Glide Oracle for iPad Released!
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The Glide Oracle is an oracle whose roots are in the tradition of the I Ching, …
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Archive for ‘the Other’
November 30, 2012 Category: alien language, conlanging, Glide, I Ching, Psychedelics, the Other, visual language 7 Comments 
The Institute for the Encouragement of Outrageous Ideas is pleased to announce the appointment of Diana Slattery to the McKenna Chair of Xenolinguistics. Dr. Slattery brings her years of experience in multidimensional interspecies communication to the position. She is uniquely suited to the furthering of the Institute’s mission, having amassed an impressive resume of outrageous acts and through her contributions as a member of the Task Force to Define the Nature of the Outrageous.
March 4, 2012 Category: alien language, entities, outrageous acts, the Other No Comments
Xenolinguistics
In my usage, Xenolinguistics is the study of language and linguistic phenomena in the psychedelic sphere. Xenolinguistics gives a word to this effort to create a first assemblage of local knowledges, gathered from first person reports, as from the logbooks of early navigators, about these phenomena. The local knowledges I am interested in are those of the xenolinguists, where the focus, fascination, and subsequent interpretations circle around language—different capacities of language from what we call “natural” language. Xenolinguistics reveals forms …
February 5, 2012 Category: alien language, iridescence, magic mushrooms, Maria Sabina, Psychedelics, the Other, visual language 2 Comments
Xenolinguistics: the scientific study of languages of non-human intelligences. Publications in this field tend to be speculative as few people have made the claim to have understood an alien language, at least not reliably.
—Wikuniversity
Hallucinations as Alien Art
The key to this discussion is a conceit of the extraordinary vision-producing ability unleashed in consciousness by psychedelics, as alien art: aesthetic productions of an unknown, hence alien, source. Whether the alien is an unknown (normally unconscious) aspect of the Self, an Other,
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Read MoreFebruary 5, 2012 Category: alien language, ayahuasca, conlanging, consciousness, entities, hallucinations, interspecies communication, LSD, magic mushrooms, metaprogramming, novelty, Psychedelics, the Other 4 Comments
