THE FORUMS

After drinking ayahausca, these thinkers are interesting in a new light:
Hegel
Nietzsche
Jung

Like the ayahuasca, a magick mushroom addresses parameters of consciousness. Task oriented consciousness excludes input from awareness. A mushroom forces an individual to acknowledge and incorporate input from awareness that is otherwise deliberately ignored. You might say that what is "repressed" will "surface" and be incorporated into awareness.

Where are magick mushrooms being used? Hospice. First, there is something higher than yourself is easy to accept after eating mushrooms. Second, incorporating troublesome content into awareness, such as the reality of your own death, is facilitated.

The "antithesis" is merged with the "thesis", yielding a "synthesis" in the psyche. This what Hegel knew as a Mason to be true for the individual on psychedellics, which led Hegel to theorize about the World Spirit also having a thesis->antithesis->synthesis.

Nietzsche is consumed with the OverMan, who engages in self-overcoming. Alchemists address the question of self-overcoming as the transmution of a lead soul to a gold soul. Nietzsche was not a Mason. When asked, Foucault claimed that he was "a Nietzschean", which means he gets Nietzsche and isn't Hegelian or Neo-Platonic.

Now..... Let me take some liberties.

In "My Body, This Paper, This Fire" Foucault and Derrida debate Descartes's Meditations. Derrida reads it as text, an interrelating system of ideas that constitutes knowledge, as if Descartes is Rosseau talking about the "social contract" in relation to the "state of nature."  Foucault notes that The Meditations are not text, but a performance of the self, a series of steps for contemplation. They are the movie reel that require the Masonic juice or mushrooms as a projector.

Given that Foucault was a Nietzschean, that is to say one familiar with the Masonic juice and the reality of the OverMan's self-overcoming, one must wonder whether The Meditations were in some sense a Masonic ritual to establish the reality of God. The Meditations are meant to be enacted under the influence of a psychedellic. In this case, like Anselm's proof of God's existence being that nothing greater can exist by definition in the imagination, The Meditations are a realistic "proof" of God and set of questions for the self.

Next, about Foucault, Derrida, and The Mediations, is the topic of madness and reason. But it's not profound as much as symptomatic of an underlying difference of perspective. It's also another can of worms waiting to be opened. I would like to think that Hegel, like Nietzsche, was familiar enough with madness to be acussed of having syphillis. After drinking the Masonic juice, madness is a symptom of the World Spirit accomplishing its agenda, an agenda that would require a synthesis of awareness and repression beyond which the individual is capable. Madness exists because we are "tuned in" to the World Spirit, but not yet mature enough to have reached the synthesis assumed by its agenda.

Thinking through "unreactivity" was like crawling out of one circle of hell, inspired by Tyler Durden's observation that people like me are cuckholded all the time.

3a - What Is Consciousness by Bill Harris - http://www.rsdnation.com/files/biff6.doc
3b - Decoding the Blueprint: Part VI by Drama - http://www.rsdnation.com/files/biff7.doc
3c - Eckhart Tolle Principles by Tyler - http://www.rsdnation.com/files/biff8.doc

Like Nietzsche, it was part of self-overcoming.
Like the Gnostics, it is psychological.
Like Jung, I'm not Freud.
I do think of it as a "philosopher's stone" in the Hermetic tradition.
Do you know who else drank the Juice? James Joyce. It's why Neil is clearly a crypto-Mason.



Do you know what this song is about?
The topics addressed in this paper on The Taming Of The Shrew: http://www.rsdnation.com/files/Shakespeare.doc

Who am I to wave my finger?
Do you know why that paper is relevant?  It demonstrates that, prior to knowing what pickup was about, I was "tuned in".

I want to read Ulysses and shoot the breeze with Neil on Masonry now.