I was thinking mainly about what happened to people who had gone through something similar to my experience, who had felt bliss, rebirth, and sudden understanding, followed by extreme imbalance.
My idea of states like the ones you describe is that they don't last because they're too far removed from ordinary states of mind. There are no analogues you can draw to make sense of them. My ex refused to try and describe what it was like to be on an acid trip for this reason. The realisations you have in an altered state involve entirely different mental processes. And, unfortunately, I think it's pure accident whether they stick, and help, or not.
I guess I've come to see reasoning as much less of a detached process since coming to believe this. And I trust it less.
I felt (and still do) that a large amount of music deals, if tangentially, with this topic
It's because music is about feelings.
I hope I haven't intervened on thoughts that are still, to me, alien and slightly incomprehensible, and thus, upset you by being presumptuous. I would like to start talking again, but I wouldn't know what to say.
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Date: 2005-06-24 12:29 am (UTC)My idea of states like the ones you describe is that they don't last because they're too far removed from ordinary states of mind. There are no analogues you can draw to make sense of them. My ex refused to try and describe what it was like to be on an acid trip for this reason.
The realisations you have in an altered state involve entirely different mental processes. And, unfortunately, I think it's pure accident whether they stick, and help, or not.
I guess I've come to see reasoning as much less of a detached process since coming to believe this. And I trust it less.
I felt (and still do) that a large amount of music deals, if tangentially, with this topic
It's because music is about feelings.
I hope I haven't intervened on thoughts that are still, to me, alien and slightly incomprehensible, and thus, upset you by being presumptuous.
I would like to start talking again, but I wouldn't know what to say.