what are you reading now?

[luka]

I think his descriptions of shagging are the best I've ever read!

 

[Mr. Tea]

I found a copy of Itzhak Bentov's Stalking the Wild Pendulum today. Looks interesting, anyone read it?

Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake is really good so far. Learnt a lot about lichens and cordyceps insect-wearing fungi. Presumably he's Rupert Sheldrakes son. They all went to see Terence McKenna as a family when he was kid.

Read a lot of books this year, the following five have stuck with me

Tribe - Sebastian Junger
Bunker: Building for the End Times - Bradley Garrett
Things that Bother Me - Galen Strawson
Alien Information Theory - Andrew Gallimore, great companion work with DMT and the Occult Mind - Dick Khan (he smokes DMT pretty much every day for a year and meets things)

I'm tempted by the Sheldrake book, although the cordyceps stuff freaks me the hell out. I think I briefly met the author many years ago.

It's got a gushing blurb by Paul Stamets, which has got to be the ultimate seal of approval for anyone writing about fungi.

 

[hmg]

I'm tempted by the Sheldrake book, although the cordyceps stuff freaks me the hell out. I think I briefly met the author many years ago.

It's got a gushing blurb by Paul Stamets, which has got to be the ultimate seal of approval for anyone writing about fungi.

Yes, cordyceps taking over ants, wasps, whatever, does make you wonder about whether or not something got it's mycelia into humans. The one that infects cicadas knocks out a load of psilocin as well as other things. Maybe language is that infection, and Terence was right (I think he might be, ingression of orthogonal, semantic dimensions a la Alien Information Theory). Cool.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Michael Pollan jokes that Stamets has metaphorically been taken over by a benign sort of cordyceps, in that mushrooms apparently control his brain and are using him to disseminate themselves around the world, but he doesn't seem any the worse for it.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Glitch in the Matrix! Your electrons get out of whack for a sec there, @HMGovt ?

 

[hmg]

Glitch in the Matrix! Your electrons get out of whack for a sec there, @HMGovt ?

Deleted. TOO POWERFUL.

 

[Mr. Tea]

You've just got too many quantum vibrations for the rest of us normies!

 

[luka]

He said he's drinking krill oil by the pint glass

 

[vimothy]

kitchen is Heidegger's Being and Time, short stabs, if i get confused just leave the room.

heidegger I find preddy interesting - not to the point where I actually want to read him, it's enough to just watch old bryan magee shows on YT

 

[luka]

I'm reading his introduction to metaphysics

 

[vimothy]

this one's great :

 

[Murphy]

Now that's a shirt, suit, tie and hankie.

 

[vimothy]

dear men, whats preventing you from looking like this

 

[version]

Bloke on the left looks like Paul Simon went into witness protection.

 

[line b]

Ive watched a couple of those. Dreyus is way to excited to be Heidegger's friend

 

[vimothy]

historical high point for television

 

[vimothy]

only criticism I can think of is that neither of them are smoking

 

[line b]

He talks about reading Being and Nothingness with Heidegger like two popular girls giggling at the fat boy

 

[constant escape]

Didn't Bryan McGee MaGee pass away recently?

 

[Mr. Tea]

He said he's drinking krill oil by the pint glass

I think he's been co-opted by Big Krill.