Great Article on how Consciousness is a Medium for VR

[RAM]

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This article proposes the very interesting view that things such as culture, media, countries, and ideologies are all just virtual realities with no objective existence. Throughout my experience with psychedelics, I have had realizations pertaining to this, but the article does an excellent job at explaining these fake realities we construct for ourselves in depth and providing a lot of great examples.

In the past, I have considered all of these things to simply be based on subjective ideologies, but the author has a more specific view of ideology that has it included under the umbrella of VR. This is a fascinating read and very pertinent to many psychedelic revelations.

 

[Chan]

Thanks, Ram, a great read. Unlike the majority of articles with VR in the title, this one had some intriguing perspectives on meat-space. I started thinking of various ruins as obsolete platforms, and how they ended up that way...which is a healthy meditation, IME

 

[Jees]

Thx Ram for the hint.

Long time ago, I've started not believing my own reality tunnels anymore as "true", yet I still have them of course as it is not obvious to not have them. Yet the gravity they take on me makes all the difference. I can now much better smile at them like it feels not being jailed by them as much anymore.