@mia @lain @scathach i suspect what they're getting at comes back to the unified self concept. when the heart, mind and atman are in agreement is when the universe weeps, cars get lifted by twigs, entire concepts are solved in hours, secrets get stolen from god.

i think castaneda or someone gets at it indirectly where some people access enlightenment through drugs or mechanisms (the sly man) and some are able to do it directly but those are rare

the people who use drugs for this purpose are also typically very different from the ones who are just looking for copes.