…but I can almost say it, and some days closer than others. And so there's this constant reaching for the unspeakable. Wittgenstein talked about the unspeakable, which was, he said, everything which lay beyond what he called the present at hand. So we're…

…reality below requires a stratagem. It requires stealth. It. Yes, well, because what we're trying to do is say the unsayable. Yeah, Wittgenstein said, you know, beyond what can be known lies the realm of the unspeakable, in the face of which the proper…

…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 what is…

…yeah, but I can almost say it, and some days closer than others and so there's this constant reaching for the unspeakable. Wittgenstein talked about the unspeakable, which was he said everything which lay beyond what he called the present at hand. So we're…

…through the wire. All of our epistemic enterprise, all of the effort to understand the world is hedged about by this uncertainty. Wittgenstein was once asked if a particular proposition was true and he said: it's true enough. And this is the voice of…

…means sex and psychedelics and dancing and conversation and good eating and lots of exercise and travel and attention to what Wittgenstein called the present at hand. The present at hand meaning what you can reach is what's real and everything else becomes…

…hand meaning what you can reach is what's real and everything else becomes progressively more hypothetical, more abstract. Anticipating Wittgenstein talking about our reach, William Blake said: attend the minute particulars. This was his advice for life. Attend…

…of the 20th century the viennese have their fingerprints all over the entire thing. I mean you know the freudians, the positivists, Wittgenstein and his school and Eric Younge, Paul Feyerabend, all those anarchist people came out of u of v and he was part…

…say, but I can almost say it and some days closer than others and so there's this constant reaching for the unspeakable. Wittgenstein talked about the unspeakable, which was, he said everything which lay beyond what he called the present at hand. So we're…

…the unspeakable is that which lies beyond the domain of language, and when I titled the lecture I was thinking of Wittgenstein, who mentioned the unspeakable, the things which exceed our grasp. The other meaning of the unspeakable is the things we'd rather…

…you go, awake or asleep, stoned or unstoned, reality has a quality, which is the felt presence of immediate experience. Wittgenstein called it the present at hand, making a more complicated metaphor by bringing into the notion of something which grasps.…

…here it is in translation no less. So there is something about extending the realm of what can be said. You know. Wittgenstein talked about the unspeakable. He said: you know beyond the reach of philosophy he always made these spatial metaphors he said…

…picture. I mean I would like to know what would jean Paul Sartre have said, what would Nietzsche have said, what would Wittgenstein have made of this? I mean all these people based their lives and their professions on the datum of experience. Well by…

…it really is is it's a dissolving of the culturally imbibed linguistic and social structures and an expansion into what Wittgenstein called the unspeakable, meaning that which cannot be indicated by the tools of culture and language. The unspeakable surrounds…

…the place where the ursprach is coming from, the assembly language that lies behind all formalized or culturally validated languages Wittgenstein called it the unspeakable. It's the place where explication cannot go almost by definition, in order to avoid the…

…writ that human minds should be able to give a full accounting of creation in all dimensions and on all levels. You know Wittgenstein had this idea that philosophy should be what he called true enough, and I think that's a great idea let's just make it…

…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 60 000 years in reducing the…

…truth as the standard for choosing among the models we can produce. We must set our aesthetic compass towards the more true what Wittgenstein called the true enough. And then the question is: well how do you recognize that? Well this is a rich field of…

…the profound indicators. I think that truth can be known. Maybe not the truth, but I always think of the positivist philosopher Wittgenstein who was once asked in a classroom situation about a certain proposition: is it the truth? And he said: well it's…

…This foothold on truth idea may have to be given up. I'm sure some of you have heard me recall the situation where Wittgenstein was raving about something and one of his students said: but is it the truth? And he said: well it's true enough and…

…is found. We have arrived at the end of the road in terms of a powerful tool for inducting us into what Wittgenstein called the realms of the unspeakable. We need no more powerful tools than what we have inherited from these shamanic cultures. It's…

…have on reality that a reasonably applicable model of it begins to appear and I think this reasonably applicable model what Wittgenstein called something which is true enough is what we're looking for. The true enough mapping of experience onto theory is…

…then the deal is that life is some kind of an opportunity to basically indulge yourself in the exploration of circumstance, what Wittgenstein called the present at hand. And everyone is born into a preconceived modality of what the present at hand is. You…

…in a fugue of images and meaning that finally leave the realm of the sayable and then it just goes off into what Wittgenstein called the unspeakable. And there you know it's the peace that passes understanding and all things are made right but you can't…

…what reality is. Well this is a head full of shit this kind of thinking. What you are actually dealing with is what Wittgenstein called the present at hand. The present at hand good phrase, because it implies that only that which can be grasped matters.…

…to the edge of an abyss and then push you over into the dizziness of the things unsaid, and they'll always be unsaid. Wittgenstein God bless him had the concept of what he called the unspeakable. He said philosophy operates in the realm of the speakable,…

…it takes upon itself the character of language and leaves behind much of the character of whatever it was before that, Wittgenstein talked about the unspeakable. This is what he was referring to, this dimension antecedent to language and it is unspeakable…

…through the wire. All of our epistemic enterprise, all of the effort to understand the world is hedged about by this uncertainty. Wittgenstein was once asked if a particular proposition was true and he said: it's true enough. And this is the voice of…

…writ that human minds should be able to give a full accounting of creation in all dimensions and on all levels. You know, Wittgenstein had this idea that philosophy should be what he called true enough, and I think that's a great idea let's just make it…

…a sectioning through it that gives you a kind of a lower dimensional map of it but the mystery remains intact. You know, Wittgenstein talks about what he called the unspeakable and you know the unspeakable is the true domain of being and then within that…

…where's the motivation? What does it then become? You don't need a complete map. I mean I am not such a fan of Wittgenstein, but he seems to have raised his ugly head here. Wittgenstein used to say: we do not seek statements which are true we…

…a complete map. I mean I am not such a fan of Wittgenstein, but he seems to have raised his ugly head here. Wittgenstein used to say: we do not seek statements which are true we seek statements which are true enough. That's this genuflection to the…

…with the opportunity to perceive the truth of the matter? This is what modern philosophy has come to understand. This is why Wittgenstein could come up with the notion of what he called true enough. That's a much more reasonable approach to things. I mean…

…the place where the ursprach is coming from the assembly language that lies behind all formalized or culturally validated languages Wittgenstein called it the unspeakable it's the place where explication cannot go almost by definition, in order to avoid the…

…the past ten years by themselves alone? They never read Plato they know no mathematics, they never read the Bible, they never read Wittgenstein they just got it all in one download. And it is on the Face of it, preposterous. It's a faith that tells you…

…the unspeakable is that which lies beyond the domain of language, and when I titled the lecture I was thinking of Wittgenstein who mentioned the unspeakable the things which exceed our grasp. The other meaning of the unspeakable is the things we'd rather…

…never met anyone who could successfully argue against this. That doesn't mean it's true, but it means that it may be, as Wittgenstein used to say, true enough. True enough that as you approach the present moment in the only area of the universe which…

…I said to this day we are not able to come to terms with this no matter how much Derrida or Husserl or Wittgenstein You've imbibed, it still is a very challenging thing to dissolve your ordinary state of consciousness and abandon yourself to the dynamic…

…It may just all be nonsense. Well if it's all nonsense, then we're in a hell of a fix. Well that's where we may be. Wittgenstein had a slightly different notion that I think is more serviceable here. He said: what we want to do is we want to make…

…literate people. We have to go into the shaman space with the a priori categories of Kant, with the eidetic reduction of Wittgenstein with the ideas of Merleau Ponty and Whitehead. All the intellectual equipage of our culture must be carried with us into…