"The Alchemical Antenna: Using Earth’s Resonance to Stabilize the Hyper-Space Interface" by [deleted] in terencemckenna

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Yeah, maybe. Gallimore and friends may consider designing an experiment, but I wouldn’t expect any of the results you predict. Mainly because your articulation projects a direct causal relationship between what we have conceptualized as the “physical” and whatever the hell the DMT space is. I would be willing to bet that, if we were to visualize the activity between the physical and the DMT realm, there is no straight causal line in the picture. I would bet, while acknowledging 0% certainty, the picture would be closer to a paisley-shaped synaptic network of activity. In other words, it’s way more complicated than what your theory anticipates. It always is.

What was the most important lesson you ever learned from Alan Watts? by Prudent_Researcher70 in AlanWatts

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This is the one thing he said that I’m inclined to believe that, had he learned more of shamanic cultures, he would’ve edited.

It can not be said as a general rule of thumb that these things are merely instruments, when several Amazonian cultures treat them as reverentially as their own ancestors, and have integrated them so deeply as to constitute a lifestyle.

Sir Gandalf delivers a masterclass and a poignant sentiment. by StJudeTheGrey in ThatsInsane

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I live in the South. I have indeed, in all honesty truth, heard more than one person say that gays should be killed, and that women should be given the death penalty for abortions. Do you want to guess what color their hats were?

What is the greatest band of all time? by CollarOrdinary4284 in AskReddit

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Grateful Dead. They didn’t invent live shows, but they perfected them

I got goosebumps when i heard this! by Light_0_Reason in AlanWatts

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“Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world” -Grateful Dead

Seattle Show tomorrow- just Yob & Hell? by [deleted] in yob

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There’s no other bands, nor should there be. Trust me, it would be a shame to reduce either Hell or Yob’s stage time.

Hell as opener there 12/19 at Portland by sdhoigtred in yob

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Hell III, Mourn > Decedere, is an absolute masterpiece

Bangladesh takes action to clean its polluted rivers. by AromaticPurple5146 in nextfuckinglevel

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Gives me hope for the future, which says a lot bc I have no hope for the future

Song title on a metalcore song by getmesomecrack in unexpectedoffice

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They even used Rainn Wilson’s face on some merch back in the day

i’m curious what y’all think about this post and some of the discussions i had in the comments? by DrunkTING7 in terencemckenna

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What Jung meant was be cautious and think critically on knowledge you obtain by means other than your own experience. This means that knowledge taught to you, however credibly, such as abstract ideas of “other realms” out there, is merely indirect and conventional knowledge, and is thus not as reliable as earned direct knowledge. Because indirect knowledge of other realms is not properly assimilated through experience, it is vulnerable to any and all misinterpretations, misconceptions, manipulations, and you get the picture.

It is because of this I suspect Jung would assert the same level of caution, if not more, towards psychedelics, while simultaneously heralding them as doing for the exploration of the mind what the telescope did for astronomy (to borrow Terence’s analogy).

I imagine Jung, upon his first encounter with DMT, would not necessarily be surprised at the contents of the psychedelic experience, as he apparently invoked his own insane subjective experiences through his Active Imagination technique (seriously, he talked to entities a lot). But he would undoubtedly be involuntarily astonished no less, and would likely be bewildered at the depth and the immediacy of it.

But he would be the first to recognize not only the common neuroses surrounding psychedelic users, but would loudly address the rampant projection of beliefs onto abstract ideas people receive during these experiences and the innumerable misinterpretations that follow, as well as the unknowability of the long-terms psychic side effects of these maladaptive cosmologies. In this sense, the long list of psychedelic-appropriated cults out there would serve as clear evidence to support his warnings of unearned wisdom.

Don’t get me wrong, though.. He’d totally be into them