Yes, the brain assimilates data from reality to create our conscious experience, and it can also be said that our brains can detect our own consciousness. To detect one's own consciousness seems like a great mantra to meditate on.
But it's a stretch to say that similar experiences constitute good evidence that consciousness is detected from/as somewhere other than the brain. It stands to reason that people have similar experiences, but first-person experience is not tangible evidence of another dimension. Consciousness is the detection of experience. Whether or not that experience reflects reality is how we differentiate knowledge from illusion or delusion. "If you can't show it, you don't know it!" – Aron Ra. You weren't nuts, just a human with a brain in an altered state of consciousness!
These tribes accept without question the existence of these "other realms" with jaguars and snakes, tapped into with ayahuasca, because the jungle they live in is full of jaguars and snakes!
What about the people who don't fully dismiss the "psychedelic experience," who value it for the therapeutic, liberating, and unifying effects – yet who still dismiss transcendental woo theories?
I like a lot of what he says about science and skepticism. Good convo.
I'm just imagining the stoned apes eating all these mushrooms like wwwhaaaat the fuck was that … and one group marking them as poison and the other group like WHAAAAATTT THE FUCK WAS THAT? I suddenly need to know things and I will be eating these all the time, thank you. lol
And here we are 7 years later
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Yes, the brain assimilates data from reality to create our conscious experience, and it can also be said that our brains can detect our own consciousness. To detect one's own consciousness seems like a great mantra to meditate on.
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But it's a stretch to say that similar experiences constitute good evidence that consciousness is detected from/as somewhere other than the brain. It stands to reason that people have similar experiences, but first-person experience is not tangible evidence of another dimension. Consciousness is the detection of experience. Whether or not that experience reflects reality is how we differentiate knowledge from illusion or delusion. "If you can't show it, you don't know it!" – Aron Ra. You weren't nuts, just a human with a brain in an altered state of consciousness!
2:18:09
These tribes accept without question the existence of these "other realms" with jaguars and snakes, tapped into with ayahuasca, because the jungle they live in is full of jaguars and snakes!
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What about the people who don't fully dismiss the "psychedelic experience," who value it for the therapeutic, liberating, and unifying effects – yet who still dismiss transcendental woo theories?
I like a lot of what he says about science and skepticism. Good convo.
I'm just imagining the stoned apes eating all these mushrooms like wwwhaaaat the fuck was that … and one group marking them as poison and the other group like WHAAAAATTT THE FUCK WAS THAT? I suddenly need to know things and I will be eating these all the time, thank you. lol
2:27:00 hahaha, the more i know about Terence the more i love him
Now some of the stuff he has talked about has become reality lol