GoreyLarson
Rising Star
This is one of the (30 or so) articles I've written for Neurosoup.com Since writing it I've realized what I'm trying to describe is Indra's Net, you can see it in my avatar. It's been a common theme among mystics and visionaries throughout the ages. The Joy of Living by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche describes an endless net of infinite connections, and at each point lies a jewel with an infinite number of facets, and in each facet is reflected a complete image of the whole picture. Fractal, hologram, call it what you like, this is the fundamental nature of reality as I see it and any time we see order and completion within our lifetimes it's a simple integer multiple overtone of the true construction of nature.
Enjoy!
Many readers will identify with my reference to a motif used in Alex Grey’s artwork, commonly associated with the band Tool. Alex Grey is a visionary artist who uses a wide variety of shamanic hallucinogens to inspire his creative processes, in particular, LSD, DMT, and Ayahuasca. One particular image is reminiscent of Terence McKenna’s DMT “Chrysanthemum” and features a curved grid of eyes with a central point, arranged like the petals of a flower, as backgrounds for various transcendental images. The parallels between this arrangement and various designs in nature can be drawn as easily as if they were transparencies laid one on top of another. Chrysanthemums, lotuses, indeed a large number of flowers, plants, and cacti contain this shape in their petals, leaves, thorns, spines, fruit, seeds, etc., and all revolve around a single center. In particular, this is the shape in which the pineal gland forms, the word “pineal” being derived from “pineus” relating to the shape of a pinecone (Strassman, 59).
My personal experience with this shape has come primarily through my experiences with LSD, DMT, and Meditation. Various times when peaking on LSD, I saw portions of this pattern overlaid in front of my visual field, with the center being where my eyes were focused. It seems to contain the fibonacci spiral extending both clockwise and counterclockwise at regular intervals from this center in order to generate a sacred economy of space. While on various hallucinogens I have experienced looking through the center of a cylindrical manifold of uniform, twisting distortion in my peripherals while the focus on what is at the center is greatly increased (Apple users can see a perfect example of this by watching the classic iTunes visualizer and pressing the “a” and “s” keys in quick succession upon opening it. This automatically labels the pattern of visual field distortion as “Tripping Hard” and I believe must have been programmed by somebody who was very familiar with the LSD experience.) This is a lower definition (and in my experience generally occurs unidirectionally, always counterclockwise) version of the chrysanthemum shape (which is counterclockwise and clockwise overlayed.) Afterwards, when meditating, or simply focusing on the distance when using a bow and arrow or BB gun for target practice, I began to see this shape form around the object I was looking at, and extending to my periphery. The sensation while meditating did not distort my vision, but clarify it.
While on DMT the first time, I was listening to Terence’s description of his experience closing his eyes and seeing the chrysanthemum shape, upon which I followed his instructions and saw exactly that. A slowly rotating, mandalic, kaleidoscopic, floral pattern with many concentric circles forming fractals, spirals, and most impressively, eyes. The circles toward the edges were moving faster than the circles nearer the center, and the fibonacci spirals seemed to be present at all times, forming the edges of a tessellating field, or dome, of eyes. It was spectacular. Was this place real? Could it be possible? Later experimentation with what I believed to be lower doses of DMT gave me experiences of fractals, patterns, flashing colors, and briefer instances of these same eyes. They had not changed, but simply become less frequent in occurrence. To this day, when concentrating I occasionally see eyes moving in and out of my visual field, and this is amplified by the use of entheogens, until they are literally filling my sight with their presence.
When home from college for winter break a friend told me he read a prediction of the format of the internet describing it as being a single webpage, which the user can zoom infinitely in and out of to find a desired page or piece of information. Here is where my ideas become difficult to describe. Because this format would allow for only two elements: the center in the far distance and the periphery moving outward at concentric circles, continuously closer to the user, I believe this will lead to a technological paradigm shift from the linear model we see today in handheld devices, televisions, computers, pixels, books, pages, and text. Marshall McLuhan indicates that the visual stimuli of text and screens we are accustomed to are based entirely on strictly linear, vertical and horizontal boundaries, which gives us a sense of order, secularism, and separateness from our environment through these media. If we based our visual technology on his notion of the rounded, boundary-free auditory phenomenon of acoustic center and peripheral, we may be able to organize the information more efficiently. By orienting all information in relation to the center by order of its degree of separation from the user, we can use the fibonacci spiral to delineate the boundaries between these areas of information for the conservation of surface area in a hemispherical, conical, or cylindrical manifold extending back and forth in a direction unexplored by 2-dimensional pages or screens.
Jonathan McGregor Bethel, founder of the Omega Point Institute, believes it possible that one day we may employ technology that is faster than light. In this way we can receive information from an area of space outside of time without disrupting the laws of physics. This is supported by very basic research I performed for a paper on Quantum Entanglement in the Unified Field. The following two examples were used by me in the paper for my philosophy course, for which I received an A-, and were reiterated in the book Tryptamine Palace: 5-MeO-DMT and the Sonoran Desert Toad; A Journey from Burning Man to the Akashic Field, by James Oroc. Quantum physics tells us the field of pure potential in which a subatomic particle is suspected to exist is compressed into a solid state by the presence of an observer. In addition entangled photons, after having come in contact with eachother, may be manipulated from opposite ends of the universe to identical effect without the passage of time. Scientists estimate the rate at which this occurs is 20,000 times the speed of light (Oroc, 90). If it is necessary that we observe reality in order for it to exist, and if it is possible that there are forces which transfer or transport energy which exceed the speed of light (ether for instance), it is reasonable to propose that by harnessing these forces for the purpose of observation, we may possibly transcend the speed of light with detection devices made from particles smaller than a photon. This will require a more advanced knowledge of chemistry than we are currently aware of, though Walter Russell organized a beautiful 9-octave sine wave pattern based on the fibonacci sequence with which to organize all elemental and subatomic particles by order of their frequency of vibration which may be used to explore these increasingly indecipherable levels of near-invisibility.
For any progress to be made toward the synthesis of an infinite web-page which may transcend time and space, I believe it is necessary that a merger between the two acts of displaying and observing must take place. This in turn will create a two-sided coin based on the two individual units for both of these actions: The pixel and the eye. The pixel will shift from its ability to display information only from one side of its interface, to where both sides can each perform two actions, displaying and observing. Each side will be able to view in each of the two directions and each side will be able to display information in each of the two directions for an indeterminate observer to decode. The observer in these matters will be physically separate, but wirelessly in control of the nanoscopic device, which is given free reign over its territory, or directed by the user. By placing these devices in a tessellating pattern, we will be able to map their organization most efficiently in relation to one another so that multiple observers can all receive relatively identical information at once from a single area of space-time. For our purposes, the axis extending through the center of the manifold outside of space-time around which pixels acting as eyes can be arranged, to the center of the observer’s pineal gland would exist in a separate dimension, though as we will see, this boundary can be effortlessly traversed once it is recognized and all local dimensional reference points become cotangent, an explanation given by Terence McKenna.
Works Cited
Strassman, Rick. “Dmt: The Spirit Molecule”, Park Street Press, Rochester, Vermont, 2001.
Oroc, James. “Tryptamine Palace: 5-MeO-DMT and the Sonoran Desert Toad”, Park Street Press, Rochester, Vermont, 2009.
Enjoy!
Many readers will identify with my reference to a motif used in Alex Grey’s artwork, commonly associated with the band Tool. Alex Grey is a visionary artist who uses a wide variety of shamanic hallucinogens to inspire his creative processes, in particular, LSD, DMT, and Ayahuasca. One particular image is reminiscent of Terence McKenna’s DMT “Chrysanthemum” and features a curved grid of eyes with a central point, arranged like the petals of a flower, as backgrounds for various transcendental images. The parallels between this arrangement and various designs in nature can be drawn as easily as if they were transparencies laid one on top of another. Chrysanthemums, lotuses, indeed a large number of flowers, plants, and cacti contain this shape in their petals, leaves, thorns, spines, fruit, seeds, etc., and all revolve around a single center. In particular, this is the shape in which the pineal gland forms, the word “pineal” being derived from “pineus” relating to the shape of a pinecone (Strassman, 59).
My personal experience with this shape has come primarily through my experiences with LSD, DMT, and Meditation. Various times when peaking on LSD, I saw portions of this pattern overlaid in front of my visual field, with the center being where my eyes were focused. It seems to contain the fibonacci spiral extending both clockwise and counterclockwise at regular intervals from this center in order to generate a sacred economy of space. While on various hallucinogens I have experienced looking through the center of a cylindrical manifold of uniform, twisting distortion in my peripherals while the focus on what is at the center is greatly increased (Apple users can see a perfect example of this by watching the classic iTunes visualizer and pressing the “a” and “s” keys in quick succession upon opening it. This automatically labels the pattern of visual field distortion as “Tripping Hard” and I believe must have been programmed by somebody who was very familiar with the LSD experience.) This is a lower definition (and in my experience generally occurs unidirectionally, always counterclockwise) version of the chrysanthemum shape (which is counterclockwise and clockwise overlayed.) Afterwards, when meditating, or simply focusing on the distance when using a bow and arrow or BB gun for target practice, I began to see this shape form around the object I was looking at, and extending to my periphery. The sensation while meditating did not distort my vision, but clarify it.
While on DMT the first time, I was listening to Terence’s description of his experience closing his eyes and seeing the chrysanthemum shape, upon which I followed his instructions and saw exactly that. A slowly rotating, mandalic, kaleidoscopic, floral pattern with many concentric circles forming fractals, spirals, and most impressively, eyes. The circles toward the edges were moving faster than the circles nearer the center, and the fibonacci spirals seemed to be present at all times, forming the edges of a tessellating field, or dome, of eyes. It was spectacular. Was this place real? Could it be possible? Later experimentation with what I believed to be lower doses of DMT gave me experiences of fractals, patterns, flashing colors, and briefer instances of these same eyes. They had not changed, but simply become less frequent in occurrence. To this day, when concentrating I occasionally see eyes moving in and out of my visual field, and this is amplified by the use of entheogens, until they are literally filling my sight with their presence.
When home from college for winter break a friend told me he read a prediction of the format of the internet describing it as being a single webpage, which the user can zoom infinitely in and out of to find a desired page or piece of information. Here is where my ideas become difficult to describe. Because this format would allow for only two elements: the center in the far distance and the periphery moving outward at concentric circles, continuously closer to the user, I believe this will lead to a technological paradigm shift from the linear model we see today in handheld devices, televisions, computers, pixels, books, pages, and text. Marshall McLuhan indicates that the visual stimuli of text and screens we are accustomed to are based entirely on strictly linear, vertical and horizontal boundaries, which gives us a sense of order, secularism, and separateness from our environment through these media. If we based our visual technology on his notion of the rounded, boundary-free auditory phenomenon of acoustic center and peripheral, we may be able to organize the information more efficiently. By orienting all information in relation to the center by order of its degree of separation from the user, we can use the fibonacci spiral to delineate the boundaries between these areas of information for the conservation of surface area in a hemispherical, conical, or cylindrical manifold extending back and forth in a direction unexplored by 2-dimensional pages or screens.
Jonathan McGregor Bethel, founder of the Omega Point Institute, believes it possible that one day we may employ technology that is faster than light. In this way we can receive information from an area of space outside of time without disrupting the laws of physics. This is supported by very basic research I performed for a paper on Quantum Entanglement in the Unified Field. The following two examples were used by me in the paper for my philosophy course, for which I received an A-, and were reiterated in the book Tryptamine Palace: 5-MeO-DMT and the Sonoran Desert Toad; A Journey from Burning Man to the Akashic Field, by James Oroc. Quantum physics tells us the field of pure potential in which a subatomic particle is suspected to exist is compressed into a solid state by the presence of an observer. In addition entangled photons, after having come in contact with eachother, may be manipulated from opposite ends of the universe to identical effect without the passage of time. Scientists estimate the rate at which this occurs is 20,000 times the speed of light (Oroc, 90). If it is necessary that we observe reality in order for it to exist, and if it is possible that there are forces which transfer or transport energy which exceed the speed of light (ether for instance), it is reasonable to propose that by harnessing these forces for the purpose of observation, we may possibly transcend the speed of light with detection devices made from particles smaller than a photon. This will require a more advanced knowledge of chemistry than we are currently aware of, though Walter Russell organized a beautiful 9-octave sine wave pattern based on the fibonacci sequence with which to organize all elemental and subatomic particles by order of their frequency of vibration which may be used to explore these increasingly indecipherable levels of near-invisibility.
For any progress to be made toward the synthesis of an infinite web-page which may transcend time and space, I believe it is necessary that a merger between the two acts of displaying and observing must take place. This in turn will create a two-sided coin based on the two individual units for both of these actions: The pixel and the eye. The pixel will shift from its ability to display information only from one side of its interface, to where both sides can each perform two actions, displaying and observing. Each side will be able to view in each of the two directions and each side will be able to display information in each of the two directions for an indeterminate observer to decode. The observer in these matters will be physically separate, but wirelessly in control of the nanoscopic device, which is given free reign over its territory, or directed by the user. By placing these devices in a tessellating pattern, we will be able to map their organization most efficiently in relation to one another so that multiple observers can all receive relatively identical information at once from a single area of space-time. For our purposes, the axis extending through the center of the manifold outside of space-time around which pixels acting as eyes can be arranged, to the center of the observer’s pineal gland would exist in a separate dimension, though as we will see, this boundary can be effortlessly traversed once it is recognized and all local dimensional reference points become cotangent, an explanation given by Terence McKenna.
Works Cited
Strassman, Rick. “Dmt: The Spirit Molecule”, Park Street Press, Rochester, Vermont, 2001.
Oroc, James. “Tryptamine Palace: 5-MeO-DMT and the Sonoran Desert Toad”, Park Street Press, Rochester, Vermont, 2009.
