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"Grinding face-powder, wooden teeth ... with applewood and oak ... . ...

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The fat, gluttonous, powder-face mass of English tyrannical ideals fell".

"The Known in the Hive is fabrics of awareness. ... I could hear/feel the people "talking" in a huge rubbery looking sheet that seemed boundless. ... The reason for their ease seemed to be their togetherness."

"finding ourselves in a body with no explanation is so monstrously strange as to be debilitating. People gather inside the boundaries of the Known and gather toys unto themselves to ward off this most basic mystery. The shunning of not-knowing is taken further, to include a self-convincing of all things trivial."

p. 68

"In his book The Science of God, Gerald L. Schroeder makes some important points concerning the unlikelihood of what is called convergent evolution :

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"The statistical improbability of pure chance yielding even the simplest forms of life has made a mockery of ... random choice ... .""

"In his book Darwin’s Black Box, Michael J. Behe explains that the likelihood of even the "simplest" life form ... stirring to life suddenly ... is less ... ."

p. 70

"This is peculiar "machinery" though. It can self-replicate. It is full of mind-from-within. It is expanding in the Deep, building more of itself through some secret blueprints that are created as they are followed.

The Mind of God (and I don’t mean a judge in the sky {"judge in the sky" is peculiarly Christian}) is pure paradox.

{Not merely a paradox, it would be a contradiction if it had to be based on DNA, which is not in God’s body.}

All might be thought of as creatorless creation. Intent on discovering itself, ambition was born. A potential for destination emerged. The It shook itself awake! We are the fall-out. ...

{Alternatively, the same situation hath always existed, beginninglessly; with no "creation", no "was born", no "emerged". This would be the case if the universe of mortal beings (souls) is co-aeval with the aeternal deities who have always been producing it throughout aeternity.}

What is called iteration is basically feedback loops ... . ... But there needs to be both chaos and order (uncertainty and destination) for either to exist. ... (Check out Turbulent Mirror by John Briggs and F. David Peat. ...)"

"In his book DMT : The Spirit Molecule, Rick Strassman, M.D., wrote accounts of his brave subjects who were administered high doses of DMT ... going to the same "places" ... laboratories of "alien" beings, high-tech labyrinthine vaulted areas, sometimes with cartoonish {I have often undergone dreamlike waking views of cartoonish characters.} or clownlike {I once saw, in a dreamlike waking view, a professor in the guise of a clown.} beings present."

"what I have seen on DXM" : "What I saw was a stained glass looking wall. It was shimmering with multicolored light. On this wall was a moving figure like a clown. {I once saw, while on traveling on a train, moving figures on the wall. They were acting in a slapstick-clownish way.} Immediately I thought : It’s the DMT clown!"

p. 74

"entering into one of the shinier crevices that would sometimes appear. ... Into this I would go, passing through tight ... areas filled with transparent or pink tubes ... . ... The man and

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woman from before were there too, near the Spiral. ... I heard the woman say, "He’s reached the next level.""

"There are people ... merging into the wood/clay. The ARE the wood/clay.

{Primaeval folk made of clay or (as in the Kic^e` scheme) of wood are common in mythologies.}

As I pass over I can hear/feel them "calling" to me. They seem wondrous".

"I saw a giant glowing orb of light. I understood that it ... represented Pure Truth."

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While awake in the physical, "at the mirror ... I saw my form as a galactic foreigner. ...

{According to gnosis, goddess Sophia, when seeing herself reflected in the primordial waters, entered the material world, although alien to it.}

p. 78

It is the cracks in the Matrix ... the ... valve ... . Beyond that valve is the nonhuman {i.e., divine} source. ... We are not humans. This is a play ... drama".

p. 80

"I had just picked up Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness by Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, and Ralph Abraham, and I was poring over it ... . ...

I fly over little lights/beings at work on a blue machine. ... Then I’m over a river of molten glass ... . ...

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There is a device ... made of silver fire. ...

p. 82

I am taken to a place where people such as myself, who have had such a tour, are being "processed." My turn comes and my being is "cored." What was a blob (me) has been hollowed like a do[ugh]nut – without a middle. I understand it is an honor. ...

p. 83

I look at endless blue "apartements" unused – laboratories full of organic/plasma machinery. The Other continues : "These are your helpers." I look and ... tiny knowing orbs drift about me."

p. 86

"In the beginning stages of the DXM trip, when the eyes are closed ..., there stirs in the peripheral field aside the mind’s eye ... yellow/green lines of churning light. This taffiness morphs itself into semisquare "wood" panels ... thick leathery electric Doors. ... I have been to these Doors many times. ... The Doors begin to bubble as I float before them. Soon they glide apart and I pass. Chambers and passageways ...

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open up. New, more ... tubes, orbs, and wormy light-beings follow (the Plasma Flowers)."

"self-transforming machine elves" : "The term was coined by ... Terence McKenna. From the interview in Charles Hayes’ book Tripping, McKenna describes the Machine Elves : "From the moment you enter into the DMT experience, you’re in a domain (where) they’ve been waiting for you. The toys they offer, these Faberge’ eggs ... you would hang over a bassinet. ...

These entities (the machine elves) seem to be syntactical creatures made out of language."

{In other words, they are minor deities capable of shifting their activities in polite response to the language of the dreamer.}

"Here is a post I put up on Breakingopenthehead.com ..., thinking these things were tied in with the Ego Vortex."

{Inasmuch as the emotions manifest as vortices, almost any intellectual type of deities must perforce be associated (even if indirectly) with such vortices.}

p. 93

"What is called the "robo shuffle," among the cough syrup-drinking youth, is the way one is forced to walk while on higher doses of DXM ... . ...

{A shuffling gait is a symptom of being victimized by drug-overdose-praescribing-psychiatrists in patients committed to insane-asyla.}

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Soon my legs stiffened up – locked up ... . I couldn’t bend them. ... So with my lower half in full paralysis, I tried to get into the trip".

{I have experienced numbness in the lower half of my body when on an anti-epilepsy drug (admininstred by a psychiatrist).}

p. 94

"I began to see things, eyes open, before me. First came a tunnel that opened up about a foot in front of my face. It was a "device" of some sort, "made" for looking through ... . I put my face up to the thing. A voice said I was to be given "secrets." For a time I beheld some vast expanse. It was a region ... of great crystals towering below a ceiling of light. Liquid effervescent light dripped down from on high in great knowing rivers of thought. ... Whatever was there – some Otherness -- ... began to speak : "... All sentientness in the universe arises to discover itself purely by virtue of ... everything,

p. 95

The paneled wall of the room became a forest. From it emerged a "witch" (the feeling was of a female demigod). She was laughing ...! Then she said : "Comes the sprite!" ... From out of the forest came an elflike creature about one foot tall! It was gray with long skinny fingers. It came up to my side and hugged my lower right leg. It said : "You are ... born of the moon. The trees send their regards!.""

p. 96

"Soon after I looked through a few books on elves ... and found that the sprite is traditionally thought of as having to do with the forest."

p. 98

"One day ... I ... came across Robert Monroe’s Jounreys Out of the Body. ... Monroe described a vibrational state that occurs prior to the actual separation of consciousness from the body, in which the body feels like an electrical current it passing through it, minus the pain. A month or so after finishing the book I began to have these vibrations, along with intense roaring or hissing in my ears".

"the dream is now lucid. I say : "I’m

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going up into space." As I rose I could see the Milky Way. The stars grew close together so that it seemed I was far into the galactic core."

p. 100

"In his book A Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Joseph Chilton Pierce wrote convincingly of the sway our belief system can have over what is or is not possible ... . In short, he is saying how seemingly incredulous {incredible} feats, which bother our precepts of reality or threaten our system of logic on some level, are actually possible, once these "impossibilities" are given an open-minded consideration by our belief system. These feats will then manifest and come to be and our current reality will be changed into a new reality."

{The way this functioneth is that the divine world will not enable a person to do something which the person doubteth to be feasible (because the divine world is too polite to oppose a person’s doubting attitude); but the divine world may enable a person to do something which the person deemeth to be feasible (because the divine world it polite enough to promote the person’s believing attitude).}

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"In later OBEs I seemed to have been a point or an orb, usually while traveling."

{This may be the monadic body or whatever. "Punctiform consciousness" is mentioned in some OOBE literature.}

"Vibrations began strong – suddenly there is a "pop." I’m out of my body – fully conscious!"

"Guardian spirits around me ... they convey that they will protect me. They form a "wall" made up of themselves ... surrounding me. They are Indian spirits! ... So now ..., it was Indians ... Native Americans ... acknowledging me."

{known, in Umbanda, as caboclo spirits}