Heresy

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Discussing experiences on LSD falls into the philosophers' category of 
non-propositional knowledge. That is, knowledge that cannot be passed on 
verbally. A common example is riding a bicycle. Once you learn how to do it, 
you know, but it is impossible to pass on that knowledge in a textbook, or 
by desription alone. Describing LSD experiences is the same. Bekah nicely 
described two events in her life. I have some idea of what those experiences 
were like, but only because I have benchmarks for such experiences. Yet, I 
do not fully understand her experiences because they are hers, and I wasn't 
there.


Subject: Re: Heresy


John wrote:
>
> Fair enough. I was just trying to stress the 'unknowable' quality of
> LSD. Having taken it differs so dramatically to not having yet
> experienced it that it's impossible to overstate the sense of
> revelation attendant.
>
> If I were teetotal, I would still have a fair idea of how being drunk
> affects people. Of course I would still not know 'how it feels' to be
> drunk, but I reckon I would have a good idea. But the gap between what
> I thought I understood about another person's intoxicated condition,
> and what that intoxicated person knew, would be much much smaller than
> the gap between someone who has been through that indesceribable
> experience of taking LSD for the first time.
>
> Hence the line of thinking that one should only really take LSD once -
> there's no need to repeat the experience.
>


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