Fractals, Resonance, and Psychedelics
A rework of my previous article applied to psychedelics is free.
I recently published “Fractals, Resonance, and Your Personality” to my paid subscribers. I pitched a version of this to the psychedelic community. With some editing, new material, and a new title it now appears at Psychedelic Support.
If you’re interested in how our minds work, read this piece. The ideas of resonance and fractals are key to self-understanding. The concepts are straight forward. They don’t require mathematics.
Our thoughts are fractal because the accrete on themselves, like the layers of pearl on irritating grains of sand. The fact that we have ideas at all is pretty pretty amazing from a scientific point of view. Our minds are marvels of structural-cognitive engineering.
On the other hand, many of our key thoughts don’t fit the locks they’re made for. Some are outright defective. Like pearls, we celebrate the good ones but ignore the bad ones. Similarly for an oyster, good pearls makes life easier; bad pearls make life miserable.
Resonance is a process of amplification not replication. We resonate will all sorts of things, and what we resonate with we turn our attention to. Resonance and fractals are two basic processes in the workings of our minds.
Psychedelics
Psychedelics are catylists, agents of change, but they’re not exceptional. You enter a realm of psychedelic hallucinations with every dream, but you rarely remember them.
Psychedelic experiences are dreams you remember and control, to some extent. At least you remember them. If you think about your fractals and resonance in psychedelic experiences, then what seems irrelevant becomes representational.
We disparage nonsense as useless when, in fact, our minds operate on nonsense. Our minds are machines designed to arrange nonsensical things sensibly. A hallucination is not a delusion, it’s a vision of the chaos of our lives.
You have to see the nonsense before you arrange it. Look at US politics. You will only know what to make of it when you understand it as nonsense. Dreams, hallucinations, and US politics, the only differences are those of scale.
Donald Trump is cultural LSD. Perhaps it would be more accurate to compare him to Fentynl. Don’t curl up into a ball, don’t jump out the window; we need you to help us become lucid.
My original blog post was open only to paid subscribers. This public version is free. I encourage you to read Fractals, Resonance, and Psychedelics.
I’ve published a number of articles at Psychedelic Support, you can read them all here.