• Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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    My point is that we have no idea they all had the same delusion. What each refer to as Enlightenment may be very different.

    Even so, they may have all watched the same film, ingested the same chemical compounds or suffered the same childhood injury.

    Your hypothesis would be comforting if true (particularly as we are not discussing supernature) but I remain skeptical.

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      2 months ago

      we have no idea they all had the same delusion.

      You have no idea that they did, and you have no idea they didn’t.

      That’s why I said before that if you can see how religions rhyme, you can find a core message in all of them. And that, I think, is the truth.

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        Given we haven’t even defined Enlightenment between ourselves it’s unlikely everyone else who claims to have achieved it will agree have the same definition/experience.

        You are correct I have no idea, but my prior expectation is that these experiences are independently located within each person’s brain, without any external connection.