New research suggests psychedelic drugs can be almost as life altering as near-death experiences

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[–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Also, importantly, if you can recognize that you're not as clever when tired or when you first wake up, you have diverse emotions and mood swings, you're not always correct, the corporatocracy often lies to you, that you can get inebriated on chemicals that affect your thinking - then there's a good chance that religion and afterlife is bullshit all in your mind.

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The "classical" Christian-influenced afterlife is bs. There is no tunnel and no heaven.

I'm not sure if there is a hell, or maybe life on this planet itself is hell. But every time I had a near-death experience: There never was a tunnel with light or this usual anecdotal bs.

There were ravens circling above my head and the sky was all diffusely "dark" lit with no feeling of gravity itself. My teeth I then took out crumbled like sand one time, e.g.

But I neither saw a light nor a tunnel so far.

[–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Even if you did have some near-death dream-like experience, to my point, when there are so many ways the mind can self-trick, there's no need to believe it was actually real - or that there's some mythical creator or sky God that gives a shit.

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The only difference between NDE's and some "hard" trips, I honestly can differentiate, is that I always knew when I was tripping because I could remember eating the mushrooms from my stomach rumbling.

But effect-wise considerate the experiences themselves were often very similar when the trips went "bad".

The human brain is excellent in tricking itself. Otherwise, we weren't able to bear all this schizophrenic utter nonsense happening right now out there.

[–]JasonCarswell 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The human brain is excellent in tricking itself. Otherwise, we weren't able to bear all this schizophrenic utter nonsense happening right now out there.

And there's no shortage of people who are certain they are correct, when obviously not.

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They are called "sheeple" for a reason. Walking to the slaughterhouse voluntarily. With a smile, so to say.