language vs reality
The roots of the word “compete” are the Latin con petire, which meant “to seek together.” What each person seeks is to actualize her potential, and this task is made easier when others force us to do our best. Of course, competition improves experience only as long as attention is focused primarily on the activity itself. If extrinsic goals—such as
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Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, the influential phenomenological sociologists, have written that our sense of the universe in which we live is held together by conversation. When I say to an acquaintance whom I meet in the morning, “Nice day,” I do not convey primarily meteorological information—which would be redundant anyway, since he has the s
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Culture is a uniquely human trait, and it arises from, and depends on, language. This is the critical connection to the psychedelic state. Human language originates from inner ideation (which can be understood as another term for imagination). It is image-ination, the making of images, the interior representation of something thought or perceived,
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These are the terms amateur and dilettante. Nowadays these labels are slightly derogatory. An amateur or a dilettante is someone not quite up to par, a person not to be taken very seriously, one whose performance falls short of professional standards. But originally, “amateur,” from the Latin verb amare, “to love,” referred to a person who loved wh
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Editing is something most people hate, so it’s worth coining new metaphors (ie: alchemy) to make it more approachable and endurable.
next example how changing the name (language) changes “the reality”