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for any individual or entity. There appears to be a paradox in that to comprehend
CydelikSpace in full one must shrink to a point of zero, at which stage there would be no
experience or perception. To function as a human, and comprehend all of CydelikSpace, is
not possible. This is not to say that one can’t have some extremely grandiose experiences in
this arena. But I don’t believe one can ever reach a final stage of Enlightenment, attainment
of a state from which they have nothing further to learn, nowhere further to go.
Many mystical religions preach pursuit of this Satori experience at the expense of not
valuing one’s personal identity or ego. These philosophies tend to degrade the development
of personality, character, abilities, relations, even evolution itself. While the ego or identity
certainly needs to be transcended to enter CydelikSpace, it is only by continually rebuilding
our identity that our lives continue. My philosophy has been to use the psychedelic,
spiritual, ego-loss experience to break down my limitations and definitions of myself, to keep
my identity from stagnating, then to rebuild and develop in the manner I choose, a wiser,
healthier, happier ego.
Indeed it is this loss of ego, identity, or self-awareness which admits one into
CydelikSpace. And since any psychedelic can dissolve the identity to a degree, any
psychedelic can admit one into CydelikSpace. However, with most psychedelic experiences
the tendency is for the ego to begin to reinstate itself immediately after it has dissolved.
While the experience of CydelikSpace seems timeless while in it, if timed on a clock the
deep portion of the experience usually lasts but a few seconds.
My LSD experience in Death Valley is a case in point. At first my self-identity was
dissolving slowly. The pace increased until the ego was in a rapidly deteriorating state. The
“peak” during which “I became the One Mind onto which all the experiences of time have
been etched,” lasted for but a brief moment by our earthly clocks. The descent back to selfawareness
was equally sharp, as I saw layers of identity forming in front of my perception. If
viewed across a graph chart, the egoloss/reinstatement process would start as a slowly rising
curve, changing to a nearly vertical, quickly-rising line as the ego dissolves to near
nothingness. The reinstatement of the ego usually closely mirrors its dissolution.
In 1953, after ingesting mescaline for his first psychedelic experience, the famous
author-philosopher Aldous Huxley wrote The Doors of Perception. Here Huxley discusses
ideas of his own, and of other philosophers, relating to this theme. “The function of the
brain, nervous system, and sense organs is in the main eliminative and not productive. Each
person is at any moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of
perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe. The function of the brain
and nervous system is to protect us from being overwhelmed and confused by this mass of
largely useless and irrelevant knowledge, by shutting out most of what we should otherwise
perceive or remember at any moment, and leaving only that very small and special selection
which is likely to be practically useful.
“According to such a theory, each one of us is potentially Mind at Large. But in so
far as we are animals, our business is at all costs to survive. To make biological survival
possible, Mind at Large has to be funneled through the reducing valve of the brain and
nervous system. What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the kind of
consciousness which will help us stay alive on the surface of this particular planet.
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