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Seeing True Reality Would (Probably) Kill You…

Pursuit of Wonder | June 29, 2026



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From Perennialism to his theory of consciousness, the philosophical work of Aldous Huxley is an often-overlooked area of his writing. In this video, we explore it. Is our understanding of consciousness sort of backwards, duped by consciousness itself? According to Huxley, it is.

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  7. @rahulyadavv28

    June 29, 2026 at 9:06 pm

    The perennialism part is the weakest section. Similar ideas appearing across cultures can be explained much more simply — humans share the same cognitive architecture, the same fear of death, the same social structures. You don't need a universal divine reality to explain why people independently invented similar myths. Convergent evolution is a simpler explanation.

  13. @averilramsey7241

    June 29, 2026 at 9:06 pm

    Nihilism, Truth, Reality. Pharmaceuticals are not necessary to the inducement of consciousness. The unborn, before their entry into the third trimester of gestation, are as close to truth as they will ever be. Their minds have yet to be thoroughly corrupted by the value systems of Society; or the desire characteristic of their later capitulation to subjugation by the preponderous enticements and demands (seduction and intimidation) foisted upon them by their environment. Stupidity is learned; and by interaction with intellectual inferiority, genius is rendered retarded. Nihilism, Truth, Reality. Praise The Good Host. [Trump2028]

  15. @westsidekasper4860

    June 29, 2026 at 9:06 pm

    I seen a tiny bit of it once with this ancestral plant called salvia divinorum it’s like life was all a dream and I was sleeping/dead life is the dream of death and this feminine being was trying to wake me up but everytime I got up I flipped 1000 times and felt backwords to the floor I did this numerous times falling back each time kinda like when Ezequiel had that vision of god and felt to his face aswell as Moses and Abraham what I was seeing was incomprehensible and that’s not even seeing god. Once you see the lord you can never come back to this matrix and speak about it. Anyway,
    Then I got this feeling I didn’t hear actual words but something telepathically told me if I wanted to stay there and see more I would have to let go and leave my body for ever it was so spooky I thought about my family and i knew I wasn’t ready and then again it telepathically told me that I have my whole life to prepare for this moment and that if when the time came I wasn’t ready to go that I would be born again and live my life over and over until I was ready. From that day forward I been training myself with meditation astral projection and psychedelics I don’t use these substances to party there tools I use to explore consciousness and to get ready for when it’s time to let go. The thing is that I have a problem with attachment I know when the time comes I have to let of everything the world my possessions and even my family. I know that life is dream but still ima have a hard time leaving my “family”. People say we are all one divided into different consciousness so maybe I will have the courage one day and the key is that it will feel like dejavu and familiar and won’t be as scared.

  21. @purenoid

    June 29, 2026 at 9:06 pm

    With my schizophrenia or rather schizoaffective-bipolar disorder, I sometimes (a lot, actually) feel like I see everything with some weird type of clarity and it's killing me, with my hyper-awareness…

  22. @ryanisanpc

    June 29, 2026 at 9:06 pm

    okay so this is my opinion on this, I think the man who took the cactus went into a state where all he can think about is the universe and how he was created because when your tripping on any psychedelic you mind puts you in a place where that's all you can think about if your not prepared. So my point is the the filtering isn't real and what you see is what you see, because when your in a state like that he probably thought about how he was created and why he was here, while doing so he prob thought of the idea that the patterns and everything he was seeing was actually reality because the reason he thought default mode network is because shrooms make u restarted and that's how he was on the drug. Think about it

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