"i think i am still hesitant to fully accept these ideas, and i hope that is okay"

Of course that it's ok. And just to be clear, i am not asking you or anyone else to accept this. Especially not blindly. You had some questions so i am explaining to you why i personally consider the prison planet or loosh farm theory the most plausible based on the research i have done over more than 10 years. Everyone should do their own research and arrive at their own conclusions.

"from a skeptic point of view, doesnt this feel a bit irrational when read from the outside? i understand that it could be true, but possibility alone does not make it more solid than other explanations. when none of this can be directly measured or verified, it becomes unclear why this interpretation is treated as more grounded or realistic than other ways of understanding existence."

From the outside i understand why it could sound irrational. But almost every attempt to describe nonphysical reality sounds irrational when filtered through language and human concepts. The reason this interpretation is treated as more grounded here is because it is supported by recurring patterns across independent sources.

Possibility alone is not what gives it weight. Repetition is. When the same underlying mechanics appear across past life regressions, out of body accounts, alien abduction research, and ancient traditions that had no contact with each other, that shifts it from pure speculation into a working hypothesis.

As for it feeling "extremely human", i actually see that as a point in favor, not against it. We are not separate from this system. If this realm is hierarchical and predatory at every observable level, biological, psychological, ecological, it would be strange if that pattern suddenly disappeared at higher levels of reality. The assumption that advanced beings must transcend scarcity or extraction is just as much an assumption as the opposite.

Nonphysical does not automatically mean benevolent, efficient, or enlightened. Intelligence and morality are not the same thing. Predatory behavior does not vanish simply because something is more advanced. On Earth, the most intelligent species are often the most capable of exploitation, not the least.

Regarding efficiency, harvesting uneven emotional output may seem chaotic, but ecosystems themselves are chaotic and inefficient on the surface while remaining stable over long periods. Suffering, attachment, fear, and desire are not rare or accidental here. They are structurally baked into how this world functions. If emotional energy is the resource, then a world like Earth is exceptionally rich, not inefficient.

On the NDEs part:

This question about NDEs i already answered recently in another thread, i'll copy paste my answer from there here as well:

Personally, i don't put much trust in NDEs and it doesnt matter to me if they are positive or negative, mainly because the person who had the NDE didn't actually die, so we can't know for sure if what they experienced truly reflects the afterlife, so NDEs just aren't very useful if you ask me. That's one of the reasons I spent years studying past life regression instead. With past life regressions, you get insights into what happens to the soul inbetween lives, when the person did actually die. Not one, but many different past life regressionists, each working with a large number of clients from all over the world, have found that souls are manipulated or deceived in various ways on the other side in order to get them to reincarnate back into another physical body.

Now, someone might ask, "can we really trust that all the information from past life regressions is accurate"? And my answer would be no. The information that comes through people under hypnosis isn't always going to be 100% reliable, even regressionist Calogero Grifasi (whom i studied the most) has said this. He emphasizes the importance of identifying patterns, so when the same themes consistently emerge across people from different cultures, backgrounds, and parts of the world, it strongly increases the likelihood that those themes reflect something real. This is exactly what we see with the prison planet theory. Different regressionists from around the world, working independently with clients from many different backgrounds, have uncovered remarkably similar insights about the afterlife and the parasitic entities that manipulate/deceive souls on the other side. I wrote a detailed post on this if you want to check out these regressionists and their work (scroll down towards the end of the post and search for "Evidence #1: The perspective of past life regression hypnosis", i've listed many regressions there). So for me, past life regressions hold a lot more weight than NDEs because, unlike NDEs, they involve individuals who have fully crossed over. With NDEs, it's uncertain whether the experience truly reflects the afterlife or just a transitional or altered state.