Since being introduced to Scientific/Medical research, sometimes I realise there is no ‘Me’

I find this hard to explain, but I’ll try my best. I’ve had a chronic illness for 5 years, and since doing my own research on the human body and learning a little how the brain operates, I will sometimes experience a realisation or a revelation so to speak that has no words. I realise that my identity that was given to me by my parents doesn’t exist, as my identity is just thought and thought is a human invention that is used in communication processes and such things.

This realisation has no words, but it’s just a feeling of something ‘clicking’ inside my brain for a brief moment that sends a feeling of enlightenment and realisation within me that is there one second and gone the next. I’m amazed. Has anyone had similar experiences? I’d love to hear back :)

P.S. I’m heavily influenced by Alan Watts and Eastern Philosophy/Mysticism and even religion. Besides this, I use cannabis in moderate doses daily to help my condition. I think these factors play a role in my experience I have described above.

Submitted June 04, 2019 at 01:25AM by SmokinJoe93 http://bit.ly/2HUYc8R