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Terence Mckenna ----
Is the phenomenon of non ordinary language or what I call visible language and uh this is very interesting to me, this is where technology virtual reality cybernetics human machine interfacing can actually make a impact on the explorer and frontier, visual language is a transformation of the physiological impulse towards syntax, into a final product, speech, which is not heard with the ears, but beheld with the eyes. And uh its very interesting that all our metaphors of clarity of speech are visual metaphors, we say I see what you mean, he spoke clearly, this means that at the organismic level we associate a higher signal clarity with visual input and on dmt and other tryptamine psychedelics, you actually experience the field of language both heard and self generated as something that is visibly beheld. its almost as though the project of communication becomes high speed sculpture in a conceptual dimension made of light and intentionality. well this would remain a kind of esoteric performance on the part of shamans at the height of intoxication if it were not for the fact that uh, electronics and uh electronic cultural media, computers, make it possible for us to actually create uh, records, of these uh, higher linguistic modalities, in other words, its possible to imagine a virtual reality that was driven by a speech operated synthesizer where the various parts of ordinary speech, adjectives, modifiers, subjects, and objects were uh interpreted by the cybernetic environment as topological manifolds of various shapes so that speech would then generate a visually beheld topology. and its possible to imagine a future world where in setting up marriage contracts and negotiating corporate take overs in other words areas where communication, clear communication, clear expression of intentionality was very important that people would actually go into the virtually reality to use the virtual language because its capacity to convey intent would be much greater than ordinary spoken language, in other words its not for nothing that Plato connected up the notion of the good the true and ultimately the beautiful, and the beautiful of those three concepts is the primary concept because it is visibly beheld, because it is seen, this is the great convincing power of the psychedelic experience that it ultimately appeals to us through the sense that we value most that we existentially relate to as the most authentic and that is the visual, visible language its a kind of telepathy because you see if I make a statement in visual language, and then you and I regard my statement, we are somehow in the act of regarding made1, because meaning is not being created out of uh interiorized dictionaries that we each consult in the privacy of our own mind but rather meaning is a visible manifold in the public domain, meaning goes public and the difference between people then decline.

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[EnTheoSelf]

thx man! this video is absolutly awesome!