that's the reason I hate the concept of enlightenment as Buddhism traditionally formulates it.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
most nerds do, they like thinking and knowing things too much
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I mean, when you mention drugs, it really is sort of telling about a person's personality which kind they enjoy most?
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I mean for me it's hard to say for sure since I medically need multiple kinds
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but I know that I generally feel depressed, literally, from alcohol and benzos, despite needing them to control panic
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but amphetamines make all right with the world for a short time unless disaster hits
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I'm not really sure where disassociatives fit, because they heighten UNREALITY
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Huxley, in his bastardized version of Eastern thought, believed they got you to a "higher level" of reality
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or more precisely that they enabled some sort of introspection of the mind onto its own structure
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the language of consciousness on its own terms w/o being used for the practical purpose of describing the external world
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ofc a Buddhist would say fascination with that for its own sake is a roadblock to enlightenment
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
like, be aware that your brain has a language but don't ascribe it higher intrinsic significance than anything else
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I assign it minimal significance, except that disassociatives confirmed for me my lifelong suspicion that souls aren't real
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