The Ursprach Initiative
"I’m suggesting somehow there could be a leap forward in the communication dimension and that this is in fact , what shamanism is all about , what the end of history is all about , what psychedelic drugs are all about. We are edge walking on an ontological transformation of what it means to be human. The mode that this transformation will come in… It will NOT be political, or technological, it isn’t star-flight, it isn’t socialism, it’s a whole other way of making our minds known to each other, by being able to show each other our minds. And in psychedelic states , you can do this."
( quote taken from The Ethnobotany of Shamanism , by Terence McKenna )
The Ursprach Initiative will build a large database of psilocybin glossolalia and submit this data to linguistic and statistical analysis. It aims to build a syntax of visible language and engender sophisticated post-historical communication between human beings.
How to contribute?
* After taking 6 dried grams of psilocybe sp. or above , record your glossolalia. Then mail me [ theursprachist@gmail.com ] the audio file or a link for it, a description of how the glossolalia looks like , a description of set and setting , the date of the recording , the date you were born and any other details you may find interesting.
* Send your statistical or linguistic analysis of our database.
* Rehost our data , share it on peer-to-peer networks, tell your friends about it.
How to browse the data?
I will send the Ursprach Initiative related posts under the title [ Ursprach Initiative ] , so you can find them ]here or ]here.
I don't get what you mean. What should I read?
The Ethnobotany of Shamanism , by Terence McKenna [ audio ] [ transcript ]
Fear and Glossolalia , by Terence McKenna [ excerpt ] [ full ]
The Tree of Knowledge , by Terence McKenna [ audio ]
A True Hallucination , by Mantid ( erowid ID : 2077 ) [ text ]