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I don't know how to allow myself to accept this. I fear that if I do, I will be caught in a cycle of endless suffering. Seems that you're stuck in a self-imposed strange loop of negative thoughts that leaves you no way out. You say you want answers but at the same time you tell yourself if you get them, you may not be able to handle truth. So, you have painted yourself right into a corner. Better get used to where you're at until you change that self-sabotaging thought process that "YOU" created.

@Eterno A Zen master would have you meditate on "Mu" as a way to break your mind from having these thoughts. When meditating on Mu you are not seeking answers or solutions of any kind. One meditates on Mu as way to break the mind from its endless habit of always needing answers. Mu meaning nothing or no-thing. Here is a koan that you can also meditate on: A monk asked Tozan, "What is Buddha?" Tozan replied, "Three pounds of flax".

@Natasha Tori Maru in the US we have the B.O.C.A, code book or "Blue Book" as it is known as. It does give brief explanations of why a code is written the way it is. In fact, just yesterday morning I had to check the blue book for the requirements for tempered safety glass. Any glass lower then 18 in. (45.72 cm) from the floor must be Tempered.

@Breakingthewall It keeps it spicy.

@Breakingthewall Ever have a day where everything seemed to be an incoherent interference pattern?

Night club fire history: The Coconut Grove in 1942. Air conditioning was first being introduced. A big deal at that time with advertising signs stating, "Air Conditioned". But! The ac system used a flammable gas. A leak in the system plus flammable decor and cigarettes ended in total tragedy. Bodies piled up at the only exit. Part of the problem was also due to the exit doors swung inwards not outwards.

Just because it can.

Perhaps the "White Holes" you sometimes refer to need investigation?

@emil1234 I think the biggest takeaway should be that consciousness, something so fundamental to everyday life but yet so often overlooked and taken for granted, be appreciated for what it really is. Everything! And this insight was bought about thanks to those who dared to experiment with psychedelics. Like great explorers set out on sailing ships to discover new lands. Or deep-sea expeditions to the bottom of the ocean. Or astronauts traveling into unknown space all for the advancement of mankind. BTW Have you read any of the books by Robert Lanza like Biocentrism on the subject of consciousness? There he applies mostly physics. How the observer through conscious awareness collapses the wave function to create the material world we know.

@emil1234 One thing did notice is your use of the word 'consciousness' in two different contexts. Here you use it as a means to gauge intelligence. Be careful with that in your paper. You don't want to confuse anyone. Another is more personal preference, but I wouldn't even mention psychedelics. But that's your call. It's your paper. But it gives the impression to the reader that somehow consciousness is something that can only be appreciated during non-ordinary states of awareness when in fact consciousness is fundamental to the very existence and experience of all of reality from birth till death and perhaps beyond regardless of psychedelic use. Perhaps I should ask what the exact subject of your paper is. Psychedelics? Consciousness? Or the diverse viewpoints which can arise within academia with the consciousness argument being used only as an example.

Enough already. Sheesh people. THIS TOPIC IS LOCKED! @Inception God speed brother. Wishing you all the best.

Just be.

@Natasha Tori Maru You'll know before I do since you're living in the future.

@Natasha Tori Maru Same to you. Happy New year! Two more hours to go here.

Same here. I'm no longer searching. If something new comes my way, I'll gladly accept it. But these days I'm more like a frog just sitting on a lily pad basking in the warm glow of the sun. And if a fly happens to cross my path.... Gulp!