Nemra

The following documentaries show what happens in the world of psychedelics through firsthand accounts and investigative reporting.

With whom is the context shared if others’ experience is non-existent for you? @Natasha Tori Maru, I think this is a question of why things are the way they are—a question to which I don’t have a deeper answer.

Whatever you are, you are seeing a thing. It is not that your body or another’s body is doing the seeing, because they themselves are seen by you.

With whom is the context shared if others’ experience is non-existent for you?

When using words like seeing, feeling, etc., in reference to others, they imply that those people are separate conscious agents existing within your experience. The question should instead be rephrased in a way that does not focus on the existence of independent conscious agents in one’s experience—since their experience is, from your standpoint, non-existent—while still acknowledging that the thing is being referred to both by you and by the other person. A possible rephrasing could be: How is it possible that a thing within my experience can be referred or pointed to both by me and by other things within that same experience?

Christians, the most hellish Datura beings. I googled whether he used hallucinogens but found nothing.

I wonder by what methods Giordano Bruno came to the insights expressed in the blog post "Profound Quotes #048".

@Leo Gura, forgot to ask, from what age do you consider mature for that?

By "object" I mean what is literally appearing, like the phone or computer that you are using. You wouldn't talk about it if it didn't appear. And I'm saying that it is somehow being imagined. But I'll stop here.

I'm not saying that as a human I'm imagining reality. I just had a few glimpses that physical reality, as in any object that is being experienced, is somehow imaginary. Anyways.

There could be a more radical answer that came to my mind just now: if reality is imaginary, then a person is imagined in such a way that what you both see is the same thing. However, I say this with very little confidence, because recently I’ve had only a few glimpses of reality being imaginary—literally.

@Leo Gura, what about belief in God? I don't agree that believing in God is the same as knowing it really exists or is true. Not knowing would be true rather than assuming that it exists. Also, would you still believe in a round Earth if you saw Earth as round?

@Davino, well, I guess we have to differentiate between epistemic and metaphysical beliefs. If by "true beliefs" is meant "true metaphysical beliefs", then I think it has to be contradictory, because when you believe that some part of reality is some way, then you have already made an assumption about that part without actually experiencing it. It's like saying psychedelic trips are demonic without taking them. What it means to be demonic when assuming without taking it is different when you experience demonic stuff on psychedelics. Even then the beliefs could make the trip seem demonic.

I have noticed that Russian comedy shows often end with a strange bit of patriotic messaging, and I haven’t seen them criticize the government.

Seeing others' eyes is the same thing as feeling others' touch. So, if we are going to say, "How come we see the same thing?" then we should also say, "How come we feel the same thing?"

When I said "experience", I meant "direct seeing". When you and I touch the snow, are we feeling the same thing at the same time?

What I mean is that the experience is happening for you. You will never have access to mine, because it doesn't exist for you. You said only you feel when someone hits you. Well, I will say that your sight will change when you harm your eyes. But if you hit others or harm their eyes, you don't experience change of your senses the same way they do.

You are looking at this issue superficially. You have only had your experience. The idea of others' experience is based on your experience. That's why you can never actually see what others see.

I am not seeing what you are seeing, existentially speaking.

@Leo Gura, isn't "true belief" oxymoronic or contradictory?

@Leo Gura, aside from the books in your booklist on psychedelics, have you read other ones that you would recommend?

Ok. Do you recommend not doing both simultaneously from scratch?

@Leo Gura, because people are not intelligent enough?

Too much for what reason?

@Leo Gura, so, should people avoid psychedelics till they get that 20%?