Ganzfeld Hallucinations

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Arthur Schopenhauer once said that “If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being— were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing,” but apparently it doesn’t because there is boredom. Is something wrong with being or is something awesome with us. Nearly two hundred years ago in a letter to his father Giacomo Leopardi said “ Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense, is greater than the entire universe. Boredom, is an expression of a profound despair at not finding anything that can satisfy the souls boundless needs.” so even …show more content…

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