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Mr.Writer · Oct 15, 2009

Allan Watts takes LSD-25

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/LSD/jcbody.htm

It's quite long, it's an entire short book. I take it as a collection of essentially disjointed paragraphs which can be read singly at leisure. Here's 2 of my favorites

The physical world is vibration, quanta, but vibrations of what? To the eye, form and color; to the ear, sound; to the nose, scent; to the fingers, touch. But these are all different languages for the same thing, different qualities of sensitivity, different dimensions of consciousness. The question, "Of what are they differing forms?" seems to have no meaning. What is light to the eye is sound to the ear. I have the image of the senses being terms, forms, or dimensions not of one thing common to all, but of each other, locked in a circle of mutuality. Closely examined, shape becomes color, which becomes vibration, which becomes sound, which becomes smell, which becomes taste, and then touch, and then again shape. (One can see, for example, that the shape of a leaf is its color. There is no outline around the leaf; the outline is the limit where one colored surface becomes another.) I see all these sensory dimensions as a round dance, gesticulations of one pattern being transformed into gesticulations of another. And these gesticulations are flowing through a space that has still other dimensions, which I want to describe as tones of emotional color, of light or sound being joyous or fearful, gold elated or lead depressed. These, too, form a circle of reciprocity, a round spectrum so polarized that we can only describe each in terms of the others.

"Listen, there's something I must tell. I've never, never seen it so clearly. But it doesn't matter a bit if you don't understand, because each one of you is quite perfect as you are, even if you don't know it. Life is basically a gesture, but no one, no thing, is making it. There is no necessity for it to happen, and none for it to go on happening. For it isn't being driven by anything; it just happens freely of itself. It's a gesture of motion, of sound, of color, and just as no one is making it, it isn't happening to anyone. There is simply no problem of life; it is completely purposeless play—exuberance which is its own end. Basically there is the gesture. Time, space, and multiplicity are
complications of it. There is no reason whatever to explain it, for explanations are just another form of complexity, a new manifestation of life on top of life, of gestures gesturing. Pain and suffering are simply extreme forms of play, and there isn't anything in the whole universe to be afraid of because it doesn't happen to anyone! There isn't any substantial ego at all. The ego is a kind of flip, a knowing of knowing, a fearing of fearing. It's a curlicue, an extra jazz to experience, a sort of double-take or reverberation, a dithering of consciousness which is the same as anxiety."
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hawaiiankine · Oct 15, 2009

that's it?

36fuckin5 · Oct 15, 2009

TL;DR.

Next time, pick a good paragraph and post that, then just have a link to the entire article.

spiralout23 · Oct 16, 2009

Alan Watts

Smitty25 · Oct 16, 2009

The Joyous Cosmology .
That is indeed what my sig pic is.

Mr.Writer · Oct 16, 2009

36fuckin5 said:

TL;DR.

Next time, pick a good paragraph and post that, then just have a link to the entire article.
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All the paragraphs are good

inthydreams911 · Oct 16, 2009

Someone should invent a thing to hook up to your brain while your tripping that will translate your experience into the words of Alan Watts.

Good Stuff!

36fuckin5 · Oct 16, 2009

Mr.Writer said:

All the paragraphs are good
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I'm sure, but when I open a thread to see a giant block of text, it makes me wanna go back. I'll read it later today though.

inthydreams911 · Oct 16, 2009

Reminds me of what Terrence Mckenna said about the nature being a complexity generating system.

itsallgood · Oct 16, 2009

lmao the longest trip report ever written?....That actually reminds me, iam thinking about writing a novel one day lol

Base · Oct 16, 2009

I loved it.

hawaiiankine · Oct 16, 2009

that's a trick question.

inthydreams911 · Oct 17, 2009

Somewhere in there he said that color and shape of an object is a trinity of the sun, the leaf, and the eye.

The same is true with the human body, the blueprint for the body lies within the mind and soul (how the self is interpreted and projected back), that plus the blueprint of nature within dna (human body designed by nature), and then the outer conditions (amount of nutrition body takes in).

So it seems before we played the game, there was a design for our model created by us. The fine tunings of the mind. Like "create-a-skater" in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, you must follow a design, but its your ideas that fine tune it.

neodude1212 · Oct 19, 2009

fuck that, go back and edit it and include the whole thing
I was planning on reading it in it's entirety.
now what, I gotta click a link?

Mr.Writer · Oct 19, 2009

nobody said enlightenment would be easy brah

PB_Smith · Oct 19, 2009

Neodude you really should check out the site and bookmark that sucker.
It is a vast repository of information.

Mr.Writer · Oct 20, 2009

We are living in a Rorschach blot.

-a.w.

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