Bawa
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Bawa
Steph Ango
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You know, Christ said “the lukewarm I vomit from my mouth,” and that’s how I feel about people who chip away at psychedelics and take piss-ant amounts, and go to clubs, and go to class, and go to the mall, and—you know, this is not the program, folks. I mean, it’s somebody’s program, but I’m interested in life-changing experiences.
Culture and Ideology are not Your Friends
Terence McKenna on microdosing. Hilarious.
The Overedge Catalog: The Future of Research Organizations
arbesman.netGreat list of orgs
And the conclusion that’s coming out of his work is that nature is not governed by eternal laws. Which is a very big piece of news in science, because it has been the assumption (really, since the Greeks) that there is a higher world of mathematical perfection and that, somehow, the world of physical appearance and substance is a shadow in Plato’s... See more
Build Your Own Damn Wagon
Systems Theory and Psychedelic
On habit and novelty
“To live is to be other. It’s not even possible to feel, if one feels today what he felt yesterday. To feel today what one felt yesterday is not to feel—it’s to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today’s living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost. To erase everything from the slate from one day to the next, to be new with each... See more
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Schismogenesis, you’ll recall, describes how societies in contact with each other end up joined within a common system of differences, even as they attempt to distinguish themselves from one another.
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything
Reminds me of the “narcissism of small differences”
I’ve come to the conclusion—and some of you may have heard me say this before—that culture is not your friend. That’s the final conclusion. This came to me a few months ago when I had my yearly physical, and as I was buttoning up my doctor said to me, “You know, in the nineteenth century, most people your age were dead.” And I realized that this... See more
Dreaming Awake at the End of Time
This is not a formulation I’ve heard in any other lecture. Pretty cool.
Also, it reminds me of that Game Theory video. I’ll try to find it.