even in conflict with—that person’s belief system. While on mushrooms (for example) he would see art and architecture that did not exist in our world and he had never seen before...while on DMT he would see very weird aliens who mostly just wanted to play games with him...