. There's lots of different things that this process "feels like" . ... which is normal, because your mind "feels like" lots of different things anyway . ... i.e. the various states of consciousness. . e.g. awake, sleeping, distracted, "in the zone" +
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. ... dissociated, hearing an internal narrative, having "fused" experiences, having a silent inner experience, loss of ego, etc. . These are all actually normal, just not necessarily familiar or routine to most people +
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. And most people don't have a lot of good tools for understanding, processing, or manipulating these mental states . Training in introspection - aka "meditating" - can provide these tools +
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. There's lots of ways to go about this training . ... and probably the traditional ways are not the best ways, by a long shot . ... but because we're dealing with leeches and alchemy, we haven't figured out anything better. . ... YET. +
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. And finally... . Some of the states that people get themselves into feel like ineffable, transcendent moments of oneness with the universal truth . ... but these are probably delusions, and of no consequence or importance. +
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. Your brain knows what "hot" feels like . It also knows what "funny" (humorous) feels like . It also has signifiers for things like "true" and "important" +
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. When someone has a mystical experience, whether through drugs or mental self-manipulation, it is probably nothing more than something poking at the part of the brain that holds the "true" and "important" patterns +
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. So while in the depths of your mystical experience, you know that IT is true and important, because those signals are firing like crazy... . ... but the *object* of those signals isn't there. There is no IT. It's just truth and importance. +
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Strip away the mysticism, and apply analysis, and keep doing research in fields like cognitive studies and neurology, and we'll get to the bottom of this stuff. And be much the better for it. These are the things I suspect might be true. /f
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Replying to @random_eddie @DrthDharmakirti
"Strip away the mysticism, and apply analysis, and keep doing research in fields like cognitive studies and neurology, and we'll get to the bottom of this stuff. " we'll get to the bottom of our organs of perception there may or may not be truth beyond that >>>
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we can study the retina all we want and we may conclude "ah, he smiles because rods and cones fire in a pattern that is pleasing to him" and never find the concept of "he's looking at his newborn child"
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