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One person whose work I would recommend looking to for this idea is Gilles Deleuze, perhaps it's because I've recently revisited it but what you've posted about reminds me of his essay immanance: a life .. the self organising animacy of what he calls inorganic life is a persistent theme of his work, which can be difficult to find an entry point into given the density of its prose, and widespread jargonistic-abuse of his terminology in the secondary literature, but i'd say it's well worth it if you want to go further. The idea that some basic form of awareness may be an essential property of all matter is an old one, the chapter 'Mysticism' from William James' Varieties' is a classic treatment of the history and psychology/phenomenology of the basic sentiment .. the unfortunate thing from an empirical perspective is the prevalence of the view that consciousness is an emergent property, which for work of the kind that you seem to be doing can be a real stick in the front spokes .. for a difficult but more cogent approach I'd also suggest the theory of individuation proposed by Gilbert Simondon .. and stay away from Freud the funsponge and his theory of the 'oceanic feeling' in civilisation and it's discontents .wish i had more time to elaborate, but it's cool to see the cross fertilization of continental philosophy and ayahuasca culture .. so keep posting, i'll be watching ;) edit* in answer to the question ^, yes yes and of coarse.

good call on the stringy bark planthelper .. check it out!

hahahah! dat Cher.

^ 100 degrees i heard a conspiratorial rumor that tony abbot is actually secretly working for the government. Is i tTrue?

"Most of the time I was convinced that I’d lost it…, There were other times I thought I was mainlining the secret truth of the universe.” Cohle, True Detective

Graphic novels! + Jimmy Corrigan. F yeah.

not sure do you mean in a negative sense of being aware of a lack of any knowledge, or in the positive sense of actually knowing what nothing is ?

"Series following young people in their pursuit of pleasure; with real life stories and stunning visual effects, we look at the darker side of three of the most commonly used recreational drugs; Cannabis, Ecstasy and Cocaine." stunning visual effects .. .. methinks this betrays naivety that's highly soluble in a 'less theory more practice' approach ...

g'day to You! just a n.b - http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=8136 happy travels

... or should it be don't cha hate reckless drivers .. ^

very interesting. Cheers for posting

walking back from the library yesterday i passed a house that provides hospice care, I saw a really old man ~ >90 with one of those walking frames that have 4 wheels. From a distance I could see he was really struggling, he was on the edge of a path leading from the house to the street, and as I got closer I saw he was trying to turn around, but he was having a tough time overcoming the resistance produced by the wheels going from the concrete to the grass, it was really difficult for him because couldn't manage to pick the frame up to adjust it. As I went past I asked, "d'ya want a hand mate?", and he looked up. He had a look of sincere dedication and a glimmer in his eye, and he said "Nahh, no. Footy season's coming, just limbering up for a game", and then he smiled. Humans, there's nothing like em.

Wow! sounds really ominous for some reason, i just really love the sense of authenticity in music like this, as though it's somehow closer to the spirit of musics true mental/emotional/spiritual function. i've listened to it a few times in a row now at around 3 minutes it sounds like there's a light, sparse d, d, d, backing beat, a drum almost, which if you listen closely, he has to be making with his voice .. yet he does it while maintaining that sombre, melancholy feeling without at all being flashy .. it's a gem, thanks heaps for posting that you've given me a beautiful start to the day also no thread on this style of music would be of any value without a song from Kongar Ol Ondar, national treasure of the republic of Tuva, was a member of Tuvan Parliament, who played with Zappa, and was quite possibly the coolest person ever to have lived,

apart from parsley or rosemary, a favorite, i say, Lithops! partly because i got it from someone i love, partly because they're just f*cking adorable little critters. also i lke that you researched that just to be able to answer b. caapi's question. about balls what does the fact that this experiment never actually took place say about the people that unquestioningly recirculate it ?

i think my ex girlfriend has horsenality

Well put Evil Genius

if by 'wrestling match' you mean nang competition, and by 'hillbilly' you mean a fictitious hallucination, then, probably hillbilly is compulsory lifelong smoking for all Australian citizens an answer to the social problems produced by our aging population?

heard a concert with these guys on ABC National just yesterday, gave me more than one of those teary wince with goodness moments, these guys are very cool, so just in the interest of sharing interesting cool things with good people:

hahahaha! i actually laughed when i read this books .. at certain dark times I've thought all my true friends were made of paper, books can definitely change your life .. so just a few, with a quote from each: The Varieties of Religious Experience - William James "The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony." The Birth of Tragedy - Nietzsche But what changes come upon the weary desert of our culture, so darkly described, when it is touched by the magic of Dionysus! A storm seizes everything decrepit, rotten, broken, stunted; shrouds it in a whirling red cloud of dust and carries it into the air like a vulture. In vain confusion we seek for all that has vanished; for what we see has risen as if from beneath he earth into the gold light, so full and green, so luxuriantly alive, immeasurable and filled with yearning. Tragedy sits in sublime rapture amidst this abundance of life, suffering and delight, listening to a far-off, melancholy song which tells of the Mothers of Being, whose names are Delusion, Will, Woe. Moby Dick - Herman Melville - (if i have any advice to impart to any of you it's that to die without having read Moby Dick is to do oneself a great disservice) Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i. e. what is called savagery. Your true whale-hunter is as much a savage as an Iroquois. I myself am a savage; owning no allegiance but to the King of the Cannibals; and ready at any moment to rebel against him. Gargoyles - Thomas Bernhard "I often dream extravagantly of those cities in which I can disappear, and so die away". "Thought", the prince said, "is always represented as a building inhabitable for shorter or longer periods. It is often pictured as an edifice in which everybody, the philosophers and their followers, can go in or out with more or less excitement. But thought cannot be represented. To me my thought is: velocities that I cannot see". Madness and Civilisation - Michel Foucault (the whole of the book could be quoted ..) Madness forms the constitutive moment of dissolution ... It paints the exterior horizon, the line of dissolution, the contour against the void .. Words hurled against the absence of language, the space of physical suffering and terror which surrounds and coincides with the void - that is the work of art itself: the sheer cliff over the abyss of the work's absence.

good luck Greg

very interesting, thanks for posting

it's only an hour from where i live, so i'll probly make an appearance .. i promise i'm not as much of a jerk in real life .. i havn't seen him on the forums in a while but i'll try and get in contact with Sapito to see if he's keen aswell

crikey. and not even one of you grubby hippy ingrates liked my page. after all i've done. bloody typical. to think of the wealth of erudite wisdom that i've bestowed on this place. bloody, pearls before swine's what it is. why is purple so unwind.

Micromegas^ ^ thanks for posting that, you seem to be a very thoughtful person