The truly meditative state could also be brought about by introducing chemicals, isn’t it?
No, but what could be brought about by introducing chemicals is altered states of consciousness that can hint at this state — LSD, mushrooms, and hallucinogenic drugs in general will stop some of the editing in the brain. The normal brain is the brain of the conditioned brain — where for instance there is collective memory reinforced every day. See the newspaper today — brothers killing each other, mayhem somewhere, war elsewhere — it’s a replay, recycling of the cultural, social, historical mind, the Mahabharata being played out daily and transcendence is beyond all that.
Transcendence is what
the Buddhists call pure mind; what J Krishnamurti called the whole mind as opposed to the fragmented mind.
It is now established that meditators, diligent in their practice, actually grow the prefrontal part of their brain — which is a recent part of our evolution — consciously. Consciousness expands, the brain too grows physically.
Om Namah Shivay.
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