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Self-experimentation as I suggest -- an age old tradition in the scientific sphere -- is simply meant to reorient the person towards a broader understanding of
by cnp 11y ago
Self-experimentation as I suggest -- an age old tradition in the scientific sphere -- is simply meant to reorient the person towards a broader understanding of the dimensions possible within the tryptamine-consciousness experience. I would never claim that personal experience alone is enough to quantify anything beyond mere opinion; that's where a formal control-based study steps in. But what it can do is quite dramatically open the mind to possibilities that were previously thought impossible or inconceivable -- a valuable practice.
- coldtea 11y ago>Self-experimentation as I suggest -- an age old tradition in the scientific sphere -- is simply meant to reorient the person towards a broader understanding of the dimensions possible within the tryptamine-consciousness experience. That's what some people call mumbo jumbo. Either you really contact some aliens while high or not. If you do, you can pass some message/knowledge that only they could know to prove it. Else it's just some experience you have.
- gnaritas 11y agoSuch drugs do open the mind; often too far. Drugs are subjective psychological experiences, you are not seeing reality when you are tripping, you are not learning anything about the physical universe when you are tripping. You are having an experience in your own head that has no connection to the physical universe.
- igravious 11y agoThe experience you are having in your head is your reality, reality is always (inter-)subjective. Of course you are learning something about the physical universe when you're tripping, you're learning how certain psycho-active interact with brain chemistry to alter your perception of the world. There is no `you' on the one hand and `objective observable reality' on the other. And, no, I'm not arguing for solipsism.