spirituality
Shulgin believes that psychedelics are, for the mind, what the telescope was for astronomical research, or the microscope for biology.
Daniel Pinchbeck • Breaking Open the Head
What we really seek is familiarity — which may well complicate any plans we might have had for happiness. We are looking to recreate, within our adult relationships, the feelings we knew so well in childhood. The love most of us will have tasted early on was often confused with other, more destructive dynamics: feelings of wanting to help an adult
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If we are in a simulation, then there exists some higher-level being — albeit very different from an all-powerful, benevolent one. But that being is us, or a future version of us.
Alvin Chang • This Cartoon Explains Why Elon Musk Thinks We’re Characters in a Computer Simulation. He Might Be Right.
What happens when we secularize the belief in oneness?
Scott Barry Kaufman • What Would Happen if Everyone Truly Believed Everything Is One?
topophilia , popularized by the geographer Yi-Fu Tuan in 1974 as all of “the human being’s affective ties with the material environment.” In other words, it is the warm feelings you get from a place. It is a vivid, emotional, and personal experience, and it leads to unexplainable affections.
Arthur C. Brooks • Find the Place You Love. Then Move There.
a belief in oneness was more strongly related to feeling connected with distant people and aspects of the natural world than with people with whom one is close !