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I wouldn't know what to tell someone about what entering a (the?) void is like, but the closest i can imagine is a situation where you're 1000 nautical miles out to sea in a small sailboat on a pitch dark cloudy moonless night, far away from anyone. A storm is brewing and the seas are getting large, though you can't see them, it's too dark for your eyes, though you feel the force as it throws your small boat around.…
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There are finders and seekers. I’m always impressed with people who ardently believe they know the truth, they can act without doubt, an interesting skill.
I'm also impressed, but not in a good way. I consider certainty to be the biggest tell of falsehood, and I wish to deny the vote to people with certainty. Certainty of opinion on a complex topic reveals a belief that organic brains can, in practice, judge the correctness of their own reasoning - a conceit that borders on the psychotic, and at minimum a complete failure of self-awareness. These people don't need agenc…
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Ok, now do SSRIs.
That’s pretty silly whataboutism. The two aren’t mutually exclusive, don’t trade off, have both risks and benefits, and can be used or prescribed responsibly or irresponsibly. What are you getting at?
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he didn’t say it would diminish, he said it would increase until we reached a singularity, which he pegged to 2012. not that i’m a mckenna devotee but i always thought it was interesting that he speculated the final push would be a “device that a small group of people use to generate infinite novelty” and then the smartphone really took off exactly around 2012. the “small group” is just you and your buddies making en…
> which he pegged to 2012 He picked the date because of the Mayan calendar. Bullshit all the way down.
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That’s pretty silly whataboutism. The two aren’t mutually exclusive, don’t trade off, have both risks and benefits, and can be used or prescribed responsibly or irresponsibly. What are you getting at?
I haven't had a proper orgasm in more than a decade. I've been off SSRIs for 5 years.
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I haven't had a proper orgasm in more than a decade. I've been off SSRIs for 5 years.
whoa, TIL. i knew that it made orgasms impossible when using, but i had never heard that the effects could last so long.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PSSD/
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=fr&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=pssd...
SSRIs are also the most prescribed drugs to cure premature ejaculation.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=fr&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=ssri...
It's important to have a spiritual practice to go alongside psychedelics to weather the ontological shock.
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You might want to consider retrying it in a "spiritual/meditative setting", i.e cozy with headset on, music pre-curated (nothing off-tune and so-on) and closed eyes then get lost to eventually breakthrough, strictly only with people you deeply trust.
I don't think it's a spiritual experience, in any way. It's just your neurons going crazy. Any spiritual result that you have had fits with how your brain is wired. The majority of the population is spiritual because in the past atheists were killed. I'm atheist and this experience was not spiritual in any way. It just enforced my atheism.
To have a breakthrough, you need to be very focused on that said goal, I advise closed eyes, headset on, perfect temperature, perfect comfort, whole playlist curated and completely let-go until you reach the absolute "void" and then keep going even if you are scared, then you'll reach the point where you completely disconnect with reality and basically just "die", then you'll have some sort of "orgasm" where you simultaneously laugh and cry and so-on and see the world very strangely, interconnected, it's one of the most profound experience an individual can have imo. It's difficult and often can't be done during the first few trips. You need to completely "surrender".
PS: I know, sounds insane said that way, I'm a very logical and rational person but still can acknowledge that something is quite magical in a way we don't quite yet understand.
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Yes, perception of entities during psychedelic experience is unhinged paredolia: psychedelic substances obliterate the squelch for our pattern recognition systems, of which paredolia is one. Deepdream slugdogs are sort of a synthetic analogue to this.
I’m glad that you’ve got it all figured out!
I wouldn't know what to tell someone about what entering a (the?) void is like, but the closest i can imagine is a situation where you're 1000 nautical miles out to sea in a small sailboat on a pitch dark cloudy moonless night, far away from anyone. A storm is brewing and the seas are getting large, though you can't see them, it's too dark for your eyes, though you feel the force as it throws your small boat around.…
The boat will usually survive the storm but will you?
Scylla would devour the crew alive by its dog heads, leaving the ship intact but drifting on its own - that's a metaphor of madness: for the crew is the mind, and the ship is the body;
Charybdis would suck both the crew and the ship into its whirlpool - that's a metaphor of death.
The goal is to pass in between.