Philosophical Speculations

What now came to my mind is that one of my friends told me that in an LSD trip, he was 4 persons at the same time, experiencing each in a totally detailed and self-contained, yet simultaneous manner. I wonder how usual this kind of experience is. It really fits with the notion of everything is expe...

Ashin, seems like you'll have an essay about any question that comes to my mind Thanks!

I do not believe that ancient religions were committed to negating worldly experience, animism surely was not! The 'negation' seems to be associated with the rise of sedentary population density, the emergence of the city-state, and particularly difficult life in locales that were previously teemin...

This question just keeps nagging at me. Both ancient Hinduism and Buddhism are very committed to the idea that people's mission in this reality is to check out of it. To awaken to its illusory nature, not just for the purpose of being able to experience it in a more level-headed way, not just for re...

One very profound experience I had was when I listened to music (mostly Rachmaninov and Beethoven) while on a heavy dose of psylocybin. One wonders what the trip would be if this were the sountrack? https://youtu.be/7OvW8Z7kiws I love this album. Not particularly this specific song, but Epitaph and...

What now came to my mind is that one of my friends told me that in an LSD trip, he was 4 persons at the same time, experiencing each in a totally detailed and self-contained, yet simultaneous manner. I wonder how usual this kind of experience is. It really fits with the notion of everything is exper...

Thank you, I will read them.

As a huge music fan and musicien myself, music is something that I always found to be something transcendental, a real mystery to the materialist (that I used to be). After all, why should a specific pattern of vibrations in the air have such a profound effect on the person perceiving it via their e...

It's an interesting interpretation of reality but still has a big explanatory gap. A feature of any evolutionary-driven network is a variety of competing structures/relations. Without such variety the evolutionary selection is not possible. We do see this variety on the higher organizational levels...

Soul_of_Shu wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 12:17 pm

Hedge90 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 12:06 pm I love how in videos where someone is bashed they always choose their least flattering picture as the thumbnail.

BK looks a tad demonic no?

Absolutely MAL-icious.