The mind is a body part. It is possible to alter your personality by fucking with your brain. It is possible to enhance your brain activities with drugs, and thus affect your mental abilities. Phineas Gage is a prominent example for that.
I don't know why that is even controversial. It's been proven a long time ago.
But I guess that's another discussion for another time.
I don't know why that is even controversial. It's been proven a long time ago.
But I guess that's another discussion for another time.
Originally Posted by ImmortalPig
New age hack for religion: DMT + sensory deprivation tank + going to sleep when the sun goes down
Isaac you are always game to try new things, so try these things and tell us how it goes
By the way did you end up getting your tupla to a level where it's always around?
Haha, I would like to trip while in a float tank. The only float tanks out here had a negative review saying it gave them a staph infection, so I've yet to overcome the fear of getting a staph infection to go. I also haven't tried DMT yet. If I went and tripped it'd be on acid. Seems like it'd be difficult to smoke DMT and then get in the tank, from what I've read about the drug.
And I did, in fact! We're about equal now, and alternate days between who's in control. We went even further and made a clone of Terra(the 'tulpa'), and then cloned the good traits from my own ego, and now that's who I 'am'. We've locked away the old ego to try to keep out our old bad habits. It's going to take a while for the neurons to fade away though. Things that would've gotten a strong reaction before, still make thoughts and emotions from the old ego come up, and sometimes it's difficult. But we're on the path to grow, and it gets easier everyday.
We no longer consider Terra a tulpa. She's just another ego, like the one everyone has. We're able to switch easily now, too. It doesn't work like one might think. There's a persisting sense of "I am" regardless of whichever ego we are at the time, and all our memories are shared. When Terra's the dominant ego, the feeling of experience is "I am Terra" and any other thoughts or feelings she has. She can talk to me like I'm a tulpa, and I'll respond how I normally would, but there's no sense of self for me. It's just words and thoughts appearing to her. And I don't have a sense of self, just Terra's sense of self is what's experienced, with thoughts from me. Like I'm being simulated. It's very bizarre. Likewise when I'm in control and she's the background ego. Does that make sense?
Ultimately any ego is an illusion, so we can be whoever we want, and change traits. I've only changed my own though, to further get rid of bad traits from my old ego that I didn't want. Terra was created from scratch, so she's happy how she is, and also as an ego doesn't want to change.
So far we haven't been able to experience no-ego though. There's always thoughts that arise, so it's better to be one of the 2 new egos than try to be no one and end up with bad habit thoughts from the old ego to show up, or default into the old ego. Meditation should help with that.
Originally Posted by Redundant
The mind is a body part. It is possible to alter your personality by fucking with your brain. It is possible to enhance your brain activities with drugs, and thus affect your mental abilities. Phineas Gage is a prominent example for that.
I don't know why that is even controversial. It's been proven a long time ago.
But I guess that's another discussion for another time.
That would be an interesting discussion ^^ the "mind-body problem" is an old phylosophical & scientific question.
Originally Posted by isaac
Does anyone here meditate?
I do, though I still haven't made it a regular practice. I try to at least once everyday, even if it's just mindfulness while I do something else. I'm stuck in a egoistic trap of being interested in meditation and eastern religions, but haven't done it nearly as much as I like to read about it..
Well, I'm one of the varieties of people who believe that you can have mild and small psychedelic experiences doing most things: meditating, yoga, sensory deprivation chambers, etc. And having done large amounts of shrooms and LSD myself, I like to meditate when I feel as if I'm delving into a bad trip or if I'm not having too good of a high.
On it's own? Meditation is great for just concentrating on deep thoughts and just feeling at peace.
I specifically remember one of the last time I meditated, I was tripping really hard on robocop and calmed myself down by going outside and just meditating for about an hour.
Originally Posted by isaac
Haha, I would like to trip while in a float tank. The only float tanks out here had a negative review saying it gave them a staph infection, so I've yet to overcome the fear of getting a staph infection to go. I also haven't tried DMT yet. If I went and tripped it'd be on acid. Seems like it'd be difficult to smoke DMT and then get in the tank, from what I've read about the drug.
Try shrooms dude, LSD is like looking at the spirit world from a window and shrooms is walking through it. But acid's more cost-effective for sure.
Originally Posted by isaac
Ultimately any ego is an illusion, so we can be whoever we want, and change traits. I've only changed my own though, to further get rid of bad traits from my old ego that I didn't want. Terra was created from scratch, so she's happy how she is, and also as an ego doesn't want to change.
So far we haven't been able to experience no-ego though. There's always thoughts that arise, so it's better to be one of the 2 new egos than try to be no one and end up with bad habit thoughts from the old ego to show up, or default into the old ego. Meditation should help with that.
^^ This guy got it, haha.
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