I think it is extremely exciting that people who are not spiritual - TopicsExpress



          

I think it is extremely exciting that people who are not spiritual practitioners, and who have not apprehended this dilemma in an intimate and experiential way, are looking at human cognitive architecture and rediscovering this exact same insight. The picture that is emerging from cognitive science is that personality or identity is an adaptive strategy that the organism takes on to deal with the world. And moreover, there is not one such personality, but there are really many personalities that go together with particular adaptive situations. This is exactly what one discovers through meditation or psychedelics, or any other non-ordinary state of consciousness that forces the brain to break its adaptive strategy and realize that a strategy is all it ever was. It was not an I, a self, or a subject. It was just something that was being done, or played, or performed. And if you ask, well who was doing it? the only answer that can be given is the world itself or, perhaps no one, but these amount to saying the same thing
Posted on: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 00:24:41 +0000

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