Spiritual Journal, 4/3/03

[novapsyche]

4:38 p.m.

I'm convinced that sound is our most immediate sense. In one of my poems, I talked about the "unbroken thread of audition." Since the Big Bang, the universe has been filled with sound, even the minutest sound of two particles bumping against each other.

I never really thought about sound before delving into DXM and embarking on my current spiritual journey. Now I'm entranced with the question of what is sound? and, how do humans transduce sound? I firmly believe sound is a truer sense than sight. (Sight is automatically an illusion -- a flat image purporting three dimensions. Visual perception necessarily incorporates deception.)

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Synchronicity demands a design that stands outside of time. Time is synchronicity's tool, not its construct (as it is for us). I do believe that God communicates synchronistically, and we can hear Him with finely tuned ears.

To be saved is to return to God's voice. [This is an ancient Jewish belief.] We must listen for all nuances, every instance of communication. This takes tremendous faith and a willingness to understand. And it takes practice, learning to listen to environmental c(l)ues. But it is a spiritual skill, one I feel ancient peoples were more versed in [and one I feel we can recover].

Comments

[prema.livejournal.com]

a fascinating post. it reminds me of another i read a few days ago by kesil - http://www.livejournal.com/users/kesil/169984.html

ISound is essentially energy - it differs from light only from how we perceive it. I often feel that our limitation as human beings are die to our perceptions. we see or feel or hear something and imagine that it is the only way we can sense such things. but i suppose it is conceivable that sound can be seen and light heard if only we knew how. when i apply an object oriented view on sound, light, energy etc - i see energy as that which encompasses all - and sound, heat and light (and other forms) as types of objects that inherit the properties of energy, and then ave their own charcterisitcs put on them by human observation.

i just realised i may not be making much sense. But thank you for your thought-provoking post. :)

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Your post made sense--at least, I was able to make sense of it. :)

we see or feel or hear something and imagine that it is the only way we can sense such things. but i suppose it is conceivable that sound can be seen and light heard if only we knew how.

The biological parameters of the human being never cease to amaze me. I often wonder what the world looks like to animals, who have different sense parameters than we do. For example, I'm certain that bats can see sound. How does that render their view of their surroundings? The world of the bat and the world of the human must look and sound very different.

Personally, I'm glad we can't hear light, because our ears would never get a rest.

Thanks for pointing me to that post; I enjoyed reading it.

[nwmann.livejournal.com]

sound is just as fake as sight. atleast in most cases. our ears are shaped in such a way that we are able to know from which direction sound came from. since sound is coming from a direction it must imply that sound as well as vision is interprited in three dimensions. if you are interested in furthering your understanding of human interpritation of sound i would suggest to you that you try and obtain some amount of 5meodipt and give it a try. the audio distortion by itself isn't overly amazing but the understanding it gave me of how i interprit sound was very fun.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

I have tried foxy. It did indeed supremely influence how I view the sense of sound. On it, I experienced real synesthesia--I could see sound. At times, sounds from a distance sounded incredibly crisp, as if they were put up to a microphone. Music was distorted (it sounded as if played underwater), which was very disturbing to me.

Unfortunately, I had a lot of bad effects from foxy, so I've sworn it off. It's scheduled now, anyway.

All of the senses are suspect. Perhaps I've just grown partial to one over the others. (Partly this may be due to the fact that on DXM, your sight starts getting funky, while your hearing is still reliable.)

[voiceandsalt.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this post, it's really moving. But doesn't sight involve depth perception? I don't think the human eye works by making something like a 2D drawing in the mind, i think our sight sense is more complex, isn't it? Anyway, I still agree that sound is a more essential sense.

I see this was written a couple of months ago...maybe I haven't been paying enough attention, but what is your current spiritual journey and how is it related to DXM?

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

I base my statements partly on my experiences with LSD. (I understand if this makes my statements suspect to others.) The first time I tried LSD, the thing that I noticed the most was the fact that I could look at my surroundings, but the entire visual field wavered, like a towel fluttering in the wind. (This distortion is very hard to render into words, so I apologize; I realize how ridiculous this might sound.) It was this experience that first suggested to me that, though we live in a 3-D world and see things in three dimensions, our actual sense of it is in two dimensions, interpreted as three.

It would be very difficult for me to summarize my current spiritual journey--it began two years ago and is still ongoing. A lot of very profound experiences have occurred in my waking life, and several while asleep. I've basically gone from being an existentialist who did not believe in God or an afterlife to a mystic who does believe in God and some sort of afterlife (that is, I believe death is an illusion, or a transition of sorts).

DXM has been the physical catalyst for a lot of the experiences I've undergone. DXM has been known to confer upon its users "paranormal" abilities. (Of course, when I try to think of the more common ones, I cannot bring any to mind. I'll try to think of them and get back to this post.) Most recently, the effect that I've most gotten from DXM is that of clairaudience. I'm convinced that clairaudience and synchronicity have properties similar to each other and may be deeply interrelated. So, that's what I'm currently focused on. I also use DXM as a meditation tool.

DXM is very much a mystical drug, in my opinion. As a dissociative, it necessarily reduces the self. And as one forgets the self, one remembers God.

Re: Synchronicity

[lhasa7.livejournal.com]

Hello. This might be helpful (requires fairly close reading):

http://okneoac.com/archetypes.html

Re: Synchronicity

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the link! I'll read it today. (I'm a newbie when it comes to understanding synchronicity. So I'm grateful for information passed onto me.)