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The Vedantic philosophical insight that your being and all that ever exists, has existed, will exist, has been, is, and ever will be, the soul and consciousness of every living thing, shares in Your Being, the one, eternal, all-pervading, omniscient, omnipresent Being, which is Brahman, is not a merely psychic and mental experience of sensory overload, synesthesia, and psychedelia as can be reached through a drug state.

Similarly, the Buddhist insight that the “self” cannot ever be objectively pointed to as an “object”, an objective distinctly defined entity, “be” simply a body, an emotion, or a thought or set of thoughts, a consciousness — since, by nature, what it observes, it is detached from and not strictly limited to simply being what it is observing, in the same way that if you can look at your fingernail, it is inane to say, “My self can be defined and encapsulated in that fingernail I am observing — if someone asks me what my ‘self’ is, I can simply say, ‘It is my fingernail’” — also put in an other, more famous way, that an eye cannot see itself and a hand cannot grasp itself, a flashlight cannot turn around and illuminate itself — this is not merely a drug-insight, either.

The Vedantic insight is, “The truth ‘I am Brahman’ is the primordial truth behind all that ever was, is, and could be.” The Buddhist-insight is, “Why even call it ‘Brahman’”? Functionally, great and authentic sages of both traditions end up sounding rather similar.