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0bfa7f74799e-197 | The psychedelic issue does not relate to the drug issue at all. In fact, it’s important to make this point: drugs and psychedelics are not two members of a family, they are antithetically opposed to each other. The pro-psychedelic position is an anti-drug position. How can this be, since we are accustomed to thinking o... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Ethnobotany+of+Shamanism |
0bfa7f74799e-198 | Then there are drugs which reinforce obsessive, unexamined and self-destructive behavior patterns. Well, what do psychedelics do? They destroy behavior patterns, destroy cultural assumptions, completely hold everything up for grabs, completely throw open the possibility that reality could be any number of ways that are... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Ethnobotany+of+Shamanism |
0bfa7f74799e-199 | Audience: There’s a new book that came out about a month or two ago that’s incredibly controversial. The man takes the position that for the last 30 or 40 years we’ve seen alcoholism as a disease, and that’s just more bullshit from the medical model, and that we need another alternative. Of course AA is up in arms abou... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Ethnobotany+of+Shamanism |
0bfa7f74799e-200 | It’s very real, it’s physiological. I remember that years and years ago a woman left me for a homunculus, and I was appalled. I was vomiting every four hours, could not sleep, would burst into tears in inappropriate situations, of which there were many in my life. Heroin withdrawal cannot be worse than that, I mean, ar... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Ethnobotany+of+Shamanism |
0bfa7f74799e-201 | It really gave me respect for tranquilizers. I was appalled that something so real to me, so much me, half a tab, I didn’t care. Let ‘em go. I realized that this is how all the people around me deal with emotional crisis. Nobody wants to feel anything. The moment that an unpleasant emotion rears its head, people go tak... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Ethnobotany+of+Shamanism |
0bfa7f74799e-202 | This is a favorite one to talk about because television is a forerunner of very insidious drugs to come, it’s just the crudest and the first. Imagine if, after World War II, a drug had been introduced into this country of right-thinking, hard-working, decent Christian people, such that 20 years after its induction the ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Ethnobotany+of+Shamanism |
0bfa7f74799e-203 | I think the physiological end has been much overplayed. Should we not fall in love because we pheromonally lock together with this person and become a single unified set of drives and goals? The physiological aspects of addiction have been, I think, very strongly overdrawn. I smoke cannabis every day at most opportunit... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Ethnobotany+of+Shamanism |
0bfa7f74799e-204 | I believe that if you don’t take drugs, you’re unbearable. I can’t think of a society on earth where people don’t take drugs that any of us would want to have anything to do with. Let’s take Calvinist Geneva, say. I imagine that as an example of an environment of moral rectitude. These people did not wear bright colors... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Ethnobotany+of+Shamanism |
0bfa7f74799e-205 | Notice that addictions to natural substances are harmless. Let me name some natural substances that you might disagree with me on this point. I think probably the strongest one would be opium. People will say, “What about opium? Surely, this is the scourge of mankind.” Actually, opium was never a problem in human popul... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Ethnobotany+of+Shamanism |
0bfa7f74799e-206 | I think we need to think of human beings as hardware, as the computer, if you will, and drugs are forms of software. The software that you run determines the kinds of functions that you can perform. If you run distilled alcohol software then you take on the persona of the alcoholic. I believe that cannabis is probably ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Ethnobotany+of+Shamanism |
0bfa7f74799e-207 | In Nepal, the Newari people have an alcoholic beverage that looks like a bowl of granola when it’s put in front of you. It’s dry; they pour it out of a sack into your cup and you say, “This is beer?” Then they come along with boiling water and pour it over it, and then you get this foamy, lightly fermented, contaminate... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Ethnobotany+of+Shamanism |
0bfa7f74799e-208 | Imagine a nomadic people who were doing that kind of quasi-agriculture with cereal and then there’s one year of great weather and great rainfall and when they arrive at their little wheat patch, so much wheat has been produced that they can’t move it, they can’t take it with them. So then they say, “We have food now, w... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Ethnobotany+of+Shamanism |
0bfa7f74799e-209 | I think that now things are very far out of hand, and we are caught up in the endgame of history. We are going to have to create a way out of this impasse that is probably going to mean a complete redefining of who we are and how we relate to each other, and space and time, and life and death. It appears that technolog... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Ethnobotany+of+Shamanism |
0bfa7f74799e-210 | I think that if we can get through this narrow neck that rationalism has imposed upon us, and overcome these poisonous, paternalistic philosophies, we will return. That’s why I call it the archaic revival: it’s the myth of the eternal return. History is something that you finish with as quickly as possible and then ret... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Ethnobotany+of+Shamanism |
0bfa7f74799e-211 | Thank you very, very much. It’s a political point of view, you see, and as a practical matter there’s no better way to succeed in politics than to champion the most out-of-it point of view. We live in an era where beige fascism is apparently the rising rule of the day. Well, that means that if you want to be on the cut... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Ethnobotany+of+Shamanism |
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Ethnobotany and Shamanism - Psychedelics Before and After History
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Gaia, Eros, and the Archaic Revival
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aka Psychedelics and the Feminine
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ecstasis that the time wave gets about a minute -- about three seconds because they say, "Look at this." You say, "Oh, wow! That’s amazing!" Then, they say, "My God, but look at this." "But, look at this!" And each one of these, your amazement is genuine and you... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/aka+Psychedelics+and+the+Feminine |
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aka A Psychedelic Point of View
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aka The Evolution of a Psychedelic Thinker
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A Survey of Shamanic Options
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Psychedelics and the Chaos Revolution
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Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California
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Esalen Scholar In Residence (aka Enough is Enough)
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Shamanology of the Amazon
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History Ends in Green - Gaia, Psychedelics, and the Archaic Revival
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Shamanism, Symbiosis, and Psychedelics Workshop
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4327156533b7-1 | So, then, the second half of the conundrum was that, “God knows. man thinks.” Now this, I thought, was very interesting, because it seems to imply a relationship between the limited project of knowing, which is human thought, and the completed project of knowing, which is omniscience. God knows Man thinks. In a way, wh... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-2 | And, the interesting thing, I think, about, uh, the Western religions, generally, is their insistence on, um, the tangentiality of God and history, that God was something to be realized in the life of each individual, but that there was also somehow a collective drama of redemption, that was stretched out over a very l... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-3 | If you read the New York Times every day, few miracles will occur while you are engaged in that activity. Essentially, what is happening is you are getting your cultural programming for the day, all your switches, if any need being- need to be reset by cultural values, are reset at that point, but when we recede into w... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-4 | This is very peculiar. A- At a low level, it’s not so astonishing. It’s a kind of a generalized opening to the world, because everything is imbued with significance. That tree, that person, that greeting, that conversation, is imbued with a kind of depth and significance that is satisfying. It's like living deeply. Liv... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-5 | And, um, this is some kind of a linguistic process. We and all nature, I think, swims in some kind of sea of signification of which we are in the same way that the amphibians were able to drag themselves out of the primitive oceans of this planet on- into air and exist in a completely different dimension; we, whether g... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-6 | So, for instance, you know, I’ve made this example before: a child lying in a crib and a hummingbird comes into the room and the child is ecstatic because this shimmering iridescence of movement and sound and attention, it’s just wonderful. I mean, it is an instantaneous miracle when placed against the background of th... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-7 | But, this doesn’t mean, that this world of signification is not outside, still existent, beyond the horizons, the foreshortened horizons of a culturally validated language. Well, so then, classically, the path through this has been through use of psychedelic plants, or, uh, some form of ascetic practice, or fasting, or... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-8 | Our cultural myths, that the world is made of things called mu mesons and anti-protons is, of course, not true either, but it’s a linguistic construct that we culturally validate and live inside, and these cultural myths give permission for certain things. F- Basically, they give permission to ignore certain kinds of r... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-9 | So, these kinds of cultural values shift. But, now, now, we are in a global culture with the combined understandings of five, six, seven hundred language groups and half that many literatures being poured into a global database where some people are assimilating enough of this to begin to play their part in the creatio... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-10 | What I believe is happening - and we talked about this last night, generally, in the form of a conservation of novelty throughout the history of the universe, but I tended, last night, to present the universe as a material thing. I spoke of atoms compressing into molecules into organic creatures into thinking beings wi... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-11 | Well, then, to what end? I mean, what is all this? Is it just an innate drive toward totality? Or, is it a process which exists completed in some higher dimensional space and we are somehow trapped in a lower dimensional matrix and we have to go, uh- we have to endure the illusion that it is incomplete? I mean, I don’t... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-12 | I mean, I don’t know, uh, how Buddhism handles this, my- I, I, um, I grant you all a strong possibility of existing, but I’m not nearly as sure about you as I am about me. [audience laughs] And, I don’t think any of you should be any sure- more sure of the rest of us than yourself. I mean, the world could be anything, ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-13 | It’s very interesting how, uh, the way the collapse of our enemy in the Soviet Union has exposed the absurdity of our previous positions. All our previous positions are now exposed as absurd, but n- people don’t draw the obvious conclusion. It must also mean, then, that our present position is absurd [audience laughs].... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-14 | Print and linearity and what’s called 'ear bias' for language is what has shattered our sense of ourselves as a collectivity. A positive way of putting it is to say, it’s also what created the idea of democracy, individual freedom, labor unions, the vote, all of these atomized notions of human obligation and political ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-15 | This means, you build in an electronic dimension that is added on to ordinary cultural space like an orthogonal dimension. In other words, it’s like a TV that you walk into; it’s called cyberspace. And, in cyberspace things are built out of light. So, it costs as much to build Versailles as it costs to build a hamburge... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-16 | So, um, in a sense we’re beginning to create this leveling, but we have created them by looting the material resources of the rest of the world. Conceivably, it can be created in a virtual space, where we would all, uh, live, in this world, a rather monkish existence. But, you know, there’s that wonderful passage in Fi... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-17 | Well, some of what I’m saying here, is, uh, is facetious. We talked last night about Stan Tenen’s "wonderful object." For those of you who weren’t here, this is a man, a cabalistic scholar, who has developed a piece of sculpture such that when you illuminate it from a certain angle, the Hebrew letter aleph appears as a... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-18 | So, that means all alphabets, all letters, lead back to a hyper-dimensional surface of some sort which can probably then be described with some kind of weird fractal algorithm. And, so then I thought, 'Wow! This is a pretty Hebraic vision of what’s going on here'. We have the alphabets of local languages being generate... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-19 | And, this brings us back to, what I was talking about at the very beginning of this evening, which is the curiously literary nature of reality. That it’s much more like a- a novel by Thomas Pynchon than it is like an equation by Ilya Prigogine. And, why is that? Is it because, in fact, the flesh is Word? And that under... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-20 | Terence: I can tell you were following my argument with bated breath [clears throat]. Carefully! Because, it’s dangerous. It’s dangerous because it’s seasonally variable, geographically variable, and genetically variable, and that’s enough variables that you should be very careful with what you’re doing.
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4327156533b7-21 | Persephone’s Quest
, he referred to Amanita muscaria as the supreme entheogen of all time, which was just a completely wrong-headed judgment, I believe. And, this was from the man who discovered the true psilocybin mushroom cult in Mexico! There was an angle on all this which Wasson completely overlooked because of hi... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-22 | We don’t really know what these drugs were, because the-the etymologies are lost, but harmaline figures very strongly in all of this. And, of course, harmaline is a, uh, neurotransmitter present in human metabolism. In fact, I didn’t get into it tonight because I was trying to keep it off the biochemistry and that sort... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-23 | discover
the laws of perspective? I mean, I find that not credible for somebody to say that the laws of perspective were discovered. It's always seemed weird to me! It’s as though, uh, you know, there was a shift, a very subtle tweaking of the processing of visual space itself necessary to be able to do that. Yeah?
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4327156533b7-24 | McLuhan
, who's a very interesting figure, a-as, you know, a radical thinker in communications theory and a devout Catholic, believed that, uh, the Holy -- the manifestation of the Holy Ghost was electricity. And, and to him the ringing of the planet by electronic media was the unfolding arms of an archangel.
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4327156533b7-25 | And, then, in the 17th century, make it the 18th century, uh, people invented what we called Leyden jars, which were this tricky way of storing this stuff, so that you could store up a lot of it, and then in a dark room you could discharge it across a gap with this snap, and from that, you know, I mean, you talk about ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-26 | When-when we were in the 5th grade, we made engines by wrapping, uh, nails with wires and setting them, delicately balanced between permanent magnets, and, you know, you coax this stuff into being. We take it for granted, because we don’t understand it, but if you’re down close to where it’s coming into being, it’s lik... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-27 | baz
, and watching the stratocumulus clouds move over the ocean, the number of water droplets in a stratocumulus cloud exceeds the number of people in the world! Therefore, if we were the size of water droplets, we could simply exist in that kind of a, of a cloudscape! Well then, okay, so that’s another technology tha... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-28 | This is one possibility, that the culture be made virtual. Another possibility, which is sort of the reverse of that, and there’s a company on the peninsula trying to do this, is to place a textual reality behind apparent reality. So that everything is a button, you know. It’s, it is what it is, but it’s also a button.... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-29 | Uh, I’ve talked a lot in these circles about the-the questions raised by the ecstasis that comes with DMT, where you actually break into a world where there are, what I call, 'autonomous self-transforming machine elves', but what we have discussed in terms of are these the 'sprites' of classical European mythology? Are... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-30 | Terence: Well, you know, people have talked, Robert Graves and others, about what he called an Ursprache, an original speech, and Celtic poetics somewhat assumes this. I think this language that is seen, is the project that the poets should take very seriously. We need to not simply make better poetry; we need to make ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-31 | Nevertheless, the interesting thing about benthic octopi is that they can change their color over a wide range. Now, you may have heard this fact and assumed that it had to do with camouflage against their surroundings so that they can avoid predators. This is not what it’s about at all! Octopi change color, and they c... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-32 | No other thing that we can do approaches the level of variation with low energy investment that the small mouth noises do. A person using a deaf and dumb language is exhausted after 45 minutes. But, the problem with the small mouth noises form of communication is: I have a thought. I look in a dictionary that I have cr... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-33 | Now, notice what’s happening with the octopi – there is no dictionary. Both parties are seeing the same thing because my body is my meaning. I become my meaning, and you behold the meaning I have become. I am like a naked thought. Not even a naked nervous system. More naked than that! I am like a naked thought, in aque... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-34 | The situation I describe with these octopi was, uh, coastal, shallow water octopi. So called circolittoral octopi. But, they have also evolved into the depths. The so-called abyssal octopi that exist below 1500 meters in the sea where there is absolute darkness. And to carry their intention to communicate into that dar... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-35 | There also is a counter-veiling force toward concealment, obscurantism, double entendre, so forth. You know someone said that language is invented to lie. Well, in a way, that’s true, because of the problem of non-communication. As soon as you have something to communicate, there are places that you don’t want the mess... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-36 | Q: What kinds of things are they communicating, besides maybe fear, or…
Terence: Well, they are communicating -- they have elaborate sexual displays, and it’s a very tricky thing, sexuality among cephalopods because the male usually doesn’t survive the encounter. So, a lot of time is spent getting it right, before you... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-37 | Q: Do we have a sort of Rosetta Stone you know about?
Terence: We have a primitive grammar, but, uh, it’s only for one species. And, uh, I’m not really interested in what they’re saying, because I think it would only make sense if you were an octopus. But I’ll be that, uh, -- you see it’s a model for us. Wouldn’t we l... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-38 | [Terence: Mmhmm]
And I have a way of starting to where I am or, again, following my excitement which happens to be making tones. And I’ve reproduced experiences such as, uh, very simply, like a hot tub, where I make a tone and another person has an experience of being in a hot tub. They go from being very cold, to bei... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-39 | And what seems -- it’s -- it’s chemically a little different from anything we’ve discussed, and so, consequently, neurologically a little different. When this -- when this drug was first discovered in the 20’s, they called, uh, they isolated a white crystal from it, and called it telepathine. Because they believed that... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-40 | But, persistently, since then there have been reports of group states of mind caused by this drug. So we explored this in the 70’s fairly thoroughly. In ’71, ’72, again in ’76, and again in ’81. And, um, different things were going on. First of all, the people down there who take this drug, are into what they call, ica... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-41 | And, again, it has to do with these drugs which are very close to neuro-transmitters, just one gene away from being naturally produced. It’s as though, this is a biochemical place where, what we experience as the evolution of language and our abilities, our cognitive abilities to integrate and express language are happ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-42 | They are -- it isn’t that so much that they predict the future as that they go into the higher dimension of their own cultural information space, and from there they make decisions. Where should we hunt? Who should we make war on, or not make war on? Where should we move? Um, you know, and even decisions about triage o... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-43 | Terence: Maybe neuro-linguistic programmers could study octopi? If I had eight hands I could really get gestural. I, I… a funny experience involving octopi. I know a woman, I’m sure she would not begrudge me this description of her. She’s a very frank exhibitionist. I mean, this is the woman who at every party takes he... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-44 | Q: Terence, when you talk about language, or the word use in the way people talk, to me that sounds like a whole body language. And, and when you go into print, I’m making all these unconscious assumption values of what you’re saying is true partly based on your body language?
Terence: True, but body language is proba... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
4327156533b7-45 | [Terence: Oh, okay!]
A bitter experience.
Terence: There is a notion, you know, in Latin spark is as, is scintilla. This word exists only in English in the legal phrase ‘there was not a scintilla of evidence against him’. But in alchemy, this idea lived on for a long, long time, and there’s a whole literature of caus... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+Could+Be+Anything |
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5359037c61a5-1 | Terence McKenna: And I do agree with you. I think the difference between the 1960s and the 1990s in terms of the psychedelic compounds is that the sixties entirely lack any awareness of shamanism or the historical role that these substances have played throughout human history and prehistory. Uh, the sixties believed t... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Experiment+at+Petaluma |
5359037c61a5-2 | or to cure or to discover the whereabouts of, uh, lost objects. So, in a way psychedelic, uh, exploration has gained power, respectability and, uh, and legitimacy by discovering that it's own roots were in a paleolithic religion of great, uh, power and wide distribution. In other words, psychedelic voyaging is not some... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Experiment+at+Petaluma |
5359037c61a5-3 | to access what is within us. Our minds are not blank slates or merely repositories of traumatic memory. Our minds are doorways into an infinite labyrinth. A kind of Borgesian library of infinite possibilities and we can choose to open these doorways in whatever sequence or fashion we wish. | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Experiment+at+Petaluma |
5359037c61a5-4 | That, that twenty thousand years ago on the plains of Africa this, the expansion of the human diet, the restless search for new food sources that led our primitive ancestors to include mushrooms in their diet that contain psilocybin. And out of that synergistic food stamping[sp?] that springs the whole spectrum of huma... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Experiment+at+Petaluma |
5359037c61a5-5 | TM: Well, uhm, first of all let's talk about ordinary language, which is probably, uh, the closest thing to a miracle in the natural world. Uh, it's the major neurological manifestation of difference between ourselves and, uh, other animals and primates. And it's not a physiological difference. It's a difference in beh... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Experiment+at+Petaluma |
5359037c61a5-6 | brought through the medium of language. And every culture accentuates different parts of reality. So within a sense every culture is a different reality. Language is the stuff [sp?] of the world, not quarks or wave packets or neutrinos, but language. Everything is made of language. All the constructs of science are act... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Experiment+at+Petaluma |
5359037c61a5-7 | impulse towards syntax into a final product, speech, which is not heard with the ears, but beheld with the eyes. And, uh, it's very interesting that all our metaphors of clarity of speech are visual metaphors. We say I see what you mean, he spoke clearly. This means that at the organismic level we associate a higher, u... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Experiment+at+Petaluma |
5359037c61a5-8 | higher linguistic modalities. In other words it's possible to imagine a virtual reality that was driven by a speech operated synthesizer where the various parts of ordinary speech, adjectives, modifiers, subjects and objects, uh, were, uh, interpreted by the scientific, by the cybernetic environment as topological mani... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Experiment+at+Petaluma |
5359037c61a5-9 | because it is seen. This is the great convincing power of the psychedelic experience. That it ultimately appeals to us through the sense that we value most, that we existentially relate to as the most authentic. And that is the visual. Visible language is a kind of telepathy. Because you see, if I made a statement in v... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Experiment+at+Petaluma |
5359037c61a5-10 | Like that.
[Terence laughs]
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TM: [inaudible] the star-ships of the future, in other words the the vehicles of the future which will explore the high frontier of the unknown will be syntactical. [inaudible] The engineers of the future will be poets. This is what virtual virtual reali... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Experiment+at+Petaluma |
5359037c61a5-11 | Yes, well. Uhm. This is a segway from yesterday's discussion about, uh, visible language. The notion being that, uh, well let me review what yesterday was about[sp?]. It was about, uh, the idea that if we could see language. If language were a project of understanding that used the eyes for the extraction of meaning ra... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Experiment+at+Petaluma |
5359037c61a5-12 | ourselves. Nevertheless, one of the things that evolution merry biologists always talk about is the convergent evolution between the eyes of cephalopods and the eyes of higher mammals. This is because the, uhm, cephalopods live in an extremely complex visual environment. And in fact they have evolved a form of communic... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Experiment+at+Petaluma |
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