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Noetic License

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 [...]

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Basel–World Psychedelic Forum

Posted in Allyson Grey, Dennis McKenna, Kathleen Harrison, LiveGlide, World Psychedelic Forum, alien languages, and cunning, exile, gaiamedia, psychedelics, silence, thesis, war on drugs on 28 April 2008 | 1 Comment »

I returned recently from the World Psychedelic Forum in Basel, March 21-24, 2008. It was massive. It was beautifully organized. The shift to a psychedelically informed culture is well underway. 1900-plus people, from 37 countries attended the four day event, according to Dieter Hagenbach, of gaiamedia, organizers of the event. A big bookstore. [...]

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Virtual Reality and Hallucination

Posted in Andy Clark, John Lilly, John Perry Barlow, LSD, LiveGlide, Tom Ray, Tom Roberts, VR, consciousness, cyborg, deixis, epistemology, genetic engineering, hallucination, interconnectivity, language, neural plasticity, noetic technology, osmose, perception, psychedelics, the R word, thesis on 18 December 2007 | 4 Comments »

Been working on this one for the last month–it’s the final paper for the Electronic Imaging conference upcoming in San Jose, 27–31 January, 2008. This is a giant conference made of of many smaller conferences–the one I’m presenting in is #6804: The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 2008.
Virtual Reality and Hallucination: A Technoetic [...]

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Thesis statement

Posted in Terence McKenna, language, psychedelics, thesis on 18 July 2007 | No Comments »

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 [...]

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