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The Unknown

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No Knowing

No Knowing

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Had an LSD experience recently where I contemplated the difference between the unknown and the known during inner-journeys. Is anything really known to other selves that we explore during tripping or is it all contained within the self experiencing the trip? Is the unknown the region of reality that lies outside the individual self?

Saw a talk called "Shamanism before and after History" Terence Video Collection with Ralph Metzner and Terence McKenna where Metzner mentioned that each amateur shaman must go through a trial of the unknown, but will, then, after becoming confused for a time, revert to exploring the known.

Anyone else wondered about this dichotomy during their explorations?
 
Global said:
I've had a handful of experiences where I received knowledge or experienced something so specific as described in religion of which I had been completely unaware. I'm including two of those accounts below. Also perhaps consider that outside is inside.

Eerie Integration

Symbolic Egyptian Solstice Experience
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As you say here:

"I think if as a culture we were more in touch with mythology and their symbols that many of these DMT experiences could take on a multitude more layers of meaning."

If the interfacing was not so much with the "woah, I'm gonna be meeting machine elves" mindset but more with the "let us explore the unfolding of archetypal forces and mythic realities across humanity's sacred traditions", the experience will very different and the DMT state will respond accordingly as it progresses.
 
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