Meditation Is Like Being Stamped to a Rocket

Psychodelic drugs have the potential to produce extremely unpleasant and de stabilizing experiences. Meditation can open the mind to a similar range of conscious states, but far less haphazardly. The freedom from self that is both the goal and foundation of spiritual life is coincident with normal perception and cognition. As i discuss elsewhere in my work, the form of transcendence that appears to link directly to ethical behavior and human well being is that which occurs in the midst of ordinary waking life.

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