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eats bugs Reged: 09/14/23 Posts: 442 Loc: lives in trees |
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Quote: My perspective is that they're both sort of a hallucination in the sense that the perciever can't be taken out of perception. The Buddha said where there's perception, there's deception. Which isn't a call to demonize perception or push it away as unreal or 'just in our minds'. But rather, to be mindful of perception and the cognitive biases we overlay on things by the very nature or act of perceiving. This doesn't mean they're not real (or unreal for that matter). Either this realm or the other realms. Just that neither is as it appears to our senses. Timelessness and other lives is an interesting one. My experience with these spaces is more like a memory. Hitting that sense of timelessness with the psychedelic and remembering something from outside of the context of my normal understanding of spacetime. So it's less like living a whole other life. And more like remembering something that happened. I haven't had a sense of agency in these spaces, which I tend to in dreams (rather lucid or not). Where as in a memory the thing has already happened so there's no choice involved or unfolding story or drama. I don't know what those spaces are beyond the impression I get from them. Again, where there's perception, there's deception. So I try not to reify my perception of the thing, as the thing itself. Rather tripping or not. But it's a strong mental habit to take my perceptions super seriously. So try is the operative term
-------------------- Listen to the silence behind the engines' noise. Jesus, Sweets, listen. Hear it? It's a love song. For whom? You are loved. ~ David Foster Wallace, Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way
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