nando161mando reblogged
Shit I was saying (complimentary ideas I was juxtaposting) on Facebook on this day in 2021.
“I don’t think you could discover consciousness if you didn’t perturb it because as Marshall McLuhan said, whoever discovered water it certainly wasn’t a fish.
Well we are fish swimming in consciousness and yet we know it’s there. Well the reason we know it’s there is because if you perturb it then you see it.
And you perturb it by perturbing the engine which generates it, which is the mind-brain system resting behind your eyebrows.
If you swap out the ordinary chemicals that are running that system in an invisible fashion, then you see: it’s like dropping ink into a bowl of clear water - suddenly the convection currents operating in the clear water become visible, because you see the particles of ink tracing out the previously invisible dynamics of the standing water.
The mind is precisely like that and the psychedelic is like a dye marker being dropped into this aqueous system and then you say ‘Oh i see, it works like this.”
- Terrence McKenna
#shitwassaying #still #toohottoholdsupwell
