A Breath of Life

"I must, I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet, a thing that is not love or hare or pity or scorn, but the very breath of life, fierce and coming from far away, bringing into human life the fearful passionless force of nonhuman things... I want to stand at the rim of the world, and peer into the darkness beyond, and see a little more than others have seen of the strange shapes of mystery that inhabit that unknown night..."

- Bertrand Russell

Babies

..And now something completely different:

This morning we have observed and examined how infant human animals tick. It seems that these.. "babies" are in constant flux with the cosmic reality. That is, as if they are on a constant LSD-trip. The sounds they make resemble the sounds you make when you are bloated out of your skull by magic mushrooms and reborn through your mouth.

The following is an actual typewriting of the aforementioned "baby" whom i asked to convey the meaning of life to us:

"dfdvfde§säåäkjmk,kbvgg y§hvnm gn"

The latter is loosely translated: "dfdvfde§säåäkjmk,kbvgg y§hvnm gn". Yes, can you argue with that logic?

Direct Mystical Transmission

"I loaded the universe into a cannon, aimed at my brain, and fired!:

Lo! Everything disintegrated into fractal explosions, the dimensions warped and shifted. I saw a geometrically tiled, pulsating hyperspace shining with incredible colors that have no names. I saw kaleidoscopic mandalas and visited palaces. Open infinities sucked my consciousness into their vortex." - Psychonaut L. (edited by the Blog Keeper)

Wondering already what the above is about? There is a hint in the Title of this post.

Word of the Day: Numinous

"numinous" \NOO-min-us; NYOO-\, adjective:
1. Of or pertaining to a numen; supernatural.
2. Indicating or suggesting the presence of a god; divine; holy.
3. Inspiring awe and reverence; spiritual."

Entheogen Diminishing Fallacies

Michael of Hoffman of Egodeath.com has written very informative articles about entheogen diminishing fallacies. That includes anti-entheogen attitudes for example in:

New Age, Christianity and Buddhism

Check them out here.

Irrational Rationalism

Robert Anton Wilson explains what is "Irrational Rationalism":

RAW: I coined the term irrational rationalism because those people claim to be rationalists, but they're governed by such a heavy body of taboos. They're so fearful, and so hostile, and so narrow, and frightened, and uptight and dogmatic. I thought it was a fascinating paradox: irrational rationalists. Later on I found out I didn't invent that. Somebody else who wrote an article on CSICOP, that's the group they all belong to: Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. Somebody else who wrote about them also used the term irrational rationalism. It's a hard term to resist when you think about those people.

The quote is taken from this interview.

Is it just me, but have you also witnessed this kind of attitude againts psychedelics in mainstream media?

For more about the subject, see also "Pseudoskepticism".

How Hallucinogens Play Their Mind-Bending Games

"Researchers isolate cells affected by LSD and mescaline, potentially leading to more treatments for neurological and psychiatric disorders"

An article by Scientific American. Read it here.