Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto...

"Modern science is characterized by its ever-increasing specialization, necessitated by the enormous amount of data, the complexity of techniques and of theoretical structures within every field. Thus science is split into innumerable disciplines continually generating new subdisciplines. In consequence, the physicist, the biologist, the psychologist and the social scientist are, so to speak, encapusulated in their private universes, and it is difficult to get word from one cocoon to the other..." - Ludwig Von Bertalanffy.


This is kind of where I began my thoughts on this blog, seeing as I was so moved by the other quote from Ludwig Von Bertalanffy. I find it suitable that we are delving into science, as it would be, but more so “true” science, i.e. the science of the mind (if there is such a thing). I love how Pearce points out the idea of the mind being the “mirror of the universe.” We have been talking in some of my communication classes about how television and movies are not reliable realities but interpretations of the real world. It all began with the idea that media is no longer a mirror but a medium that is actually doing the constructing (or distorting the reflection). If you think about it, no camera, or film can ever capture a real moment, even if it’s just you and the camera. It is capturing its moment, from its perspective, from its frame of reference, from its use of lighting, from its transcription onto film, etc, etc, etc. However, what I am getting at is how our minds truly can be the mirrors of the universe and although we cannot capture moments, as McKenna pointed out; we can use our minds for “the exteriorization of the soul, and the interiorization of the body.”


The mind in a way can never be understood by us, or captured for the sake of examination, it is truly “a fourth dimensional organ of the body.” The mind is a medium, not an object, and we must use it externalize the desires of our soul and internalize the actions of our bodies. As McKenna alludes, we need to drop these belief systems which originated at times where people needed something to believe in and concentrate on living in the moment. Everyone today is obsessed with capturing their life on film, or in pictures, as if looking at them sometime will recreate that time of life. It won’t. That type of thinking only reinforces the societal norms and pretenses. There needs to be an appreciation of the present and a departure from the past (and past beliefs) where in we are focused on a progression toward a society unhindered by its own constructs.


As far as the science is concerned, it seems to have become a business centered around “fact” and is only willing to discuss that which it can justify. The facts it presents follow a linear model and many of the realities in our world are not linear. Therein lies the problem and the inability of science to understand the world as a whole. We can no longer see the world as just pieces of a puzzle. These scientists are content analyzing their portion of the world without regarding the scale at which the world functions and the level at which human beings are capable of experiencing it.

(Oh and as far as Law Enforcement is concerned, some creeper caught me smoking on campus and took my name and id# down, so now i have to look over my shoulder everytime i light up, thanks PSU Security!)