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Can we agree the universe is a strange place? So strange, it 'happened' without God or Big Bangs?
#21727368 - 05/27/15 03:52 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Is it true that the only thing keeping our lives run of the mill is that we've all agreed to live with certain assumptions, passed down from our educators and maybe pastors, if not, then from our culture or subculture directly. Culture and subculture being merely a creative way to assume everything is hum drum, and get on with it.
Otherwise, if one isolates oneself, and begins to explore, with a high functioning brain (at least) and with 5HT2A agonists (recommended) especially DMT, what exactly the circumstance is that one finds oneself in, if they don't go insane, they will report back that they now have less of a concept than they had before, that they have been bewildered by the sheer strangeness of what is happening.
Isn't it very significant if the universe is strange? That means it is not necessarily God's work, or a Big Bang and physical law get-up, but that it somehow occurs as a kind of problem of itself. It is itself unaware of how it came to be, it presents the question itself as us, as human beings.
I think this is an exciting position, it then distracts us from the vast fear of the coming darkness of death, or so we have agreed to think, and gives us a cosmically ordained purpose in life - to explore.
This world is on frequencies, the brain is the tuning device. Just ask Albert Hoffman, who said exactly that.
The individual is to be empowered, there is no way to communicate the many frequencies to each other, we are all island universes.
Is the acknowledgement of the strangeness of our world an ideological position? "What is life?" - "Life is the strangest thing that ever happened." Or so you may encounter if you sat next to me. Is it enough to prove this to yourself and then be able to stave off religion and positivism?
There IS turning back, we can join and empower the culture with our many new energies, this is in effect what Joseph Campbell was saying, if we're on the same page. I don't think we exactly are, I think Campbell only got the gist.
We're not making any enemies here. We are explorers, and we represent the human race. Only, we're exploring the cognitive frequencies of what we thought was territory already known.
I'm off to spend the night in bed listening to Terence McKenna talk on these subjects. See you another day folks.
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Re: Can we agree the universe is a strange place? So strange, it 'happened' without God or Big Bangs? [Re: circastes]
#21727419 - 05/27/15 04:34 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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I think you make a good overall point, but some of the things you say along the way to making this point need to be challenged. For example, the brain as a tuning device requires some explanation. You make it sound like the brain is a sort of radio, as if it doesn't produce conscious states itself, but rather receives conscious states from some external source. This would mean that damaging a brain would not in any way damage the conscious states that it was receiving. When a radio is broken, the music plays on, you have broken some plastic and metal, but the frequencies are still there. Wouldn't this mean that if you damage the wet meat inside our skull, then although the matter is damaged, the conscious states it was receiving still remain?
I love what you've written. I've recently been increasingly confused and aware of just how strange the world and the nature of our existence and consciousness really is.
Here is a question for you:
Do you think the world only seems so strange to us because we've broken out of the ideological prisons we were raised into? When becoming an individual and breaking down the dogma and you are experiencing everything for the first time without looking through a lens, everything seems new and strange, but maybe it just seems strange because it is so different to what we grew up believing.
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Do you think the world was bound to seem strange to us, no matter what culture or lack of culture we broke away from; That there is no way of perceiving the world for what it is, without it being overwhelming and strange to us..?
From an evolutionary perspective it makes sense that people find run of the mill, status quo life so appealing. If we all walked around amazed and bewildered by everything around us and confused about our place in it all, we wouldn't have been very efficient survivors.
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