Quote Originally Posted by 187
i wonder how thinking would be if we didn't have a language. that probably sounds stupid.
well... the KEY for percieving the world in ways different from our common vision is just stopping the internal dialogue. All the time, we are talking with ourselves. We talk to us that the world is so and so, we listen to ourselves, and believe what we listen, so we see the world as being so and so. When, by any means (smoking, meditating, etc) we can stop this internal dialogue, our minds become free of the conditioning of thinking only about words, only about things described by words, and can percieve the world as it really is.
The loss of the ego is intimately linked to stopping the internal dialogue. I dont know exactly how. I think it is because we talk to our ego, so when we stop this internal dialogue, we stop to feed our ego with informations, so it become inactive. I dont know if it is really what happens, its just what i think.
And the perception of the world during ego-less states can be frightening... at least the first times... i felt this during my experiences with weed+butane... it was very scary... now im somewhat more used to it... but still its very weird... :abduct: