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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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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yeah no one is actually as conscious as the philosophy 101 idea of a person is supposedly conscious
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your personality deconstructs and reconstructs itself every time you fall asleep, arguably every time you "zone out" awake
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and we're not even that surprised by the fact that ppl are wildly different as their personalities break down and resurrect
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yeah 1 time I literally had two thought processes that were operating separately but I could remember being conscious of both
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what's actually really powerful abt the human mind is its ability to retroactively generate consistent narratives
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we believe we're continuously conscious bc our impulse is to tell a story w a continuous consciousness when we're asked
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but it's never actually true, it falls apart if you pay any actual attention
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