No destination, Just a journey!

There's a fascinating organization called MAPS, Multi-disciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. This is a non-profit think factory that advocates for the responsible investigation of psychedelic plant and chemicals and exploring their potential as tools for transformation, for interpersonal transformation. And this is often a flash that we're living in now, Right, we're quite living through a psychedelic renaissance where, all of a sudden, people are beginning to take these tools, these cognitive technologies, that are used for thousands of years a little more seriously.  

We're starting to takeout the magnifying glass and stop being alarmist and actually paying attention and studying the potential of these tools, right? So, there's a desirable article written by Leary back within the '60scalled Programming the Psychedelic Experience. And the idea here was that if you'll successfully pattern and sequence the input signals that the topic would receive when he was on a psychedelic odyssey, you could literally assure functional output. You could almost guarantee a functional catharsis, that there would be useful to the psychedelic session. And he described the psychedelic experience as a period of increased reactivity to stimuli, both from within and from without. so, you're immediately plunged into a dialogue together with your own subconscious. Things start to erupt. 

Things start to emerge. New patterns start to be perceived. And at an equivalent time, the world, becomes sort of a Sensurround system, the fidelity, the resolution of the input signals gets boosted. So, all of a sudden, you're overwhelmed, almost eclipsed by the signals coming in. You are like a mind in flight. You are in orbital position. You are seeing the big picture. But if you don't have navigation, if you don't pattern those signals by carefully choosing beautiful music, by carefully curating excellent ecstatic poetry, reveries that you can read while you are tripping, controlling the environment, hanging around people whose company induces feelings of well-being, by patterning those signals, you're authoring the song. The soul surfing that you're actually doing. 

The folks that engage in these mystical states are referred to as psychonauts. They're literally soul surfers investigating psyche through person experience. And there's all types of answers that we will find within. There are all types of spaces that we will explore. The new space is inner space. And it's fascinating. We have to look deeper into this mystery. 

We need to explore these numinous realms, the archetypal realms from within. We need to go Carl Jung on our own brains using a cocktail of chemical technologies that will thrust the body mind into liminal spaces of exploration. We need to engineer inception-like dream spaces to explore. And the technologies aren't all getting to be external. Some of them are going to be internal. Computers are drugs but drugs are computers. This is the essence. This is why we should always be hospitable to these things because it’s absolutely fascinating. To check out MAPS, Multi-disciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.