Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
thinks that drugs in society are going to go away, they need to complete their education by a crash course run by the plant teachers themselves. The single most pressing issue involves the skill of self-moderation, something that humans don't seem to learn easily. This is why Hancock

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-21 Thread Pierz
, they need to complete their education by a crash course run by the plant teachers themselves. The single most pressing issue involves the skill of self-moderation, something that humans don't seem to learn easily. This is why Hancock in that TED talk is right on the money when he says

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
. If anybody thinks that drugs in society are going to go away, they need to complete their education by a crash course run by the plant teachers themselves. The single most pressing issue involves the skill of self- moderation, something that humans don't seem to learn easily. This is why

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Apr 2014, at 15:38, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: There is also the issue of dosage btw. Most psychedelics will not just automatically take the subject to a full blown mystical thing; which is quite mainstream view by now, for what it's worth:

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-17 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 16 Apr 2014, at 13:49, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 15 Apr 2014, at 22:41, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 6:44 PM, meekerdb

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-17 Thread Kim Jones
The thing that was conceived was the enterprise that became Apple computer. What was brought into being, possibly with the aid of some substance, was the synergistic union of the existing technologies into a concept that allowed them all to be rolled into one and marketed effectively. You can

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-17 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: The thing that was conceived was the enterprise that became Apple computer. What was brought into being, possibly with the aid of some substance, was the synergistic union of the existing technologies into a concept

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-17 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 10:21 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/16/2014 6:38 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: If you say psychedelics are trivial, did nothing for research in medicine, resulted in nothing, check maps.org or for concrete articles: But the question was whether

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-17 Thread Kim Jones
to go away, they need to complete their education by a crash course run by the plant teachers themselves. The single most pressing issue involves the skill of self-moderation, something that humans don't seem to learn easily. This is why Hancock in that TED talk is right on the money when he

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Apr 2014, at 22:41, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 6:44 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/15/2014 4:38 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: An interesting related hypothesis is that language originated from synesthesia caused by psychadelics. Telmo. I had heard

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-16 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 12:32 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/15/2014 3:19 PM, LizR wrote: On 16 April 2014 09:42, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: What cultural ideas would those be? Get out of Viet Nam? Civil rights for blacks? The pill? Plus (off the top of my

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-16 Thread Kim Jones
The Apple Macintosh computer - conceived by Steves Jobs and Wozniak in 1974 while stoned on cannabis. kim On 16 Apr 2014, at 8:19 am, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 April 2014 09:42, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: What cultural ideas would those be? Get out of Viet Nam? Civil

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-16 Thread LizR
On 16 April 2014 20:12, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: The Apple Macintosh computer - conceived by Steves Jobs and Wozniak in 1974 while stoned on cannabis. Named for the Apple Record label? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-16 Thread LizR
Oddly enough the Wikipedia article on the development of Apple Inc doesn't mention drugs, and the idea of the Mac is attributed to Jef Raskin. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-16 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 11:42 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/15/2014 1:41 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 6:44 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/15/2014 4:38 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: An interesting related hypothesis is that language

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Apr 2014, at 10:12, Kim Jones wrote: The Apple Macintosh computer - conceived by Steves Jobs and Wozniak in 1974 while stoned on cannabis. It was the invention of the Apple (the Apple I, and the famous Apple II, much before the Apple became the Macintosh). That changes the world,

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-16 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 15 Apr 2014, at 22:41, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 6:44 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/15/2014 4:38 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: An interesting related hypothesis is that

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-16 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
There is also the issue of dosage btw. Most psychedelics will not just automatically take the subject to a full blown mystical thing; which is quite mainstream view by now, for what it's worth: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/04/health/lsd-reconsidered-for-therapy.html?_r=0 Most people I know

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Apr 2014, at 13:49, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 15 Apr 2014, at 22:41, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 6:44 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/15/2014 4:38 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-16 Thread meekerdb
On 4/16/2014 1:12 AM, Kim Jones wrote: The Apple Macintosh computer - conceived by Steves Jobs and Wozniak in 1974 while stoned on cannabis. What exactly was conceived? The mouse - from Xerox park? The OS, a single-user form of Unix? Color; the Amiga already had it? The combined

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-16 Thread meekerdb
On 4/16/2014 6:38 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: If you say psychedelics are trivial, did nothing for research in medicine, resulted in nothing, check maps.org http://maps.org or for concrete articles: But the question was whether the produced useful ideas in those who took them - not in

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-16 Thread LizR
Personally, I consider Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band to be a useful idea. But YMMV. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-16 Thread meekerdb
On 4/16/2014 2:17 PM, LizR wrote: Personally, I consider Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band to be a useful idea. But YMMV. Sure, I already excepted art - and not just music; a lot of writers and painters were inspired by alcohol and also by other 'drugs' like religion. Art is a way of

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-16 Thread LizR
On 17 April 2014 09:30, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/16/2014 2:17 PM, LizR wrote: Personally, I consider Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band to be a useful idea. But YMMV. Sure, I already excepted art - and not just music; a lot of writers and painters were inspired by

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-16 Thread meekerdb
On 4/16/2014 2:34 PM, LizR wrote: On 17 April 2014 09:30, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/16/2014 2:17 PM, LizR wrote: Personally, I consider Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band to be a useful idea. But YMMV. Sure, I

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-16 Thread LizR
On 17 April 2014 09:38, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/16/2014 2:34 PM, LizR wrote: On 17 April 2014 09:30, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/16/2014 2:17 PM, LizR wrote: Personally, I consider Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band to be a useful idea. But YMMV.

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-16 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 12:58:49PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: On 4/16/2014 1:12 AM, Kim Jones wrote: The Apple Macintosh computer - conceived by Steves Jobs and Wozniak in 1974 while stoned on cannabis. What exactly was conceived? The mouse - from Xerox park? The OS, a single-user form of

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-16 Thread LizR
On 17 April 2014 07:58, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/16/2014 1:12 AM, Kim Jones wrote: The Apple Macintosh computer - conceived by Steves Jobs and Wozniak in 1974 while stoned on cannabis. What exactly was conceived? The mouse - from Xerox park? The OS, a single-user form

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-15 Thread Kim Jones
I'm especially fascinated by this theory that human consciousness got going via the plant teachers in the first place. I was listening to Benjamin Britten's operatic version of A Midsummer Night's Dream the other day and it's easy to see that Shakespeare was fascinated by altered states

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-15 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: I'm especially fascinated by this theory that human consciousness got going via the plant teachers in the first place. An interesting related hypothesis is that language originated from synesthesia caused

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-15 Thread Kim Jones
On 15 Apr 2014, at 8:41 pm, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: I'm especially fascinated by this theory that human consciousness got going via the plant teachers in the first place. An interesting

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-15 Thread Telmo Menezes
got going via the plant teachers in the first place. An interesting related hypothesis is that language originated from synesthesia caused by psychadelics. Telmo. I had heard that Telmo. Do you have a reference, a link? Unfortunately not. I think I heard in a talk. Might be related

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-15 Thread meekerdb
On 4/15/2014 4:38 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: An interesting related hypothesis is that language originated from synesthesia caused by psychadelics. Telmo. I had heard that Telmo. Do you have a reference, a link? Unfortunately not. I think I heard in a talk. Might be related

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-15 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 4:44 PM Subject: Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk) On 4/15/2014 4:38 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: An interesting related

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-15 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, April 15, 2014 12:44:32 PM UTC-4, Brent wrote: On 4/15/2014 4:38 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: An interesting related hypothesis is that language originated from synesthesia caused by psychadelics. Telmo. I had heard that Telmo. Do you have a reference, a link?

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-15 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 6:44 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/15/2014 4:38 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: An interesting related hypothesis is that language originated from synesthesia caused by psychadelics. Telmo. I had heard that Telmo. Do you have a reference, a link?

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-15 Thread meekerdb
On 4/15/2014 1:41 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 6:44 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/15/2014 4:38 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: An interesting related hypothesis is that language originated from synesthesia

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-15 Thread LizR
On 16 April 2014 09:42, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: What cultural ideas would those be? Get out of Viet Nam? Civil rights for blacks? The pill? Plus (off the top of my head (man)) - sexual freedom and equality, the anti-establishment vibe seen in Occupy, Wikileaks etc, freedom of

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-15 Thread meekerdb
On 4/15/2014 3:19 PM, LizR wrote: On 16 April 2014 09:42, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: What cultural ideas would those be? Get out of Viet Nam? Civil rights for blacks? The pill? Plus (off the top of my head (man)) - sexual freedom and equality,

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-15 Thread LizR
On 16 April 2014 10:32, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/15/2014 3:19 PM, LizR wrote: On 16 April 2014 09:42, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: What cultural ideas would those be? Get out of Viet Nam? Civil rights for blacks? The pill? Plus (off the top of my head

RE: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-15 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 3:32 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk) On 4/15/2014 3:19 PM, LizR wrote: On 16

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-14 Thread LizR
Cool. On 14 April 2014 01:12, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 12 Apr 2014, at 09:33, Kim Jones wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0c5nIvJH7w#t=174 Cannot see why it was banned. Well, OK - I can. But here it is anyway. Nice. Bruno Kim

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Apr 2014, at 09:33, Kim Jones wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0c5nIvJH7w#t=174 Cannot see why it was banned. Well, OK - I can. But here it is anyway. Nice. Bruno Kim Kim Jones B.Mus.GDTL Email: kimjo...@ozemail.com.au Mobile: 0450

Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-12 Thread Kim Jones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0c5nIvJH7w#t=174 Cannot see why it was banned. Well, OK - I can. But here it is anyway. Kim Kim Jones B.Mus.GDTL Email: kimjo...@ozemail.com.au Mobile: 0450 963 719 Landline: 02 9389 4239 Web:

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-27 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 25 Feb 2013, at 14:56, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 22 Feb 2013, at 17:21, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: The people who most hate

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 25 Feb 2013, at 14:56, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 22 Feb 2013, at 17:21, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: The people who most hate smokers are ex-smokers. - PGC's father Since this thread has become a bit

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-22 Thread Kim Jones
Do you eat dinner every day? Do you drink coffee every day? Do you drink water or milk every day? Do you watch the TV news every day? Kim On 21/02/2013, at 12:59 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: All classical psychedelics exhibit anti-addictive properties. Sure, people can't

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-22 Thread Kim Jones
to to live in a world where we have to do things like drive cars and operate dangerous heavy machinery for which a cannabis delirium would spell danger or death. I did not call this thread The Plant Teachers for nothing. The other thing is marijuana's effect on the memory. Often you smoke, you have

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Feb 2013, at 13:17, Pierz wrote: I have tried both DMT and salvia, although my salvia hits were much milder than my DMT doses. I found DMT quite terrifying in many ways, and I can totally relate what Bruno says regarding the salvia experience not being fun, how it is hard and

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-22 Thread Quentin Anciaux
drive cars and operate dangerous heavy machinery for which a cannabis delirium would spell danger or death. I did not call this thread The Plant Teachers for nothing. The other thing is marijuana's effect on the memory. Often you smoke, you have powerful insights and ideas, but you forget

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-22 Thread Quentin Anciaux
The Plant Teachers for nothing. The other thing is marijuana's effect on the memory. Often you smoke, you have powerful insights and ideas, but you forget them as your mind races ahead to its next perception.I have trained myself over the years to have a notepad and pen with me whenever stoned

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Feb 2013, at 17:21, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: The people who most hate smokers are ex-smokers. - PGC's father Since this thread has become a bit personal, I offer the view of a former judge of the German supreme court, who himself was not a smoker, nor did ever smoke: It's

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-21 Thread Pierz
in intensity. On Thursday, February 7, 2013 8:57:57 PM UTC+11, Kim Jones wrote: Graham Hancock's experiences with Ayahuascahttp://www.disinfo.com/2013/01/giving-up-the-green-bitch-reflections-on-cannabis-ayahuasca-and-the-mystery-of-plant-teachers-by-graham-hancock/ Of course some

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-21 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 6:31 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 20 Feb 2013, at 16:30, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/2/20 Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com Also, there is a weird thing

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Feb 2013, at 14:59, Quentin Anciaux wrote: All classical psychedelics exhibit anti-addictive properties. Sure, people can't do mescaline or LSD regularly enough, i.e. every few days to every day, How is using every day (or every few days) not an addictive behavior ? Seems quite

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Feb 2013, at 16:10, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: And here I have to confirm Bruno's Salvia preference: to say DMT is merely some extension of mushrooms and not astonishing, is to confirm that one's method is not yet fully developed, or there is some physiological incompatibility.

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-12 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
. Note however, my statement above includes may. Does your model address altered states of consciousness beyond pathetic fallacy? Because: Also note Jobbs' use of diverse experiences, which ties in directly with the plant teachers and how experimentation with altered states can, given

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-11 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
that is obscuring things by constantly playing hide-and-seek linguistically. Also note Jobbs' use of diverse experiences, which ties in directly with the plant teachers and how experimentation with altered states can, given some circumstances, be of value. And here I have to confirm Bruno's Salvia

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Feb 2013, at 21:15, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, February 10, 2013 11:49:56 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Feb 2013, at 02:04, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, February 9, 2013 6:54:38 PM UTC-5, Kim Jones wrote: What an extraordinarily interesting idea, Craig! I'll

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Feb 2013, at 22:01, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, February 10, 2013 10:41:23 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 Feb 2013, at 15:14, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, February 9, 2013 8:15:21 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 08 Feb 2013, at 21:38, meekerdb wrote: On

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-11 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, February 11, 2013 11:05:36 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Feb 2013, at 21:15, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, February 10, 2013 11:49:56 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Feb 2013, at 02:04, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, February 9, 2013 6:54:38 PM UTC-5,

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Feb 2013, at 15:14, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, February 9, 2013 8:15:21 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 08 Feb 2013, at 21:38, meekerdb wrote: On 2/8/2013 12:31 AM, Kim Jones wrote: Which is a profound problem that we can lay right at the door of LANGUAGE. Language is

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Feb 2013, at 02:04, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, February 9, 2013 6:54:38 PM UTC-5, Kim Jones wrote: What an extraordinarily interesting idea, Craig! I'll have to let Brian Eno know about this. Eno was recently talking about the possibilities of a new kind of inaudible music.

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-10 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 10, 2013 11:49:56 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Feb 2013, at 02:04, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, February 9, 2013 6:54:38 PM UTC-5, Kim Jones wrote: What an extraordinarily interesting idea, Craig! I'll have to let Brian Eno know about this. Eno was

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-10 Thread Craig Weinberg
, row your boat to mirror fugues. The unseen that I am talking about is the perceptions of the subject. Yes, you are also seeing numbers superimposed as ghosts in the mirror where there are none. Also note Jobbs' use of diverse experiences, which ties in directly with the plant

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-10 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 10, 2013 10:41:23 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 Feb 2013, at 15:14, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, February 9, 2013 8:15:21 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 08 Feb 2013, at 21:38, meekerdb wrote: On 2/8/2013 12:31 AM, Kim Jones wrote: Which is a

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-09 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Opinions about this? As allways, excuses for my dyslexic writing. Sometimes I can not avoid it That plants produce physyological and psichological alterations in order to defend themselves from being eaten is a almost evident fact. Domestications of a plant is the effort to enlarge their

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Feb 2013, at 12:55, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Opinions about this? As allways, excuses for my dyslexic writing. Sometimes I can not avoid it I will come back later, when I have more time, on this. Here I will just assess what you say below: That plants produce physyological

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-09 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 9, 2013 8:15:21 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 08 Feb 2013, at 21:38, meekerdb wrote: On 2/8/2013 12:31 AM, Kim Jones wrote: Which is a profound problem that we can lay right at the door of LANGUAGE. Language is indeed a self-serving thing. A description of

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-09 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
that comes to us by observing a leaf = we are already dreaming at that point. Also note Jobbs' use of diverse experiences, which ties in directly with the plant teachers and how experimentation with altered states can, given some circumstances, be of value. And here I have to confirm Bruno's

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-09 Thread Craig Weinberg
for evidence that the unseen is unreal. Also note Jobbs' use of diverse experiences, which ties in directly with the plant teachers and how experimentation with altered states can, given some circumstances, be of value. And here I have to confirm Bruno's Salvia preference: to say DMT is merely

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-09 Thread Kim Jones
What an extraordinarily interesting idea, Craig! I'll have to let Brian Eno know about this. Eno was recently talking about the possibilities of a new kind of inaudible music. Actually, John Cage already invented that in the '50s with his infamous piece 4'.33 - where the pianist walks to the

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-09 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 9, 2013 6:54:38 PM UTC-5, Kim Jones wrote: What an extraordinarily interesting idea, Craig! I'll have to let Brian Eno know about this. Eno was recently talking about the possibilities of a new kind of inaudible music. Actually, John Cage already invented that in

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-08 Thread Kim Jones
On 08/02/2013, at 9:09 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 07 Feb 2013, at 10:57, Kim Jones wrote: Graham Hancock's experiences with Ayahuasca Of course some will immediately denounce this post as irrelevant to the search for a TOE. But, recall that CONSCIOUSNESS is the

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-08 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 07:31:06PM +1100, Kim Jones wrote: Salvia, like Ketamine, (but quite less dangerous, and anti-addictive) has a dissociative effect which might illustrate the Galois connection between 1p-mind (consciousness) and its 3p local handlings (the 3p-brains). By

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Feb 2013, at 10:09, Russell Standish wrote: On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 07:31:06PM +1100, Kim Jones wrote: Salvia, like Ketamine, (but quite less dangerous, and anti- addictive) has a dissociative effect which might illustrate the Galois connection between 1p-mind (consciousness) and

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Feb 2013, at 09:31, Kim Jones wrote: On 08/02/2013, at 9:09 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 07 Feb 2013, at 10:57, Kim Jones wrote: Graham Hancock's experiences with Ayahuasca Of course some will immediately denounce this post as irrelevant to the search for a TOE.

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-08 Thread meekerdb
On 2/8/2013 12:31 AM, Kim Jones wrote: Which is a profound problem that we can lay right at the door of LANGUAGE. Language is indeed a self-serving thing. A description of something is a dance of language, not a dance of PERCEPTION. Perception is often throttled by the processes of language. We

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-08 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Some initial comments, because I´m very interested on these alterations of conscience. The rest of my comments will appear along the conversation: I´m persuaded, by very simple evolutionary analysis that plants produced whatever chemical substance that stops from eating them. this is their only

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-08 Thread Alberto G. Corona
This documentary is very good. it is about alterations of consciouness produced by accidents. This case has a injured temporal lobe. The effect is very similar to a psychotropic drug, religious feelings included: . http://www.

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-08 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, February 8, 2013 3:38:06 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 2/8/2013 12:31 AM, Kim Jones wrote: Which is a profound problem that we can lay right at the door of LANGUAGE. Language is indeed a self-serving thing. A description of something is a dance of language, not a dance of

The Plant Teachers

2013-02-07 Thread Kim Jones
Graham Hancock's experiences with Ayahuasca Of course some will immediately denounce this post as irrelevant to the search for a TOE. But, recall that CONSCIOUSNESS is the ultimate final frontier in science and that voyagers in consciousness-altering substances have a perspective to contribute

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Feb 2013, at 10:57, Kim Jones wrote: Graham Hancock's experiences with Ayahuasca Of course some will immediately denounce this post as irrelevant to the search for a TOE. But, recall that CONSCIOUSNESS is the ultimate final frontier in science and that voyagers in consciousness-