What is your most controversial opinion/belief?
What is your most controversial opinion/belief?
Religion doesn’t count. We’re on Lemmy, so neither does communism.
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“Enlightenment” is a real physical human possibility (but not necessarily how religious people describe it) that is compatible with dialectical materialism.
We talking ego death? Because that was a big inflection point in my journey leftwards. Parenti may have been bigger though.😅
You could call it “ego death.” I’m no arbiter of truth but generally I’d consider such by means of entheogens only a temporary glimpse, while it is possible to more constantly see reality past illusions. The “spiritual journey” is actually quite dialectical and in a way the internal or perceptual counterpart to Lenin’s idea of constantly getting closer to reality in the realm of ideas and science.
You could call it “ego death.” I’m no arbiter of truth but generally I’d consider such by means of entheogens only a temporary glimpse, while it is possible to more constantly see reality past illusions.
Sure. Kundalini, Tree of Life, The Gates of Jannah, Tower Babel, etc, etc? All ultimately variations on body based memory palaces in which one uses ritual and habit to create a multi-sensory pavlovian belief system for how one responds to the stimuli of world so that their mind is constantly drawing themselves back to The Truth?
Yeah, I’m thinking more in terms of the commonalities between mystic, Buddhist, ascetic, and abrahamic paths to union with the universe/realizing its emptiness. They are all grasping at the same reality and human potential in different ways.
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