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Thank you for your considerations about my answer. I come from a culture which diplomacy and compatibility between oposite ideas is not just encorauged, but it is just in our soul, we are formed by many "races", cultures and perspectives and it is a survival issue for us to be able to do it. The traditional south american shaman is seen not just as "magic" but as a diplomat between worldly entities, who seeks to negotiate (more than making magic tricks) lives, knowledge and perspectives with entities. A lot of this is present in my approach to anything, although there are always ideas that put us off, at first glance.

"Blind_Goat" is in a part an homage to the most interesting professor I've had in my college years. He has the most interesting ideas about philosophy, I've heard in the last 20 years, write very well and is a very exotic guy (he even bought the apartament of his neighbor to don't have any neighbors at all) and he wroted many books about pessimism, cinema and about a new concept of ethics he was working on, he won some prizes and even was published by Cambridge Scholars (Discomfort and Moral Impediment: The Human Situation, Radical Bioethics and Procreation - Cambridge Scholars Publishing) he's name is Julio Cabrera. He has an e-mail address that sounds, in our language, like "Blind_Goat" and I've remebered him.

Besides that, I've always had problems with submission to DMT, and to let ego go (due to childhood traumas). DMT was a journey to me of learning how to do it. The goat, in many pagan cultures is the animal that must be sacrificed to entities, he must submit itself to the gods. Even the muslim people in Shariah (islamic law) have the concept of Halal, that is an "authorized" way of killing animals, a more ethical and religious way of doing it. It is a beautiful thing, actually although I'm not islamic . The animal must submit itself into agreeing being slaughtered, and in many cases the animal in question is a goat or a sheep. I found the concept very poetic and appropriated to my case. The most fragile goat that I could imagine is a blind goat, submitting to it's own slaughter for transcendent reasons. I've found myself like this blind goat, that cannot see the fisical worlds but hoping in seing gods or transcendent reality. It has to trust their powers and goodwill, willing to make the sacrifice with itself, despite not seeing the images of this world because he is blind, to be able to contemplate the indescribable, strange and familiar figures from higher planes, which are, in many shamanic cultures, the home of the gods. He is blind to this world because he cannot contemplate it, but its eyes are opened to a more complicated world, with complex geometry it never dreamed of before and it's this world that he can see. Only in this world it has eyes. In physical world he is blind, fragile and has fear, but he must submit himself to the sufferings of the ritual to access the transcendent and the nameless. My thirst for knowledge and experience, at the same time as the reverence necessary to access it, I see incarnated in this blind goat.

I hope this has clarified the reasons for the chosen nickname, so that it is a multi-layered metaphor, an inside joke that only I myself can fully laugh at.

A Halal video:
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<blockquote data-quote="Blind_Goat" data-source="post: 3942545" data-attributes="member: 52692">Thank you for your considerations about my answer. I come from a culture which diplomacy and compatibility between oposite ideas is not just encorauged, but it is just in our soul, we are formed by many &quot;races&quot;, cultures and perspectives and it is a survival issue for us to be able to do it. The traditional south american shaman is seen not just as &quot;magic&quot; but as a diplomat between worldly entities, who seeks to negotiate (more than making magic tricks) lives, knowledge and perspectives with entities. A lot of this is present in my approach to anything, although there are always ideas that put us off, at first glance.&quot;Blind_Goat&quot; is in a part an homage to the most interesting professor I&#039;ve had in my college years. He has the most interesting ideas about philosophy, I&#039;ve heard in the last 20 years, write very well and is a very exotic guy (he even bought the apartament of his neighbor to don&#039;t have any neighbors at all) and he wroted many books about pessimism, cinema and about a new concept of ethics he was working on, he won some prizes and even was published by Cambridge Scholars (<a href="https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-1803-2?fbclid=IwAR2dp70F8ksk8IfPCRqcDP-_Oi3OOL7m3xowPfQ-z72LMFgC6nIK7pz_YJA" target="_blank">Discomfort and Moral Impediment: The Human Situation, Radical Bioethics and Procreation - Cambridge Scholars Publishing</a>) he&#039;s name is Julio Cabrera. He has an e-mail address that sounds, in our language, like &quot;Blind_Goat&quot; and I&#039;ve remebered him.Besides that, I&#039;ve always had problems with submission to DMT, and to let ego go (due to childhood traumas). DMT was a journey to me of learning how to do it. The goat, in many pagan cultures is the animal that must be sacrificed to entities, he must submit itself to the gods. Even the muslim people in Shariah (islamic law) have the concept of Halal, that is an &quot;authorized&quot; way of killing animals, a more ethical and religious way of doing it. It is a beautiful thing, actually although I&#039;m not islamic . The animal must submit itself into agreeing being slaughtered, and in many cases the animal in question is a goat or a sheep. I found the concept very poetic and appropriated to my case. The most fragile goat that I could imagine is a blind goat, submitting to it&#039;s own slaughter for transcendent reasons. I&#039;ve found myself like this blind goat, that cannot see the fisical worlds but hoping in seing gods or transcendent reality. It has to trust their powers and goodwill, willing to make the sacrifice with itself, despite not seeing the images of this world because he is blind, to be able to contemplate the indescribable, strange and familiar figures from higher planes, which are, in many shamanic cultures, the home of the gods. He is blind to this world because he cannot contemplate it, but its eyes are opened to a more complicated world, with complex geometry it never dreamed of before and it&#039;s this world that he can see. Only in this world it has eyes. In physical world he is blind, fragile and has fear, but he must submit himself to the sufferings of the ritual to access the transcendent and the nameless.&nbsp; My thirst for knowledge and experience, at the same time as the reverence necessary to access it, I see incarnated in this blind goat.I hope this has clarified the reasons for the chosen nickname, so that it is a multi-layered metaphor, an inside joke that only I myself can fully laugh at.A Halal video:[MEDIA=youtube]vc5BWafzEu4[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blind_Goat, post: 3942545, member: 52692"] Thank you for your considerations about my answer. I come from a culture which diplomacy and compatibility between oposite ideas is not just encorauged, but it is just in our soul, we are formed by many "races", cultures and perspectives and it is a survival issue for us to be able to do it. The traditional south american shaman is seen not just as "magic" but as a diplomat between worldly entities, who seeks to negotiate (more than making magic tricks) lives, knowledge and perspectives with entities. A lot of this is present in my approach to anything, although there are always ideas that put us off, at first glance. "Blind_Goat" is in a part an homage to the most interesting professor I've had in my college years. He has the most interesting ideas about philosophy, I've heard in the last 20 years, write very well and is a very exotic guy (he even bought the apartament of his neighbor to don't have any neighbors at all) and he wroted many books about pessimism, cinema and about a new concept of ethics he was working on, he won some prizes and even was published by Cambridge Scholars ([URL='https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-1803-2?fbclid=IwAR2dp70F8ksk8IfPCRqcDP-_Oi3OOL7m3xowPfQ-z72LMFgC6nIK7pz_YJA']Discomfort and Moral Impediment: The Human Situation, Radical Bioethics and Procreation - Cambridge Scholars Publishing[/URL]) he's name is Julio Cabrera. He has an e-mail address that sounds, in our language, like "Blind_Goat" and I've remebered him. Besides that, I've always had problems with submission to DMT, and to let ego go (due to childhood traumas). DMT was a journey to me of learning how to do it. The goat, in many pagan cultures is the animal that must be sacrificed to entities, he must submit itself to the gods. Even the muslim people in Shariah (islamic law) have the concept of Halal, that is an "authorized" way of killing animals, a more ethical and religious way of doing it. It is a beautiful thing, actually although I'm not islamic . The animal must submit itself into agreeing being slaughtered, and in many cases the animal in question is a goat or a sheep. I found the concept very poetic and appropriated to my case. The most fragile goat that I could imagine is a blind goat, submitting to it's own slaughter for transcendent reasons. I've found myself like this blind goat, that cannot see the fisical worlds but hoping in seing gods or transcendent reality. It has to trust their powers and goodwill, willing to make the sacrifice with itself, despite not seeing the images of this world because he is blind, to be able to contemplate the indescribable, strange and familiar figures from higher planes, which are, in many shamanic cultures, the home of the gods. He is blind to this world because he cannot contemplate it, but its eyes are opened to a more complicated world, with complex geometry it never dreamed of before and it's this world that he can see. Only in this world it has eyes. In physical world he is blind, fragile and has fear, but he must submit himself to the sufferings of the ritual to access the transcendent and the nameless. My thirst for knowledge and experience, at the same time as the reverence necessary to access it, I see incarnated in this blind goat. I hope this has clarified the reasons for the chosen nickname, so that it is a multi-layered metaphor, an inside joke that only I myself can fully laugh at. A Halal video: [MEDIA=youtube]vc5BWafzEu4[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]