[stvltvs]

It might clarify things to say unconscious beliefs, expectations, or thought patterns instead of knowledge. It doesn't seem that the subconscious mind is a font of pure wisdom and knowledge but it powerfully affects us in ways that our conscious mind isn't aware of, by definition.

Before using psychedelics, it's important to anchor ourselves by questioning the difference between knowing something and feeling like we know something.

[mock-possum]

One thing that a lot of people struggle with is seeing their feelings as ‘just’ feelings - it’s got to be something to do with our biology, where we instinctively seek out and cling to answers for why we feel a certain way - to justify our feelings I guess - instead of recognizing them as ‘just’ feelings, and seeing that instinct for what it is - ‘blind’ instinct that can easily seduce us into false beliefs.

[codr7]

Yeah, feelings are real.

Though most of them probably have very little to do with you.

[mistermann]

> Before using psychedelics, it's important to anchor ourselves by questioning the difference between knowing something and feeling like we know something.

The inverse seems more prudent to me, since mostly all global decisions get made when not on psychedelics, and we arguably have a severe lack of truly novel, out of the box ideas...who knows, maybe something useful for addressing climate change, polarization, etc could result!

Or at least, run some trial studies comparing results under the three modes. I don't think I've ever heard of a study like this being done before.

[stvltvs]

Idea generation from psychedelics is okay, but we should avoid thinking we've received a divine revelation of unquestionable truth because it felt true.

[mistermann]

This should also apply to the same during normal consciousness, but for some reason that state is privileged, beyond absolute questioning or suspicion. It's quite a neat trick.