My guiding philosophy is that the portion of total reality that can be perceived or even apprehended by human cognition is vanishingly small & to believe otherwise is dangerously naive.
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Replying to @OpinionBroker
I've been leaning this way for a while and the more exploration I do, in any realm, the more probable this seems.
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Replying to @xstntlprvrt69 @OpinionBroker
Meditating, I once tried to contain as much multi-layered info as I could, as much context, space, ideology, meta-complexity, experiential data.. Books, their words, ppl, their experiences, my place in the expanded universe, the limits of above and below.. Almost passed out.
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Replying to @Cantide1 @OpinionBroker
So there's a number of myths I've noticed where divinity shields itself from us for our benefit/people behold divinity and suffer terrible consequences.
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Also, intense spiritual practices and psychedelics (together or separately) seem to really fuck some people up. Like, life ruining lifelong mental health problems, dark samsaric hell state fuck them up.
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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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Replying to @xstntlprvrt69 @OpinionBroker
Theory I'm kicking around.. Expansion of the bounds of our thought is what spiritual practice gives. The largest idea we can think. This must be coupled with discipline. Scientists, Bhuddists, see God If you behold Cthulu or his minions with no mental preparation, you are lost
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Replying to @Cantide1 @OpinionBroker
There is a measure of conciousness that is how expansive it is. How much space you can hold. Many practices look at infinity. Christianity, Bhuddism, Science Discipline and practice are the means to enlightenment, to an expanded spaciousness attribute of the conciousness.
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No idea. I have only a dim sense there is something that I should be groping towards in the darkness, and I frequently have to painstakingly backtrack and start over.
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