Terence McKenna wrote an afterword to Lawrence Sutin’s In Pursuit of Valis: Selections from the Exegesis, Phillip K. Dick’s thousands of handwritten pages produced from 1974 until the end of his life in 1982. In the Exegesis, Dick tried every-which-way-but-loose to unpack the meanings of the divine invasion, the blast of knowledge-laden pink [...]
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Posted in entities, epistemology, noetic technology, the R word on 27 July 2007 | 1 Comment »
Psychedelics: My Problem Discourse
Posted in LSD, psychedelics on 25 July 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The title a knock-off, of course, of Albert Hoffman’s book, LSD: My Problem Child.
Terminology
Psychedelics: the discourse of the unmentionable by the disreputable about the unspeakable. Legitimizing the discourse becomes a cottage industry: placing the black sheep within a disciplinary fold: medical, psychotherapeutic, bio-chemical, spiritual, anthropological, ethnobotanical, neuroscientific, consciousness studies, and even [...]
Thesis statement
Posted in Terence McKenna, language, psychedelics, thesis on 18 July 2007 | 1 Comment »
Here’s the latest version of my thesis statement. The full document is posted on Google docs and includes a condensed version of my bibliography (very few journal articles listed yet).
Reality is truly made of language and of linguistic structures that you carry, unbeknownst to yourself, in your mind, and which, under the influence of [...]
The creak of the closet door, opening…
Posted in LSD, cognitive liberty on 16 July 2007 | 4 Comments »
Starting this blog for several reasons.
To soften the brittleness of the “high academic” discourse I’m involved in, working toward a Ph.D. on psychedelics and language.
To keep in touch with what I really think, and to the act of thinking it, so I can fold back into the academic thing with more integrity.
To sift the [...]
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