Posted by Sigismund on August 10, 2007, at 0:35:25
In reply to Re: Confessions of an English Opiate Eater » Quintal, posted by LlurpsieNoodle on August 8, 2007, at 15:13:24
can be positive or negative, perhaps.
In "Feeling Unreal", the authors mention people whose experience with meditation has been quite unhelpful, as well as others for whom it has been the other way.
What interests me is why the experience of emptiness can be so different.
Are the forms of emptiness being discussed quite different?
Or is it the same thing but experienced with or without fear and other negative emotions?
On the treatment angle, there seem to be no meds that help depersonalisation as such. They even mention opiate antagonists as being of some small promise. IME, narcotics help depersonalisation, but then they help everything, all the worlds problems being turned into one big narcotic problem.
I very much enjoyed 'Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism', though I heard of a conference he gave where he was waving a bottle of whisky and claiming that he could make the alcohol pass between the cells of his body.
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