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elchingy97


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Psilocybin & the Dead Space™ game series hidden message
#28326192 - 05/19/23 11:45 AM (8 months, 6 days ago) |
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TL;DR - Are shrooms just trying to hijack our species in a symbiotic relationship to help themselves spread further into the Universe?
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Hello y'all. I'm currently playing the video game Dead Space 3. Recently finished Dead Space 2 & in the past - Dead Space 1.
So basically for those who don't know it — it's about these alien “structures”, scattered around space, that distort the mentality of anything that comes close to them & also alter any dead tissue (in range) on a cellular level, converting it into pure Necromorph, which are these horrific zombie-like creatures that you get to fight in the game. And they go around killing & infecting others with the same stuff. And basically you're this protagonist that has to go through a bunch of shiet in order to save the galaxy from turning into a zombie apocalypse.
Or so I understood the whole story. I'm not the most observing person, lol. (pardon me Dead Space fans)
So anyway, part of humanity (that has been mentally affected by these “Markers”, but hasn't yet turned into full-blown zombies) created a sort of religion around the whole thing, called “Unitology”, & they preach that these “Markers” are the salvation of humanity, that they will unite the whole mankind - where in reality everyone is being led by everyone (affected by the “Markers”) into the “Markers” themselves, to be added to the overall “zombie hive mind”. They even have scientists & engineers (them too affected, ofc) that start reverse-engineering & building artificial copies of these “Markers” (to speed up the whole zombification process, as they call it - “conversion”)
Some of the participants in this whole shiet-show that haven't been directly affected (but contributing to the whole thing nevertheless, cuz somebody is working for somebody at the end of the day) start questioning a lot of it all. Overall - there's a lot of secrecy around the whole thing & between each level of the “social hierarchy”.
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So what's my point from all this?
I remember seeing a quote from a published psilocybin growing guide (or was it a hunting guide - idk) of a famous scientist saying that shrooms are like a multi-planetary hive mind, connected by an unknown force but that psilocybin had smth to do with it. And the shroom “hive mind” holds vast knowledge of different technologies & shiet. But it won't be given to us lightly. Not unless we help its cause to propagate further into the Universe.
Well, clearly you can see there's a link between the whole Dead Space story & real life. And this shroom story.
Any thoughts?
Edited by elchingy97 (05/19/23 11:50 AM)
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Rosbashi


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Re: Psilocybin & the Dead Space™ game series hidden message [Re: elchingy97]
#28326278 - 05/19/23 01:28 PM (8 months, 6 days ago) |
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I watched Paul Stamets on JRE talk about how he thinks (as do so) that mycology networks are the architects of the ecosystem. Perhaps they are doing the same thing but on a psychological level with humans? Grooming them, in a way— symbiotic like you say even?
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herbstation
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Re: Psilocybin & the Dead Space™ game series hidden message [Re: elchingy97]
#28326363 - 05/19/23 02:35 PM (8 months, 6 days ago) |
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Some of that is a stretch but some is not.
We are symbiotic with many organisms, yeasts and plants etc. Humans make the perfect environment for wheat, lawn grass, corn, plenty of crops. We also reserve space for prey animals and protect them from predators.
It is not true that mushrooms have super-intelligence, at least not the human kind. Fungi don't have eyes or ears, they have totally different chemical inputs. Assuming that mushrooms are conscious, they would experience reality in a vastly different way to us. As an organism with no eyes that doesn't move, I imagine our audiovisually-constructed 3D world has no use for a fungus. If mushrooms have goals, we humans probably can't even understand what conceptual space those goals exist in.
Here's why mushrooms can't control human consciousness, and vice versa: imagine you're a mushroom that can somehow understand English. Even if a human told you they were going to pick you up and move you, you wouldn't really understand. You might be able to measure your position in space changing. You might be able to intellectually comprehend the fact that a human can "see" space and "move" parts of their body. That doesn't mean that you will ever be able to conceptualize throwing an object or feeling a texture.
An additional wrench in the works is that mushrooms information processing is distributed, vs the centralized brain processing that we use.
My point is: yes we're symbiotic but if mushrooms "think" then I doubt we could understand their goals or even their concept of what a goal is.
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