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Published: Sunday, 30 November 2003

I was looking at the New Falcon Publishing web site today and I found a link to the General Semantics web site. I had herd about General Semantics from Robert Anton Wilson.

I sometimes wonder why I don’t know about certain things. Where have
I been and what roads have I taken that have led me past some things
and not others. It really fascinates me that there is so much that I
will never know about and that there are so many people who know and
experience things that I wont.

Anyway, I have included one page from their site here regarding language.

Learning and Using the Lingo

by Milton Dawes (1991)

It usually takes a while to get a ‘feel’ of general semantics as an
integrated system of interrelated principles. It usually takes even a
longer while to develop a level of general semantics internalization,
where the principles ‘apply’ themselves at those difficult and trying
times, when we need them the most. And when at conscious levels, we are
least inclined to think of principles and formulations.

One way to get a ‘feel’ of general semantics, and develop a general
semantics orientation, is to create, study, and include in our usual
thinking-feeling processes, a vocabulary of general semantics terms. In
Science and Sanity, Alfred Korzybski stressed the importance of
acquiring and using a general semantics vocabulary … if we are to
benefit from the discipline. Here is some of what he wrote:

“The reader will find in this work the use of certain terms which, although
they are standard English words, are not habitually used. The terms
used here have been carefully selected and tested, and found to be more
similar to the structure of the actual facts. The power of terminology,
because of its structural implications, is well known in science, but
is entirely disregarded in our daily neuro-linguistic habits.” (p.
xxxvi)

“That languages as such, all have some structure or
other is a new and, perhaps, unexpected notion. Moreover, every
language having a structure, by the very nature of language, reflects
in its own structure that of the world as assumed by those who evolved
the language. In other words, we read unconsciously into the world the
structure of the language we use.” (p. 60)

“The main issues are found in the structure of language, and readers who are interested
in this work will facilitate their task if they make themselves
familiar with these new terms and use them habitually.” (p. 64)

In building your vocabulary and familiarizing your ’selves’ with
these terms, I suggest that you don’t try to find out what they mean -
instead, build on whatever you understand from your readings, studies,
and inquiries, by looking to your own experiences, and reports from
others, for situations that you could say represent examples of this or
that general semantics principle.

I do not recommend that you actually use these terms in
conversations. This could be very disturbing to your loved ones,
relatives, friends, co-workers, and others ….. and probably give
general semantics a bad name. You could think of these terms as ’silent
counselors’, ‘friendly companions’, that you can call on to help you
avoid many of the identification traps in your
thinking-feeling-evaluating processes; in your conversation with your
’selves’ and others; in your interpretations of your own experiences
and the stories of the experiences of others; in your interpretations
of what you hear or read … and so on.

In becoming familiar with, and in using these terms, you will
quickly find to your delight, that they provide us with a common
vocabulary; one that we can use to help us acknowledge and appreciate
our similarities and differences; one that can help us resolve our
conflicts and disagreements; and one that can help us better understand
our ’selves’, others, and our worlds.

The following is a list of some of the more commonly used general
semantics terms. I encourage you to add more terms to the list. And
make the effort to continually expand your understandings of these
terms through your inquires and experiences.

abstracting * consciousness of abstracting * consciousness of
projecting * orders of abstractions * event * object * label *
description * inference * generalization * etc. * system-function *
non-identity * infinite-valued * extensional orientation * absolute
individuality * process * date * index * order * asymmetric relations *
multi-dimensional order * structure * similar structure * fractals *
relative invariance under transformation * non-elementalism *
space-time * semantic reaction * WIGO * non-allness * general principle
of uncertainty * theory * probability * * variable * function *
calculus * differentiation * integration * differences fundamental *
field * continuity * infinite-valued causality * action/reaction *
signal/symbol reaction * cortico-thalamic integration * silence on
object level * delayed action * adjustment * natural order of
evaluation * intension * extension * objectification * identification *
visualization * map not territory * word not thing * psycho-logics *
self-reflexiveness * time-binding
*organisim-as-a-whole-in-environments* neuro-linguistic/neuro-semantic
feedback* sanity * evaluation * formulation * semantic flexibility *
conditionality *multi-meaning *multiordinality *over/under defined
terms * non-additivity * limits * generalized mathematics * generalized
science * general semantics * non-aristotelian * standards of
evaluation * frame of reference * up-to-date epistemology * theory of
values

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Hello,
this is a text. The text says that the person behind the text
….ignore the little man pulling the levers!!!!!….. sorry, the text
just digressed.

ee hem.

The text says…..

It really says that the person who is
writing the text is changing the way the text looks with a new tool
more adapted to the texts way of being.

This being the case, text and character shall be changing and not too stable for the moment but any way the text link goes here.

I am in a bush/forest setting. There is a walking track that leads into the forest. The track is covered with leaves……

of the forest trees but is still well used by people. The forest is wet like a rainforest and the leaves shine and sparkle in the light. It might be nighttime, but either way it is dark. I walk into the track and follow the path with my eyes. Not sure if I came by car or not but
there seems to be a car-park behind me. I am not really looking at the sky. I come across a small space next to the track that is cleared. It is only about 2 metres square in area. On the ground are growing about 20 or 30 mushrooms. I bend down and start to pick them. I eat them as I am picking them. I am not sure how strong they are and I am now not
sure how many I have eaten. I stop eating them and just look at all the others on the ground. I don’t pick the rest of them. I start to walk down the track again. I want to follow it into the forest.

I now become aware that next to me is (girl1) or (girl2), I am not sure which person they are but they feel friendly and she wants to walk on the track as well. We come to a small house of sorts, like a property. We knock on the door but no one answers so we decide to go inside. The house is darkish and possibly damp. The colours are predominantly brown. As I am looking around this property I start to feel the familiar feeling of the mushroom, the lump in the throat, the runny nose, the heightened awareness of everything. This make me think about Terrence McKenna talking about the phenomenon of the DMT
experience. The strange fact that you only have to have DMT once for the body to be able move into that state again through the dream state. This feeling now in this dream is real. I can physically feel the effects in my body and consciously recognise that I am actually
dreaming as well as lying in Zara’s bed asleep but all the time defiantly in a state of mushroomification. I think about myself in the mind of my dream body that this is a great thing. The dreamt mushroom is just as real as the physical dimensional mushroom in the fact that it makes both my physical body feel mushroomed and my etheric/dream
body feel the same way. I ponder this thought for some time in this house or the like in Hansel and Grettle. We go outside and walk along a garden path that reminds me of the rainforest houses of the township of Paluma in North Queensland. We then are greeted by the custodians of this house and garden. A man and a woman, both older that us and quite friendly. They seem to not mind that we are wandering around their
house and garden. I feel a little ill at ease with them. The bemushroomed feeling doesn’t stop me from communicating with the woman. I think we talk but maybe we just looked at each other. We decide to leave this place and walk along the path back the way we came. On the way back we turn down another path to the left and go across a wooden
suspension bridge over a glassy lake about 30 metres in diameter in a domed place with blue lights shining from somewhere that I can’t see. It is a fantastically imaginative place. The ability to see with the clarity gift of the mushrooms makes the whole area shine and sparkle at me. We climb down off the bridge to a landing type area and things get
a bit vague. We leave the area and morning comes with the restless movement of my physical body. Time to wake up.

I love to sleep.

These things have happened to me a couple of times lately. Probably starting about 2 or 3 months ago. The fist time this strange thing happened was a tough time for me emotionally and spiritually. I was having an argument for want of a better word, with my girlfriend. It had been going on for about 3 hours while we lay in bed. It was like a jousting match of our persons and each of us were gradually getting our shadows out of the closet and brandishing them to each others detriment. This in itself has been amazing to me. It has shown me a pattern in my life that occurs when I am pushed to the wall of my ego and out pops my shadow. Past girlfriends will know this thing in me as they are probably the only people who have bee close enough to me to be able see this.Anyway, after this argument had been going on for a good couple of hours I felt that part of me that I may call my ego give way. I felt limp. Like my capacity for being or my ability to care and share had been broken. It didn’t feel deathlike but instead felt like a
weight had been dropped off my back. I couldn’t answer my partners questions, I didn’t know what I felt and the whole room changed it’s atmosphere for me. All I could do was tell my partner that I had lost my sense of caring and wished to be quite.

I got up and went outside to go to the toilet. I relive myself by watering my roses or lemon tree. When I walked out the door of my shack I noticed that the sky was crawling, absolutely covered in crawling coloured spots and patters. It wasn’t as if they were layered on top of the sky or the trees and ground but it was just there, in the front of
my eyes. I was shocked at first and just stared around me. Because I felt like my ego had been told to pack up and go somewhere else for the time being I didn’t feel very scared, which was strange. I remember thinking that “There is all these colours in the sky in front of my eyes…..what is it…. where has it come from…. why aren’t I scared?”

I decided to relive myself on my roses while staring at the sky, watching this stuff above me and in front of me. Fractal patterns encircling one-another, dots and flies of coloured light, all whizzing around each-other, not going anywhere. The world was full of this snow
and I was absolutely astounded. If I were to decide how far it was from me it would probably have been a couple of feet away but as I said before I am not sure if it was actually there in 3D space. I stared at this stuff for a while after finishing my business and then went back inside to bed. Me and my partner both agreed that we needed to let go
of our argument and talk about it until the morning.

I have since seen this same type of thing while awake and watching the forest that is about 30 metres from my shack. All the times I have seen it have been either while I am relieving myself or just after. When looking at the forest I notice that it starts moving as if there is a film of water in between me and the forest wall. The trees and the grass all start to melt in a flowing pattern and ripple like the waters of a pond or ocean. Even the sky above the forest starts to ripple. I watch it intently wondering what it is. I have seen it quite a few times now that it has become a common place thing that happens to me.

I have found a joyful pot of goodies concerning Terrence McKenna. A site on the net with about thirty MP3s regarding and by, Terence McKenna.
Here’s the link:

http://mckenna.drugtext.org/

Happy double downloading, from the net to your brain! Open the channels of consciousness with every technique possible. Put science in its place and open your minds and hearts and imaginations to life.

I have summarised one of his talks that I have been after for a long time. Angels, Aliens and Archetypes. It is a talk given at a UFO conference in the nineties some time regarding some of the possibilities of what the UFO is and what it actually does to the human psyche. Absolutely fascinating. You can download the entire talk in MP3 format. My text summarisation is here.

Well, off to the peace rally in Melbourne City at 5:00pm tonight. Had a dream I was in Iraq last night. Watched these planes swoop over Baghdad like a bunch of seagulls bombing a school of fish. I watched from afar and felt the horror of what was happening. I don’t like what is going on at the moment but in another sense I feel “Bring it on!”. This is the turning point the fat controllers and destructors of life (capitalists, materialist, masculine solar worshiping dregs of our world) have been waiting for and this means that it is their end and undoing. There is no more western world. It is the start of something great and wondrous. The birth if you like. If we stuff this up then the mother will die. Love and peace to you all including the ones I am not fond of. I have to face my own inner nazi and accept that it is part of me as well! Another way to summarise what I am feel is “Hello Shadow”.

I was at the news agent yesterday and couldn’t find one magazine in the whole rack covering anything that I am involved in. So then I thought, “Arrhhaa, I’ll check on the net to see if any others have set up a blog site that covers the same sort of ideas as the ones I am looking for.
Searching Radio Userland……..nothing, searching syndic8……..nothing, mmmm well last try, searching news is free…….. not a chook!

There seems to be a gaping hole in the media in the areas of magazine/journal publishing and rss newsfeeds through web logs or information gathering sites. Maybe one of the
things keeping people from publishing such things is the fact that to be able to say anything about this topic you must have experience it and thus have broken the law. There are ways around this I believe, I have to get some sort of legal advice on this one.

This is a modification… tee hee

I’ve been working at a vineyard (woongarra) for the past 5 months. We picked some of the grapes last week.This work has given me some very valuable insights into myself. Not only does it give me time to think through problems I have with my ability to see my interconnectedness to the cosmos but it also give me time to just watch the thoughts in my mind create reality. Just working in the physical dimension with my body gives me the ability to ride my
thoughts wherever they may be taking me.

Published: Sunday, 9 November 2003

This
is a right bollox thing with non of that anyway here now and for the
get go of the yip yar and all the bottle of rum you need to get you
through the day and the night time of the souls revival reflex and
fluidity of the motions detections ring-grip forn.

this is a blar vksjgvsd

Published: Sunday, 9 November 2003

Forgiveness.

Understanding.

Compassion.

I bend and flow with ease.

All is well.