Carl-Richard

Psychopaths and pedophiles existed before they were formally defined by any psychiatric diagnostic manual, and society dealt with them accordingly, albeit with less understanding and compassion. It's also not a crime to be any of those things unless you do something to break the law. Psychologists don't catch predators — the law does

That was going on way before psychology existed My exact thoughts. This is why spirituality exists and why it's a separate field. When a celebrated clinical psychologist has been suffering with depression, anxiety and existential dread all his life, it makes you question the value of the field.

People will tell you.

It's not about you. It's about the question you're asking . Clarifying what experiences you've had can help give more insight into the question.

"Weird" experiences? Not "oh my god I'm fucking dying" experiences?

If you treat it as such, then that will be how you feel. Have you established a daily spiritual practice?

I'm not telling you not to question it. I'm just telling what I feel.

Impermanence is a concept that refers to the impermanence of objects. Impermanence itself is not an object. Same with radical skepticism. It's not the object of its own criticism in the same way as what it's critiquing.

It should sound too good to be true because it is.

Don't bother wasting your time with YouTube debunk heroes. It's all just bunk.

I had this fear until I meditated and literally lost my mind. There is nothing you can say to make me have that fear ever again. My main fear now is actually from the fact that it's way too real.

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The path summarized

@Lyubov Then again, people have the freedom to fuck themselves over in other ways, like taking life advice from ignorant low consciousness people

It's not just like this. It's an infinite design. And that is why it has to be this way. If it wasn't, it couldn't be infinite.

That's good. It's funny when people make posts like "x happened, am I enlightened?". Of course not! There is nothing subtle about it. It cannot be missed.

An explanation requires a conceptual mind to exist. Reality doesn't require anything. Even within a scientific framework, you'd have to feel very entitled to believe that reality must necessarily fit within the frame of the homo sapien mind — a mind that was molded by evolution to pick fruit and avoid predators.

One thing that has always puzzled me is how chemically similar 5-MeO-DMT (5-Methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine) is to melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxy-tryptamine): Melatonin is the chief hormone for regulating the circadian rhythm. During the day, we produce serotonin, but at night, it gets converted to melatonin. Metatonin exists in the retina aswell as in the brain, and it breaks down when exposed to light, which is how your body adjusts its sleep-wake cycle. Considering the fact that 5-MeO is in a league of its own when it comes to serotonergic activity, it's not really hard to imagine that too much of it could have lasting impact on those systems. This is just pure speculation though.

It's instantaneous

I also listened to his podcasts talking about it and he mentioned that he had sleep issues his entire life but that they recently got much worse.

I think we're seeing the repercussions right here. You'll become such an intensely authentic person that you'll sooner or later be let down by more conventional people who proport to share your interests

IMO that has been his shtick since he wrote Maps of Meaning (he had a couple of mystical experiences back then aswell). In one interview, he expressed an affinity for William James' pragmatic theory of truth ("it's true if it's useful"), which is how he tries to reconcile his scientific side with his mythological side. You see him skirting around the same territory in his debates with Sam Harris. Even if he didn't make any definitive statements until now, this has been brewing for quite a while.

Have you not heard about his biblical lectures?

Growing up is like a very long-term gradient of hedonic adaptation. You go from being completely unfamiliar with the entirity of reality as a stimulus to being slowly adapted to its regularities.