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Re:Psilocybin repairs 'brains cells damaged by depression' i... by jk888 on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @12:54AM (#27757522)
Staunch materialist psychonaut here.
Re:Psilocybin repairs 'brains cells damaged by depression' i... by pmoriarty on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @01:11AM (#27757628)
You're far from alone. There was an interesting thread on r/psychonauts recently about atheist psychonauts[1], and a lot of people identified as such.

Psychedelics clearly don't inevitably lead people to become believers... but still a lot of people do, especially when they have overwhelmingly powerful mystical experiences (which we know are pretty likely to happen on psychedelics).

[1] - https://old.reddit.com/r/Psychonaut/comments/oa6782/atheist_...

Re:Psilocybin repairs 'brains cells damaged by depression' i... by Trasmatta on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @01:24AM (#27757712)
The most lasting message I got from my trips was "wow, we don't know shit. It sure is weird that we're all on this planet and don't really have any idea what's actually going on." No real insight into the nature of reality, except that it's pretty weird.
Re:Psilocybin repairs 'brains cells damaged by depression' i... by yesenadam on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @03:47AM (#27758479)
Well, Socrates' knowing that he knew nothing was counted a real insight! Uh, and his singular wisdom was proclaimed by a psychedelic-inhaling priestess in a temple, no less.

It didn't work for me though—in epistemology class once I said to the lecturer "I don't know anything!"—not being flippant, at the time I really felt I couldn't be 100% certain of anything—and he said instantly, unimpressed, "Don't you know your name?".. (Which didn't seem quite fair. He didn't "respond to the strongest plausible interpretation". Or maybe he did.)

Re:Psilocybin repairs 'brains cells damaged by depression' i... by sjg007 on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @05:34AM (#27759172)
The response to that is, yes but who is yesenadam?