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: the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner; also : the capacity for this
Originally posted by RealSpoke
You don't have to do any psychedelic to will "clear your disk". I used to kinda think like him when you're escaping on cloud 9 for a longer period of time. Then once you come back down to reality without RETURNING FOR A LONG TIME, you start to think, maybe I just had an altered state of mind. Which was potentially rewarding but not some golden road to knowing everything. Take it as an experience, not the answer to the universe.
1. Look at yourself in 3rd person, view your actions like you are looking at a play or movie. Lose your ego, most important thing.
2. Have the ability to have extreme empathy, since it seems a lot of people think empathy means showing compassion, it has a much broader different definition
: the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner; also : the capacity for this
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3. Have a drastic life change. Which could mean moving countries, ghetto to suburb, farm to ghetto, rich to poor, poor to rich. Particularly, I think going to bad to better is more enlightening.
edit on 1-4-2012 by RealSpoke because: (no reason given)