Why have many different people made similar conclusions regarding consciousness and reality?
From what I have read, various people who had esoteric experiences have arrived at similar conclusions about consciousness and reality. People who meditate, people who practice Robert Monroe's Gateway Experience, people who use shrooms and other psychedelic drugs, etc. Those people seem to develop similar worldviews. That there is a sort of universal consciousness everyone is part of. And possibly consciousness is the fundamental reality with the cosmos arising from it.
Those ideas about consciousness and the illusion of self seem to be very old, found in Hinduism and Buddhism. What with everything being part of Brahman.
What do you think? Are they on to something?
From what I have read, various people who had esoteric experiences have arrived at similar conclusions about consciousness and reality. People who meditate, people who practice Robert Monroe's Gateway Experience, people who use shrooms and other psychedelic drugs, etc. Those people seem to develop similar worldviews. That there is a sort of universal consciousness everyone is part of. And possibly consciousness is the fundamental reality with the cosmos arising from it.
Those ideas about consciousness and the illusion of self seem to be very old, found in Hinduism and Buddhism. What with everything being part of Brahman.
What do you think? Are they on to something?