early nineties
Keith Davis
kbob42 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 28 20:16:20 CDT 2012
Sorry, but whenever I pour mescal in my ear, it always runs out the other
side...
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Bled Welder <bledwelder at gmail.com> wrote:
> One more early nineties, for now. Who ever thought the early nineties
> would turn out anything useful? So denigrated even while they were
> occurring--
>
> Cremo, Thomson, Forbidden Archeology.
>
> I don't have an opinion yet on its broader thesis, beyond what I've
> recently learned from using my eyes in lamplight and watching the obvious
> relics of Puma Punku, etc. And how bout Karl Munck! I can't wait to hear
> a mathlover's rejection of all that.
>
> I mention this because of some noticeable interest in Jung and the
> subconscious here, and of the first 200 pages of both GR and AtD recently
> I've read Pynchon makes some apparent use of the psilocybe and Mr.T and
> Mr.K on here are reasonably interested in that and the subconscious in AtD.
> I may not know Jung but I know the psilocybe goes into the subconscious
> (somewhere in GR around 150 I pointed out on here Pynchon mentioning
> revealing and unfolding; I think he was talking oil there but oil's a good
> enough metaphor for subconsciousness for my surveys).
>
> What am I talking about. Something about the black hole at the base of
> brain, but now it seems maybe into the subconscious...ah yes, in which, it
> is natural to presume, we, or I, yes I'll do it, will encounter very
> definite remnants of our ancient, I mean like real fucking way back, human
> history, an unfolding of *that* ancient human consciousness (maybe not so
> human, right?) which wasn't subconscious then but was our consciousness.
> And maybe just back to things like 10500bc.
>
> Et voila. All fitting together nicely. Again, when I began my research
> two months ago, Egypt, 'pre-history', subconscious, blackholeinbrain,
> eternal recurrence, timeless dimensions, all of it was the last thing on my
> mind.-- True story.
>
> As I pour another Mescal. Yes! I am going to dedicate my novel to
> Malcolm Lowry. Check this out, do this. Alice, do this. Lay the side of
> your head on the table, or if you're on the floor already like I am lay it
> on the bed or sofa, and pour the tequila, not from your glass, but from the
> bottle, into your ear. Let it sit there for a while, let it soak in. Then
> do the other ear, and repeat.
>
> Then see how tall you are~~!
>
> One of the big issues, problems, most important distinctions with the
> research, obviously, is determining what is "real" and what is "mere"
> imagination and what is fueled by "mere" psychological concerns. Whichever
> it is, it's all fabulously good, like Platonic Good, you know what I mean,
> like I seriously doubt you've had any greater and more awesome experience
> than going consciously into the subconscious--but of course only highly
> specialized and professional researchers should attempt this, the minimum
> requirement being a natural born (absolute) overman. What? What? I can't
> hear anything...
>
>
>
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