Disassociatives? How melancholy to be so far from the days of my youth. What are they? Extasy, PCP?
1 is enough. Your Karma with your friends is now used up and you're about to play roulette for hell. Better than a second, just volunteer for a Concentration Camp. Of course, then, they didn't come with instructions.
Where does this, Later.Rinse.Repeat.,
<<reason to doubt the continuity or permanence of a soul>>
come from this,
<<"ego dissolution". You are no longer you. The body is there - the mind is just racing in idle - and the "soul" - the identity-kernel - is for the first time not in the saddle.>>? The I is not in control, but it is providing the experience for itself and it is absorbing the experience it makes. Any powerful experience changes one, even a purely internal one. [Maybe especially a purely internal one.]
Unless you believe in spiritual rebirth, who you are is gonna be who you are, no mater how different it appears or feels or you change. [I decline comment on spiritual rebirth.] Who else would you be? Who have you been? The occasional dramatic changes in post-psychotics are due to a will motivated by a deep experience, beginning with the current memories and experiences.
<<Mind-blowing>> is the universe different when it is expanding, contracting, or even in the primordial-pre-explosion-ball?
Folks do love and hate the psychedelics, with good reason, but they are nothing more than one more thing. Avoid the myth, and use what you've gotten.
I am unconvinced that the body and the Soul are in 1 to 1 correspondence. Likewise, I am unconvinced they are. I am convinced that mapping the human genome is child's play to mapping the physical to the intangible in even one human. We embark on finding a good needle in a haystack full of needles, but with good reason to believe needles in there are tipped with plague and curse. I consider us odd, but I'll pay my nickel to watch. |
