Guybrush

A problem with your drug induced subjective reality is of course that you're the only one occupying it. You're the only one it has importance to. If you delve into that with heart and soul, are you really opening yourself or are you closing yourself off? Is it practical to focus on experiences only you experience?


You ask for comments about ghosts and alternative sciences and so on. I believe anything which is objectively real in our world can be measured if you find the right tool. What you can't trust is people because we're not rational beings and our perception of reality is at best some vague approach. We're wired for finding and seeing patterns even when there is none. We can experience a range of profound placebo effects from eating small sugar pills when we're in the right frame of mind and we're highly susceptible to suggestion, from others as well as ourselves. People invent their own reality and then they lie about the one we percieve as objective. A measuring tape, on the other hand, doesn't lie.

So, I believe most of alternative medicine, ghosts, visits by angels and so on are merely the products of wishful thinking, placebos, suggestion or even mental disease. I believe if people were as cold and calculating as robots, these things wouldn't work or exist. But, if/when these things are properly measured and tested by something else than the people who experience them, I'll be a believer.


Angels is becoming big business in the world (people make a fortune on it now on conferences, books, healing and so on) and I just read an article on that. One of these angel guys who's been speaking with the archangel Gabriel or something every day the last 30 years says the angel appeared to him 30 years ago when he became a believer. Later in the interview, he said that he doesn't really see the angels, rather they're a force (mood or atmosphere) or a smell or a feeling that someone's watching you. I experience these things too, yet I'd never interpret them as angels visiting me. And why angels? If he's gonna "fantasize" about it, how does he know it's not ghosts? What creates his angels is a strong willingness to interpret those things that way. Someone else might feel a ghost. If I experience a gust of wind, the important thing I know about that is that it was a gust of wind and so that's how I try to relate to it. I don't have a strong willingness to interpret it as f.ex a haunting - or at least I try my best not to.

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