Religion doesn’t count. We’re on Lemmy, so neither does communism.

  • QueerCommie [she/her, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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    4 hours ago

    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.

    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      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?