tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1438289051411770399.post1041582559899403756..comments2024-03-28T09:51:55.365-06:00Comments on ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: Freud's Brain on DMT?Timothy Mortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05067377804366363020noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1438289051411770399.post-52102046203089669042011-08-16T13:03:48.298-05:002011-08-16T13:03:48.298-05:00"Freud could not have known this since DMT wa..."Freud could not have known this since DMT was only synthesized in 1931."<br /><br />Hmm, most likely Freud's daemon letting him in on things, just like Jung's did. They can be clever... Since they're supposedly associated with the right-side of the brain and therefore bear a non-verbal handicap, they'll find other ways of communicating, such as using dreams. Anthony Peake has done some fascinating work on theorizing the daemon and its role/appearance in various phenomena: out-of-body and near-death experiences, temporal lobe epilepsy, schizophrenia, deja-vu, precognition, and even doppelgangers. Although the last category doesn't usually tend to bode well for its recipients; Shelley saw his own double a week before he went on his fatal boating trip in Italy...Petrushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11649628235333856609noreply@blogger.com