Dissolving into Light (Ego Death)
"I was no longer ‘me.’ My body had disappeared, my thoughts had vanished, and what remained was pure awareness—floating in an endless sea of golden light. There was no fear, no attachment, just a deep, knowing peace. It felt like I had returned to the source of everything. Time had no meaning; I could have been there for a moment or a thousand years. When I 'returned,' I was laughing and crying at the same time—overcome with the beauty of it all and the ridiculousness of ever taking life so seriously."
Bitcoin is a bet on a future where money is independent, transparent, and immune to manipulation. The longer you hold, the more you understand why it matters.
True wisdom lies in holding paradox—certainty and doubt, discipline and freedom, individuality and belonging. The mind wants resolution, but life thrives in the tension. Hold both. Expand.
Instead of just thinking about paradox, psychedelics often make you feel it viscerally.
You might experience time as both infinite and fleeting, not as an abstract idea but as a felt reality.
Psychedelics enhance Non-Linear Thinking - Increases connectivity between brain regions that don’t usually communicate.
This allows you to see contradictions not as problems, but as interwoven truths.
Example: You might suddenly feel how free will and determinism can exist together, instead of just debating it intellectually.
Psychedelics shortcut the process of holding paradox by temporarily dissolving the rigid mental structures that normally enforce either-or thinking.
By Breaking Down the Ego’s Need for Certainty
The ego is what craves control, certainty, and clear categories. Psychedelics weaken the ego, making you more comfortable with ambiguity.
Example: Instead of seeing yourself as a fixed identity (I am this kind of person), you might feel like a fluid part of everything (I am both myself and everything else).
5. Embrace the Mystery
Some paradoxes can’t be solved logically, but that doesn’t mean they’re meaningless.
Example: What is the sound of one hand clapping? (Zen koan)
The question defies a straightforward answer.
The point is not to find a solution but to experience the shift in thinking that it creates.
Holding paradox: Instead of looking for an answer, allow the question itself to expand your awareness.
4. Play with Shifting Perspectives
Sometimes, a paradox is just a matter of perspective.
Example: Is a wave a particle or a wave?
In quantum physics, light can behave as both a particle and a wave, depending on how you measure it.
It’s not either—it’s both, depending on perspective.
Holding paradox: Learn to shift between different ways of seeing things without needing one to be “right.”
3. Experience the Tension Without Trying to Solve It
Paradoxes often feel uncomfortable because we want a clear answer. The trick is to sit with that discomfort.
Example: To change, you must accept yourself as you are.
Self-improvement requires effort, but the more you fight yourself, the harder change becomes.
Paradoxically, when you fully accept yourself, change happens more naturally.
Holding paradox: Instead of thinking, “Should I push myself or just be content?”—see that both acceptance and effort can work together.
2. See How Opposites Depend on Each Other
Many things only make sense because of their opposite.
Example: Freedom and structure seem contradictory, but one allows the other to exist.
Too much freedom can be chaotic; too much structure can be suffocating.
The right balance of rules actually creates more meaningful freedom (e.g., music needs rhythm to be expressive).
Holding paradox: Instead of seeing them as separate, recognize how they support each other.
1. Acknowledge Both Truths Without Resolving Them
Instead of trying to figure out which is true, recognize that both perspectives can coexist.
Example: You are both a unique individual and just another human like billions of others.
You have your own thoughts, memories, and experiences.
But at the same time, you’re made of the same stuff as everyone else and are subject to the same universal forces.
Holding paradox: Instead of saying, “I must be either special or insignificant,” recognize that both are true.
Holding paradox is a skill—it’s about being comfortable with contradictions without forcing a resolution. Instead of choosing either-or, you learn to sit with both-and. Here are some ways to practice:
Paradoxes: Just contemplating paradoxes can shift how you see the world. It’s like training your mind to loosen its grip on rigid categories—good/bad, real/unreal, self/other—and start seeing reality as more fluid.
Psychedelics dissolve the rigid boundaries of ordinary perception, revealing that reality is not as fixed as we assume. One of their deepest lessons is the ability to hold paradox—to sit with contradictions without feeling the need to resolve them.
Consider these:
You are both insignificant and infinitely important. Psychedelics can make you feel like a tiny speck in the vast cosmos while also showing that your existence is deeply interconnected with everything. Both can be true.
Reality is an illusion, yet it feels absolutely real. The everyday world can seem like a construct of the mind, yet that doesn’t make it meaningless. In fact, it might make it more profound.
You have free will, but everything is predetermined. Psychedelics can blur the line between agency and destiny, making you feel like you are both the driver and the passenger of life.
Death is the end, yet life is eternal. Ego death can give the sense that individual identity is fleeting, while at the same time, life itself continues in infinite forms.
Pain and joy, suffering and beauty—two sides of the same coin. Psychedelics can make suffering feel like an integral part of the human experience rather than something to escape.
Holding paradox means not rushing to find a single truth, but rather allowing multiple truths to coexist. It’s the ability to say, "I don’t need a final answer; I can simply be with the mystery." Psychedelics don’t give you answers—they give you better questions and a deeper capacity to sit with them.
What do you think is a more likely outcome
Elon sending people to Mars
or
Elon solving US debt
there will much better/different interfaces. like neuralink for an example.
This is first time my head hurts thinking about the bullish set up.. phew!
