Nick - > What I object to is the notion that such experiences in extremis are > èin principleç more likely to be true than ordinary ones, or, further, > that there is any way to confirm the implications of one experience > except through further experiences. > I believe that /experiences en extremis /might well offer some *perspective* or qualitatively different "truth" than more mundane experiences. I also believe that once one is habituated/tuned/primed for this kind of perspective, that it can be somewhat persistent.
When I went from watching clouds form/transform/dissipate entirely naively to having a sense of the higher dimensionality of pressure, temperature, and humidity wherein the dynamics evolve it felt rather transcendent. Now I can watch clouds evolve (especially via timelapse) in a very different way. A. Square had a similar experience after A. Square gave him a guided tour of the third dimension... ? - Steve
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