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Yes I was thinking this yesterday :

This is what happened and it did seem like ‘I’ had to acclimatise to the ramifications of the experience the day prior. I thought of @claudiu’s description of the strong anxiety following the PCE and although it wasn’t an anxiety for me it was more like being faced with just how meaningless ‘my’ life is. Of the fact that ‘I’ will dissolve and would have ultimately meant nothing. It was like ‘I’ couldn’t turn in any way to avoid this seeing, eventually ‘I’ simply allowed it to do it’s thing. It was like acclimatising ‘myself’ to being/always having been redundant.

The interesting part came when I experienced what it is like to “do nothing and be having the time of one’s life”. Richard’s below quote kept coming to mind :

There is nothing except the series of sensations which happen … not happening to an ‘I’ or a ‘me’ but just happening … moment by moment … one after another. To live life as these sensations, as distinct from having them, engenders the most astonishing sense of freedom and magic

But this was also somewhat disorientating, because ‘I’ have arranged ‘my’ life in order to guarantee certain feelings, because ‘I’ cannot simply sit doing nothing and have the time of ‘my’ life, not like the above. So it’s like this whole life that ‘I’ created would no longer be required by this body, and that is ok, it can change where sensible. But it was more the apprehension of the fact that ‘I’ wouldn’t be needed at all, that nothing that ‘I’ have set up would be needed, that nothing ‘I’ do is needed.

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