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> Maybe these drugs are just a shortcut. That's exactly what they are. Few people reach through meditation what these drugs can show anyone, but meditation wi
by gnaritas 11y ago
> Maybe these drugs are just a shortcut.
That's exactly what they are. Few people reach through meditation what these drugs can show anyone, but meditation will get you there as well, perhaps with more control.
- coldtea 11y ago"More control" though might be missing the point.
- Jach 11y agoI'm still skeptical. I suspect meditation can give something similar, but not the same, as something like heroin, just like running can get you a "runner's high". But the brain just can't produce arbitrary chemical formulas. A fun passage from http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2011/07/dispatches-from-real-america.html http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2011/07/dispatc... "The serious heroin aficionado, if still functional, lives his junkie life surrounded by poor dumb muggles who believe they're getting "high on life." Bullshit! High is spelled heroin. Your muggle can't even imagine high. It's like trying to explain electricity to a blind man."
- Implicated 11y agoI think, in the context he's saying meditation and drugs are similar, they're referring to psychedelics and their ability to blur reality and perceptions. Heroin is a whole other animal, I'm not sure you're going to find many people comparing it to meditation.
- gnaritas 11y agoHeroin isn't a psychedelic, we're comparing it to psychedelics (acid and shrooms), not to drugs in general.