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I once looked up all the synonyms of belief, and then the synonyms of the synonyms. All the second order synonyms seemed to cover a landscape of attitudes people have towards belief.

It was illuminating. Shed some light on the issue if you will. Elucidating even. Perhaps you could explicate the psychedelic experience, or would you rather expound your belief? Maybe propound it?

Or would you tentatively suggest, put forth, posit, propose or postulate? No you would not suggest doubt. Always be confident in your own crazy ideas. Convince and persuade if you can.

But the assumptions, presumptions and suppositions have got to go. Along with hand waving and conjecture.

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Nice, I like it.

I think there is a bit of a theoretical circus that is created by trying to out-jump the previous paradigms by either scoping our lenses more acutely or further removed--hoping to, once and for all, grasp the "big picture" with our angle. The more we look, the more it expands. And the more I grasp for words that categorize all of this doing-ing-ing, I realize I'm guilty of the same fucking thing.  

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Assimilezation.

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"Assimilation (philosophy), incorporation of new concepts into existing schemes" (from Wiki).

Do you think the psychedelic experience is better understood by using pre-existing concepts, or is its profundity better captured by its own language--colored by art, stories, and cosmic puns?

I think regardless to whatever degree we believe the experience and the substances to be appropriately conveyed by certain subjects, at this moment they are being insufflated and rationalized like a fat rail of blow by various schools of thought and science. But like a wet dog, it shakes off all labels. It looks like this unrefined slice of reality is performing Maya's great dance... but maybe it's our own minds doing the dancing? We keep finger-pointing and referencing explanations, but really we are just illuminating the nature of ourselves:

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How could the psychedelic experience be communicated if we didn't use pre-existing concepts?

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Blab away good sir. 

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are you talking about a review of the reverberation of similes propagating with residual meanings?

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metaphornication

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No words can describe a psychedelic experience, you must dose them.

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Arden said:

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No words can describe a psychedelic experience, you must dose them.

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Dose the words or dose the disbelievers? Let's soak their bibles in acid and accomplish both.

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If you soaked peoples bibles in acid they would have bad trips.

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Arden said:

I'm trying to think of new academic terms that could be used to describe the translational process whereby the (often ineffable) nature of the psychedelic experience is explained using other lenses and models.

In attempt to communicate this, we reference a variety of metaphors, symbols, and allegories, sometimes scientific experiments when available. What is this pulling-in form of extraction called? The approach is interdisciplinary but I want a better word for this particular style of rationalization. Maybe something in linguistics or philosophy?

Framing effect / Representation / Semiotics / etc.

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Arden said:

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Blab away good sir. 

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It's only to rationalize and make sense of things that are currently not understood.

Of course this also assumes they / it can be understood.

I'm just fishing for ideas and inspiration--writing an article about a similar topic.

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