QC

not trying to pretend I know much of anything here. just from people comparing their experiences, I have come to learn that there are quite a number of people who genuinely come to experience the world in similar ways, i.e. Jim Carrey +many others, with or without psychedelics ;P

So I have many, many thoughts on this. Yes, I agree, a huge number of people do come to experience the world this way, both in contemporary era and historically. One fascinating expression of the ornateness of the intersection of furious mathematical speculation & spiritual...

...experience, sort of like the crystallized expression of sacred geometry in both 2 and 3 dimensions, is Islamic architecture, design, and calligraphy. There are deep antecedents of way more ancient sources being expressed in there.

Another realm where this kind of speculation can take *form* is in music. This evening I suddenly remembered Richard Lloyd, one of the guitarists from the new wave band Television, who did a deep dive into the sacred geometry of music. He went deep into the Pythagorean...

I've had a long-standing curiosity about neuroscience, psychology, and mental health (deeply considered becoming a psychiatrist; occasional think about going to school to become a therapist). It strikes me that architecture, visual art, and music are very good outlets for ppl...

...who want to explore esoterica (with psychedelically mediated or not), because these art forms are grounded in material experience. I think there is a lot of potential for people to kind of break their brains going to deep into this stuff without that materiality, earthiness

...and susceptible brains & bodies might be attracted to this stuff and it can become so compelling and baroque that it traps them somewhat in these realms. The pure math/metaphysical speculation can sort of get people stuck in endless loops spiralling forever...