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I think if you're asking a question like "do you like it", you're not yet in that state. I'm no expert in meditation or psychedelics, but I get into what I ima
by floatrock 8y ago
I think if you're asking a question like "do you like it", you're not yet in that state.
I'm no expert in meditation or psychedelics, but I get into what I imagine is this state when I, for example, hike the top of a mountain. I can look out at the trees around me and, it's odd, but concerns kinda fade away. Good/bad or good/evil just don't really exist, things just are. You see both the trees and the forest, and you get a sense that these have been here for a long time and will continue to be long after you're gone. So "do you like it" is kinda irrelevant because it's not about a "you"... it's just one long infinite flow. Then it's time to descend and you snap back into your head. /shrug
I've also heard astronauts get this a lot and call this the "overview effect" or something like that. Type that into youtube and you'll listen to some people who've been into space talk about it way more eloquently than me, all while streaming earth flybys from that 360-view cupola room on the ISS.
- balabaster 8y ago> "The overview effect" This is perfect... this is exactly it. There aren't any thoughts about whether you like it, it just is.
- Moodles 8y ago> I think if you're asking a question like "do you like it", you're not yet in that state. Haha very true. Most meditates are trying to achieve a particular state, not happy with the state they are currently in ;-) But thanks for answering my real question regardless.