From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Fri, 10 May 2024, oldernow wrote:   
      
   >>> Because transcendence is free: no dose required. Awareness   
   >>> turned around upon its seeming source works every time.   
   >>   
   >> True... but   
   >   
   > True *but*? Doesn't the latter word at least somewhat   
   > nullify the former? How can there be any "buts" about   
   > truth?   
      
   Beats me! ;)   
      
   > All I can think (haha) is you pick one model, consider it   
   > The Reality, and stick to it. Serious attempts at trying   
   > to "get to the bottom of it" seem to necessarily lead   
   > to this madness being represented in this attempt to put   
   > "it" (double quotes indicate not being sure "it" is some   
   > reality, or a model...) in words.   
      
   Well, all models are not equal. There is one model, par excellence, that   
   seems to tower above all others, and that is the one where there   
   actually is an external reality, that can serve as common ground for   
   truth, which can be communicated with language and investigated by   
   science.   
      
   No one in 2500 years has been able to credibly disprove that model.   
      
   >   
   >> Actually, I read an article a year ago, about some pirate   
   >> place in a basement out side Stockholm where a woman sold   
   >> McT for therapeutic purposes, illegally.   
   >>   
   >> And I always think about if the people just get hooked on   
   >> the experience, and thereby disregard, _what the experience   
   >> is leading to_.   
   >>   
   >> I think the buddha warned against psychic powers, healing   
   >> and stuff, calling it a distraction from the end goal of   
   >> enlightenment. Sometimes I wonder if buddha wouldn't warn   
   >> against getting hooked on McT as well?   
   >   
   > Well, okay... I should have read further. In other words,   
   > *EXACTLY*.  Except that the "getting hooked on" part is   
   > incidental. The part about distraction was what I meant by   
   > "deepening of delusion".   
      
   Got it! =) I think trying to convince others that there is no external   
   world also counts as a distraction. ;)   
      
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