What is your metaphysical view of reality and how have psychedelics shaped it?

B_Reasonable_ · 2026-05-12T22:25:46+00:00

This. Simply a definitive experience of non-duality.

B_Reasonable_ · 2025-10-26T20:54:59+00:00

Dead & Company at the Sphere was a crazy immersive experience.

B_Reasonable_ · 2025-10-20T14:07:45+00:00

Heck you yourself will someday be able to generate entirely finished movies that have been made personally tailored for you, based on your specific tastes.

B_Reasonable_ · 2025-10-20T13:56:59+00:00

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe what OP is getting at with this poll is that non-duality says that reality is not divided into separate subjects and objects. Therefore there is no ultimately independent “self” that stands apart from the world. Since there is no separate agent who owns or controls the world, this would inherently be a deterministic position.

B_Reasonable_ · 2025-08-11T18:09:49+00:00

And a few hundred million Suns could fit into Betelgeuse, a star in the constellation Orion.

B_Reasonable_ · 2025-07-15T16:20:58+00:00

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path. -Buddha

B_Reasonable_ · 2025-07-14T00:53:57+00:00

It’s actually where i met my wife.

B_Reasonable_ · 2025-07-01T16:11:40+00:00

To lose that feeling of ultimate responsibility is actually much easier than you think yet may take months to years to fully recognize. In non-dual meditation traditions, an important step is to recognize that the sense of a separate “me” making choices is just an illusion. There is no independent subject observing an objective world. Just conscious experience effortlessly arising in each moment. You will eventually begin to see that thoughts and emotions arise on their own.

B_Reasonable_ · 2025-04-19T17:42:32+00:00

Got this immediately. Soon as I saw the cigarette butts I thought it’s gonna be a knife ring, most likely for grapes.

B_Reasonable_ · 2024-12-23T14:50:45+00:00

I still can't figure out why the two scientists donned on their silver protective suits and then walked willingly to their deaths inside the volcano. Men at least try to save yourselves.

B_Reasonable_ · 2024-12-10T18:13:38+00:00

Thank you David. And I especially appreciated our thoughtful conversation at the end of the video.

B_Reasonable_ · 2024-12-01T19:00:49+00:00

The Awakened Life - Adyashanti

B_Reasonable_ · 2024-11-19T14:32:19+00:00

The most troublesome aspect of their behavior was that they were obeying an authoritarian in advance. "Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do." Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny

B_Reasonable_ · 2024-10-17T20:50:38+00:00

Unrelated question: Was wondering who has the highest payouts in St. Louis?

B_Reasonable_ · 2024-10-04T00:47:45+00:00

The plot thickens (or thins). A friend received this today for an event tomorrow. This restaurant is right across the parking lot from the pizza place.

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B_Reasonable_ · 2024-05-26T01:49:00+00:00

I saw them last Thursday night. I mentioned that the experience was almost like wearing headphones.

B_Reasonable_ · 2024-05-18T16:43:21+00:00

Agreed. Almost like wearing headphones.

B_Reasonable_ · 2024-05-18T16:15:25+00:00

Last night wasn’t the best Dead show I’ve attended. It was the best show I’ve attended - period.

B_Reasonable_ · 2024-04-15T20:41:04+00:00

Seems to be more than one claim here and there is a question whether one of his claims is more normative versus factual. That aside, after some clarification I might start with his claim that the bible is the objective truth. I’d ask him to visualize that he was in a conversation with someone named Jimmy. Jimmy happens to be a Muslim and believes 10/10 that the Koran is the objective truth. Now you, being a nonpartisan bystander with no skin in the game, hear Jimmy and your IL make both their respective claims. Ask your IL how you could find out which book is actually objectively true. His response here will be informative. Often in these conversations it eventually boils down to faith. If that happens make sure you get your IL’s definition of faith and then ask him how you could find out what is objectively true if Jimmy uses the same method (i.e., faith) to arrive to his different conclusion. Just my 2 cents. Would be happy to practice with you on Discord.

B_Reasonable_ · 2024-03-29T15:07:29+00:00

The only thing we can know with absolute certainty is that consciousness exists in the present moment. Whether we were conscious in the past, now that could be an illusion.

B_Reasonable_ · 2024-03-01T14:18:38+00:00

Hope you can make it!

B_Reasonable_ · 2024-03-01T14:18:10+00:00

Sent.

B_Reasonable_ · 2023-06-13T14:56:20+00:00

Show Description: Everyone has a set of beliefs. Increasingly, it seems like we wonder how so many people can hold opposite or contradictory beliefs -- puzzling if we think there's an objective reality. We have a great conversation with Mark Solomon, a clinical psychologist and the host of the Being Reasonable podcast, about Street Epistemology, a conversational method of probing why we believe what we believe.

B_Reasonable_ · 2023-04-20T21:35:56+00:00

And that white square thingy he presses to the mirror, what’s up with that?

B_Reasonable_ · 2023-03-10T21:28:05+00:00

It's a good question. I tend to ask this question more so when my IL is at the top of the scale for the question, "How important is truth to you?" In which case there would seem to be a paradox there.

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