Imagine being a dumbass materialist who doesnt believe in anything their boring tiny mind cant comprehend with the use of tools or equations XD
Psychonaut is just a fancy term for junkie innit?
It's also a classic video game, and a class in a d20 tabletop game.
...otherwise, kinda, if they aren't doing it through starving themselves or some shit. They tend to use drugs to try to explore other parts of their minds, but they can't actually do cool shit like astral project beyond convincing themselves they did it.
"Perception is reality."
I heard the video game is very good, first time I hear about the tabletop game.
Kinda yeah, agreed here. I'm thinking that if they convince themselves they did it it's as good as the real thing. Don't like it when they become "woke" after using them drugs for a while. The level of arrogance and self-importance they reach is extremely ironic considering what sort of spiritual doctrines they preach.
when I see junkie I think of addict specifically self medicating ones, so not very similar imo the only thing they both have in common is not being sober sometimes
"Psychedellics cured my depression/anxiety/insecurty" Hmmmmmmm. I mean if some ayahuasca shaman drug dealer prescribed the treatment I guess it's not self-medication.
Let's say I had a pen, and it transported me to a completely different planet when i touched my thumb to it, like Avatar in an alien body but only when touched with my thumbprint but my physical human body falls unconscious until I willing choose to come back to my human body
I would tell you about it, but since you can't go there yourself because it doesn't react to your thumbprint at all, you would say touching the pen put me in a coma for some reason and I hallucinated during that time
Doesnt mean you're right though. You just simply are incapable of experiencing it and thus believing for yourself
I can garuntee though that if you experienced it for yourself you wouldnt be questioning whether it happened or not
because it would feel even more real than your life back in your human body. But thats the missing link, its what you dont understand because you csnt understand because you've never experienced it yourself. Your schizophrenic hallucinations are halluncinations. Astral travel isnt
At least not any more than your experience of day to day life which is technically a hallucination
Calling something a hallucination is sort of pointless since everything you experience seeing and interacting with is technically a hallucination of the brain
You're astrally projecting hardcore right now. How do you know I didn't experience stuff like that? Maybe I'm actually one of those mystics that ascended the kundalani serpent and has had his 3rd eye opened and reopened time and time again. Perhaps the ultimate realisation, that you're not yet aware of is that doing drugs makes you a junkie, and that's all there is to it.