The state of nirvikalpa samadhi (formless emptiness) accessible through meditation is different from but related to the experience of emptiness through psychedelic medicines; meditation emptiness is achieved through tightening concentration until one enters the space between thoughts, while psychedelic emptiness is accessed more directly.
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“you can go into the space between two thoughts...there there is no universe...it is not an experience it is a moment in which experiencer and experience are no longer in a dualistic relationship...so there's nothing but you are everything [2:14:09]”
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