If I'm understanding you correctly - and that's one hell of an 'if', under the circumstances - these "higher consciousness" experiences feel to you, from a first-hand perspective, exactly the same as altered brain states resulting from chemical means, whether artificially or naturally induced.
If that is what you're saying, then how can you possibly recognise one from the other? How can you experience one of these alleged episodes and know, either at the time or later, if it's a genuine one and not chemically-induced? Indeed, how do you know that there is in fact a difference at all?
If that is what you're saying, then how can you possibly recognise one from the other? How can you experience one of these alleged episodes and know, either at the time or later, if it's a genuine one and not chemically-induced? Indeed, how do you know that there is in fact a difference at all?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
