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I call bullshit on that. Besides the rampant charlatanism that infects the "expert" meditator community, my own multi-decade experience with meditation tells me
by armitron 7y ago
I call bullshit on that. Besides the rampant charlatanism that infects the "expert" meditator community, my own multi-decade experience with meditation tells me that anyone who compares it to LSD or other strong psychedelics doesn't know what he's talking about.
You could be meditating for 10 years and not come anywhere near close to what 1 hit of LSD unveils about the mind and "you".
- kranner 7y agoTo be fair, we have no way to disprove anything about another person's subjective experience. Someone could have a special aptitude or talent in "meditation", broadly speaking. Our own accomplishments may not be any indication.
- croh 7y agoIn same context, I never understood how did we conclude sugar is sweet ? Does my 'sweet' feeling is same as yours ? Crazy paradox.
- kranner 7y agoEveryone's experience of sweetness may indeed be different, but at least the standard way to induce the experience of sweetness is ubiquitous and immediate. Just taste sugar. Decades of meditative experience is far less commonly found.
- carapace 7y agoI also have "multi-decade experience with meditation" and, to me, LSD is a kind of toy. (Not in the sense of something to give to kids to play with, but rather in the sense of something not worth the time of sober seekers.) YMMV
- zupreme 7y agoBeautiful way of putting it.