It's written on my pad as
unraveling the presence of the
transcendental object
now what this means is I
Don't simply advocate the use of psychedelic plants because I think they make us feel good and break down
Social barriers and patterns of habit and so forth, although they do all that
that I believe that
perception itself
tends to
Take the shape of its vessel, you know the alchemists
visualized mind as mercury and
mercury being a liquid will always flow to the lowest level and take the shape of the vessel and
I think that in the in the
potential
multiple dimensional space of
being
Mind has flowed to the lowest levels of the vessel
And that what happens when we perturb?
the mind brain system with hallucinogenic
indels is
It's as though we were to vaporize the mercury
and instead of taking the shape of the vessel at its lowest levels as a
liquid the mercury fills the vessel as a pressurized gas and
What this experience is is
a
seeing of higher dimensional
literally not
Metaphorically, this is what has to be understood that you literally are seeing a higher
dimension to
reality and
Ralph Abraham was here yesterday
Suggesting that because the world is such a complex system. It has many many
variables
Dimension which seems like a word that people shrink from because it has some aura of mathematics about it is
Not a difficult concept at all think of them of a dimension simply as a variable
so if I tell you that we have 8
variables
Then we have an 8 dimensional phase space
In which whatever we're talking about is going on well
Obviously the number of variables in the natural and human world is very high. So the degree to which we can
perturb the mind out of its slovenly tendency to flow to the lower dimensions of the lattice and
Instead urge it to expand into the higher orders of the phase space
then we get a fuller picture of
reality because I I think
it seems quite reasonable to me to say that what we call reality is a
lower
dimensional slice of a higher dimensional phase space
And we slice
This higher dimension with the 9th of language. We'll then we get a
cross-sectional like slicing through and a guess or slicing through a fruit then we see the
Interior of it, but we do not see
the seed from which it came
The tree which grew it the depth of that tree in other words the temporal dimension to name
But one is not visible in the lower dimensional slice made by the 9th of language
So we have to either create a higher dimensional language or use more than one language
at once or create some other
strategy for handling all these variables that
shamanism is is a person who can go into these higher dimensions and
Understand enough of what they're seeing that for them?
It functions as a mat as the lower dimensional world into which are going to return
You many of you have heard me say a shaman is someone who has seen the end
Well, this is just a kind of cute way of saying
that the shaman has experienced the temporal dimension as a
totality the shaman has seen the beginning and the end and
That's what gives the shaman his or her peculiar
Psychic equilibrium because they're not like you and me
groping along down here in
Four-dimensional space trying to figure it out for them
It's all of the peace and this beats back into their personality as a tremendous
kind of authenticity that
We need to shaman eyes to save the planet
We need to create higher dimensional mappings of our world and the crisis in which we are in in
Order to plot a way out of the cul-de-sac that the phonetic alphabet monotheism
and print created
linear
Monoculture has shoved us into so the psychedelics are not ancillary. They're not peripheral
They're not secondary
They are the way to propel ourselves into these higher dimensional face spaces eventually
We will drag our computers with us, but you can't push the computer first
Because the computer must be programmed by people who have seen these things and know what they are
shooting for that this process will inevitably become is
Pressure on the evolution of language
Because you see even though in the last few minutes I've presented it to you in a kind of imperative mode
Where I'm saying? This is what we need to do. This is what we should do
This is what we will do as a matter of fact
This is what we have been do and for a very long time as well. In fact the entire
progress of
biology and
Culture
Anthropology can be seen as a kind of conquest of dimensionality that has occurred at an ever-accelerating rate
So that you know the earliest organisms
were just
Literally groped their way through life. They couldn't see light or darkness
They rubbed up against something and that's how they knew it was there and then through evolutionary selection
light-sensitive pigmented spots appeared on the surfaces of these things and that gave them a gradient of
Sensation that told them the difference between light and darkness well a further coordination
Of this ability a further
differentiation of this light dark gradient gives eyes and
The visual world at the same time that this is happening
Organs of motility are
Evolving. Well now meaning that so animals can move around more freely
They're not like algae or something stuck on rocks. Well notice that when an animal and animal that can move
is already
Master of
A whole set of dimensions that are completely invisible to a creature which cannot move
Let's say a sea anemone. What do sea anemones know of the fear of flying?
You know, they don't know anything about it because for them the world has not put together that way that a gazelle
coordinates itself in a higher dimensional space than the sea anemone
similarly once you reach the place in evolution where
language
appears
language is a way of
destroying the primacy of the moment in
Other words pushing out from this very narrow domain called now
into an
Anticipation of the future based on an extrapolation and analysis of the past
this is a conquest of
dimensionality
adding
variables you see and then when you go into the realm of
Epigenetic coding huge databases so that nothing has ever forgotten in a way the past
ceases to fall away the past is
Co-present with the present in a world where there is high speed information and data retrieval
so
Similarly in our present circumstance. Then what we are pushing against is the
The envelope of the dimensionality of language
language has hitherto been allowed to grow like
Flopsy or moxie or one of those in any case that has not been
Thought of as a process which could be guided by cultural engineering
But I think this has to be done if we are going to make the changes necessary
To be made in the time that we have to make them
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