I really shouldn't have taken LSD as an adolescent (slightly paranoid)

[MysteryTramp999 at aol.com]

> Ok.  Let's take away that as well...the subject/object of the
> experiment will be denied any familiar myths, illusions, roles,
> or beliefs.  Then what?  What remains?

According to Hindu beliefs (oops), that would be Atman, which
is your true Self, which is identical to God or Brahman.

If I understand it correctly, that question is the kernel behind
Krishnamurti's teachings.  Swiped this from a website:

http://www.geocities.com/katinka_hesselink/kr/core.htm

BEGINNING OF EXCERPT
"The core of Krishnamurti's teaching is contained in 
the statement he made in 1929 when he said: 'Truth 
is a pathless land'. Man cannot come to it through 
any organization, through any creed, through any 
dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophic 
knowledge or psychological technique. He has to 
find it through the mirror of relationship, through the 
understanding of the contents of his own mind, 
through observation and not through intellectual 
analysis or introspective dissection. Man has built 
in himself images as a fence of security - religious, 
political, personal. These manifest as symbols, 
ideas, beliefs. The burden of these images dominates 
man's thinking, his relationships and his daily life. 
These images are the causes of our problems for 
they divide man from man. His perception of life is 
shaped by the concepts already established in his 
mind. The content of his consciousness is his entire 
existence. This content is common to all humanity. 
The individuality is the name, the form and superficial 
culture he acquires from tradition and environment. 
The uniqueness of man does not lie in the superficial 
but in complete freedom from the content of his 
consciousness, which is common to all mankind. 
So he is not an individual."
END OF EXCERPT

Diana