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There's a specific experience that comes to mind that reduces the "need" that often drives people to have more and more experiences(or knowledge)https://twitter.com/PrinceVogel/status/1240853864355528706 …

Noble pursuit of experience often is either out of a desire to understand the world, or to build empathy. As the above thread shows though, it's very difficult to combine everything into a coherent model that isn't schizophrenic in some form.

THE experience that can unravel this isn't a sudden magical coalescing insight that ascends you into the light. It's the much more mundane "I'm not in control" feeling that can be achieved just by examining how breath works. (breath is conscious & subconscious)

Intellectual appreciation like "I don't manually control the production of ATP by mitochondrial cells." doesn't do it. It has to be a visceral feeling of "I'm not in control." of a life critical process like breath.

Once one gets a foothold into this feeling via breath, it can be expanded to larger and larger surface areas of life. Some even seem to live life in a perpetual state of flow. The *critical* part though is the initial foothold, not the final state(so stop worshipping it)

If you can feel how *not* in control of you are, then you can forgive even cannibals and murderers even if you cannot or do not want to trace through the exact tangle of social and biological experiences that created the situation.