Meaning of digital culture?
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@yerrag spot on, the cactus is just the entrance. How deep you go and where you turn is up to you. What you take back may be chaotic. Steiner had access to just one thing, but you're lucky to have choice after a century of exploration. Usually people bring back a book. I have failed to do that unlike Terence McKenna or Graham Hancock, or Steiner and Huxley. I don't need to believe that they tell the truth, I know it, but it's not my preference to explore anymore. Perhaps I'll change my mind when I'm in the Amazon. It has to be vibrant enough physically to put me in the right mood.
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You've dived deep and you seem to have gone beyond scratching the surface. The names you mention don't register with me but I'll be sure to use them. Exploring the Amazon must be part and parcel of your search, from the wasteland of being civilized to the wild civility of nature in the Amazon.
When I was very sickly, I held the Amazon as a place I hoped to spend time in when I'm strong enough to weather its insults.
Enjoy the book you will find yourself in as you close the one you're in.
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@yerrag I don't agree with calling those HIGHER realms. They're different, distorted. Ultimately we come back to "normal" senses, and though I have no regrets, I'm saddened to be in a world full of zombies/bugmen who have no aspirations to see something beautiful and strange.
I'm not sure if living in the jungle would work out for me. My body's too weak, and I lack support from tribes or proper funds to do it prepper style. Part of me thinks it's possible, but it's likely a delusion. So here I remain in the prison of this stage of civilization.
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Here's good bits by Hancock
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tVFctzhK0xg
And McKenna
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IAGxjOr3vYA
They all reject reductionism, and their books sold well, but culture is still bad.
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I can understand the challenges living in the Amazon entails. You know that well enough. Health is paramount. Where you're not expecting health insurance to fill in for a weak internal composition. Against the natural immunity of the wild, how could a body propped up by drugs stand a chance? Then you need the support of a tribe or a community that knows the ways there. You have to spend some time there be not be a stranger to it. Nothing like plucking a tour guide or a sherpa to carry for you, which is just a tad better than relying on ducktors on an insurance plan. Nice though to dream.
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@yerrag another thing is that loggers and miners continuously encroach onto the wilderness and there's no escape from the big machine even there. But setting that aside, what are the chances to win there? Disease and flies that eat your flesh build character, but I'd be foolish to say I'm eager to experience that. The wilderness is a big collection of suffering if things go south, and they always will. That being said, at some point I'll be so tired and humiliated that it will become attractive.
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It's one thing to say, another to do. Maybe what we can realistically do is hike the Appalachian Trail, or the Oeegon Trail.
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@yerrag I've already done that. It's great, but ultimately doesn't solve the main issue which is fear and apathy in most I meet and lack of funds to be more detached from the machine.
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Still, you got to do things which most people wouldn't be willing nor able to do.
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@yerrag I wanna finish this discussion on a positive note and wish you luck in finding machine elves and the transcendental object at the end of time
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@psi
yeah everyone else is a zombie and bugman but you are the woken one especially after you took a psychoactive cactuscome on man
