Posted in John Lilly, cognitive liberty, consciousness, epistemology, language, noetic technology, psychedelic science, silence, thesis on 12 June 2008 | 3 Comments »
In a scholarly article, I am permitted to quote another author. The visual cue of quotation marks, or, with a longer quote, an indented block of text, or the italics and right-justification of an epigram mark the change in identity. But what if the same author (could be me) makes an argument in several [...]
Posted in DMT machine elves, Henry Munn, John Lilly, LiveGlide, Maria Sabina, Simon Powell, Terence McKenna, alien languages, consciousness, entheogen, entities, epistemology, hallucination, language, noetic technology, perception, psychedelic science, psychedelics, synesthesia, the Other on 22 February 2008 | 5 Comments »
Xenolinguistics: the scientific study of languages of non-human intelligences. Publications in this field tend to be speculative as few people have made the claim to have understood an alien language, at least not reliably.
—Wikuniversity
Hallucinations as Alien Art
The key to this discussion is a conceit of the extraordinary vision-producing ability unleashed in consciousness [...]
Posted in LiveGlide, Tom Ray, alien languages, consciousness, entheogen, entities, epistemology, language, neural plasticity, noetic technology, perception, psychedelic science, the Other on 15 February 2008 | 1 Comment »
Wikiuniversity offers a wry definition of Xenolinguistics: “the scientific study of languages of non-human intelligences. Publications in this field tend to be speculative as few people have made the claim to have understood an alien language, at least not reliably.”
The grand convergence of psychedelics and technology came in the summer of 1998. I [...]
Posted in Francis Crick, Kary Mullis, LSD, consilience, genetic engineering, interconnectivity, psychedelic science on 21 September 2007 | No Comments »
Those engaged in psychedelic science—legit or outlaw flavors—assume, as the ancient profession of shaman has always presumed, that the discoveries, the observations, the affordances, and the actions available to a person in an altered state are useful to the community. How useful?
Certainly the insights of psychedelic science—at least the raw observations—have penetrated the zone [...]
