>>12447229>after firsthand experience its impossible for me not to believe it. I also acknowledge it totally could be and probably isnt true, and that our human brains are just inclined to experience these types of experiences, as we all have very similar brain chemistryI've been curious about this for a while. We start out with viewpoint "X" (reality is material floating in space, consciousness is an emergent property of the brain) and, after people have these experiences, they hold viewpoint "Y" (I am God, universal consciousness, etc.). And it seems people always hold viewpoint Y very closely.
But it seems to me that if the experience can show you that your entire worldview can be wrong, then it should be equally valid that Y is incorrect and X is correct, or that they're both wrong and Z is correct, etc. So I'm really curious about why people hold belief Y so strongly.
>our human brains are just inclined to experience these types of experiences, as we all have very similar brain chemistry.I wonder if it's just something about our brains that are just inclined to believe these experiences once we have them? Is it something about the powerfulness of the experience? It reminds me a little of the Good Friday Experiment where participants had life-changing spiritual religious experiences facilitated by psilocybin.
But I haven't had this experience myself so maybe I'm talking completely out of my ass.
Also, are you glad that you had this experience? Would you recommend seeking it out? Are there any downsides, like for example, do you find it alienating to have such a wildly different worldview from the vast majority of people?
