Hey everyone, it's been a little while. We wanted to make this video extra elaborate in terms of the editing as a sort of 100k subscriber special and to serve as an entertaining means for finally getting out all of the silly supposed cosmic epiphanies that psychedelics have apparently bestowed upon me over the years. So, between the sheer scope of this video, health problems that are now largely resolved, and me working a full time job for a psychedelic research company, this video ended up taking us almost a year to make. However, we're already working on another video that we intend to get out much quicker, and I really want to finally move into making regular content for this channel. Either way, thank you so much for the 100k subs despite our absence, and thank you so much to everyone who supports us on Patreon and RU-vid memberships. It feels so amazing to have such a substantial following on this platform and we really really appreciate it.
Wow, this is great. Love the animations. It makes me want to play the psychedelic life game (😂). I need these inventory items. Great stuff. I'm still finishing it.
Really quick, off the bat, I wonder if any of you are familiar with yuan chi from the Tao? The unity of polarized halves is more than just "unity as opposites" there. There's an actual "chi", or prana, which is more neutral and polarizes in to different energies. It is difficult to apply that to the extreme night and day concepts (unity as two halves) but can be seen in something like visual light. There, the light has seven poles as a unity, but the source light, being more neutral, has an original property not fully present in separated rays. In the body, the more neutral core is yuan chi, which is yellow gold and is said to be the primary fluid of the meridians. It polarizes in to outer wood, fire, water, and metal chi forms.
Haha so good! Very strong connectedness to the onemind recently but didn't stop me from getting all PO'ed the other day when some dirty rat bastard version of us stole my preferred parking space♣ Great video, love the trans dimensional desk ♥
Actually, the best way to consume this video is not to care about the ranking of the epiphany rather the discussion about it, because the ranking is subjective, and I believe all of the epiphanies come from the same source / they’re all related to each other somehow
@josikinz why did you make a ranking video then? what was the point if you weren't seriously ranking them? why not just make a discussion video in the first place?
@@josikinzgood to know! I was going to ask why you graded so harshly but also appreciate the criticisms since it helped me reassess how helpful or not these epiphanies have been for me
Maybe we simply all heard of such concepts before our epiphanies and it influenced them all 🤔 Yeah I definitly had the same too... 🐸🙏 But I am into buddhism and spirituality so does it count ? I mean, once you did a trip you started to search for informations about what the hell just happened like everybody else didn't you ?🧙♂🧙♂ Did you heard about all those concepts before your epiphanies ? 👽
@@Roxar96 Personally, I had not heard of these concepts before taking psychedelics. I was a sheltered kid in a religious cult, and I had done exactly no research into any of these topics prior to experiencing them.
I think the most likely conclusion would be that there true, I had these epiphanies at like 18 before ever doing psychedelics , I really think that your just becoming smart snuff on psychs to actually idk process the word logically
@@wavehellhole Very interesting 🧙♂️ If we are right then Buddhists, Hinduists, Sufists and few catholic mystics such as Master Eckhart are right too 🐸✌️
Yeah we’re definitely reusing a ton of this stuff! I’ll probably eventually make a few more assets for the channel too, but yeah we’re going to dial it back some but still use what I made
Yoooo almost 2 years ago I made a post in your Reddit asking you to make a vid going over the different insights into reality psychedelics can offer, my prayers have been answered😌🙏. Can’t wait to watch it!
Really well done on the editing and production quality on this one, just astonishing. The format is laid out nice and orderly too, I feel like I have tuned into some kind of podcast taking place hyperspace.
Josie, Emily and Hypnogogist! We thank you greatly for your extensive research and dedicated analyses of the psychedelic experience. Your collective work has provided immense insight to psychonauts and even trip sitters of all experience levels! Awesome Stuff! Love from South Africa 🌍
Hello Josie I just discovered your channel today because I have been looking for answers about my own experience, I'm 22 years old Engineering undergraduate student and astronomy has always catch my attention. I experienced a Level 4 Unity State of Consciousness two weeks ago due to weed, I smoked a joint and while walking home, happened to me a "synchronicity phenomenon" in my consciousness I gave to two events that have a low probability of happening simultaneously a deep significance. I arrived home to think about this event because it scared me, and while thinking about that something triggered and I started having a heavy geometric mental hallucination, in the middle of my mind appeared a vividly image of cubes one inside of another, like a infinity repeated tesseract, I focused on it and started having fast paced thoughts that filled my mind, thoughts the flow of time, the patterns that appears in macro and micro scale in the universe like the Fibonacci sequence, and others thoughts that I cannot remember. Right away after that I felt a deep connection of oneness with the universe and all living beings. I started noticing that when you put effort on a thought or desire in your mind, the probabilities and flow of all things in the universe confabulate in a inexplicable way that makes the desire comes true. This kind of manifestation has helped me to reach my goals and made me feel like if I just wake up from the ego-driven existence.
can’t hear chrono trigger music in one of the introductory cutscenes and not subscribe lol i seriously love all the work that went into this. combined all of my faves: metaphysical conversations, old school games, and a quirky editing style + tone that doesn’t take itself too seriously in these kinds of topics (>ω･)☆
I’m glad everything stuck the landing with you! It really was a passion project combining all of our interests, I got in a lot of little Chrono Trigger and Earthbound/Mother 3 references lol, but there’s a whole mix, including a bunch of details and sfx that I feel people aren’t likely to catch, but *I* know
It always feels like remembering and distinctly so…that’s always been so fascinating to me. Oh and this is probably the best thing I’ve ever watched…wow thank you 🤍
Here's a revelation psychedelics gave me that allowed me to understand what happens after death: Unbroken experience. It's quite simple-logically, our perception of time is unique to the human experience, as evident by our experience of infinite time in null time before birth. From this we can logically conclude that the instant the human experience of time ceases, in that same instant does experience resume; as the only possible result of infinite nothing is an eventual finite something. Thus, it is impossible for there to truly be "nothing" after death.
@@LLlap asking why is assuming I believe in some kind of reincarnation process, which I do not. Using even completely sober astral projection techniques we can conclude there are other planes of existence outside our physical reality. You can hypothesize it, until you do it to conclude it for yourself. It only makes sense, without conception of a consciousness there is nonexistence
@@LLlap Great question! This question likely has the same answer as after death. Your experience was simply different, but is no longer accessible due to the context you exist in now. Memories are a human experience, which is why we don't have memories of our pre-human experiences and never will. But that doesn't mean it didn't happen!
I only skimmed through the video, so I might’ve missed something, but I found it interesting that none of your epiphanies seem to focus on the body-aside from maybe the idea of the separate self being an illusion. I could be going off on a tangent here, but one of the simplest yet most impactful realizations I’ve had is: ‘You’ve only got one body, take care of it.’ Basically, prioritize health. Would you call that an epiphany? It definitely felt like one to me. I've realized a lot of ‘truths’ are shaped by culture or context, but the one thing I can consistently trust is my body-especially when it comes to physical experiences like sex and sensations. Honestly, it’s hard to critically look at these kinds of insights. Even writing this, I’m not sure what point I’m trying to make! Anyway, great video-thanks for sharing!
The brain can interpret what the body reacts to. Sometimes the brain malfunctions and sometimes the body itself has faulty sensors. Your perception however on the "sacredness of the body" is valid and a good thing 😊
Top recurring ephipanies I’ve had during psychedelic experiences There is only one mind Time as we perceive it is an illusion/all is now self is an illusion and We are all the same being The universe experiencing itself or “god” We are living in a simulation/simulated reality Death is an illusion and life is a dream Mind precedes matter/consciousness is fundamental, the mind is not in the universe the universe is in the mind Subject object polarity The game …sorry I couldn’t help myself, I got excited, this is straight from a note I’ve had for years.
@@josikinzI see, I just edited my comment to say I got excited because this is straight from my notes and I see there is a decent amount of overlap, I’m looking forward to watching! :)
Good list! Not sure 'self is an illusion'. It is miraculous that we can exist as part of the one mind and also be independent, but our inability to explain probably means that it is reliant on non determined states, which sort of makes sense. ♥ yourme trip reports!
Does that mean that for the individual to exists in tandem with the one mind that the gnosis must be hidden? For if we experience it then it will determine one way or the other. Why faith is so important to some...people who are scared of that determination.
My favorite thing about the unity experience is that it is available to people in all belief systems. The most hsrdlined materialist can experience unity and it works with any system of belief
The flesh is just the autopilot, going through the motions while the real 'me' watches from somewhere else, wondering who’s steering this ship? #WhoAmIReally
8:20 if the existence of “something” is presupposed from sheer “nothing” out of sheer logical necessity, that means logic as a condition for existence itself existed before nothing
I'd say that logic is definitely something supremely fundamental to this universe considering how unreasonably effective mathematics is at describing what goes on in it. Logic/math is self sustaining and infinite in its potential.
This was wonderful, Josie! Congrats for doing what I've never seen anyone do before, packing so much philosophical insight plus your evaluations into an hour.
I don't know if this counts as an epiphany, but one of the most interesting experiences I had was going down a dark tunnel with several beings of light who were the souls of great, long dead authors that I admired. I had conversations with them, and through this I think I realised that the books they wrote were in essence their having conversations with me across time, even long after their physical bodies were gone. It sounds kind of obvious when stated, but great works of literature and philosophy were written by other souls who simply wanted to communicate their experiences, and in some sense it's a living discussion we can maintain with the dead (although it's rather limited in being mostly one-sided, though this can be lessened by reading critically).
@@emilykins I like that the criteria are based on the actual impact the insight has on one's life rather than its perceived "depth". Anyway, this score means it's probably time to get a C- from josi lol
Your description of interdependent opposites made me think of my own yin and yang experience on psychedelics. The light/dark, life/death, construction/destruction. Then I see you relate your description to the yin and yang. Very pleasing to watch and I believe some very valid information others can benefit from.
"Universal Self Design" - yes you did create the universe and you did wrote the whole story of your life to the tiniest detail. You're experiencing so much pain in life because life is 50% pain and 50% pleasure. There has to be a balance. You'll confirm this when you'll be on your death bed and if you're honest enough and not suffer from alzeimer or dementia❤
Really glad you like it! We knew we were making something that wouldn’t necessarily land with everyone, but for some people it’d really resonate, and that’s honestly where a lot my favorite art lives! I’m glad we finally got to put this weird project out there, thanks for enjoying!❤
"The ego as a Cultural Filter & Context Shortcut" could simply be called "Cultural Subjetivity". But I love the effort that went into naming this epiphanies, the video was fantastic!
I'm not even eight minutes into this and I love that little ad and the video's neon aesthetic. This reminds me of the angel-speaking reiki ASMRtist on RU-vid. I'm digging this vibe
I've "realized", that on psychedelics, my brain is in a more spontaneous state. I sometimes feel like the visuals can be seen as routes that the neuron firing paths take in the brain in the most energy-efficient ways. You can literally see the second law of thermodynamics in action - stuff tends to spontaneously get more chaotic and/or complex, because it's the most likely thing to happen. Also, it seems that psychedelics block some sensory information from the brain, so it starts filling in all this missing data. This unaffirmed hypothesis is based on my own experiences and fading memories of perhaps reading that somewhere online. So plz trust me. Ps, thank you for doing what you do - I believe you make this world a little less crazy. If you do add some craziness, it's in a good way.
The insights that were most profound for me came one after the other in a single Chaga experience. I was expecting some visuals and a chrysanthemum breakthrough experience. It was my first time trying it, and my previous thoughts about it were: - hyperdimensional non-Euclidean geometric morphologies - "self-transforming machine elves" - the cover of Tool - 10000 Days and other Alex Grey artworks Beyond this, I had no expectations, but what actually happened was completely unexpected. After the final puff, I began to feel like my visual field was rich in color, similar to the onset of psylocibin at around 1hr. Just as geometries were starting to appear, I closed my eyes. In an instant, I was in a state of total absorption, or dhyana. I heard two sentences in my mind that I am finding more and more meaningful with every passing day. The first sentence was a command: STOP CREATING IMAGES. It was not spoken in my own voice. Immediately, all the just emerging geometric patterns ceased. The second sentence was factual: THERE IS NO CENTER. This was the end of the experience. The absorption ceased immediately, and I was back in the room. Minutes later, a friend of mine took his hit, and he went into a world of hyperdimensional geometry for 10 minutes. - This entire experience showed me something about myself that I was completely unaware of. Until this experience, I had been "creating images" constantly, in the sense that I was living within my own mind's projections, in a separate world that was real only insofar as I was able to personally experience it. I had created a personality around which my own cognition revolved. I was imagining future scenarios and worrying or getting excited or making decisions based on something that I was fabricating alone. The resulting insight led me to understand that I had never been in contact with the real. I had always been, until that moment, an automaton, reacting to my own thoughts and emotions, and taking them for something real rather than what lies beyond them. The second insight was regarding the decentralized nature of reality. "There is no center," in the sense that everything that is manifest is intermeshed at every level. Every point is every other point, yet each point has a perspective. If you try to centralize, you are restricting yourself. Centralization is what causes visuals to appear while on psychedelics. The goal of life, therefore, is to be as many perspectives as possible, thereby finding the state of constant lucidity, where you create no images whatsoever, and you are in abiding awareness. I had had light body experiences, understandings of the All being One, but this was different. This was a specific key to a specific pathway. This was my awareness informing me of my next obstacle and how to overcome it. Several months later, during a deep meditation after performing yoga asanas and chanting AUM, I meditated on a mantra that came to me spontaneously: I AM AWARENESS OF AWARENESS After repeating the mantra many times, suddenly, my awareness was completely decentralized on every level. Everything was lucid. My mind produced no thoughts unless engaged to. My emotional state was stable unless I up or down regulated it. I could see the surface of my mind, and there was absolutely nothing there. I could then touch the surface, and there a thought was. I would go to sleep, and it was a lucid dreamless sleep with restfulness I had never felt before. Mudras I had never known before were spontaneously shown to me by my own hands, and their ensuing energetic signatures could be felt on every level of the body. This sequence of events changed my conception my life into just life. There is no "my life" anymore. I am the awareness that inhabits this body. I am not the body. I am the awareness that that inhabits the mind. I am not the mind. This mind and body are a gift. Life is not about what I want to be. Life is about being totally. Life is not about having my questions answered. Life is about dissolving all questions, and simply knowing by being awareness itself. The brain can process information very efficiently, but it needs defragmentation. Mantras are powerful defragmentation devices. The repetition brings the mind into a unitary state, which is a restful, integrative state of mind, where the brain can compute at maximum efficiency. This is decentralization, and this is the meaning of "there is no center". There is nothing to search for or final question to be answered. There is only awareness of awareness. This has been the end of my journey. There is nothing for me to find anymore, and when I search for myself, it is already gone. The ensuing bliss is unparalleled. Awareness does absolutely all that is needed, nothing more, nothing less. There is nothing for me or you to do but to come to this final insight. Once it is there, the abiding, recursive awareness of awareness of awareness of awareness of awareness... There live love, peace, joy, and ecstasy. One more point. Awareness of awareness is not meta-cognition. Meta-cognition is awareness of your cognitive processes, which is something one can do whether they are experientially aware of being awareness of awareness or not. Awareness is not a cognitive process. Awareness is its own phenomenon. Awareness makes consciousness possible. They are not synonymous. Awareness is the witness. Consciousness is the process. You are not the process. You are the awareness that is aware of being aware of the process. You are the witness of the witness, not the witness of the witnessing. We have also misunderstood "free will". A will that is free is not tied to a person's decisions. A will that is free is just happening as it is. So you are correct in that we have no "free will" in the way it has been defined, simply because we don't understand the word free. Free means decentralized. When will is decentralized, it is not yours anymore. Will belongs to awareness of awareness, and that will is the same in all. It is childlike, because it is not yet biased by experience. It is innocent, free of a separate desire for a separate will. A great book to read that explains the linguistic and experiential distinction between having free will and being free of a separate will, Erich Fromm's 'To Have or To Be?' is a wonderful book on the distinction between the having mode and being mode.
"Human thought is a simulation framework" is pretty much how manifestation works and how the mechanisms of the astral realm work as well. Could be worth looking a bit more into that
Oh, does the "reality as simulation" meme derive from manifestation? I don't have much/any experience with either of those ideas but I've heard the terms, any insight is appreciated!
The fact that several of Josie’s “revelations” fit a materialist outlook is delightfully ironic. It catches in a contradiction people who consider psychedelic insights as authoritative communications of unerring entities or spirits outside our minds. By the way, this wide-ranging, stimulating, and beautiful video is special. It was worth the year-long wait.
I underwent a 3 day psychosis inducing trip that created a story that made everything parallel metaphors for eachother (ex: my life events being metaphors for the story of all of creation) in analyzing this story produced by my brain in a psychotic state I came to literally every single one of these insights at one time or another, including your idea of prototheism I didn’t have a name for it but only a crazy cult looking symbol that aimed to unify all religions and science by making everyone understand the core concepts we’re all the same 😭
One experience I've had was what I like to call The Last Trip. This might be a thing but it's just what I called it the last time I tripped. It was the last time because I was instructed, by what felt like an entity, never to trip again. They stated that I had learned all I needed to through such experiences and any further knowledge would need to come from any other source. Anyway, amazing video, thanks so much for posting : o )
Great video, especially the animations are insanely nice. I had an eternalism experience myself a couple of months ago, that whole section felt so immensely familiar, it was eerie :) I hope for more videos to come in the future from you guys, and I will buy a tshirt or print, they are amazing, as well :D
As somebody who has some foundation in thermodynamics universal self-complexification sounds like another way of stating entropy. With the specific verbalization of I'm thinking of entropy being the progression towards less ordered states.
yeah, it’s like consciousness’s version of entropy. although i would add that it’s also a little more charged with intent in the sense that it’s like a giant simulation model, play-testing all possibilities that could concretize into outcomes
Isn't that the opposite though? Living beings, especially those which seem to be sentient are exceptionally ordered and created ordered systems. Just think of humans being capable of rational abstraction that leads to a certain manipulation of environment according to norms and patterns (which is basically the basis of all culture). Biological entities are typically negentropic. And mind you this doesn't entail (at least necessarily) any metaphysical implications such as vitalism or intelligent design.
Terrific video folks, I loved every minute of it. Lemme try to convey one of my recurrent epiphanies despite not being a native English speaker: each of the smallest single "units" that constitute reality contains another infinite universe within it, as finiteness and infiniteness coexist. Our minds are set to a specific scale, and scale is what makes experiencing reality possible.
When I have a dream and it’s almost lucid but not quite I can tell what the plan for the dream is, I can try to push against the story fate plan made somewhere in my mind and either succeed or fail
I had a literal trans-personal epiphany during my first encounter with a psychedelic substance a couple years ago, and it featured a lot of the ideas discussed in this video. The first of which was the illusion of the separate self, followed by all moments existing at once, leading up to the personal realization that I’m trans! I made an episode about this experience, and it just won the award for “Episode of the Year” and “Best Production” at my state’s podcast awards last night! I don’t want to anger RU-vid by linking to another video (without permission), but if anyone wants to check it out, it’s my episode called “It’s Morphin Time” from February of last year. The musical/psychedelic sequence explaining this experience starts 18 minutes in, but there’s some helpful personal context before that point if you have the time to spare.
Since, for you, human thought is a simulation framework, hence hallucination, so are every concepts you have covered in this video (Unity, life after death, etc..), and the epiphanies you've experienced. Unless you think that the brain is a computer that only allows you to experience a minimal part of universal consciousness, and that psychedelic experiences allow you to unblock this filter.
Non-opposite poles. Vibration between poles varies depending on their relation to one another. States are indeterminate until observed. That is why the one mind seeks to explore previously unseen areas which is why each life is unique and special and important. Is it it moral for us to view, and thereby determine. The mind/heart construct is partially a processor but equally, and perhaps more significantly, it is a receiver. The type of perception we use influences the nature of determination 55:00 . Our bodies are combinations of various forms of perception. Each form of perception is a sub-ego in the one-mind. The sub egos compete with one another for the chance to view and thereby determine. 57:55 Haha, love it!♥ Is it possible for us to choose our perceptional preferences? If so do we in fact have agency in creating the universe? Or at least in determining those parts of the universe that have been perceived. Are there certain types of perception that seek to snuff out the others? Great video think! Thanks for posting it up♥
I'm really glad you brought up the difference between conceptual and verbal thinking! I feel like our conceptual thinking is a function of an ability to volitionally modulate connections between various sense memories, a sort of synaesthesia, that allows for more rapid processing, and a compression of the space necessary to remember key aspects of reality - almost like a Fourier transform of memories linked together by the conceptual common thread
All psychedelic epiphanies seem centred around the sudden and sometimes terrifying awareness of the phantasm. Specifically that objective reality is distorted by perception, and during a psychedelic experience you tend to become aware of the separation of the observer (consiousness) and point of view (meat mech).
@@HIRAMECLARKEHOPS People do change, I know because I'm one of them. Ego death changed my views of life profoundly even to this day, other people such as Bill Hicks and Terrance Mckenna speak of such things also. Its well documented.
how cool an effect is and how cool your own specific experience with an effect is are different things. josie ranked this lower because it didn't directly impact her empathy/behaviour towards others, whereas as a subjective effect it was ranked very high because she has a deep interest in it.
hearing you talk about your depersonalization really resonated with me because i too experience intense depersonalization and derealization after my second lsd experience. it took one experience, and the lens in which i simultaneously view myself and reality and deeply shifted. this video really gave me some deep insight into it that i never really considered. i always thought that the dissociation served as a purpose to “teach me” that i didn’t love myself. i thought that the psychedelic knew that the only way to help me love myself was to break me down to nothing. therefore, i would have to completely rebuild myself from the ground up. and that experience has held somewhat true. i am completely different from the person i was prior to that experience. however, i now see that idea being one created by the ego as trying to personalize the experience. when in reality, i am actually experiencing on a deeper level that is more in touch with the truth. i am a complex neurochemical computer system. and i am experiencing myself as a system rather than a physical being, creating that disconnect with my physical form. i too have had some of your epiphanies: the most notable is mckenna syndrome. my spiritual beliefs are too complex to discuss in a youtube comment, but i do believe two things that contradict each other a) we are spiritual beings having a human experience. our purpose as spiritual beings is to come into the human experience with the purpose of growing. the human experience is unique in the sense that it is the most difficult and challenging experience. we feel all emotions, and we must learn to navigate these to grow and become a higher version of our self. (this one i don’t believe entirely, but i do believe it to possibly hold truth.) b) we are merely the universe experiencing itself. we are all comprised of energy, which is collective and compromises everything physical & non-physical. the “reality” we experience is an illusion that places existence and an ego into this energy, but it is never separate or individual to this collective energy. the purpose for this illusion is something i have not personally explored yet. (if it even has purpose.) this belief directly followed my lsd experience that initiated the dissociation. it caused me to become a nihilist, which later turned into hedonism. my hedonism now greater influences the first belief, although i do believe my ego is placing importance and significance on my experience. lastly, i have experience what you call “the cultural filter as an ego shortcut.” i feel that in a sense, i have broken through that filter and am able to see why people present themselves certain ways, and how the ego will naturally try to view people through bias. i am able to see people in a completely unbiased nature, allowing myself to fully tap into empathy and understand individuals more quickly. it has also manifested as me becoming a very authentic and raw version of myself. i am a complete reflection of who i truly am. (i may have misinterpreted what you said in that section, but that’s how i internalized it.) anyways love your work as always. it is deeply fascinating to me. it is almost inspiring me to embark on a psychedelic journey again. i haven’t touched psychedelics since that lsd experience, due to fear. but you have since helped me realize that a lot of fears i had about my experience were actually just fears of the awakenings it was causing within me. i hope dmt lands in my possession someday, and i am able to fully experience and understand all these concepts in their entirety.
also i wrote this comment off of three hours of sleep and at 5am the next day lol. so this probably isn’t everything i wanted to say or is exactly how i wanted to put it. but i hope it makes enough sense.
55:35 The veil when I quid salvia before, was a shimmering wall of leaves, that I could not see. I didn't break through, just minor effects and the paralysis. It was pretty tranquil tho. And when I quid it, I thought, 'this prolly can help with neurological disorders, thats why its very tactile and can paralyze'. Then eventually a study comes out it may help MS. I'm going on a tangent sorry lol. I don't often feel validated. But yeah, the wall of leaves I could sense without seeing. Perhaps its related to the prefrontal cortex would be my guess.
josie you are just awesome :) found your website disregard everthing i say like 10 years ago, and was very impressed by how amazing you were in describing those kind of states, as objective as possible, with pictures and everything. Did't know who you were, and now i can watch you in such a cool video talking about your own experiences and what you think about it now, i think it's amazing. Great video, thx a lot. Ah and i also like the zelda stuff :) majoras mask! It's just fun watching you do what you probably do best - talking about psychedelics :D keep going!
Thank you so much! I will definitely keep it up until I die. It’s pretty rare to meet someone who remembers disregard these days haha, you’ve been following me for a long time!!! I started that site at 17 and am about to turn 32 omg
@@josikinz i actually used your three articles from that site (visual, cognitive, miscellaneous compononents) to teach my parents what i find so interesting about these substances - but they were not so impressed haha :DD. I was in my early 20s back then, now i'm 35. Funny to know now the writer of these articles was even younger than me at that time. Very impressing! Thanks a lot for your reply, feels special for me 💜
It's really interesting to hear the stories about how these insights either stuck and integrated or did not layer into your reality and ranked lower. It seems to suggest that the soil in which these seeds are sewn are either supportive for the seed of perceptual insight to sow and grow or not, possibly influenced by presuppositions we arrived at the insights with, the experiences of our ancestors, our culture etc.
In my construct of reality: What you call 'conceptual thinking' is what animals do almost exclusively. Conceptual thinking is what comes from the brain correlating everything experienced in life biased by genetic and operating conditions. Humans rely heavily on that too. But humans can do 'verbal thinking' as well which amplifies the effectiveness of conceptual thinking and a sense of awareness. Words make finer distinctions experientially.
I think you would like a channel called usefulcharts, he has several videos in which he makes timelines and family trees of different religions, in the video he has about esotericism he talks about a religion very similar to the idea you mentioned in your "mckenna moment"
Conceptual thinking and linguistic thinking are part of the essence of semiotics and semiology. Highly recommend checking the works of Saussure, Pierce, Barthes, Umberto Eco, Kristeva. There's more but they all reference each other in their works lol. I learned about it at a film school that I went. All of that coupled with defamiliarization have played a huge role in my understanding of concepts and ideas and our waking reality
Paired opposites are the result of infinite systems. Everything is relative, so extremes manifest each other or else nothing happens at all. It's just crests and troughs in universal waveforms.
In my semantics... Hierarchical Levels of Awareness 1. Awareness: Definition: The basic experience of observation or the accumulation of many observations at a single point-an "observation summing point." *Observation in the quantum mechanical definition not colloquial connotation.* Example: A simple perception, like feeling the warmth of the sun. Or the experience of being a glass of orange juice. Experiencers includes: Atoms, photos, minerals, cells, life, humans, AI 2. Consciousness (Self-Awareness): Definition: Being aware of being aware. Recognizing one's own awareness. Example: Noticing that one is feeling a stimulus. Experiencers Includes: Fungi, Plants, Insects, animals, humans, AI? 2.5 "higher-order" consciousness definition: Awareness of being conscious Example: Feeling pain or emotions. Experiencers: Animals, Humans, Fungi?, AI? 3. Sentience (Self-Consciousness): Definition: Being conscious of being conscious. Reflecting on one's own consciousness. Example: Thinking about how your emotions affect your thoughts. Experincers: Humans, fungi?, AI? 4. Being Conscious of One's Sentience: Definition: An intermediate step where one is aware of their capacity for sentience. Example: Recognizing that you have the ability to reflect deeply on your own thoughts and feelings and perceptions. Experiencers: Humans on language, education, philosophy or mild psychedelics. 5. Self-Sentience (Being Sentient of One's Sentience): Definition: A higher-order state where one is sentient of their own sentience. This means experiencing and understanding the essence of one's own capacity for deep reflection and consciousness. Example: Immersively experiencing the nature of your own self-consciousness, perhaps during profound moments of insight or meditation. Experincers: Humans on heavy psychedelics, maybe large fungal mycelium networks?, AI? So the psychedelic experience is an example of self-sentience and therefore feels profound (because is stepping beyond just being sentient) These tiers dont seem to be discreet steps and also seem to scale with the amount of "observation" being summed at the "point of awareness" This point is where you are actually experiencing existence as such.
The realization of oneness doesn’t affect y’all for 2 reasons. 1. Everyone around has to be completely aware of it for it to truly affect daily life. 2. Try experiencing people’s consciousness through others(mentally put yourself in their body and imagine what they see in their perspective, what they’re thinking, what they feel and why they feel that way). I’d imagine what happens when everyone does this is one step closer to utopia or some sht
I have a small quirky note on your interdependent dualities creating (and likely sustaining?) the universe subjective effect, and the supposed intrinsic anthropocentrism of the idea/gnosis. One of the most simple but decently convincing reductionist suppositions I've read on why humans tend towards reducing everything to dualities is because of our hands. Essentially, the argument goes that, since we have symmetrically opposite hands, we are evolutionarily coded to view everything intrinsically in terms of symmetric opposites. The argument suggests that this may have truly been burned into our neurology by tribal game-playing, suggesting that playing simple games like making two closed fists and having another tribe member guess which berry is in which fist (similar games I'm sure we've all played as children) helped ratify this human truth. This suggests to me that we may have been able to dichotomize life versus death, good versus bad, comfort versus discomfort, pleasure versus pain, and all other dichotomies we likely sat with before the invention of language. I wouldn't tattoo the idea on my forehead, but I find it an odd idea that the invention of language ratified dichotomies (especially given Sanskrit), like Josie suggests here, and prefer to think that its something cooked into our very morphology stratified by social behavior (and certainly by language later). This is one of those thing you could think about forever, though, with cluelessness likely following you to the end of your journey of stamping it down.
