a difference

[Divad123]

14. Yes

Yes. All the different 'higher' states of awareness that mystics have talked about throughout the ages are real in the sense that they are distinct first person experiences caused not by the hand of some god, but generated by human neural architecture. Culture supplies the myths, your neural architecture allows the experience, and you get the awareness of something greater than ordinary waking consciousness.
Personally, I get a more grounded way of thinking about this shit storm of a culture we live in today, and find I can work towards addressing the problem, but without the rage.