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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Somewhat unrelated, the dissolution of self can be understood with training and meditation. As I understand, the Buddhist tradition of Dzogchen (that has meditation as practice) is something like that. It is translated to modern secular meditation practices by people like Sam Harris.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

absolutely! psychedelics are a wonderful shortcut, but it can be done without them as well