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Notes on 'reality'

chris_judge

19:29 / 25.04.14

What we conceive of, and perceive as, reality constantly changes because of human neoronal tendency-as-unto-compulsion, to error correct.

The Real tends toward construction by conversation rather than by jackhammer.

Information enters the nervous system and immediately plunges through the storehouse of past sensory impression in emotional centers, memory centers, etc.(!) grabbing countless pieces of data to amend the incoming transmission.

Deeply seated impressions in 'memory' grow stronger with every new connection. This data then feeds an adaptive mechanical process that produces a sense of stable cognition.

When this machinery gets clogged with data we freak out.

Sense impressions that can find no attachment to articles in the hall of memory or impression can cause all kinds of strange things to happen. Anger, disgust, hatred, elation, ekstasis, samadhi.

To stop having this conversation, though, what would remain of 'life'?

jgbell

23:51 / 26.04.14

The Real tends toward construction by conversation rather than by jackhammer.

That sentence reminds me of several ideas, such as the notion that there is no unmediated reality, the social construction of reality, and what one of my professors, Patrick J Hill, introduced as "interprefacts", that no facts exist without interpretations, points of view.

Aribus

17:06 / 29.04.14

Greatness!
I think that in the middle if this whole streamflow of information there's this entity that swirls things into the dream-vortex in order to create imagination and fantasy. And that leads us into the pineal gland.

chris_judge

18:42 / 29.04.14

Can you explain what you mean by "into the pineal gland"? Do you mean, as in classical yoga energy body anatomy: the ajna chakra? Or do you mean something different?

Aribus

20:37 / 29.04.14

If you mean as in The Third Eye, sure.
I'm talking the spiritual centre in the cosmos of flesh, the retina in the liquid brain, the center of dreams and religious experience. The pathway to those geometrical worlds where DMT would take you. The gland that has been portraited in all kinds of interesting co-op.
http://fractalenlightenment.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/pineal_glands_in_human_civilizations.jpg

It's the place where your ego will be defeated. It's your epicenter.
It will be your next thing the absorb into.

chris_judge

10:19 / 30.04.14

I usually just call it "the center of my head" and am done with it. I've yet to be able to replicate the experience of DMT without having taken it exogenously, which is a very disappointing thing, but perhaps I'll get there before I die, and if not then popular theory indicates that I'll get there when I die anyway, right? Haha.

These days I find myself more interested in the neural anatomy of my heart and my abdomen. Did you know that the heart and gut both have their own separate nervous systems? This is why if you take the heart out of a person it will continue to beat at 100 bpm until the blood supply runs out.

Aribus

06:13 / 01.05.14

It's all rythmic. Right?
Heart rate. REM. Circadian rhythm.
And guess what center in your body sets the pace around each evolving cycle of the day...yup. That little tiny gland in your brain. Even got som drugs to keep the system happy and working called melatonin. It's like pixie dust. All tingly and shiny and dreamy.

Sometimes I almost can feel that little guy sitting in the centre of my brain, working the levers and wires to make the body move. I usually picture him sitting there and drinking a big mug of coffe, imprinted with BEST GLAND IN THE WORLD. Or maybe he's like an alien invader, implanted in there to make me all numb and easy to control. It usually goes in cycles.

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