Yes, I read it all, and found it very interesting. For me, especially at higher doses, salvia induces profound ego loss – I don’t know who I am, what I am, where I am, etc. I have vague memories that the place I am at is somehow “new” and that I came from somewhere else, but I have no memories of that somewhere else. As a result, there’s rarely a feeling of loss or a longing for my old life – my old life simply ceases to exist.Sadhaka said:I could write on and on but this post is already way tooo long. Anybody read it all?
Regarding this:
You quoted quite selectively there. Our bodies are biological machines, bound by the laws of physics like every other physical system that is composed of matter and energy. This is a fact, as much as anything can be a “fact”. But I went on to speculate that we are actually more than just biological mechanisms, and you, for whatever reason, decided to exclude those remarks from your quote. What I actually said was:Sadhaka said:Gibran, you are not right. It seems that your thinking is bound to the standards of modern times but currently science is closer then ever to break through its limitations.gibran2 said:We ARE biological machines, and there is no such thing as free will. (...) As biological organisms, we seek out pleasure, we avoid pain. But sensation of all sorts is valuable to our “higher selves”.
gibran2 said:We ARE biological machines, and there is no such thing as free will.
So then the question becomes, why are we here at all? My latest answer (subject to change at any moment) is that we exist so that our “higher selves” can experience what they are not. “They” (we) are eternal, immaterial beings. They have always existed, and always will.
Physicality, birth, life and death, pain, pleasure, are all things that are consequences of our existence in a physical form. These are things that only physical beings can experience. Our “higher selves”, our “spirits” or “souls” experience physicality through us.