Cosmology I : : Just Some Thoughts

[jackshoegazer]

I've always felt that brain development is half genetic predisposition and half based on experiences; that our experiences alter and guide the brain's development. We all basically have the same hardware, but the software we install can alter and change the way the hardware works.

For instance, LSD can produce religious/spiritual experiences, and all LSD does is mimic seratonin and reroute messages arriving at the seratonin receptors into lesser used neural pathways. Spiritual experiences activate different parts of the brain. It's a new program accessing new parts of the hardware. And you get to be the programmer. Every new experience, especially the enlightening ones, are like flexing and exercising new muscles, installing new awesome programs.

As R.A.W. says, It's ALL in your head, you just don't realize how big your head is.

We have no proof whatsoever that anything exists outside of our perceptions, so technically, even external reality is happening in our heads. So, the probability that spiritual experiences are inner-originated makes them more valid, just as valid as external reality.

I have the same view of dreams. In DreamLand, we experience our dreams as if they were reality. Regardless of the "realness" of dreams, we experience them as reality and therefore are on an equal footing with external reality for experiential validity.

I assume everything I experience is real. It's like a living in a house. Everything I do happens in the house, but some things happen in the living room, some in the kitchen, etc... And so that's reality, some of it happens in dreams and some in waking life and some in visions and day dreams. You just have to categorize your experiences.

Comments

[matt120.livejournal.com]

Pass the Kool-Aid.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Patient, Ken Kesey hasn't shown up yet. I heard his bus broke down on the way down from Heaven. Tim Leary can't make it because he's in jail for corrupting the youth in Heaven. :)

[matt120.livejournal.com]

He's still in jail? Damn.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

God's just jealous cuz Tim's got better ratings from his consituents.

[matt120.livejournal.com]

Well, at least Tim Leary wasn't nailed to a cross.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Nope, cremated and shot into space :)

[ceolnamara.livejournal.com]

This looks incredibly familiar ;-)

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

It's amazing how coherent an idea can be described when you have to explain it to someone who might not have a clue what you're talking about :P

[tecknovore.livejournal.com]

And this is why I am an adherent to the concept of solipsism. Of course since you're just a creation of my mind, this must be exactly what I wanted to hear.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Exactly. The only time I shudder at that thought is when I watch movies like Gummo or watch Bush's State of the Union Address :P