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how did i become me?

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I feel like you are trying to understand something that cannot be understood, at least not intellectually, the concept of asnwer/question happens in the mind, truth has little to do with the mind.
Like trying to understand what a color is if you have never seen one.
 
I would say yes, DMT doesn't give you any answers! it renders some questions meaningless by a shift in perspective, while leading one to more and new questions. Paradox is perhaps almost a fundamental part of the way entities speak. Paradoxes show us the limits of our reason and hint at the possibilities beyond that limit. In the last few experiences, they have been speaking of insanity, of how insanity has its own structure. I was shown a space of skewed logic, where the effects entailed their causes and so on.

The one crucial lesson I have learned from all these experiences is that... the mystery of the world is not a puzzle to be solved but a reality to be experienced! the true realization of the depth and scope of this mystery can bring one to tears. The experience of the mystery itself is what puts one in a state of trance, and when the heart trembles before the greatness of the divine, the body cannot help but move, the feet thump, the arms sway, and all the puzzles, the questions and their answers become meaningless...

Language is limited, logic is limited, arts is where the horizons expand! poetry can express much more than what reason can grasp, and visual arts and dance and music even more so.
 
Dasein said:
I would say yes, DMT doesn't give you any answers! it renders some questions meaningless by a shift in perspective, while leading one to more and new questions. Paradox is perhaps almost a fundamental part of the way entities speak. Paradoxes show us the limits of our reason and hint at the possibilities beyond that limit. In the last few experiences, they have been speaking of insanity, of how insanity has its own structure. I was shown a space of skewed logic, where the effects entailed their causes and so on.

This is somewhat how I see it with paradoxes as well, though I won't say that it always shows a limit to our reasoning and understanding, but more as a fundemental state in which something may exist. I see some as bounded and some as boundless.

One love
 
goodone22 said:
i think Cosmicriver might say something more.
are you asking why do we exist? I don't know if I have a logical answer for that. Why shouldn't we exist?

Since you ask about DMT, while you're on it there's no time for thinking and logic: it's a sensation, a sudden realization.
I love what Dasein wrote and I think it's what you're looking for.
dasein said:
The one crucial lesson I have learned from all these experiences is that... the mystery of the world is not a puzzle to be solved but a reality to be experienced! the true realization of the depth and scope of this mystery can bring one to tears.

Like you, I have questions I haven't logically answered. "Why is there so much suffering?" for example.
But in those moments it all makes sense.
And when I think about these questions I try to remember how it feels like and then it makes sense again.
DMT isn't the only way. Meditation is another way.
The paradox is that the answers come when you stop listening to your thoughts. When the mind is clear from thoughts, you can feel the answer.
 
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