Amanita86 said:

Deadp1xel said:

well i don't know, there is not really proof of a past life

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I’ll use the opponent’s strategy....  no proof there isn’t one

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biology?

I'd never rule anything out, just seems like spirituality and intuition-based philosophy are misguided entertainment, or grasps at superiority through presumed knowledge, more so than anything "real".

if the universe is infinite, the same molecules that make up our brain and body (and maybe therefore our mind) will come together an infinite amount of times in an infinite amount of different ways after we die, forever. If anesthesia is any example, consciousness seems to pick up where it left off without any experience of the passing of time.

how'd it all start, though? what is "it"?

our reality is an interface created by our brain based loosely on non-real-time input from our sensory receptors. The brain then filters most input out, and adds some in. wavelengths coming from somewhere or some thing that get processed to form an interactive experience with reality and a mind to seemingly be consciously aware of it.

is there any sort of source? are there layers of reality and infinite demensions? is this a simulation? even if it was, does that actaully explain anything important?

I'm done rambling

Amanita86 said:

Let me clarify something..  I’m not suggesting we worship spice or whatever, or what it shows.  Most likely, that would turn out to be a trap, or at the least, limiting.  What I’m pointing at more than anything is what these experiences suggest... it’s a, if that can happen, what else is possible kinda thing.  And it feels right...  the whole headspace is like going back to something.  It adds a very real element of ‘alienness’ to this reality... like maybe I unlocked something that stays locked for a lot of people here...  almost like a little love letter during my long journies...

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