#open individualism

[sidui]

[third-nature]

"...[M]any of the phenomena that are being interpreted as past lives, and reincarnation, and channeling, and regression this, and clairvoyant that -- all this has to do with the misunderstanding about how causality actually works.

All of the impressions upon which people are building these models -- channeling, and spirit guides, and reincarnation, and so forth -- the material upon which these models are being built is real, but the models that are being built are tremendous compressions of the reality of the situation.

I mean, when someone tells me that they experienced a past life regression and that they were a butcher in 13th-century Florence, I always think to myself, 'But you were a butcher in 13th-century everywhere. And you were a butcher in 14th-century everywhere.' I mean, once the connection is opened, the connection is not particular. The connection is general. All reality is who you are. All reality is where you are, and where you’ve been, and where you will be."

Terence McKenna

[auntbibby]

me reading accounts of near death experiences: "wow it kinda sounds like theres a universal consciousness that all minds are filtering."

materialists: "the facts dont back that up, agree to disagree"

me reading about derek parfit and open individualism: "wow it kinda sounds like we could technically interpret all minds as filtering a universal experience."

materialists:

[sotalia-fluviatilis]

"When we were Jung"

If Adele believed in open individualism and wanted to remind us of the time we were a Swiss psychiatrist

[protoneutype]

http://nautil.us/issue/40/learning/a-mental-disease-by-any-other-name