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  4. Posted

    7 hours ago, Angelo D said:

    On one level it sounds too good to be true, too easy,

    The trade-off is that you need no practice or consciousness work to take a psychedelic, whereas sober you must develop yourself and fix up your ego prior to reaching that state.

    When you take a psychedelic it is very possible your ego won't be ready for the experience. When you take a psychedelic you force Truth upon yourself instead of reaching there at your ego's pace.

    It's the difference of immediately jumping into a cold shower instead of slowly turning up the coldness from a warmer shower first.

     

  7. Posted

    25 minutes ago, Consept said:

    will say that im not sure the corrupted person always blames the power itself, usually its other peoples take on it.

    Yep. The corrupted person actually doesn't even think he is corrupt, which is why he is corrupt in the first place.

    Even though this is about the view of other people and not the corrupt person itself, I still think ego applies here. I think saying "power corrupts people" is much more palpable for the ego than saying "people are unknowingly corrupt". The second one is much more threatening to the ego. Or maybe I'm reading too deep into this.

     

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    59 minutes ago, Consept said:

    Do you not think there have been instances of people going into things with good intentions only to later be corrupted when they started to get power? 

    Self-deception. It's easy to say you have good intentions when you don't have the capabilities to pursue bad intentions. People will go in with good intentions but the ego is perfectly capable of pursuing bad intentions under the guise of good intentions. That's what the ego has been doing since day 1. They tell themselves they won't do it but when the opportunity presents itself they do. But first, the ego has to come up with some sort of reason to justify it, or else they won't be able to do it without feeling guilty. Classic ego tactic.

    It's a classic trope, someone "innocent" gets power and then "becomes corrupt". It's just that the leap in power is too great and they are not responsible enough to handle it. The power does not corrupt them or anything like that, it's just that they were never developed enough to handle such a high level of responsibility. 

    Saying you won't do something is different from saying you won't do something when you actually have the power to do that thing. The ego will slowly come up with reasons once you are actually presented with the opportunity and persuade you into doing it. "it's not that bad" "you deserve this power" etc.

    Power simply presents the opportunity for corruption and the ego takes it. There is nothing about power alone that is telling you to use it for evil. It's all ego.

    Something funny I just realized while writing this is the fact that people blame power for corruption when it is in fact ego. And you know what the ego loves to do? Blame things other than itself.

    Reminds me of the quote: "The road to hell is paved with good intentions"

  9. Posted

    Power itself does not corrupt. It just creates more potential for corruption. You yourself have to already be corrupt for the power to be used in a corrupt way. This is why people can have a lot of power and still do good with it. It just depends on your level of development.

    When a corrupt person has no means of pursuing their corruption, they won't seem corrupt until they get enough power to do so.

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    @Mvrs Do you consider sleep paralysis and astral projection dreaming? If so, then yes it is identical or very similar to the waking state

    Normal dreams are similar but not as vivid as the waking state though. It is easy to mistake normal dreams for reality though. Sometimes I will have a memory of something and question if it was just something I saw in a dream or not. 

    If you wanna get technical about it, there is a duality drawn here between "waking state" and "dream state". To me they are both very real in the absolute sense.

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    3 minutes ago, Gohabsgo said:

     but how do we know the universe also doesn’t perceive itself in a way such as up or down

    Well, in a certain sense it does, since you are the universe experiencing itself. But that is just an illusion at most. It's not like there are boundaries outside in the universe which decide "up and down" and "wrong and right". Those boundaries are created by your mind and then applied to the universe.

    "Up and down" are just pointers which are meant to try and describe the universe, that's it.
     

    What exactly would it look like for the "universe to perceive itself as up or down?"

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    Nothing pretending to be something is how I described it. The voice in your head is just a voice, nothing more nothing less. Why assume a magical "you" lurking behind it?

    It is a radical re-contextualization but everything is still the same. It has always been this way you just didn't realize it. I didn't feel insane, just more free or detached. There's no "you" behind anything. Everything is just exactly as it is, without the assumption of a mystical "you" behind any of it.

    Might feel like insanity because you literally kill your ego every time you become aware of this, so it must resist to protect itself.