To connect to what is real, or [[Ultimate]]. Something that is ontological encourages you to change since they promote more realness, how enlightenment changes your brain, waking from sleep. You don't think alternate states of consciousness like dreams are real because we don't relate dreams with the rest of our life. But if we were to, we could find glimpses of the real beyond what we usually can in our salience landscape of the dream and current world. To do so, [[Irony helps us realize what is ultimate]]. Makes the most sense of most of our experience - but in higher states of consciousness, it's different since it challenges - you reject your everyday experience. No NEW content, but we promote them as really real? Through ontonormativity, - ![[After Socrates Episode 5 - Finite Transcendence Dr. John Vervaeke#^royw2y]] - ontonormativity helps us experience these things, the goo in a way that transcends them. in normativity, they are seeked in isolation