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Psychedelica: Beauty, Consciousness and the Cosmos

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We are alone but we are not expected to be lonely. The cosmos belongs to the realm of ideas and should be treated as such. The universe is comprised of angels (which are made of light, specifically the ultraviolet spectrum), jinn (which are made of heat, specifically the infrared spectrum), animals, plants and non-living things such as rocks, which are solid, liquids such as ocean water, and gas such as air and that the human being encompasses all the above plus all that the above does not have, which is full consciousness and that we are “alone” despite the existence of the all the above mentioned. We shouldn’t be lonely though because we can find companionship among ourselves. The following pithy quote by a well known Sufi named Muyiddin ibn ‘Arabi (1165–1240 AD) who lived in Spain is poignant at this juncture: “God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animals and awakens in man.” which allude to various levels of consciousness. Human consciousness comprise subjectiv