psychonaut 10/03/14 (Fri) 17:34:16 No. 45
Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Bill Hicks said that during one of his perfomances and I can relate so much that it's scaring me. I've had trouble putting my personal experiences into words, but this seems to be more or less it. Am crazy for thinking that what he's saying is really quite reasonable?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMUiwTubYu0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D0BeLz5blM
psychonaut 10/03/14 (Fri) 20:06:49 No. 50
>Am crazy for thinking that what he's saying is really quite reasonable?
12/11/14 (Thu) 08:49:41 No. 207
I put extreme amounts of faith into otherworldly dimensions explorable by drugs. I think it's why they're illegal, and I think that there's a lot of unused potential in the brain, not just with these drug interactions, but even just sober.
12/11/14 (Thu) 08:50:26 No. 208
I also think Bill Hicks was a funny guy with an admirable outlook on life. And I think he's absolutely right with most if not all of the things he says.
12/11/14 (Thu) 10:09:22 No. 209
12/11/14 (Thu) 22:23:39 No. 210
01/28/15 (Wed) 19:08:47 No. 243
"The only possible alternative is simply to keep to the immediate experience that consciousness is a singular of which the plural is unknown; that there is only one thing and that what seems to be a plurality is merely a series of different aspects of this one thing…"
Any intuitions that consciousness is plural, he says, are illusions. Schrödinger is sympathetic to the Hindu concept of Brahman, by which each individual's consciousness is only a manifestation of a unitary consciousness pervading the universe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_Life%3F#Content http://whatislife.stanford.edu/LoCo_files/What-is-Life.pdf
02/17/15 (Tue) 17:54:52 No. 256
Before an intense mushroom trip, I decided to focus on the nature of being and seeking a sense of purpose. What I saw was incredible. An entity of the forest instructed me on the nature of the universe. By re conceptualizing the concept of life, the universe can be seen as one life form. In contrast to our harmonization of different organisms, the universe simply moves matter around as a cycle of life. Cells are simply matter that can replicate itself in a web of fellow symbiotic, evolutionarily tied cells which become anything 'alive'. On an infinite stage, lifeforms arise, pans permia or otherwise. Gravity forms a star. Gravity draws matter in. Gravity forms planets in solar systems, as well as contributing to all space debris. Gravity is the breath of the universe. A compressor of matter. Could black holes be called cancer? Or foreign complexity of unfathomed 'life'. The matter we are will always be here, it just moves and scatters. Consider where your elements have been. What they've been. We are all one.
02/18/15 (Wed) 01:35:07 No. 257
>>256 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5yOaTgWu6Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PAWbjle0Tg Terrence McKenna has some great stuff on how Novelty and Habit is a much more fitting framework than Freedom and La and how Nature is a Novelty-conserving engine, in which each new novelty is simply incorporated into the old habit.
Because of, say, the novelty of the automobile, suburbs were incorporated into the habits of cities because people could now travel miles and miles and miles between destinations.
Organisms and systems which are most easily able to spread their novelty through the habit(at) are, of course, the ones which will naturally come to be the most numerous. The universe is fascinating.
02/28/15 (Sat) 04:48:48 No. 261
>>257 These are great links.