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This kinda reminds me of Terence McKenna talking about his experience with DMT.

He met "self-replicating machine elves". One of them told him, "don't be stuck in shock/wonder", and "do what we're doing".

Then he noticed that these 'beings' were creating various 'physical' objects in front of him with sound. Like they were "singing" these objects into existence. He called it, "glossolalia", or "speaking in tongues".

Through his DMT trips he apparently learned to use different sounds to create objects in front of him. Slight changes in the sound changed the appearance of the object.

Not that I necessarily believe him, but it peaks my imagination in fun ways.



If you ever do psychedelics, try out a tone generator while on the trip. https://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/

In particular the 20-100 hz range.

There's a simple explanation for all of this. The sound wave frequencies are about coincident with the brain wave frequencies used in representing conscious thought. Signals of audio and visual perception in the brain are meant to be similar, you want to recognize the same object as the cause of both light and sound signals. So perhaps information in the optical nerve is serialized in a manner that makes the wave form similar to sound waves coming from the same direction and same characteristic length scale. Of course on psychedelics you can use sound or perhaps even blinking lights to create erroneous perceptions.


There was an art piece (at Burning Man, where else haha) that replicated this to some degree - simply a chill couch/bed thing that'd comfortably fit about five, with headset microphones and a projector, which'd visualize the sound.

And... however they put it together, it was magic. You really did feel like you were singing shapes into existence with your friends.


Ooh Fascinating!

I definitely did not see that one!

Any recollection about which year/camp/approximate location on playa/name of project/pics or similar?


Oh jeez. I think that was 2013, and I think outer playa, but not deep playa - past the temple where things get calmer and more isolated, but not way the fuck out there.

I have no idea of the names involved :/ I might be able to recover it, as I think it was by some friends of friends.


Pretty sure that is the Electric Lazy Lounge


I love the electric lazy, but that's not it :) The lazy is passive (you experience it while it happens), this was interactive.

PS - Did you know you can get a portable version? It's just the goggles, plus the sound/visual combos. (Or, at least, you used to be able to, haven't checked in years).


Many people see DMT elves. You can hear some of McKenna's quotes in Shpongle's songs ("A New Way to Say Hoo-ray".

And of course, in the Silmarillion, Eru Iluvatar "sings" the universe into form and creates deities that form harmonies (and then, dissonance).


Arguably also the bible is saying this too: "In the beginning was the Word"


This (the "Logos" translated as "the Word") is just the New Testament cribbing straight out of Hellenistic Judaism (cuz in fact early Xianity was just a Jewish sect). In particular, Philo of Alexandria.


In high school we analyzed Genesis from a literature perspective and god definitely doesn't SING the world into being, he speaks it. ANd then sees that it is good. This included Genesis "2" (the second origin story)


The spoken word is still vibrations though


Probably, the burning bush was one of the many species of tree to naturally contain DMT. It was burning at a normal pace, their sense of time was wrong. Wheels within wheels.


I've seen a similar explanation of the nature of thoughts: "the world of thoughts is the world of sound, each thought appears as a hollow shape emitting a unique sound, which appears to support that shape". In modern teems, that's very similar to a radiospace filled with signals and noise, each signal encoding a shape, everyone has a transmitter and a receiver that uses some well known method to translate shapes to signals. It helps that the signals space has infinitely many dimensions.


piques


thank you <3 I always make this same dang mistake lol




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