/lit/ - Literature

>>11216284
I'm no stranger to psychedelics and have experienced ego death (which indeed was the most liberating moment of my life) but I still don't think we can afford to let go of the idea that what presents itself as reality to us in our daily lives is something over which we can exert influence.
While we're here, stuck in our delusions of the self, we can gather information about the nature of the illusion but we mustn't reduce it to an illusion to such an extent that we start treating it as some sort of meaningless that we merely passively observe. Wouldn't that defeat the purpose? Maybe there isn't a purpose... but that's not what they told me. Who were they? I don't know, they didn't appear to me physically but they were as much part of me as they were of you and everything else, and what they told me was something I felt like I had always known. If that sounds nonsensical, then perhaps the drug-induced psychedelic experience isn't actually such a reliable source of information after all.

>>11216344
Alright, so everyone is a victim of circumstance. Now what do we do?
My point is that even if this is the case, it is still preferable to pretend that we have agency, if necessary defying all evidence to the contrary, because the alternative is an existential nightmare in which nothing matters and life just happens to us while we passively let it determine every aspect of our experience without any possible way to exert our will. If that's the truth, then truthfully is the most bitch ass way to live.