Sublime

“The distinction between past, present, and future,” he said, “is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”4

The User Illusion by Tor Norretranders.

Huxley’s psychedelic-inspired description of the brain as a ‘reduction valve’ of otherwise unlimited consciousness—

When we meet somebody whose separate tunnel-reality is obviously far different from ours, we are a bit frightened and always disoriented. We tend to think they are mad, or that they are crooks trying to con us in some way, or that they are hoaxers playing a joke. Yet it is neurologically obvious that no two brains have the same genetically-program

begun, as a matter of urgent biological necessity, to develop a new consciousness

Which of the many possibilities becomes real appears to be determined by consciousness and the act of observation.

Derek Parfit,

Shiva ― Potency ― The Un-manifest ― static aspect of Awareness.