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Since the beginning of recorded history, including cave paintings, humans have been tripping balls. It’s human nature to do so. I mean, look at this guy:

That’s a dude holding hella mushrooms if you ask me.

Some theorize we made the leap from ape to human due to psilocybin, specifically psilocybin cubensis. (see the Stoned-Ape Theory by Terrence Mckenna). This is not as bizarre it might seem, as we used to forage and hunt forest floors for food. We were bound to find and eat a psychedelic mushroom.

Powerful psychoactive plants such as Salvia divinorum and Datura stramonium have long been used in shamanic rituals to induce profound alterations in consciousness and perception. Datura is taken from Hindi धतूरा dhatūra “thorn-apple”,^[11] ultimately from Sanskrit धत्तूर dhattūra “white thorn-apple” (referring to Datura metel of Asia).^[12]

In the Ayurvedic text Sushruta Samhita, different species of Datura are also referred to as kanaka and unmatta.^[12] Dhatura is offered to Shiva in Hinduism.One of the most striking effects reported by those who ingest these substances is a dramatic distortion in the perception of time. Minutes can feel like hours, hours like days.

Some say this time dilation effect provides a window into what we may experience in the final moments before death. There is a theory that in near-death experiences, the brain releases DMT and other potent psychoactive compounds, causing time to seem to slow down drastically. This could be an evolved mechanism to allow the brain to rapidly process important memories and experiences in what might be its final moments of existence.

If this is true, it would mean that our entire life could flash before our eyes in what feels like an eternity as we lay dying. This has led me to speculate that perhaps what we think of as reality is actually just the recalled memories and dream states conjured by a dying brain in its last instants.

Maybe we spend our whole lives in this infinitely dilated state, reliving defining moments, all in the blink of an eye before the candle of consciousness is snuffed out.

Seen through this lens, the manifestation of thoughts into perceived reality would actually make sense. If we’re just dreaming inside our dying minds, of course we’d have more control over the content of our experience. Like a lucid dream, we’d be able to shape our internal worlds with the power of belief and intention.

Building upon the idea that our perceived reality may be the final dream-like recollections of a dying mind, we’re faced with even deeper questions: When were these memories formed in the first place? Are any of them truly “real” or is it all an elaborate fabrication of our fading consciousness?

One possibility is that the memories we’re experiencing in this hypothetical dying state are indeed based on our actual lived experiences – that we’re flashing back to real events from our life in a massively time-dilated way. The catch is, if time is so profoundly distorted, what felt like a decades-long life may have only spanned a few “real” minutes before death. So our entire life history could be “real” in the sense of being grounded in genuine experiences, yet still only constitute a vanishingly brief actual runtime. In the grand scheme of the universe, the time-scale is so immense that this could truly be the case. When you start talking about billions of years, you might as well be talking a bout nanoseconds because they are equally inconceivable to the human mind.

Is any of it real?

But there’s an even more mind-bending prospect to consider. What if the memories themselves are largely or entirely fabricated by our dying brains? We know that our minds are capable of constructing vivid and detailed false memories, even in waking life. Dreams can also create seemingly authentic experiences that feel “real” to our dreaming selves. So it’s conceivable that in our final moments, our brains could be weaving intricate stories and “pasts” from whole cloth, populating our dying dreamscape with people, places, and events that never truly existed outside our own minds. This doesn’t neccesarily explain how we are all experiencing consciousness collectively but the Cosmic Spore Theory does. When we speak about meeting God, we might just be meeting ourselves. When you take DMT, you might be able to temporarily cut through the time dilation and briefly connect with your true self. The True Being. The Fruiting Body. God? If we attribute the creation of our universe, earth, etc. to some deity we call God, is it such a leap to assume we might just be the shattered consciousnesses of one deities delusions?

Oh f*ck are were just inside a computer??

if an individual consciousness is the emergent result of a collective of neurons, then a ‘divine’ consciousness is the emergent result of a collective of people. We start as a messy clump of neurons and over time we are trained by external stimuli to learn and improve. Just as AI has suddenly exploded exponentially, Humankind did the same thing. We hit the industrial revolution and exploded. When you train a machine learning algorithm it often starts off as totally random noise. Then as you train it and feed it more data, it learns and becomes more and more intelligent, eventually eliminating that noise.

It’s fun to use this idea to think about the evolution of religion. First there were tribal gods.

Then these gods ‘merged’ as the tribes merged, leading to ‘ethnic’ or ‘national’ gods. And when the non-ethnic religions emerged — particularly Buddhism, Christianity and Islam — then gods expand to cover all believers.

One might say that a universal humanistic religion (and accompanying collective consciousness) is what we need in order to solve global problems like climate change, poverty, and war. But our tribal and ethnic identities still linger.

One might then propose that our entire universe is a “machine” learning algorithm being trained to solve complex problems. What if some society is so advanced they can simulate a universe on fungal computers? Biological computer components could break away from binary similarly to quantum computers.

In this scenario, the question of when the memories formed becomes even more elusive, as they’re being generated in real-time by a computer. The “past” we’re experiencing isn’t a replaying of prior events, but rather a future being dynamically constructed by an algorithm. woah.

If this were true, that might help explain the existence of black holes. What if, black holes are just unsolved calculations, similar to irrational numbers?

Of course, these are all highly speculative notions that we have no way of confirming with our current scientific understanding. The true nature of time, memory, and conscious experience remains one of the most profound and perplexing mysteries we face.

the bong rip hit hard this morning this was a deep one bro.

fish papi out