Indeed. Anyone familiar with nerds know that they don't like to be reminded that they're role-playing. Same in the waking world, talking about how this is just a self-chosen ride, a shared dream we chose to participate in before coming here, won't be appreciated by all those who are really getting into it.

We shouldn't force everyone to practice lucid dreaming.

IME, I have observed that there isn't ever any "end"...

On the contrary, there is actually a substantial body of evidence supporting the role of tryptamines in plants as defensive mechanisms against predators:
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1022983529555
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1943155?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=uKPwBwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP7&dq=tryptamines+in+plants+predator+deterrent&ots=AeTIl4_jj0&sig=kjYgtdgifFGKXRZkVQywK5IABpw#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-313X.2008.03441.x/pdf
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S1415-47572001000100016&script=sci_arttext


I was definitely wrong about tryptamines not having potential to serve roles in plant metabolism though, as shown in some of the studies I linked.

Oh, not The End, certainly, but an end of sorts. While all is undoubtedly one, it's in our most basic nature to find edges and patterns, to draw lines, and to make distinctions. Whatever this currently is will surely end at some point if only to be replaced by something alltogether the same yet different.

Though that's so much easier to say than understand. Trying to wrap my head around that particular slice of infinity has led to some serious existential terror during some of my sober and more somber meditations. Looking too closely towards infinity and feeling trapped by it can be extremely daunting. Knowing that you can never truly get off the ride because you ARE the ride... yeah. I needed a stiff drink and a hug coming back from the full realization of that fact.

Heyt, thank you so much for those studies. Sadly I won't have time to read them for a few weeks as I'm currently wrapped up in final preperations for a ten day trip to a certain stretch of Nevada desert in a few days. Still, they're at the top of my pile to read when I get back, so thank you.

I am very glad to finally be on the never ending path. Wondering around without a means to explore really sucks.