Heresy

[Joe Allonby]

In September 1978, my last night before going to college, I spent
hours wandering in the woods of Dennis Massachusetts watching trees
fuck.

Not sure there's any revelation there. Just where my mind was at.

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Sep 13, 2009, at 3:28 PM, Page wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> In July of 1983, I became a Tarot card—go ahead, call me a T.W.I.T., it
> would certainly match the rules of that particular game in "Against the
> Day"—the Temperance card, to be precise. My entire being, all my
> consciousness, became that card and everything that card represents. I
> didn't realize that's what happened until two years later because I didn't
> know what a Temperance card was in 1983. I can hardly express what it means
> to become a Temprance card [obviously] but there was a lot of flying
> involved and the production values were out of this world [sorry]. After
> spending some timeless time as ATU 14, I found myself just before sunrise on
> a dewey lawn in a park, and started looking for the nearest men's room.
> Two-three years later a friend who studied the Tarot heard my story [like
> Sortilège, she was patient and clear-headed and asked a lot of questions]
> and showed me a B.O.T.A. Temperance card. . . .
>
> I love the reference to the bicycle. Albert Hoffman "came on" for the very
> first time while riding his bicycle.
>