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Originally Posted by phoenix
Erm, just because you have hallucinated does not mean you have lost touch with the generally accepted reality. The ability to distinguish what you believe to be real and unreal i would think is more reflective of yr entire mental state. Psychosis compared to episodes etc.
I've unfort endured some unpleasant times with tactile, aural, and visual hallucinations not brought on by substance abuse.. I've always been aware of them happening, but also that more than likely they are not what everyone else is experiencing or that indeed they are coming from inside myself rather than outside.
Hmmm.
I'm a very spiritual person and i do belive in an interconnectedness of all things, but i also believe our minds have had plenty of time to evolve a state of consciousness that is generally on par with everyone else. I do believe that others see things in much the same way i do.. Perhaps interpreted slightly differently in terms of emotion, but not sensory wise..
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my point in bringing up hallucinations are a common human experience which directly challenge the concept of an objective reality, and as floating keeps reiterated with out enough notice, is that current science largely agrees and predicts things far more surreal than any mystic or psychedelic.
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Originally Posted by pbradley
What would you say to the claim that reality is unknowable and the known reality is not reality at all?
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I'd say that is the truest wisdom. The less you know, the better you off you become. Human life is an
experience, not a recapitulation of assumptions.
I stick to my statement. Reality is not objective, so it it being the figment of individual and mutually agreed imagination, then of course something like astral projection is easily possible. Again, if we are projecting our consciousness into our bodies where and as they 'exist' currently, why not be able to project consciousness elsewhere? And I agree with Floating, in the INFINITE universe, EVERYTHING is possible. It is not a matter of "If" it is a matter of "when"