I agree, just to add in my own words -- it gives you a fresh perspective, as if your staring at the world from the eyes of a tree. But is it really that important for those in power to maintain a certain narrative/perception? These sentences sound too rough..
IMO, yes, because there is nothing holding the country together besides the perception that the US constitution protects & ensures our freedom. If that perception falls, then there could substantially greater political unrest, even moreso than what we have experienced this summer
And LSD and other psychedelics definitely make you rethink the validity of government, period. Let alone the efficacy of the powers that be to ensure safety and prosperity
> IMO, yes, because there is nothing holding the country together besides the perception that the US constitution protects & ensures our freedom.
What holds the country together is a lot of people have a lot to lose.
> And LSD and other psychedelics definitely make you rethink the validity of government, period. Let alone the efficacy of the powers that be to ensure safety and prosperity
But this is just the crux of it - it is an illusory experience that has some impact on the user. It isn't any arbiter of truth or knowledge.
> There are many things that "hold a country together" - some of them are known (here we have two examples), and others are unknown.
Exactly - that's a far cry from your claim. It's likely that the two reasons we posited on their own are meaningless.
> It is surely illusory to a very large degree, but "what it is", really, is far beyond mankind's ability to judge such things.
And yet in this very thread claims and judgements are made how it can topple governments, makes free thinkers, is the panacea to everything, just like weed cures cancer and saints cured the sick. How the government suppresses it because it will hurt those in power and prevent the utopian LSD world that is clamored for.
It borders on religious fanaticism - plenty of drugs and visions lead to jihad as much as kindness and love.
That's part of what makes life interesting, the amazing power of the imagination (often indistinguishable from reality), but no way of knowing what will actually come to be, except sometimes the passage of time.
So does meditation... just that it typically takes way longer :)