/lit/ - Literature

>>20564249
>Shoggoth hands imitated typing to mimic this post.

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>>19681898
It comes from 1960s counterculture and romantic notions of Hinduism and shamanism. It's the same with meditators who spend years developing mystical experiences and thinking they've gained some kind of wisdom from that. The reality of course is that they've had a mystical experience. They might have even experienced perceptions different from the normal human consciousness. Those might even be forms of perception that allow them to perceive different "planes" of existence. Or, they might just be hallucinations. None of this means any wisdom was gained, at least in a buddhist sense. It can be useful with the right instruction, to realize something about the NATURE of experience altogether, irrespective of the particulars of what is sensed and perceived, but most will never contemplate in that direction because it is backwards from the typical worldling's obsession with the particular experiences whatever they may be.