Psychedelic

You'll know when you see it

Terence McKenna Documents in the Library of Consciousness

This is exactly what I wanted to build, but someone’s done it already!

What I think a psychedelic society—what that notion means or implies to me in terms of ideology—is the idea of creating a society which always lives in the light of the mystery of being. In other words, that solutions should be displaced from the central role that they have had in social organization, and mysteries—irreducible mysteries—should be... See more

The Psychedelic Society

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

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.

Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.

—John Stuart Mill

Henrik Karlsson • Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process

But now technology throws a curve. And the curve is that we live so long that we figure out what a scam this is. We figure out that what you’re supposed to work for isn’t worth having. We figure out that our politicians are buffoons. We figure out that professional scientists are reputation-building, grab-tailing weasels. We discover that all... See more

Dreaming Awake at the End of Time

Another thing to consider when trying to become perceptive is that the way you learn in school—where the material is sequenced in a curriculum so that you are first exposed to simple examples and later to more complex ones—tends to make you less perceptive. Following a curriculum, you build mental models by processing simple examples, and then... See more

Henrik Karlsson • Becoming Perceptive

And someone like Piaget has studied this phenomenon in the development of the drawing styles of young children, and believes, then, that a child essentially—in the spirit of the old song that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny—the child develops through these cultural phases. You know, from the iconic hieroglyphic to the flattened—I can’t remember... See more

Build Your Own Damn Wagon

Damn. I’ve always wondered about this. “ontogeny recaps phylogeny” - how does that fit in with Ken Wilber’s “levels of thinking” stuff?

This is what I meant—this is a good closure—this is what I meant by “do not watch, do not consume.” In other words, do not lease other people’s linguistic structures and live in them. Build your own virtual worlds, build your own values, and your own house of mirrors. And then you are on equal footing. But if you are consuming the manufactured... See more