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I wish I could upvote this more than once, how the expletive does it only have 26 upvotes?
One thing that is strange is that I recognize all of these things very intimately, and this enlightenment they describe seems to describe a lot about what's different with me than most other people... But I always associated it with learning about rationality in general, and have never gotten into the habit of explicitly meditating, although I certainly spend a whole lot of time in vaguely meditation-like mental sates. Is there any precedent for archiving this kind of enlightenment through means other than meditation, or is this just my pattern matching returning a false positive (wouldn't be the first time...)?
You're at least not the only one, though in my case it appears to just be my natural state rather than being related to anything I learned.
(My first 'wait, what?' moment relating to meditation was when I was a teenager, newly out of being Christian, just starting to look into new age stuff, not even aware of rationality as a potential thing to be pursued. I got a book on meditation and concluded that I must be misunderstanding it because all the stuff it talked about about involuntarily thinking about things and having to put a lot of effort into quieting those thoughts was so foreign to my actual experience.)
That actually helps a bit, lowering the probability I'm simply delusional. Thanks.