Hell yeah thanks man, I'm gonna PM you after I post this!

I'm glad you enjoyed True Hallucinations. It surely is one of the most epic reads I've read in some time. I don't believe the experiment was ever repeated, which is unfortunate. However, I tried to find some more info on Dennis after reading the book because his intellect, or how Terence presented his intellect, astounded me and compelled me to see what he is up to and it turns out he's written a ton of books and is a very successful person in many academic fields. I was hoping maybe somewhere among the vast number of books he's written that maybe he had shared his thoughts of the experiment as well but I don't know because I haven't read anything by him yet. From the way Terence puts it at the end of the book it seems to me like Dennis tried to stop rationalizing it into any one thing after a while and just laid the idea to rest. But that's so... anti-climatic. I want to know more. If I ever find anything I will surely let you know and if you ever perform the experiment on your own I'd be very curious to hear how it goes.

I came from outer space.



This post was edited by HERETICtheory on Mar 24 2011 05:33pm

Got my hands on some dimitri.

See ya in hyperspace.

This post was edited by xGeArz on Mar 24 2011 11:10pm

Full screen the video and it's pretty damn cool. The song doesn't hold up to the awesomeness of the video but....still worth a post.

Sounds like a question that could easily be answered by yourself.

I listen to it sober everyday, quit smoking a year ago. However, in order to truly understand this music, you have to listen to it while on moderately heavy dose of psychedelics. If you haven't been in the state of synesthesia while listening to the music, you haven't experienced it the way it was meant to. Once you've been there and experienced it, listening to it sober takes you back to that place.

This post was edited by Makemetalmusic on Mar 25 2011 12:07am

Take a big dose! No point in half assing it with DMT, go for a breakthrough, that's what it's for! I plan on brewing my own Ayahuasca sometime in the near future, but I'd really like to try DMT smoked first, as it's way more brief and less intense than Ayahuasca, so I've read/heard anyways. 'Till then, I have my mushrooms which are plenty enough for exploring hyperspace

Enjoy yourself, I'd love to hear anything you have to report back.



I'd have to agree with what MakeMetalMusic said in response to this but I felt I could add a bit.

Beyond just being trippy and intense, this type of music has a lot more going for it. It's a very technical art, unlike any other genre that I have encountered in terms of time spent, quality and creativity put into the production and mastering. In this sense, the music takes on a very sort of sophisticated quality. I've always thought of it kind of like how I think about jazz. It doesn't sound like jazz but it holds some of the same qualities like technical ability, strange polyrhythms, time signatures and tempos and a desire to break away from what is mainstream. I personally would say that you have to pick what stands out to you because obviously a whole genre is never exactly what you're looking for, especially in such a radically diverse genre such as this. I can't say I'm in love with every Goa Trance song or anything but within the ideology behind the genre lies something that I connect to on a very personal and spiritual level and when I find a song that quenches that desire for connection it is euphoric.

Particularly, Shpongle drew me to this type of music because of their layered complexity and the fact that I can still listen to Shpongle albums I loved 5 years ago and still find layers of sound I didn't hear before which is always mindbending. I guess that's what you get when your ears are sifting through 200+ tracks. Shpongle is a rare gem among all the psy artists, in my opinion, for the reason of finding a way to break out of what has been done and continue progressing past 4/4 kicks and 140ish BPMs and into something more organic. For me, that is what psy is all about; progression and evolution. It's shown metaphorically through the sound, constant change and evolution. Inside the sound I often find many metaphors between relationships of sounds or tone, color, texture etc. which, to me, shows a very philosophical standpoint in this genre. (at least if you interpret it how I do lol) And the fact that there is usually an absence of vocals which force your focus onto words is also a big plus for me because I don't like the mood of the music to be dictated by a story I may or may not relate to. This way I can float away and feel however I feel about what I'm hearing.

Anyway, I'm not always high when I listen to this music, just like anything in life I guess. I still find great enjoyment out of dissecting and piecing together the music without some herb but smoking while listening can bring on a whole other level of understanding which is often a valuable tool for me when learning from listening. However, like MakeMetal said, tripping is the absolute prime condition to listen to this music in and I obviously enjoy the music outside of my psychedelic escapades. Psy, generally speaking, was built to mirror the psychedelic experience, or at least offer some sort of creative response to it, through creative sound design and so if you ignore the very core of what this music was birthed from and grew from and around, then you're missing a big piece of the picture.

That's my opinion.

This post was edited by HERETICtheory on Mar 25 2011 07:50am