Death/loss of the ego, profound sense of connection to all existence, feelings of oneness; sounds pretty much the same to me.
But is that more down to a limit of language? It's like those studies they did on mescaline/LSD/psilocybin when they concluded they were all exactly the same and interchangeable with each other. It's because they were asking "Did you see colours?" and the answer was "yes" for each drug. Language isn't always subtle enough to express massive differences.
What about orgasms? They make you feel oneness too, so does looking at a sunset. Are they all the same as tripping?
And doesn't the language influence what you think about the trip? When you feel a bit high on psychedelics people will tend to reach for "I'm dying dude" because they've heard someone else say that "you die" on psychedelic trips. Obviously tripping isn't anything remotely like death, never was and never will be.
But he said he got a message from India afrom the Guru saying that the Guru is aware that Ram Dass has doubts, so come back to India and bring that medicine again, to where he did and his Guru carefully places 3 more tablets on his tongue and swallows so there could be no mistake.
That story does ring a bell Jack. I like Ram Dass but whether I trust him to be able to figure out a sleight of hand guy I'm not sure. I mean that thing about "Watch me put this on my tongue, very, very slowly" - that sounds like basic misdirection doesn't it. Every magician I've ever seen goes "I'm going to do this very, very slowly".
If I'dve been there I'dve just injected him direct with a thousand mics. See how he liked that :D
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