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[–] BirdLawAttorney ago 

I think of death as a nothingness. I find it hard to imagine nothing though. Infinite nothingness. Wait, infinite or timeless?

I've had the opportunity to experience general anaesthesia too, but I was really fucked up and don't remember much of the experience clearly. I've read other accounts as well, it's weird losing time like that, like your internal clock gets paused. When I start smoking heavily my sleep is a little like that, one of the nice things about quitting for a while is that I eventually get vivid dreams that I can rememebr again. Also, semi-related, this got me thinking about ganja and time perception and I found some kind of interesting abstracts on it.

All I want to do is lie still

rofl - yes, 100%. Just have reasonable expectations/desires, right? I think my new year resolution next year will be to clean my car. Like, at least once.

Isn't that a fundamental principle of the whole Buddhism/nirvana thing, relinquishing desire?

I like that second quote.

McKenna... was quiet an interesting dude. I'm entirely satisfied that my consciousness is originating in my brain. That's not to say I really understand how or what consciousness is... But I'm pretty certain the meat computer in my head is causing mine... Is it just entirely a product of my genetics and environment? When I make a choice, was it really a choice at all? Or was it just a movement forward on a path that was already predetermined by the wiring in my head and the reality I perceive? I think that it could be and I don't really see autonomy in that existence, but does that even matter?

But then, for all I know, some kind of quantum split happens every time a choice is made and all the infinite realms of possibility are being lived out in parallel realities.

I don't know, I know know fuck all. I'm done thinkin, time to go bliss out.