We are in the miasma theory stage of culture war. Nobody has yet figured out the idea of meme-germs being carried by rats and bats and stuff living in sewers.
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I’m hesitant to inform everyone that DMT-smoking Burning Man Hippies have been having serious conversations about this stuff for years
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So have lots of other groups. I'm skeptical that that particular group has come up with anything very bright to say about it. It's a crowd notable for self-congratulation rather than insight, with or without nootropic assistance.
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the trouble is English lacks vocabulary to describe what’s being witnessed in experiments. most attempts to describe despite the limitations end up sounding too spiritual for contemporary intellectual palates. they encourage everyone to Get Experienced but not everyone can
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if you’re tripping balls in a shaman’s yurt and a passing spirit gobbles up the gestating thoughtforms directly from the surface of your cranium like they were a fresh stack of pancakes and then flies off, how are you gonna publish that in a respected journal?
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Uh... that's not the problem. The problem is it's a demographically narrow crowd with a very narrow range of experiences. Passing spirits can't help you process experiences you haven't actually had or give you material knowledge/external facts you don't know. GIGO+DMT=GIGO.
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yeah I had to distance myself from the crowd years ago, but there’s still a lot of compelling work being done in psychedelic therapy, and still a mountain of unanswered questions for the actual phenomenology. Psychedelics are the telescope in an age of Galileo house arrest
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