spirituality

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.

Shulgin believes that psychedelics are, for the mind, what the telescope was for astronomical research, or the microscope for biology.

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 !

You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction. 48 Perform work in this world, Arjuna, as a man established within himself – without selfish attachments, and alike in success and defeat. For yoga is perfect evenness of mind.

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.

One of the privileges of being on our own is therefore the sincere impression that we are really quite easy to live with.

What happens when we secularize the belief in oneness?