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exactly this! though minus the psychedelics (in my case) and more about optimal hitting bottom, everywhere, than making everything go away

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Jan 16, 2020

1/We operate based on this incredibly complicated 'tree' of beliefs. High-level (twigs) beliefs is performative identity stuff like "that politician is bad" or "vegetarian diets are healthy". Underneath this we get to small branches like "freedom is important" and-

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Mark

@meditationstuff

Jan 17, 2020

lots goes away, though

lots and lots

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I don't understand where in psychedelics people are taking these things from. But I did enough meditation before any psychedelics that a lot of psychedelic experiences felt ordinary to me. The fireworks, on the other hand, are usually much more impressive than with meditation.

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But for me, I started meditating exactly because my conditioned viewpoints felt extremely artificial to me and I wanted to uproot them. (Believed the PR.) I don't really remember a time when I was comfortable enough with them to trust them implicitly, rather than procedurally.

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I think people are both raised and endowed with vastly more divergent perspectives than we tend to give each other credit for. It often feels like there's an assumption of a sort of default human controller layout. I don't think it's that universal, though.