Psychological vs. Metaphysical Views on Tulpamancy

[Glaurung26]

1 hour ago, Ranger said:

When we're in this state, our judgement is also sometimes impaired by "dream-logic". It's possible dream-logic is a positive in making the hallucinations you experience even more fantastic.

 

Even tulpamancy aside, "dream-logic" has convinced me of many crazy circumstances and scenarios in the moment. Afterwards I feel kind of dumb for not seeing through it. I guess I have a habit of taking things at face value, until proved otherwise.

[theholodoc]

What the hell is "Material" any how? Answer: It is energy. configured in a variety of ways. ultimately (assuming we can know the 'ultimate' of anything) energy, which we believe follows certain laws, is naught but movement (movement of what? who knows, just movement, eddies in a stream. What stream? stream of consciousness works) Donald Hoffman PhD q.v. has made an amazing case for the proposition that NOTHING we perceive is real. It is all created in our brains, and exists, not like a candle, but like an interface, leaving us clueless as to what makes up the computer. He suggests that pure consciousness is the computer, but acknowledges that this part of his work is speculative. One very interesting 'scientific fact' that lends itself to this proposition, is that we, via our senses, perceive a little more than one/one billionth of the energy spectrum that we believe exists. That leaves a lot of room for possible explanations for everything, mystical awakenings, visions of angels, chi (qi), auras, reincarnations, and every other-out-of-the-world things that humans have come up with to soften the savage night (a metaphor for the unknown). 

I personally, know that both Flora and N'sonowa exist and are real. I have seen them both manifesting in my external reality. and see, feel, hear, touch them, in my internal reality.

I am a psychiatrist and have been privy to the inner lives of people both sane and not. I would never try to convince someone that what they were experiencing was not real. OF COURSE our experiences are real, to us. (I would surely try to talk someone out of behaving in a crazy way. I would try to communicate that I respected and cared for them, in trying to protect them from themselves, I wouldn't demean them by denying them their perceptions).  Lastly, I am a magician. I create world views. I believe that tulpamancy works best for me when thought of as magic.   Dr. Bob

[Glaurung26]

I did always have a pet hypothesis that matter is just energy. We keep finding smaller and smaller tiers of subatomic particles. Maybe it's just currents and counter-currents of energy simulating mass resistance? 

[Guest]

That's one of the prominent models.