Sorry I've been unable to enter text into the computer for the last couple of days. I damaged my larynx earlier in the year, and have to be careful of voice strain, which I got acutely after staying up talking too late.  And I need speech reco as my hands are busted.

I should not have engaged when I was so tired. I do not trust the quality of my responses when I am out of juice. And I have damaged the body.

I will try to identify " outstanding points"  and address them.

" a child, like any lifeform, has self-awareness to a certain degree"  <- nonhuman lifeforms have awareness but generally not self-awareness.  Because they do not have the concept of a self.  They live by instinct, spontaneously! They are one with their environment, but they have not left the Garden. Man has left the garden. A Buddha has returned. 

" Why would you want to recover the innocence of a child?"  <- A child is free in a way that an adult is not. Free from inhibitions, stupid beliefs, automatic reactions that the environment will push on them. A child has a sense of wonder, a single point of natural focus. But the child is abused and exploited by the society. Sexuality is repressed. The child is taught not to stare, not to talk to strangers.  Homo-sexuality is condemned.  Hetero-sexuality is also condemned, but in different ways.  The door is open, but the watchman is not yet awake. For a Buddha, the watchman is awake and the door has been removed.

This is why psychedelic drugs are so popular. Because for a few hours one loses these inhibitions, one experiences the fullness of being. One greets another as soul to soul.

MDMA increases neuronal firing, energy flows along new paths.  MDMA was used in the past successfully for psychotherapeutic treatment. But it is a brief window. It is elevating serotonin levels to a level that cannot be sustained.

Meditation encourages the flow of energy along new paths without external chemical assistance. By awareness of the movement of mind, one chooses to witness it rather than energise it.

A meditative person will appear ecstatic. Similar to a person who has taken MDMA.  And a meditative person will be completely unpredictable. There is no knowing what they will do next. Even they do not know what they're going to do next.

But this seems to be digressing from the original argument. Originally you were claiming that I was speaking nonsense. And I was suggesting that my words appear nonsense to you, they do not make sense to you. But that does not make them nonsense. There is a difference between not being able to make sense of something (because it is unfamiliar terrain), and being able to see clearly that something is nonsense by logical contradiction.

And if someone is mistaking the one for the other, they are limiting themselves.

Imagine in days of yore, a traveller says to a man " I have sailed the seas, and wonders did behold!  An animal like a horse but with a neck the height of three men!" . This makes no sense to the man. Clearly the traveller must be drunk, or an impostor. 

" the brain doesn't work that way"  <- I'm not saying to stop the brain from functioning. It has been shown that the brain consumes roughly the same amount of oxygen whether someone is engaged in problem-solving or staring at the sky. What I'm talking about is deidentification with thought. Moving from the thinker to the witness.