Experiement At Petaluma 2 of 6

Terence Mckenna ---
That 20 thousand years ago on the plains of africa, the expansion of the human diet the restless search for new food sources that lead our primitive anscenstors to include mushrooms in their diet that contained psilocibin. and out of that synergistic boot strapping effect springs the whole spectrum of human cultural effects religion language poetry magic dance all of these uh unique expressions of humaness come out of the restlessness of primate orgianization and the synergy of psychoactive psylocibin in the hominid diet, this is the real missing link this is the real key to what the factors were that called us forth into humaness.

So should we talk about language? Well first of all lets talk about ordinary language which is probably the closest thing to a miracle in the natural world, uhh its the major neurological manifestation of difference between ourselves and other animals and primates and its not a physiological difference in a difference in behavoir that language represents the most complex behavoir ever observed in any animal and certainly its the most complex thing any of us ever learns to do, we're born into what Willam James calls a blooming buzzing confusion, but uh by the aquisition of words we mozaic over various sectors of this blooming buzzing confusion with words, we replace the unknown with the known with the substitution of words, and by the time a child is 2 or 3 they have completely created a cultural mozaic of words that is interposed between them and reality, reality from that point on is only an unconfirmed rumor brought through the medium of language. and every culture accentuates different parts of reality so in a sense every culture is a different realtiy language is the stuff of the world, not quarks or wave packets or nutrinos. but language. everything is made of language all the constructs of science are actually interlocking constructs of syntax. Well so thats ordinary language which seems to define reality through a kind of process of lieing about it for instance by creating subject object distintions which are in fact not true to the matter but some how operationally neccessary for us to navigate in the kind of lower dimensional space that we inhabit.
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[ali0tis]

luv the background sound, esp. @ the beginning, some Indonisian processional?