a reactionary psychedelia?
Can it be fully sanitised, medicinalised, shorn of its unpredictability though? there's a dilution that takes place as things get brought to market from the fringe but a dispersion too, as more people have a go
There could very well be legitimate/potent reactionary psychedelia (functioning as a rearguard?), but what if the vanguard psychedelia (and perhaps even a legitimate avant garde) is actually robustly compatible with vanguard capitalism? "vanguard capitalism" referring to big-tech?there are many reactionary psychedelias. it connects very easily and naturally with various occult and spiritual traditions, many of which are examplars of reaction. it can and does feed into fascism very easily. all sorts of elitism so on and so forth.
And this scientific embrace can be seen as a correlate to corporate embrace, no? Psychedelia is appealing more and more to those who would base their practices on science (?).Theres a lot of aesthetic baggage and a lot of ideological baggage but they can be plugged into any old shit. strip away the social contexts and what are the drugs doing? Theres a lot of science attempting to statify the psychedelic process… the visual aspects, the dissolving boundaries, technologies of non-self, mind manifesters, non specific amplifiers
Even if it means abandoning some of the ethical/cultural values associated wit psychedelia. Scary shit.Not sure about this but here it goes: what if the core/spirit of psychedelia is "on board" with riding unfettered capitalism beyond humanity, out of materiality.
Not sure about this but here it goes: what if the core/spirit of psychedelia is "on board" with riding unfettered capitalism beyond humanity, out of materiality.
this is my greatest fear. the corporate capture of the psychedelic space so that it ceases to operate as an Outside.
And this scientific embrace can be seen as a correlate to corporate embrace, no? Psychedelia is appealing more and more to those who would base their practices on science (?).
Theres a lot of aesthetic baggage and a lot of ideological baggage but they can be plugged into any old shit. strip away the social contexts and what are the drugs doing? Theres a lot of science attempting to statify the psychedelic process… the visual aspects, the dissolving boundaries, technologies of non-self, mind manifesters, non specific amplifiers
This is interesting, but I'm afraid I can't connect the dots.do you mean the kind of demonology of quantum computing and so on?
Well the science is the rearguard, conservative slowpoke compared to the direct experiencing you have in mind, no?the science can never tell you what the drugs are doing in any useful sense becasue it is experienced by the mind.
Well even if that is the case, it needs people who understand it to critique it. You understand this stuff. I don't buy the "entertain ourselves in the meantime" approach. People like you belong at the forefront, even if you aren't ultimately in alignment with its momentum.
I mean, am I totally off base there? Regardless of where the forefront is, or where it is moving, certain people are more geared/optimized to hack through the jungle.
Well the science is the rearguard, conservative slowpoke compared to the direct experiencing you have in mind, no?