Psychedelic

You'll know when you see it

The real hard choice that you’re being pushed toward—and that you might consider making before the yawning grave rings down the curtain on this cosmic drama—is actually intellectual responsibility, freedom, and a devotion to what scientists call elegance of thought. You know, people say, “Well, how can you tell one theory from another? And is... See more

Dreaming Awake at the End of Time

Reminds me of “quality” in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. This might also be the thing that LLMs can’t yet work with or towards for a while, at least.

Culture is more and more reflecting what we are. We are going to be the horrified witnesses of the revelation of the true nature of the human soul. We are going to find out what everybody else only wondered about, which is: who are we really? What will we do with ourselves when we are freed from the constraints of gravity, energy—and, yes, morality... See more

Understanding the Chaos at History's End

Dissipative structures are these special situations which arise in nature where order is actually preserved far from equilibrium. That’s the technical way of saying it. In other words, equilibrium is where you get to when you let go, and then you drift toward death, disintegration, decay, equilibrium. And sooner or later, in the old paradigm, all... See more

Build Your Own Damn Wagon

This is blowing my mind. This stuff in combination with Levin’s work is very, very interesting.

True Hallucinations includes what may be one of the most subtle, yet effective mood-creating, consciousness-altering, transcendental soundtracks ever made for a spoken-word document. The soundtrack, using a mixture of acoustic and electronic instruments and various sound effects, is both subtle and sparse and at the same time as colorful and... See more

TrueHallu.html

Huh, I guess it’s time to read this thing soon. (See also: Terence McKenna)

The Fourth Turning (aka Strauss-Howe generational theory):

The idea that history is not linear but helical, because civilization has its own seasons

Gurwinder • 40 Mind-Expanding Concepts (Spring 2023)

This model holds that archaic peoples have deputized special people to probe hidden information fields using psychedelic drugs, and that the information extracted from these information fields is then used to guide and direct the society

The Psychedelic Society

Reminds me of the part in The Dawn of Everything where they talk about eccentrics

Hamilton Morris interviews Michael Pollan

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Morris questions the premise of legalising psychedelics based on its medicinal/therapeutic properties. His whole thing is COGNITIVE LIBERTY. Hmm. Why does that sound familiar?

Surprised the Terence McKenna admitted that Food of the Gods (which introduced the “Stoned Ape Theory”) was consciously a work of propaganda. This doesn’t mean he didn’t believe the theory, it just confirms that the main intention of the work was to change public opinion on drugs:

“Since I feel pretty much around friends and fringies here, it

Are there actually fake references in Food of the Gods?

the really important thing that can be done with psychedelics in a generalized sense is that they are inspiration for ideas, and that when you sail out into the psychedelic dimension you’re sailing out onto an ocean of ideas. And you can lower your nets—and there are many minnows and few whales—but the goal is to bring up something middle-sized... See more

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By Terence McKenna, An Ocean of Ideas