/lit/ - Literature

In Terence McKenna's writings and speeches, the beings he saw while on drug trips are what he calls "machine elves," and he claims high doses of psilocybin and DMT lead to this similar realm of meeting these entities. Of course, in Amerindian shamanism, a more or less identical idea is presented of using hallucinogenic drugs to detach the spirit from the body and enter the spirit realm.

Modern materialistic neuroscience (eliminative materialism, reductionism, and the like) explains this all as "the delusions of an inebriated brain easily explained by neurochemistry." But they can't explain why we have experience, a self, or anything at all. What should be merely an instrument controlled by the soul (the brain, a material vehicle for the soul to manifest through), they use to explain and hand-wave their own soul away. In Castaneda's literature, this is referred to as "the first attention" (the physical life, waking life, ordinary perception), or the "tonal", and getting into the so-called "spirit realm" is the realm of the "nagual" or "second attention."

>this was OK until you mentioned that fraud Castaneda

Life is stranger than you know, that's all I have to say about that.

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There's no use arguing because this isn't a type of thing, in my opinion, where arguments change people's opinions. Only if you're already predisposed to be skeptical of the mainstream media, will you get what I mean, and look out for information that confirms your worldview. Basically, both you and I are stuck in confirmation bias, only seeking out info that confirms both our views, and I doubt either of us will budge. But I'll go on for the hell of it and since other people might be enlightened a little bit by the argument.

Even your grandparents have less than a 5% chance of dying from COVID-19 according to some statistical projections, though. That's relatively huge, compared to the flu, but guess what -- the ones who die were the unhealthier ones on the verge of death in a few years anyway. Old people also die from the flu -- particularly, again, the unhealthy ones with pre-existing conditions, and/or already in the hospital or in nursing homes -- it comes in and kills them off.

Where do we distinguish between how many excess deaths of the elderly and already very unhealthy are required to lock down everything and ruin life for the healthy, fit, and younger? The flu kills tens of thousands a year in the US, COVID-19 has killed hundreds of thousands (and many of these -- a HUGE amount, can't remember off the top of my head, but I can find it if you wish) were from Democrat governors letting COVID-19 infected patients be put in nursing homes, which is itself very sinister and suspicious.

>Because she is "going to a very low risk location".In any case this doesn't refute anything I said. Still not anymore a religion than when people wore masks during the Spanish Flu.

That wasn't the only thing said in the email. You dodged all the other things in it. Also, in the beginning of the pandemic, Fauci and the CDC were saying precisely that masks are not really necessary for healthy people, and are typically used by people already sick/infectious, or people like doctors and nurses who are involved, for instance, in surgeries, and don't want saliva droplets to do nasty things like enter people's innards while they're being cut open and infect them.

The mask, in my opinion, is a sort of placebo, meant to make everything seem more scary than it really is. Psychological warfare. "Everyone's wearing masks, therefore something very dangerous must be going on."

>"okaaayyyy... and what's your proof for that?"

What's your proof Fauci and the MSM are reliable and trustworthy when they've flip-flopped numerous times on whether we should wear masks, whether or not we need booster shots, and so forth? If you can take this leap of faith to trust them, why can't I take the leap of faith of distrusting them?

>"as we get more knowledge and the pandemic progresses, we learn more. There's nothing sinister about it."

Then, at minimum, you have to admit they could be wrong right now and update/change their recommendations again as time goes on.