I believe you have misread my post. Powers that be continue to want me to not have mind altering experiences. I continue to have them anyway. So it goes.
"Do people have ideas or do ideas have people?" might have something to do with the phenomenon of different humans preferring different labels for the same thing.
This is from Jung right? I've always been fascinated by his teachings, especially the collective unconscious. I'm just gonna leave a couple related quotes and ideas down here cause I want to.
Dostoevsky made observations like this, too.
"It was not you who ate the idea, but the idea that ate you"
"Men need to bow down to something; whether another man or an idea.”
I think Ernest Becker explored similar ideas in The Denial of Death, though through a different context.
Yep...the problem with humans has been pretty well understood for ages, hopefully we can get over this all science and only science phase and utilize some of this valuable knowledge before we kill ourselves.
They both have meaning, a distinction is the degree to which free will (or, System 2 in Thinking Fast and Slow) is in play. But now we have two problems!
