I've read a lot of speculative answers to the Fermi paradox (why can't we find extraterrestrial intelligence?), but "we're living on its skin" has apparently never been proposed
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Spiritual traditions are like dietary ones that cultures have evolved over time to insure that essential micro-nutrients are present/toxins are removed. Like Cassava preparation. You couldn't have reasoned it from first principles, but it works.
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The problem is that people don't like traditions that can't be reasoned from first principles/justified in light of modern knowledge and values. This produces a modern spiritual practice that is strikingly similar to a modern diet in terms of wholesomeness.
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I think that is a matter of discipline or lack thereof. Rebuilding after an intense experience takes time and effort. Some may have a corruption that gets into their kernel and then changes their lives. Takes a lot of foundational work to surf the waves.
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Or maybe the chemicals just hit them that certain way and break something. That's the worst kind.
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