Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On Mon, 9 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:

On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 11:56:56 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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On 08/12/2024 21:13, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 8 Dec 2024 12:04:17 +0100, D wrote:
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Did the second attempt give you enlightenment or a new depth to life?
I've never touched any other drugs besides coffee, tea and alcohol,
but I did have a spontaneous explosion of love once when I was 15.
I've had a few mild echoes of that experience, but never anything
close to the strength of it since.

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No.  I don't remember much of it other than it wasn't a completely
paranoid experience like the first one.

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Many people 'don't remember' . Its cognitive dissonance. The ones that
do, tell an interestng story.

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Some are better story tellers. Those who use psychedelics in search of a
transformative may be predisposed to finding it.
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This is a very interesting theory! I would _love_ to do that kind of experiment, tring out some psylocybin on hard core atheists, or even better, not even telling them what the test is about, and see the reaction and what they experience.
Then running the same tests on atheists who know the experiments is about finding god, to compare.