i am the cosmic serpent.

INTRODUCTION:

so. about a year ago, i read this book, the cosmic serpent. and it piqued my interest in this shit. then, i took an animal behavior class. and it fucked with how i see things. then i ate a lot of mushrooms and made some discoveries. and so now, i sit around and think about this bullshit with my brother and sometimes other people. and try and figure out life, dna and consciousness. steps are being made in the right directions. we're exploring motherfucking mental highlands, climbing to the top of this mental mountain, looking for a better view.

so. it started with the cosmic serpent, and since then, has gone so much further. i've got my little sketchbook full of notes, and this evening, had the idea of making a livejournal for our ramblings on this topic. partially not to clutter mine with all this bullshit.

its late. and i have class early tomorrow, i'd like to explain our past ideas but, there would be pages. so, maybe i'll do that shit in the future, or maybe i'll just write the new ideas. we'll see.

one of my latest thoughts has been this. copied from my livejournal.

so. i got to thinking. while i was in the airport. after missing my flight to florida. all the senses we have. sight, hearing, smell, touch etc. that shit all evolved. and its the basis of our reality and consciousness. like. eyes are just an organ that takes in information. light hits your eyes, and your brain creates an image...its the same with the rest of your senses, information is sensed, then your mind puts it all together and creates our reality, all inside our heads. and i got to thinking, that everything we sense, isn't everything thats out there. our senses are limited. other organisms sense other things. magnetic fields. miniscule to large amounts of electricity. sonar. heat. chemicals in the air. and even these organisms aren't getting everything. our senses and the senses of other organisms are all evolved senses. we evolved only the senses necessary to our survival. so, i'm trying to figure out how this relates to life and death. and dna. most hallucinogens, DMT, psilocybin etc. is very often described as an expanded state of consciousness. then, you've got to think about what hallucinations are, and where they come from. if hallucinations come from inside the brain rather than external stimuli, it makes me wonder what our minds are capable of, and what exactly is real. and also what exactly dreams are.

a couple nights ago, i had a dream where i lost a tooth. like, you know when you loose your baby teeth, and you're fucking with the loose tooth with your tongue, and it gets more and more loose until it finally comes out, and you feel the sensation of the nerve coming out...it felt like that exactly. i sensed all that shit. i could feel my tongue on the tooth, rocking it back and forth.

this was all shit that was put together inside my mind, in a dream. and if everything we sense is all put together inside our heads...like...how our eyes sense light, then our brain creates an image...i got to wondering how much of this all is actually real. like. that phrase "what if life is all just a dream." or whatever. where are our minds. and are our bodies real. and reality is super fucked up right now.

anyway. i could write a fucking book right now. and i kind of want to...but instead i'm going to go talk to my brother. and we'll hopefully figure some things out. make some connections. get a little bit of a better viewpoint in those mental highlands. go further up the mountain.

i'm going to bed.

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