Trippy Sidenote

Wilson writes:

This entire process [of structure emerging out of the consciousness of the
infant] is analyzed in G. Spencer Brown's Laws of Form; and Brown was writing
about the foundations of mathematics and logic. But every sensitive reader knows
that Brown is also talking about a process we have all passed through in
creating, out of an infinite ocean of signals, those particular constructs we
call "myself" and "my world." Not surprisingly, many acid-heads have said that
Brown's math is the best description ever written of an LSD trip.

As it turns out, I bought a copy of Laws of Form for about 45 cents at a used bookstore in Philadelphia that went out of business a few months ago. I was in a hurry at the time, and added it to my pile of books because the back jacket said that Brown was a student of Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, and R. D. Laing. I can read Wittgenstein with all the comprehension skills of a tube of toothpaste, but I positively love R.D. Laing. I'll definitely blog here about some of his ridiculously fascinating existential explanations of schizophrenia. Also on the back of Laws of Form is a strong endorsement by Alan Watts, whom I consider the biggest influence in my way of thinking.

Nevertheless, I got the book home, opened it up, and was shocked to find a book full of mathematical equations. However, now that I've uncovered this little hint from Wilson, I'll revisit Laws of Form and see if it's digestable as philosophical material for people who don't do LSD.

Which reminds me, kids at home: DON'T DO LSD. I've never done it, but I've heard horror stories. The Unabomber was first a math genius at Harvard and then he took LSD under the supervision of Timothy Leary, and he went fucking insane. (I'm not making this up.) LSD turns free-loving hippies into Manson Family crazies. The point I'm trying to make is that Be Your Own Graduate School highly endorses taking trips by means of reading trippy philosophical texts. That's what riding with the Heady Carpool is all about. But it 100% denounces taking trips by means of dangerous drugs.

Coming up:

-Heady Carpool moves through some notorious mathematical equations in Laws of Form
-I make more of an effort to meditate
-Possible guarded speculation about the internet mirroring evolving consciousness
-Let's all of us do the Exercizes in Chapter Two (it's the typical Ponder Your Navel intensified)
-Chapter Three: Our very first circuit! The Oral Bio-Survival Circuit. Freud lays down the foundation, some primatologists make us feel humble, and G.I. Gurdjieff yells at mankind for falling asleep on the job. Stay tuned, people!