Finally, I can write something

in #introduceyourself6 years ago (edited)

I have not written anything publicly in a longer format since 2 years ago , except for some tweets here and there. I am not sure of the reason why this is so, but it's probably because once I'm on the internet, there is just a lot of information that I would like to absorb and learn, and thus it interferes with my ability to express what's on my mind.

Information interferences, and coupled with the fact that most of the time I'm inclined to only write anything practically useful, or at least I'm under the influence that anything I produce has to be practically useful. This certain way of thinking comes from how I perceive my domain of work in the software industry and community, which has and always will be striving for best practices, relevancy, coherence, concrete goal and result, and so on, and so forth.

That is not bad in itself, as for the sake of the progress of software industry, we have to achieve determinism. As when a system, software, development process, or whatever is not deterministic, then we won't be able to visualize or understand such system. When software eats the world, and we can't control or understand it, our system may or will eventually breakdown. Imagine the chaos and catastrophic implication of that, and how many dollars will be lost in the process. That is if we're still using fiat as a currency instead of another esoteric, unpredictable system which we call cryptocurrency.

Anyways, now I'm not writing about software. What brings me to steemit more often is these articles and posts related to cryptocurrency (but I won't be writing about this as well), psychedelics, and notably DMT. There have been lots of posts, articles, art work, and videos related to DMT. I myself was intrigued by the visualization that it can present to its takers, and I sort of intuitively understand why these psychedelic experiences are very special to them. But, as I'm not a biochemist or neuroscientist, I wouldn't try to write anything related to the inner workings of these chemical substances as many others did.

I could also draw correlation of these experiences to famous movies of our time such as The Matrix and Dr. Strange. I could see how the protagonist in these movies experienced an altered state of consciousness in a dramatic manner. Although the important difference is none of these psychedelic experiences influenced by DMT are entangled with our classical reality. Whatever we see and do in such alternate consciousness — whatever we want to call that, alternate reality, parallel universe or unreal — will not affect entities that are entangled in our immediate familiar — I'd like to call it classical — reality.

As fun as the idea can be, we can't levitate as Dr. Strange or Neo did in the Matrix, we can't manipulate our surroundings, bend spoon, or stop bullets from flying to us. Although, we can perceive shared concepts, alternate reality with other DMT takers, akin to a religious experience. Now where does these all experiences actually come from?

Are they only similar among cultural groups? I have read DMT experiences where the takers encountered machine elves, aliens, dancing gypsies, where these concepts are usually common among people who grew up with those ideas. But, I'm not aware of how does different culture experienced DMT, such as the Japanese (would they meet Pokemons? or whatever cute anime character that they always dream of), Chinese (I couldn't imagine what dreams do they have, probably Buddha), or anyone who is quite isolated or have been ignoring our modern pop culture.

As DMT is illegal, and I'm not a scientist, the probability to understand the variation of these experiences across culture is almost zero. That's all for now, I would write something more, once there's any progress on these topics.

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