Dude! I don't believe that! A spectrum maybe but not a single wavelength, too little entropy for something interesting. OK maybe π...
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Dude! I don't believe that! A spectrum maybe but not a single wavelength, too little entropy for something interesting. OK maybe π...
no, there definitely is one only, the carrier wave, if you like... A plurality of opposing 'truths' is badly mislabeled. In any situation, there is an objective measure, though usually we can't be 100% sure, though we can be confident enough when we can use the information to cause change as the information specifies, after many tests and experiments.
also, truth has nothing to do with entropy, or negentropy (growth), it's just a model with which to invent machines and methods of achieving a desired end goal. The universe doesn't care what you believe, it just trots along doing things in its own way, and it will never change its ways (allahu akbar... prais god), no matter how much you try to convince yourself. If you want to be successful, you must obey its laws. Sadly, nobody has fully elucidated enough of these laws in the mushy areas of biology and sociology. I think the austrian economists are pretty much on the nail about economics but nobody in washington is talking about that these days.
I don't want to live in a foggy world where anything that is important is not visible to me. You know, the book 'Alice in Wonderland' was actually written as a philosophical jab at the then young field of quantum physics which seemed to suggest that the universe did not obey fixed laws. Well, Quantum Physics is mostly right, but some parts of the theory are simply glosses because it is impractical to test (eg, seeing atoms with light - they are too small, even electrons are too small.
Why so serious? ;) OK the outcome of truth could be 0 or 1 sure but I meant the embodiment of truth, the information itself. Maybe I took too much acid in my life but I tend to see things differently.
Nah I should write a longer reply but I'm going to enjoy the sunset and write it later ok?
There's no denying that a deluded person really has this image of the world in their mind, and sometimes simply you lack the information that led them to their conclusion. You might call them crazy, but unless you are sure that they didn't develop their view from facts, you can't be 100% sure, because you may be the one with the bad information. This is compassion, and you should be careful to not muddle it up with what the buddhists call 'idiot compassion' - giving substance to the illusions of others by conforming to their world view (as a victim, usually).
When it comes to subjectivity, there is no absolute truth. Most of the time we are partly wrong about everything.
I have the feeling we are both rambeling about something else :D But talking about illusions: I once got myself into eating not one but two stamps / doses lsd on this tiny pieces of paper. Now the world looks really wild when you do that, everything seems a warping fractal. What was really interesting that we saw communication between stars. It looked like lasers shooting between them. We all saw it and I confirmed multiple times if the others saw it too. "Look, look again!" It was pretty obvious we all saw it happening. So wtf was that?
You are talking to also a veteran of such hobbies... I have no idea, to be honest, and it would be hard to test it because I don't think you will always see it, but maybe I can suggest a way to test it - if the sight is consensual between a person on LSD and someone on psilocybin, then it probably is something external that our visual cortex filters out normally. In fact, sleep deprivation can cause you to see things like this as well. One thing that may be involved is synaesthesia, where one sense triggers a sensation in a different modality, like tasting a sound, or hearing a colour, in this case, it would have to be something along the lines of a superconductive radio wave sensor or so. Or, who knows? You have to repeat it to study it, and play with the variables.
Well it was my first bad trip too but you are right. We should repeat the study hehe.
So yeah, nice to meet you then. I'd ask you what your experience is as a veteran but I'm going to bed soon so I'll check out some of your posts.
I haven't done any significant amount since I was 20, 21 years ago, but I did subsequently take 2CB one time, and bromo dragonfly 3x (somewhat dangerous stuff but it was so similar to DMT during the period from initial onset to about 8 hours later).
The main reason I haven't continued to dose even intermittently is because of my health, which first went very wrong when I was 21, and broke up with a girl who I was absolutely, completely smitten by, it took me 10 years to get over it. I like to think that at last, 21 years later, thanks to this Jack Kruse, that I have now got enough information to become fully functional again, and maybe I will return to this field and do more self-study. I don't know.
But what I can say, is that having experienced these psychedelic experiences, afterwards, I recognised natural, non-chemically induced experiences that were also psychedelic. I think psychedelics are very interesting and fascinating tools for studying the mind and brain, but, in spite of the fact that there is some evidence to suggest that Terence Mckenna's theory that when these experiences happen, it is some kind of quantum informatics phenomena - that we are tuning our receiver into something real, somewhere else in the universe. In The Spirit Molecule, several of the subjects of the study reported experiences that were a lot like they maybe had teleported to somewhere else, and people there told them they shouldn't be there...
From about the age of 16, until I was about 28, however, I still was studying the literature, and chemistry, I was very busy for a time writing on DMT world and The Hive.
I believe there is substance to Mckenna's hypothesis that psychedelics can enable latent capabilities in the brain that follow the laws of physics, and moreover, that these altered states and latent organelles that perform these 'magic tricks' may possibly be replicable, if we can discover the mechanism and measure the phenomena somehow. Because I have been reading this excellent stuff from Kruse about how it is very possible that the first humans appeared after rapid mutation catalysed by a cross-species viral infection that allowed us to rapidly change our diet from fruit on trees and a little meat eating, to eating sea animals and plants, as well as short, ground plants (roots, berries, etc) that were available when the cold wet weather forced us out of the trees.
It's a line of investigation that has absolutely siezed my attention now, and I know that probably means that I'm going to figure out some new things in the future too, once my subconscious mind processes it.