Towards digital psychedelia and the radical dilation of time

Embracing what nature knows as diapause (delayed development in response to environmental conditions) might be one of the most significant decisions we make as a species.

This is an alternative ontology of time not of ticking and measuring, but of flowing and being.

to appreciate time is light is to share a single and universal commonality with the non-human world, as a bridge to para-human consciousness.

traditionally associated with psychedelia; the disillusion of a localised self-centered reality that is replaced with a far greater sense of interconnectivity with a greater whole — a replacement of concern for measurement with an appreciation of meaning as Huxley describes it.

This is a type of psychedelia accessed not through the headsets of ‘Virtual Reality’ or screens of ‘Augmented Reality’, but accessed through a Huxleyian like shift in how we ought to see what is already there.

A more recent discovery in my journey into digital psychedelia has been a complete reappraisal of my interpretation of “progress” and “productivity”. Traditional interpretations of progress define it as something like a self-fulfilling prophecy resulting in an infinite growth. A precondition of the scientific method is that as new knowledge is disc... See more

“The mind was primarily concerned, not with measures and locations, but with being and meaning.” — A. Huxley, The Doors of Perception

The primary intention of both alternative timekeeping tools was to allow modern Homo Sapiens to appreciate and measure time in much the same way as nearly all living organisms do — by using light as the universal external entrainment signal and zeitgeber. The unintended bi-product was, arguably, an applied example of the type of “trance like” induc... See more

“This is how one ought to see, how things really are.. These are the sorts of things one ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves, sufficient in their suchness, not acting a part, not trying insanely, to go it alone..” — A. Huxley, The Doors of Perception