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    Nothing

    except i replaced the word 'can't' with the word 'CAN'
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    Does existence precedes essence?

    there is never any 'real essence', essence is ONLY ever 'projected', projected onto things by consciousness, it doesnt become real by being projected, rather its projectedness is its unreality consciousness ALWAYS projects (completely hollow and unreal) essences onto things, that is just what...
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    Does existence precedes essence?

    not in themselves no, 'essence' is something that consciousness (uniquely) projects onto things
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    Psychonautica 69 - Interview with Alex Beiner

    This episode of psychonautica features a conversation between Max Freakout and Alex Beiner, the author of forthcoming novel 'Beyond the Basin'. They talk about Ayahuasca ceremonies and shamanism, Alex's experiences on a recent trip to Peru for the shamanism conference with ayahuasca and San...
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    Nothing

    But also, nothing CAN be perceived!
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    HPPD, anyone?

    can't we talk about HPPD? :cry:
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    Nothing

    Nothing matters 8) "Nothingness is the great primary illusion, the necessary illusion, without which no consciousness is possible, nor cognition or any cybernetic construct. It is the gap or lapse in self referential action reaction. It is the existential limitation of being. It is the...
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    Do you believe in the present?

    why do you think that "moments are infinite"? if you posit an infinite number of statues, then you run into Zeno's paradoxes
  9. M

    Does existence precedes essence?

    Are you saying this in contradiction to Sartre? Or does this fit with Sartre's view?
  10. M

    Does existence precedes essence?

    Depression doesn't exist :wink:
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    Does existence precedes essence?

    yes i think it does, life is absolutely meaningless, even the act of attributing meaning to our actions, is itself utterly meaningless. You cannot escape from this conundrum, the only solution is to ignore it and act as if it doesnt matter = BAD FAITH :evil: ie forever postpone having to...
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    Do you believe in the present?

    Rudy Rucker's model of the 4-dimensional block universe explains neatly what time is, it is a spatial dimension just like length, width and depth i think of life as a large number of frozen-solid statues of myself, arranged in a row along the time axis, each one incrementally different from the...
  13. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    call it whatever you want, it doesnt matter what you call it, it just is what it is i think that a new thread should be started to address those questions, since this thread is so heavily polluted with bullshit 'the philosophical implications of psychedelic visuals' :D
  14. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    lol you say that to everyone who disagrees with you! What is so great about psychiatrists? All they ever do is give poisonous ineffective drugs to vulnerable people i have never denied anything i said, and my position has remained completely the same throughout the whole conversation to recap...
  15. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    'existing' is apointless category to put HPPd into, what should be said, is not that HPPD 'exists', but rather that people experience it. The problem on this thread is that a small number of people who havent experienced it, are insisting that nobody else has experienced it either i attempted...
  16. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    yes exactly, as i have been saying - persisting visual effects following the end of a trip. In that sense the DSM definition is the same as the one i am using yes because HPPD only starts after the trip has finished yes as i already stated several times, the DSM defiition doesnt say anything...
  17. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    i have said that many times on this thread, it ISNT the term itself that is important, rather it is the condition that it refers to that is the important issue exactly, arguing around and around in circles that HPPD doesnt exist, in the face of all the evidence that it does exist, is simply...
  18. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    yes, in other words, persisting effects following the end of a trip, which is the definition i have been using yes it is, HPPD is when the visual effects of a trip dont stop, even after the trip has ended, in other words, persisting visual effects following the end of a trip, this is the...
  19. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    i agree, which is why i pointed out that people who have never experienced HPPD, are in no position to know whether or not it exists the only people on this thread who are saying that HPPD doesnt exist, are just people who have not experienced it themselves. Nobody who had experienced it would...
  20. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    i have said many times, that i am not implying any 'causal' link on the other hand, i CAN deduce that it was directly correlated with entheogen use i call it HPPD, because i am defining HPPD as 'persisting visual effects following entheogen use', and that is exactly what i experienced. I am...
  21. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    There is no 'time limit' to the onset, in my experience it was immediate, and as far as i know this is generally the case, but the DSM says nothing on the subject, it just doesnt mention it at all it is contained in the definition (so the proof is simply the definition), the condition that...
  22. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    as far as the existence/non-existence of HPPD is concerned, it all ultimately comes down to this: the people who have experienced it, know that it exists, and the people who have not experienced it, dont know whether it exists or not
  23. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    i agree, it is about the level of consciousness you have, people with HPPD are getting a truer visual picture of reality - which comes with having a higher level of consciousness "you never step in the same river twice" - Heraclitus :)
  24. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    I agree, this is why it is inadequate to simply say 'the effects were there before but you just didnt notice' - that fails to explain the fact that now, even when i stare very carefully at my carpet, it does not dance around like it used to a few years ago when i had HPPD you posted the...
  25. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    i was talking about the same exact thing that i have always been talking about, which is persisting visual effects following the end of a psychedelic trip im not actually talking about the specific DSM criteria (i am JUST talking about persisting visual effects), but here ^ you are confusing...
  26. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    No, firstly the expression "if you didn't use drugs that didn't cause it" doesnt make any sense in English, it is a double-negative, a non-existent non-existence if you took drugs and then immediately after the trip, the psychedelic-style visual effects persisted (when they were not there...
  27. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    because if you DIDNT take drugs before you experienced the effects, then you are not talking about HPPD (or PVE's) but rather some different phenomenon, which isnt what this thread is about. The term 'HPPD' as it is used on this thread only applies to visual effects that last beyond the end of a...
  28. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    yes but the important thing is that (assuming that there IS a connection) the 'sense expansion' lasts beyond the end of the trip, and wouldnt have been there were it not for the fact that you took the trip in the first place. THAT is the meaning of 'HPPD' or 'RVE' or whatever insofar as it...
  29. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    ah right ok, well what you experienced is not the phenomenon that i am talking about, ie the 'HPPD' or 'RVE' or whatever that this thread is about. There is a condition where psychedelic-style visuals persist beyond the end of a trip, that most people call (rightly or wrongly) 'HPPD', where the...
  30. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    you said that the visual effects only started after the trip you had, so was there any connection at all between the trip and the onset of the visual effects?
  31. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    yes exactly, there are no 'causes', what is perceived to be a 'necessary cause' is in fact just a provisional 'habit' of the system. There is no 'glue' that links causes to their effects
  32. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    i already said earlier that i dont think there is any such thing as a 'cause', the connection between entheogens and their effects is not a 'causal' connection but rather a necessary and sufficient connection. The trip happens, and the visual effects from the trip persist beyond the end of the...
  33. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    that isnt what i'm asking you said that you experienced these effects "after drugs wore off", and im asking if you think that the drug trip which preceeded the onset of these effects, had any connection to the onset of the effects? Or is it just entirely a coincidence that the effects only...
  34. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    Same with ego-transcendence (in fact that's the whole point), they are both stages of maturation and they just 'happen'. A major difference between them is that everybody goes through puberty at a certain age, whereas only a minority of people transcend ego drugs can cause mental problems in...
  35. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    I didn't diagnose myself with anything. I observed persisting visual effects after a trip, as did many of the posters on this thread. That isnt a 'diagnosis', it is an observation hallucinogens do not cause any damage, i never said they did. They ENHANCE the mind, not damage it Hallucinogens...
  36. M

    Are we all just playing a game?

    Life is ultimately meaningless, i think the 'game' is to pretend that things have meaning
  37. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    This is a contradiction/confusion the 'phenomenon' IS the 'noticing', they are not 2 separate things, they are 1 and the same thing. You take psychedelics, then after the trip has ended you notice persisting visual effects. if it wasnt caused by the trip, then what did cause it? You said...
  38. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    i spent about 6 months an anxious, paranoid wreck after a particularly intense trip
  39. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    And i agreed with you, HPPD/RVE/PPP or whatever you want to call it has nothing to do with physical damage or mental illness The 'effects' I am talking about IS the awareness! The 'effect' and the 'awareness of the effect' are not 2 separate things. Psychedelics cause the visual effects which...
  40. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    the fact is, that the visual effects accompany psychedelic trips, are you saying that this is purely a coincidence, and that the cause has nothing to do with the drugs? it is not easy to introduce a word, nobody else would know what you mean by 'RVE'. I already explained why i use the term...
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    HPPD, anyone?

    yes several years ago, not now, and it was a disorder, it fucked my life up big time - THEREFORE HPPD EXISTS!!!!! As we have discussed at great length, persisting visuals isnt *necessarily* a disorder, it only becomes a disorder if it disrupts a person's life
  42. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    PVE? :D I think that TIME is the only solution for PVE, sometimes unfortunately lots and lots of it is required. Whatever you do, dont go and see a psychiatrist because they don't know shit, they will just fill you full of drugs which only makes things worse. Having intense, long-lasting PVE...
  43. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    Im not so sure about that, they ARE serious, they are saying something very important about the world I dont have mental problems and i never said i did I am utterly insane :evil: (just like everybody) but i dont have mental 'problems', my mental health is optimal (thanks to the drugs :) )
  44. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    He didnt deny that people could have visual effects, but he denied in several places that they could be caused by drugs, for example here http://www.psychonaut.com/index.php?opt ... =en#152051 "Hallucinogens dont cause any of those things" - GOD If you read the first reply to the original...
  45. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    Nobody except GOD, who denied it many times (he was denying that it could possibly be caused by drugs) People certainly can get severe HPPD that disrupts their lives significantly, when i had it it fucked my whole life up for a while. But what most people on here (including the original...
  46. M

    What was before the big bang?

    right well i dont know about an 'essence', maybe there isnt one? But i think religious experience/intense tripping is the 'pinnacle' of conscious experience i didnt say 'best', that is a value term, and i dont think values are involved. A religious experience is a religious experience, no...
  47. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    There is only one poster here who says HPPD doesnt exist (GOD) in the face of the overwhelming evidence that it does, every forum has its resident loudmouth idiot, this forum is unfortunately no different. GOD is displaying typical delusional tendencies, ie maintaining a false belief in the face...
  48. M

    What was before the big bang?

    yes i said earlier, that some people (a small minority) dont need to do anything, and they just experience fragmenting associations spontaneously. Schizophrenics are the obvious, typical example of this kind of person. But this is a question of statistics, *most people* are unable to enter...
  49. M

    What was before the big bang?

  50. M

    What was before the big bang?

    oops double post....
  51. M

    What was before the big bang?

    I agree, 'God' is just a throwaway symbol, like 'Allah' or 'Ganesh' or whatever BUT i am not talking about defining 'God', im talking about defining what it means to have a 'religious experience', specifically, what is the meaning of the difference between a religious experience and a...
  52. M

    What was before the big bang?

    Right, what exactly is your definition of a 'religious experience'? (and btw i think it is more appropriate to specify 'intense' religious experience) Some (very small minority) of people experience spontaneous religious states without having to do anything/ingest any chemicals And there are...
  53. M

    What was before the big bang?

    I explained the difference between tight and loose association binding (with reference to visual perception) in this post: http://www.psychonaut.com/index.php?opt ... =en#153648 So if you can quote that post, and explain which parts of it you don't understand, then i can try and further...
  54. M

    What was before the big bang?

    No it doesnt 'loosened cognitive association binding' defines/characterizes the mystical state. Visual distortion is a very common feature (among other features) of the mystical state The reason i used it as an example, is because i think it is the easiest way to explain the meaning of...
  55. M

    What was before the big bang?

    Not exactly, im saying that in order to attain religious insight, it is absolutely necessary to have religious experience. And in response to the quesion 'how' - by far the most ergonomic way to have religious experience, is to take entheogens you can observe beauty in the ordinary state of...
  56. M

    What was before the big bang?

    Day to day, ordinary consciousness. The state of consciousness you are in when you arent tripping on entheogens Phenomenologically, the ordinary state can be characterised by 'tight' cognitive association binding. The best way to explain what this means is with reference to the distinction...
  57. M

    What was before the big bang?

    to clarify: .......can never give you religious insight BECAUSE of the total distinction between ordinary states of consciousness, and intense mystical/religious states of consciousness. Intense religious/mystical experience is a necessary component of the attainment of religious/mystical insight
  58. M

    What was before the big bang?

    right but i think it is necessary to draw a total distinction between ordinary states of consciousness, and intense mystical/religious states of consciousness. Observing life/nature while in the ordinary state can never give you religious insight
  59. M

    What was before the big bang?

    entheogens are a safe, reliable, repeatable (ie ergonomic) way to have an INTENSE mystical/religious experience, is there alternative way that is as ergonomic as entheogens?
  60. M

    What was before the big bang?

    which part are you saying 'not necessarily' to? ie are you saying that religious experience isnt necessarily the core of real religion? Or that entheogens arent necessarily the most ergonomic way to trigger a religious experience?
  61. M

    What was before the big bang?

    8) There had to be some common ground somewhere There was a TV program about religion/atheism where they had a mask that was designed to give people religious experiences via some kind of electromagnetic stimulation of the brain. They put Dawkins in it to see if it would affect his atheist...
  62. M

    What was before the big bang?

    Dawkin's book 'the God delusion' didnt provide a single philosophical argument for atheism, the whole book boils down to ONE incredibly simpleminded and invalid argument, basically "religious people sometimes do bad things, therefore God doesnt exist" Dawkins confuses 'religion' with 'religious...
  63. M

    What was before the big bang?

    that ^ is just 3 different ways of saying "the direction of time" the direction of time is purely an illusory subjective experience, it has no basis in the ultimate reality of the block-universe. And there are no 'other things' that the block universe model fails to account for, it is an...
  64. M

    What was before the big bang?

    The Scientologist's motto - "Don't defend, attack!" :D Life is a dream, you can't wake up from it, but you CAN become lucid 8)
  65. M

    Internet security

    www.hidemyass.com is a good free proxy
  66. M

    What was before the big bang?

    to be 'right' about something is the same as being 'certain' about something. And i have already said that there is no such thing as certainty When you experience persisting visual effects after a trip ends, that is called 'HPPD'. I didnt diagnose myself as having HPPD, instead I recognised...
  67. M

    What was before the big bang?

    the only thing i am denying is TRUTH, i am certainly not denying experience i never asked anyone to prove anything No i used my own experience to indicate that i had HPPD. Just like many psychonauts, i experienced persisting visual patterning after using drugs. That means i had HPPD, even...
  68. M

    What was before the big bang?

    ^ this is a description of 'causal determinism'. I am not talking about causal determinism, i am talking instead about 4-dimensional BLOCK UNIVERSE determinism (Rudy Rucker's model), which entirely eliminates causality to be 'right' about something is the same as being 'certain' about...
  69. M

    What was before the big bang?

    0 < 16.6666 < 100 'prove' = 'prove to be certaintly true' i have already said, there is no certainty, no proof, and therefore NO TRUTH NOTHING IS TRUE
  70. M

    What was before the big bang?

    a deterministic worldview eliminates causality entirely, there is no 'causation' between events, all events are eternally determined to occur i could *certainly* be wrong, i dont base anything on certainty, because i dont think there is any such thing as certainty
  71. M

    What was before the big bang?

    16,667 % is between 0% and 100%, so if you say that there is a 16,667 % of a dice throw being a 6, you are saying that the chance of it being a 6 is between one and zero, and i am saying this is false
  72. M

    What was before the big bang?

    'proof' is a very problematic concept, as it involves the idea of 'certainty', and i think that arguably NOTHING is certain, anything could be the case
  73. M

    What was before the big bang?

    Sanity is a myth, we are ALL insane and (most of us are) pretending that we arent, existence is completely absurd if you try telling a psychiatrist that you believe you are God, you will be injected with all kinds of chemicals to stop you believing that, it is a 'delusion' according to...
  74. M

    What was before the big bang?

    it doesnt say it doesnt exist, i wasnt quoting from wiki to say that it 'doesnt exist' is a bit oversimplistic, that is why i clarified that statement by saying 'as it is commonly understood' - the wiki page perfectly exemplifies the common understanding of the idea of probability in other...
  75. M

    What was before the big bang?

    Induction has no logical foundation It is 'systematic' but that isnt the same thing as being logical. The conclusion of an inductive argument does not follow logically from its premises, therefore induction has no logical foundation an inductive argument does not mention probability for...
  76. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    i stopped using cannabis because of these problems. To start with i was using cannabis, and getting stoned made the whole thing much worse, not just the persisting visual effects, but also the anxiety and paranoia more generally, it would go into turbo mode when i was stoned. So i stopped using...
  77. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    what if it is particularly intense, causing anxiety, and having a severe negative impact on the life of the person who has it, can it then be counted as a disorder? it isnt me who calls it a disorder, it is just the commonly accepted word for it, it is the 'D' of 'HPPD'
  78. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    HPPD isnt necessarily a disorder, but if it is particularly intense, causing anxiety, and having a negative impact on the life of the person who has it, can it then be counted as a disorder?
  79. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    :D
  80. M

    What was before the big bang?

    Does this process go back forever? Or was there a 'first' big bang that started the chain of bangs and crunches?
  81. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    When you take a psychedelic like LSD, the mind temporarily enters into a state of super-enhanced turbo-charged cognitive processing, which is characterized by loosened associations between mental constructs. Ordinarily, when the trip finishes, the mind fully returns to the state of tightly-bound...
  82. M

    What was before the big bang?

    a psychiatrist would probably say that believing that you are God is a 'delusion of grandeur'. But you are very unlikely to be sectioned or hospitalised for that alone, as i said it is only when you start acting crazy, and especially harming yourself and/or other people, that they bring out the...
  83. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    it has nothing to do with brain damage or any kind of physical damage, and again nobody has ever claimed that it is. Nothing is 'damaged' for HPPD to occur i havent quoted wiki even once, read my posts more carefully. 'HPPD' refers to the condition of persisting visual distortions in...
  84. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    Even if there is a link between HPPD and drugwar propaganda, that is certainly no reason to lie about the existence of HPPD, it is a fairly common experience among psychedelic drug-users I dont think HPPD is linked to propaganda myself, but there is a fairly similar (but distinct) condition...
  85. M

    What was before the big bang?

    lol yes i think that applies to a lot of psychonauts :D including yourself, mental hospitals are full of people who think that "I am God", that is such a cliche :P I know how to act like a sane person and follow the rules of the game. And anyway im a philosopher we are allowed to be a bit...
  86. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    i already explicitly said several times that it is NOT physical damage, or a disorder, perhaps you didn't read those posts? It can certainly be a very distressing condition though, because it can make it seem as if the world is constantly on the brink of falling apart and that can be a source...
  87. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    well that is fine but as i have said, this is not a recognised term for the condition, so it seems a bit strange to arbitrarily invent a term in this thread. Also i think that the 'H' is highly problematic, because the word 'hallucinogen' is deeply flawed, i always call these drugs either...
  88. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    A necessary condition of having HPPD, is that you have taken psychedelics, and observed a direct conjunction between the drug taking and the phenomenological symptoms of the condition. Furthermore i think that you are distorting the issue with your (unjustified) assertion that "everyone has...
  89. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    i agree and that is why i have repeatedly pointed out the problematic nature of the term 'HPPD' and repeatedly insisted that i am only talking about the condition that the label refers to, not the label itself i am using the word 'HPPd' because there just simply isnt anything else to call it...
  90. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    i am using the term HPPD because 1. There is no other widely accepted term that refers to this condition and 2. It is the term that the original poster used Because i am well aware that it is a deeply problematic semantic term, i have 1. gone to great effort to repeatedly clarify what...
  91. M

    What was before the big bang?

    why do you say this? It is a PERFECT example of inductive reasoning, trying to predict future terms of the sequence based on provisional patterns that you have previously observed, IS induction. And also, you can apply the exact same analysis to ANY instance of inductive reasoning and that...
  92. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    i call it HPPD because that is the broadly accepted term for this condition, there is no other term for it that it widely accepted, also it is the term that the orginal poster used when he posted this thread DSM is a deeply flawed document that reflects the thinking of medical psychiatry, i do...
  93. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    and that is exactly why i said several times that the name 'HPPD' is inaccurate. I am not talking about the name , i am only talking about the condition that it refers to i agree, which is why i said several times that the name 'HPPD' is inaccurate, it isnt necessarily a disorder, it is a...
  94. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    no it was your reasoning, you specifically said that you cannot have HPPD unless you have been diagnosed with it. So following your own reasoning, it is impossible to catch a cold until you have seen a doctor and been diagnosed with a cold if you had it before you had taken drugs, then it is...
  95. M

    What was before the big bang?

    Popper was not saying that induction doesnt exist in the sense that you cannot reason inductively, what he was saying, is that induction does not establish probability, which is exactly what i am saying the 'observations' are the numbers that are already given there isnt an explicit time...
  96. M

    What was before the big bang?

    I totally agree, and that is why i explicitly specified that i was talking about 'true prediction' and not just 'prediction' you can predict anything you want based on induction, but you cannot make a true prediction, this is simply the definition of what induction is, the conclusion does not...
  97. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    you are claiming that it ismpossible to experience any condition unless you are diagnosed with it by a professional so by your reasoning, you can never catch a cold unless you have been diagnosed with it, which is obviously not true, so your argument fails So you have experienced lasting...
  98. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    it might not necessarily 'disturb' day to day life, but it is certainly *present* during day to day life and HPPD is the generally accepted term for it, although it is a misleading name for several reasons
  99. M

    HPPD, anyone?

    I was never talking about the detailed psychiatric diagnosis of HPPD, i made it very clear what i was talking about right from the start, which is the condition where people experience visual distortion which outlasts the end of a trip, that is the basic phenomenological essence of what HPPD is...
  100. M

    What was before the big bang?

    that is not true, and the wiki article doesnt say it either. inuction is about predicting future outcomes based on past observations, with the sequences of numbers, you are predicting future outcomes of the sequence based on past observations, therefore it is explicitly a case of inductive...

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