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I spontaneously enter altered states, regularly & briefly, as needed, as part of my practice, but I’ve never cultivated jhana, except for a little experimenting, years ago, to make sure I could get into the first couple. Buzzy exhilaration & bliss just weren’t that interesting.
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It's pretty implicit/tacit. Sometimes you're sort of in a metaphorical corner and the only/right way out is an altered state. Sometimes it's more "wavelike," a cascade of perceptual refactoring including body, world, everything. /
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Sometimes more state-like—something, somewhere is needing a slower refactor, and that's tugging on all phenomenology, proprioception, body awareness, "everything," in some weird way, for seconds, minutes, or tens of minutes.
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