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Unfolding Nature Shop: Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

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InvisibleIcelander
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Re: Philosophy's Effect [Re: Ped]
    #8115388 - 03/07/08 09:51 AM (15 years, 10 months ago)

:thumbup:


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
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Re: Philosophy's Effect [Re: Icelander]
    #8115975 - 03/07/08 01:00 PM (15 years, 10 months ago)

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MarkostheGnostic said:
After several acid trips I left bio-medical studies ('pre-med' at the time) to change my undergraduate major to philosophy. My advising professor, John Pavlidis, a Greek who taught pre-Socratic philosophy said to me: "You're gonna starve, man!" I didn't care. I felt that I could work on a loading dock for the rest of my life if only I had internal freedom to think about the things that now fascinated me beyond any scientific enterprise that I had ever studied. Moreover, becoming a medical doctor had been more the desire of my culturally Jewish parents and it was the source of attraction to many of the doctor-seeking (gold-digging and similarly indoctrinated) Jewish-American Princesses (J.A.P.s) that infested my college. I rejected the entire social trip that I was programmed for. I have not regretted my decision to pursue philosophy and I remain today with the intellectual identity, not defined by my professional practices, but by philosopher. Once again, I think of myself as a philosopher.



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MarkostheGnostic said:
Red pill was clearly my choice, like Neo's Silver mirror-touching (Lunar consciousness) turning to liquid Mercury (Pure Consciousness). I remember the metallic taste of my first Windowpane LSD experience which shattered the Matrix of my mental constructs, bent space-time to my perceptions, showed me the 'rainbow body' of my friend and showed me the 'peace that passes all understanding' after my ego had sufficiently been laid to rest.. MY GOD! I am so grateful that I am who I am and that I'm not praying for a more expensive Mercedes-Benz in order to feel whole!




Holy hell, am i glad theres still people like you in the world.

If theres one thing that psychedelic substances have to offer to the world, its the ability to shatter all the horrendous conditioning we face all of our lives. What we are told to seek, what we are told to want, what we are told will make us happy.

Anyway. Keep thinking man. Keep on thinkin.


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Re: Philosophy's Effect [Re: origami.octopus]
    #8117806 - 03/07/08 09:34 PM (15 years, 10 months ago)

Well, thank you origami.octopus for your vote of confidence! When I corrosponded with Albert Hofmann for a short time in the 80s, and related much of this, he seemed to feel badly for me in his response. Dr. Hofmann never left the scientific mind-set for the purely philosophical and so, I see him perceiving my life as somewhat tragic. I do not see it that way. Life is not a scientific endeavor, death is not an illness to be cured or a problem to be solved. The physical reality of life merges into the metaphysical Mystery of existence-non-existence and the transcendence of these opposites. "To be, or not to be..." I have never sought after wealth, power, or fame. I only want to Know the Truth, the Real, here and now.


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Re: Philosophy's Effect [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
    #8118746 - 03/08/08 04:24 AM (15 years, 10 months ago)

You really are amazing. I'd bestow even more compliments, but you've already done such a great job yourself!


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