…of questioning. But we don't live for the greater glory of social theories and institutions. We live because we find ourselves, as Heidegger said, thrown into being and we have to sort that out on an individual basis. And, you know, it's just like when…

…echo chamber of bardic incantation. That's a chapter heading. Topography cracked the voices of silence. And one of my favorite Heidegger surfboards along on the electronic wave as triumphantly as Descartes rode the mechanical wave. So there's a lot of fun…

…seeing? You're seeing this process. You are retroflexively embedded in a process of becoming. This is why, though he didn't get everything right, Heidegger was on the right track when he said, a human being is not an object or a process, but a window of…

…the ordinary sense. This is tracking of behavioral intent. It's a far cry from being able to tell whether someone is thinking about Heidegger or Hegel by looking at their CAT scan. I don't even know if that's in the works. Maybe you could elaborate on a…

…because your boundaries are dissolved. You have fallen into trance. And we, you know, with all our intellectual sophistication, moonflight, Heidegger, advanced mathematics, we still can't get a handle on what this stuff does to us. We still come down quaking…

…is bound within an illusion of language. The entire enterprise culture is this illusion of language. Homer was as sick with it as Heidegger. So there's no going back or getting, you know, no classic recension. What we have to do is reach past to some…

…exactly the same mystery that you hit at 5 grams in silent darkness and it's still mysterious. You know, Thomas Aquinas, Heidegger, they don't really shed much light on this. We haven't in 25,000 years learned anything that makes this trivial or…

…echo chamber of bardic incantation. That's a chapter heading. Topography cracked the voices of silence, and one of my favorite Heidegger surfboards along on the electronic wave as triumphantly as Descartes rode the mechanical wave. So there's a lot of fun…

…be viewed as alienation if what arises out of it is a feeling of forlornness and being cast into being, as Heidegger says. But that need not necessarily be the feeling. The extra environmental is also tremendously freed from the cultural conditioning. And…

…puzzle to take these drugs with preliterate or primitive people and wonder what's going through their mind. As you're sitting there with Heidegger and Wittgenstein on your mind and it's coming on and you're trying to see how it relates to dasein, to wonder…

…of human psychology and its link to the elemental nature of the continuum of process. I mean this is very modern, deep stuff. Heidegger, eat your heart out that kind of thing. And so then they created a science, a flux of novelty a science of tao.…

…maximization of something. I don't want to say progress, although casually people speak of progress like we're supposed to believe that Heidegger Somehow has a deeper insight into reality than I don't know I wouldn't say Plato, I don't think there's been…

…is a metaphysician it is the only metaphysic worked out in English in the 20th century. Otherwise you have to go to Heidegger or somebody like that. How do you characterize your emotional state? When what when you're in the midst of when you're out…

…and in fact pass on to our own progeny. And so this is our circumstance, I think, individually and collectively thrown into being. Heidegger said we didn't ask for it. Here it is what are we to make of it? And obviously if you toured the halls…

…Well then at still higher levels of psilocybin ingestion you get the full blown psychedelic ecstasy which even we as moderns with Heidegger and Husserl tucked under our arm we don't know what the hell is going on we are as primitive in the Face…

…problems that have occupied people for thousands of years. And here it is it's just a piece of evidence. It's like Heidegger said: if they ever make a speech operated typewriter my philosophy is out of business. Well, his philosophy, these other…

…is exactly the same mystery that you hit at five grams in silent darkness. And it's still mysterious you know, Thomas Aquinas Heidegger they don't really shed much light on this we haven't in 25 000 years learned anything that makes this trivial or…

…to do with the notion of an attractor and of trying to look at humanness not as a mistake, a cosmic error, or as Heidegger said. He said we are flung into being the idea always being that it doesn't make sense that there's an arbitrariness to us but…

…responsibility for who you are but the higher stakes game, the more interesting game is to see the whole thing as an opportunity. Heidegger I'm amazed I'm quoting Heidegger so much this morning Heidegger again he said the body is not a thing, nor is it…

…but the higher stakes game, the more interesting game is to see the whole thing as an opportunity. Heidegger I'm amazed I'm quoting Heidegger so much this morning Heidegger again he said the body is not a thing, nor is it a process, which is surprising…

…more interesting game is to see the whole thing as an opportunity. Heidegger I'm amazed I'm quoting Heidegger so much this morning Heidegger again he said the body is not a thing, nor is it a process, which is surprising because that's considered an…

…thought. Well that leaves you just no place to stand if you reject reason. What tools do you have at your disposal? Well Heidegger answered this question. He said you must measure things by the depth of the call. But you know, a lot of people look…

…measure things by the depth of the call. But you know, a lot of people look at the nazi thing and the way it related to Heidegger and say well this is what you get when you just measure things by the depth of the call nobody can deny that the nazi…

…writhing in the ecstasis of hallucinogenic visions that unfolds around you, a situation that to us, with all our sophistication Husserl, Heidegger, Michael Jackson the whole thing, we are as in awe of that as those proto human beings must have been. So…

…story exactly. I mean I was raised Catholic, escaped through that to Albert Camus, Jean Paul Sartre, Merleau Ponty, Husserl, Heidegger, Positivism, phenomenology and then came DMT and I just realized that the entire enterprise of western civilization is just…

…they're paid to do, but it doesn't honor their humanness. It gives them no opportunity to share in the project of being, as Heidegger said to make something, to leave something to be something. I mean people then are so drawn to do this anyway that they…

…all management means is paying attention to the details that must be paid attention to. I mean a synonym for management is husbandry. Heidegger said the purpose of life is care for the project of being well in a sense that's management. The I Ching is a…

…the echo chamber of bardic incantation. That's a chapter heading. Topography cracked the voices of silence and one of my favorite Heidegger Surfboards along on the electronic wave as triumphantly as Descartes rode the mechanical wave so there's a lot of fun…

…the ground around the campfires. 50 000 years ago they didn't know what it was, and when we go in there armed with our Heidegger and our Husserl and our Wittgenstein and our Merleau Ponty we don't know what it is either. There has been no progress in…

…lines closes with the recurso, which returns you then to this realization that what we are talking about is the project of knowing Heidegger called it carried out on two levels, on the level of omniscience and on the level of limited being. So then I…

…toward the approaching mystery and a meeting there in a domain of unknowability. Essentially, I mean this is the casting into being that Heidegger talked about, this is the going to meet the stranger, this is the flight of the alone to the alone that is…

…be with you and it speaks. This is the amazing thing and you're hearing this from you know somebody who graduated from Heidegger and f h Bradley. It speaks. No other psychedelic does that in my experience, occasionally a phrase will pop into your head…

…of the firelight wrestling with a mystery so profound, so bizarre, that even as we sit here with Husserl and Heidegger and Heisenberg and all these clowns under our belts it is still absolutely mysterious, appalling, challenging boundary dissolving and…

…you and be with you and it speaks. This is the amazing thing, and you're hearing this from somebody who graduated from Heidegger and f h Bradley it speaks. No other psychedelic does that. In my experience, occasionally a phrase will pop into your head…

…bound within an illusion of language. The entire enterprise of culture is this illusion of language. Homer was as sick with it as Heidegger. So there's no going back or getting you know no classic recension. What we have to do is reach past to some kind…

…Paul Sartre, Jean Genet and the kind of intellectual despair that characterized the post world war Ii Generation in Europe. Heidegger is thoroughgoingly gnostic in his intentionality. It's just that the language is modern and stripped of this magical thinking…

…is exactly the same mystery that you hit at five grams in silent darkness and it's still mysterious. You know, Thomas Aquinas Heidegger they don't really shed much light on this. We haven't in 25 000 years learned anything that makes this trivial or…

…morphic fields and so on were you thinking of something like the magnetic field or were you thinking of it more abstractly as Heidegger uses it in the context of the family field. Well I was thinking of something more abstractly but I think that these…

…a continuous real number variable defined on a coordinate system. Well no I had a discussion with David Peat and basil Heidegger Recently in London. We had a whole day of discussing this question. Heidegger is Bohm's Principal follower. He worked with Bohm…

…I had a discussion with David Peat and basil Heidegger Recently in London. We had a whole day of discussing this question. Heidegger is Bohm's Principal follower. He worked with Bohm for many years and we were discussing, we went at great lengths about…

…chamber of bardic incantation. That's a chapter heading. Umm. Topography cracked the voices of silence and one of my favorite Heidegger Surfboards along on the electronic wave as triumphantly as Descartes rode the mechanical wave. So there's a lot of fun…

…be viewed as alienation if what arises out of it is a feeling of forlornness and being cast into being, as Heidegger says, but that need not necessarily be the feeling. The extra environmental is also tremendously freed from the cultural conditioning and…

…turns out. The reason the psychedelic experience is so baffling and transformative, even as we sit here with your heads full of Heidegger and Husserl and I don't know, Wilson Phillips and all this stuff, is because in contact with that, we have no more…

…and in fact pass on to our own progeny. And so this is our circumstance, I think, individually and collectively, thrown into being. Heidegger said we didn't ask for it. Here it is. What are we to make of it? And obviously if you toured the halls…

…citizens it was an appeal to the folk mind. Well so were all calls to war by nations, bishops, crusaders. This is why I think Heidegger was far wrong when he said: the way you judge reality is by the depth of the call, because the call can be deep…

…induced or may be some sort of delirium or some kind of hallucinatory experience that has no basis in rationality? Well I think Heidegger said we measure our relationship to reality by the depth of the call. I think one of the chief justices said he…

…writhing in the ecstasis of hallucinogenic visions that unfolds around you, a situation that, to us with all our sophistication Husserl, Heidegger, Michael Jackson the whole thing we are as in awe of that as those proto human beings must have been so…

…and sinning and undergoing these things, and you are still trying to perform the eidetic reduction, still thinking about Husserl and Heidegger and Heisenberg you realize that your mental insides are too different to ever stand in their shoes. You have to…

…and what they will mean for us it's hard to say. Previously DMT held all honors for weirdness, the depth of the call, as Heidegger likes to say. Now salvinorin alpha is on stage and there's lots of work to be done. Yeah I guess the second half of…

…walking around in a serotonin hallucination and don't know it. DMT is it closeness in chemical structure to what's already there that Heidegger could have denied. Yeah, I mean I think it's fairly logic. It seems reasonable to say that first of all you…

…of those? Yeah the origin good question. See what happened. I mean it's very interesting. Some of you who are interested in Heidegger may know a wonderful essay by Hans Jonas called the gnostic temperament, and what he's saying in there is that the…

…an attempt to define a collective relationship with the other that assuages our yearning and our feeling of being cast out, as Heidegger says cast into matter alone in the universe. In other words it's as though by passing into the psychedelic phase the…

…is too much. If you abandon reason, you will have nothing to guide you but the emotional depth of the situation. This is what Heidegger called the depth of the call, and in the 20th century the history of following the depth of the call has not been a…

…and the form of worship that it is induces a kind of awe, and awe means I've talked before about this phrase out of Heidegger care for the project of being. He talked about this. He said this is what you're supposed to be doing care for the project…

…to do with the notion of an attractor and of trying to look at humanness not as a mistake, a cosmic error, or as Heidegger said of man he said we are flung into being the idea always being that it doesn't make sense that there's an arbitrariness to…

…are abandoned by the all father and therefore what a drag it is and what can we do about it so that people like Heidegger are thoroughly gnostic in their thinking I mean anybody who is not because you see what gnosticism denied was the presence of god…