1) Believe truth!
2) Avoid error!
3) Suspend disbelief!
4) Don’t blink!
5) Transcend subjectivity!

Is “following your intuition� the ability to harmonize your reason and your morality?
Most people unconsciously give priority to one or the other in cases where the two necessarily conflict. In case like this, humans are capable of solving the dilemma using opposing solutions, which can both be deemed “right�. This may be good enough for some people, but not me. Humans can operate on a higher principle. I would tell you what that was, except it is simply unintelligible. At this point in human evolution, we do not have such experience or knowledge of this faculty that can translate into something we would call concrete. Although it is ill defined, people use it all the time in all cultures. It’s how people react when they aren’t thinking about it. It’s above the reach of your thoughts, unfortunately our thoughts still have control over our bodies, and we do not rely entirely on this faculty labeled intuition.
For example, I think Jesus was someone who could stop his mind and live on higher-level circuits. I think he was labeled God because he did in fact live on a higher level than the average human, but he alone did not hold the potential. He taught his skills to his prophets, and they went around performing similar miracles. I think all humans are God, or at least have godly potential. Jesus happened to be better suited than the average man is.
So next time you have a tough decision to make, just make it for once without trying to work it out in your head ahead of time.

The closest I’ve ever come to a self induced loss of consciousness through meditation came unintentionally one night.

I had been discussing with my friends about the nature of human existence and the need for humans to philosophize constantly and without fail throughout history. by the end of the night we had discussed everything from the purpose of evolution to the nature human history. We had walked for upwards of three hours on our journey through what we already knew. At the end we sat down at a bench. It was dark out at the time and starting to drizzle

As nervous systems evolve to higher and higher levels, they come more and more to understand the true situation in which they are embedded, and the true situation in which we are embedded is an organism, an organization of intelligence on an intergalactic scale.

once we reach that understanding, is there then something more, is that not the beginning of it all?

I had a clear conception of the universe that night, it appeared in my head as a simple geometric shape. Though I can no longer grasp it now as fully as I did then, I carry something from that night with me at all times. I carry a confidence, an absence of fear, faith if you will. Faith in reality.

It’s all around us, it’s all we know, why should we not have faith in it?

The notion of self is an interesting one. Without this notion we seem like useless, inconsequential bags of organic matter chemically reacting to keep itself alive. Without self how would there be any way to perceive a difference between you and me besides apparent physical differences? While we may realize to some extent that the notion of self is a constructed one it is oh so hard to let go of what is presented to us daily as fact in our society. Most people don’t care to think about the fact that their perceived notion of themselves is merely a mental construct, a programed notion designed to allow you to function “normally” within society.

An ego is a funny creature because it does not exist beyond perception. You cannot see, smell, touch, lick or fuck an ego. You cannot watch an ego tell a joke or get crushed by a falling piano yet all the same you interact with at least one daily (unless you exist in a higher plane of existence that is but we’ll assume not for the moment). Its a strange thought to think that we interact daily with an entity/entities that do not exist in the way we traditionally think of things existing. The only other comparable thing that we interact with so often is computer data which interestingly enough is becoming more and more similar to the human brain as time goes on.

Something about advanced neural networks allows the collaborative efforts of simple individual systems to create the perception that there is a difference between the neural net and the outside world. Weird right? Where does this group of communicating systems get the guffaw, the arrogance, the ego if you will to say that is any different then the things that it interacts with outside what it defines as itself? And what happens after this system realizes its constructed ego and decides to do something about it?

It’s not mystical
It’s just statistical