So when it comes to noumena, how does one separate emotions/feelings from thought? How does one know what is real or go about deciding what experience has value?
Wouldn’t you say that something has to call it into being - how can that happen without the influence of the senses?
The human mind or psyche, along with how we are wired and the impressions/patterns made upon our minds early in life, have a lot to do with how we individually perceive things through our senses and how we experience things - not necessarily real as reality goes but nevertheless real to the individual. Noumena is created through the deepest core of our beings or perhaps it’s the other way around.
Any idiot can say those words to you. Platitudes. That’s what someone says when they don’t know what else to say.
You’d be better off just going outside and looking up at the stars. What you perceive you become and absorb.
Perhaps not much better than what they say to you but you might then be absorbing light, energy and beauty.
If you know what it is you really want to do what will make you happy, why obsess about it?
I understood what a noumenon or noumena is. I see what you mean though.
But what do YOU need to do so that life CAN BE MADE BETTER - so that you can have a positive attitude - short of lying to yourself or denying your own reality?
I am immune to the effects of drugs. Only thing left I can do is change my DNA.
If I had more money I would live my life in one of those new age healing circles/massage parlors.
I agree with trixie, I would also say there weren’t any false emotions.
Drug induced emotion are real, in the sense that it is an existing emotion and it is being felt. Drugs increase the production of dopamine and endorphins which increases the sensitivity of emotions which is higher than the usual experience of the individual person.
People automatically think the default state is some how correct and perfect, or that you must just accept it. Which is ridiculous really given the fact that it is different for everybody, with that logic why bother with medicine at all, for anything.
Some people are just born into really unlucky emotional states that often increases the suffering and decay of the person.
Certain psychedelic drugs might create false perceptions, such as delusions but the emotions that come with it are real.
Personally, I would suggest psychoactive drugs, such as cannabis, where the thoughts and emotions are in tune.
With that said, no drug is perfect in the sense that it will make you feel how you want to feel. I think a lot of what we feel can be out of our hands, and you just have to ride it out… this too shall pass etc…
Alternatively, use art or self acceptance of such an emotionally persisting state in relation to social expression.
I also would like to add, perhaps it will be unwelcomed, but I went to a doctor when I was a late teen, he said to me he has the remedy for everything, I said what is it…he said just stop giving a fuck!
But that’s all emotion is; the interaction of neurotransmitters, dendritic spikes and action potentials, and hormones. Fundamentally, an emotion is generated by ionized particles crossing a membrane. Saw a video of a doctor who had stimulated a specific region in the brain of a woman, causing her to laugh at the push of a button.
I’ve never gotten high a day in my life except maybe on coffee, books, nature, et cetera, and a beautiful male face. lol
But it seems to me that there comes a point, call it a tipping point, emotionally speaking, when you come to realize that your so-called high was only a lie, your brain’s way of tricking you. The most natural wonderful high in the world is stillness, being, and having done nothing to actually get there.
Staying high all the time would render you dysfunctional, during the high and after it, depending upon how high you are that is.
Extreme lows do follow extreme highs, and that’s the very reason why I choose not to get THAT high anymore. Finding your balance is needed I think.
Personally, I’m enjoying the ‘high’ of meditation at the moment, a special place I can venture into, I’m getting better and better at entering it without long delays. I like this place better than gods place, it just seems more real and beneficial.