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Comment by thecupisblue on The Hard Work of Translation (Buddhism) · 2019-04-13T10:13:17.373Z · LW · GW

I understand your viewpoint. I've always been a rationalist but being raised while being exposed to topics of taoism and buddhism always made me doubt that it's everything. Then, after understanding more and more of how the reality works but after looking 'mystic' and talking about it to people who did psychedelics I realised that they're saying the same things. Then I took some and even tho I still have doubt, I know the truth is what it is. The Gateway Experience by the CIA describes diving into 'subspace' or 'taking off this reality blanket' pretty nicely. If you can dive into the zone deep enough then your consciousness gets pulled up into a state of uninterrupted connection to the one - it's the brain that makes us human, that give us the ego, but it's also what renders this reality for our consciousness in this life. Everyone is trying to talk about the same thing, but it's hard when people are so stuck onto words and status and images. I believe that with higher entropy and complexity of technology, we'll all achieve being the one on both this plane or create a new universe so we can be everything again. We don't have to waste time describing it constantly.