c/psychedelic-salon
Dive into the archives of psychedelic thought. Lorenzo Hagerty hosts essential conversations on entheogens, science, and the counterculture.
…the category of it's called nonlinear oscillations one of the main branches of experimental dynamics since its beginning with Galileo. It's called nonlinear oscillations so it means you have an oscillator, like here's Foucault's Pendulum, a giant pendulum…
…with a real pendulum because they don't trust computers or something. I went to Kyoto to visit the greatest experimental dynamicist since Galileo, whose name is Hayashi. And so he's retirement age plus you know he's in his middle 70s or something and he's…
…Hoffman, Alchemist, philosopher, chemist, human being, a man of whom it might be said, as was said of Giordano Bruno and Galileo in the 16th century, they brought astronomy of age what the telescope was to astronomy in the 16th century the psychedelic…
…of history from classical Greek times through the middle ages and so on but primarily it's associated with a recent beginning with Galileo, Kepler, Newton and so on. This is geometry with motion. So the visual strategies necessary to think and work in this…
…him. Well that would be one kind of thing I mean it must be a factor in there and yet he didn't recant as Galileo did. Well the whole ambience of his world was one of stellar demons being called down and this was how Renaissance Magic worked was…
…was a massive supernova in the southern hemisphere, the biggest supernova since 1604, an exploding star in the skies which Galileo and Kepler saw and which played a major part in the scientific revolution. All through history these supernovas, exploding stars…
…will throw open doorways in the practice of psychology we couldn't dream of, and instead it was absolutely slammed shut. Imagine if Galileo had smashed his telescope after there was a little bit of whining from the Vatican. Had that happened you know, we…
…us. The fact that fire 50,000 years ago, or whatever it was, language, 35,000, whatever, then measurement 5000, then Galileo, 400, then Heisenberg. What is obviously happening is that everything is being drawn together. The description our physicists are…
…shown the door and put back outside with the card readers. So for several hundred years, you know, to sense, let's say, Galileo in serious physics, this is how science has been. It's been a pyramid of envy. I directed toward the paradigmatic science,…
…I guess, ice caps. And the next one now is pupils too hard to get to. And then what? They're going to drop Galileo into the ionian atmosphere in August, aren't they? What do you mean by that? Well, it's. It's a really crippled space, actually, Galileo…
…into the ionian atmosphere in August, aren't they? What do you mean by that? Well, it's. It's a really crippled space, actually, Galileo is an example of early bio. It's a model they launched. I remember seeing Galileo getting packaged to go to be…
…it's. It's a really crippled space, actually, Galileo is an example of early bio. It's a model they launched. I remember seeing Galileo getting packaged to go to be launched on the shuttle, and this is the shuttle after Challenger, so it never shipped out…
…can and then send them trickle into this. And so they couldn't change the hardware, but they could change the software. And Galileo was sort of a very early 20th century metaphor of the visual bio moving out, being transmitted massless, more of all, into…