…modality no dictionary is necessary. In other words when you and I, if you and I if I read a paragraph from paragraph from Proust, then we could spend an hour discussing hour discussing as you all have in lit class I'm sure. What did the author mean…

…think you were the only person who ever. And you never bothered to mention it to anybody because it seems so ineffable. And yet Proust has gotten it down on the page. So it shows you what human beings are and of course, our world. Pardon? Can you give…

…But we suppress this chaotic, irrational side, the genius of Joyce and to some degree, although in a more controlled form, Proust. And then there were other practitioners. Faulkner certainly was what they called stream of consciousness. But what it was was…

…as close as anybody ever came to actually pushing the entire contents of the universe down into about 14 cubic inches. Joyce and Proust had one meeting, and supposedly Joyce said to Proust, I'm too young for you to teach me anything. Are you all familiar…

…entire contents of the universe down into about 14 cubic inches. Joyce and Proust had one meeting, and supposedly Joyce said to Proust, I'm too young for you to teach me anything. Are you all familiar with the remembrance of things past? Well, it could…

…a strange one. It's almost as though, you know, all, some people believe all translation is lie. In other words, that when you take Proust out of his French and put him into English, this is not Proust at all. And this seems very true in the DMT…

…all translation is lie. In other words, that when you take Proust out of his French and put him into English, this is not Proust at all. And this seems very true in the DMT state, in the sense that the DMT language has meaning and you understand its…

…concretize itself, a language that you can see is far less ambiguous than a language that you heard. If I read the paragraph of Proust, then we could spend the rest of the afternoon discussing what did he mean? But if we look at a piece of sculpture…

…more, we can discuss what did he mean? But at a certain level, there is a kind of shared bedrock that isn't in the Proust passage. We each stop at a different level with the textual passage, with the three dimensional object. We all sort of start from…

…give you a lot of ideas. Of course, if you're a gastronome, perhaps they do. You know, if you have the sensitivity of a Proust, then a good Saturn can send your mind reeling back to the smell of your grandmother's lap 45 years before and so forth and…

…interpretation of what the past was that makes it real. But in that sense, the past is a part of the present. It was Proust who said the past can never be understood until it is remembered. And that's that. I remembered each way in a different way.…

…more like a direct acoustical hologram. Where then ambiguity is much less prevalent. You know, if I read you a paragraph from Proust. We can spend the rest of the afternoon discussing what did the author mean? You've all been in those situations. What did…

…a strange one. It's almost as though, you know, all. Some people believe all translation is lie. In other words, that when you take Proust out of his French and put him into English, this is not proust at all. And this seems very true in the DMT…

…that we're trapped? Is that what you're saying? Well, trapped in artifice, trapped in art. I mean, in a sense, yeah. That's why Proust and Joyce, who are so different. Can be seen to be essentially about the same thing. A true rendering of experience is…

…think you apply it in your life and I also think that you look back on it and you understand. You know, Proust said nothing is understood until it is remembered. And that's certainly true of psychedelic experiences. But nothing lasts, you know, not your…