simple dissociative trick

The Other recognized this. Reassured, I then proceeded to mentally chant the mantra that would trigger the A.I. to stop the trip and bring me back.

The whole impetus of life is to transcend: to get beyond the separateness, insignificance and transience of the ordinary human condition through association with something timeless and boundless.

Ordinarily, most of us are locked inside what I’ve earlier called ‘the hole of

sincerely. ‘But something you said earlier and rather casually peaked my curiosity. Why did you describe the mental contents of mind-at-large as “excitations” or “movements” of mind-at-large?’

When we had unsettling dreams as children, our parents would try to reassure us with that notorious, fatidic statement: ‘Forget about it, it was just a dream!’ That was a seminal moment in the process of our entrancement. It was

It is this boundary that gives rise to sense perceptions: from the perspective of an egg, the activity in the surrounding cognitive neighborhood is experienced in the form of images of an ‘outer realm,’ such as mountains, other people, trees, etc. Therefore, the empirical world you see around you right now is simply your egg’s view of mental proces

Consensus reality is a realm of pure form. It triggers our myth-making capacity so to evoke thought and emotion within. Our role is to interpret the pure forms by projecting a myth onto consensus reality. The myth implies a way to translate pure form into meaning.

Consensus reality is trying to get us to ask the right questions. Dramatic life events are forceful, maybe desperate attempts to lead us to these questions.