/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10523178]

Is it going to suck?

[Anonymous No.10523189]

>>10523178
yep
i probably won't read it

[Anonymous No.10523205]

I can't really take Tao seriously on this subject. He just seems so new to psychedelics after being a xanax zombie for his young life, suddenly he's discovered these and jumped right into the stupid end of the greenpill. Just makes him seem like an idiot.

[Anonymous No.10523212]

>>10523205
He is an idiot lol. Thats part of the fun!

[Anonymous No.10523217]

>>10523205
What is the greenpill anon?

[Anonymous No.10523219]

>>10523212
I think it's disappointing and undermines everything he's previously written that at least had the mystique of possibly being ironic and/or intelligent.

[Anonymous No.10523225]

>>10523219
Have you seen any of his interviews? He's not hiding that he's retarded.

[Anonymous No.10523229]

>>10523178
Quality of the book is directly linked to the quality of the last post Carles has made.

[Anonymous No.10523230]

>>10523217
There are Green/Brown pills who take it too seriously, a bit David Icke, a bit Alec Jones and there are the Green/Brown pills who see the joke, a bit Alan Watts, a bit Robert Anton Wilson. Tao's falling into the former camp.

[Anonymous No.10523514]

>>10523178
Lol this dude is posting in terence mckenna groups on facebook now

[Anonymous No.10523520]

>>10523229
whatever happened to hipster runoff

[Anonymous No.10523534]

>>10523219
this is definitely still ironic but just a higher level of irony

[Anonymous No.10523542]

>>10523534
I don't believe that. He's gone back to sincerity.

[Anonymous No.10523553]

Never read of him outside of /lit/ memeing but this looks interesting, might give it a shot

[Anonymous No.10523604]

>>10523217
LSD CHANGED MY LIFE

[Anonymous No.10523610]

>One form of damage is glyphosate. Glyphosate is the main ingredient in the corporation Monsanto’s product Roundup, which people use to kill “weeds.” Monsanto began selling it in 1974 and now it’s the most used pesticide on Earth and is probably in, I’ve estimated, more than 99.99% of people in the United States and is in most food and in water and air and rain and cigarettes and vaccines. Glyphosate makes plants and microbes unable to make three amino acids, including ones that mammals use to make opioids and dopamine and serotonin and DMT. So, because of glyphosate everyone is deficient in endorphins and other opiates and dopamine and serotonin and DMT and other compounds. Since I ate food that contained glyphosate for the first 30+ years of my life, if I avoid glyphosate from now on I’ll be better able to make endorphins and dopamine and hundreds of other compounds. With more endorphins, etc., I’ll have more energy and feel less depressed and be able to spend more hours per day writing with more creativity and focus. I’m optimistic on a personal level because, by avoiding damaging things I’ve habituated to in the past, like glyphosate and thousands of other things found in modern society, I can expect to feel better—less depressed, more motivated—over time.

What did he mean by this?

[Anonymous No.10523614]

>name of previous book on cover
he's done for

[Anonymous No.10523620]

>>10523610
What the fuck? This is transcribed right

[Anonymous No.10523638]

>>10523620
No. This is a legit interview with from 5 months ago.

He also in this same interview recommended a book about how 9/11 was actually done by using "dustification", in which a top secret energy weapon which used "molecular dissociation and transmutation" to instantaneously evaporate 90% of the towers and their contents.

[Anonymous No.10523646]

>>10523178
It might be good, but I can't imagine him or anyone treading much better ground on psychological/scientific/literary exploration of psychedelics than Terence McKenna (who Tao has admitted to being influenced by).

[Anonymous No.10523651]

[Anonymous No.10523668]

>entire western canon at your finger tips
>at least one person on this board will read this
>he'll tell himself he's doing it ironically

[Anonymous No.10523705]

tao lin 2010: my gchat conversations are 'art'

tao lin 2013: xanax klonopin MDMA percocet adderall

tao lin 2014: I did not statutory rape her, it's not true, I did not

tao lin 2017: vaccines caused 9/11

[Anonymous No.10523826]

>>10523178

go to bed tao

[Anonymous No.10523865]

>>10523604
More like lsd heightened my schizophrenia

[Anonymous No.10524087]

2018 is not a good time to bring psychedelics off of the backburner, where they've been calmly stewing since the late 70s.

We're more confused than we were in 1968. A dash of worldview-shattering liquid acid only adds to the frenetic competition of ideas that the internet has unleashed: it will make us less certain than ever about who we are and what's going on in our world.

[Muck Bulligan !!ryE2gEjGbpu No.10524371]

>>10523178
i don't know, but it's going to be entertaining. i'm looking forward to it

>>10524087
>worldview-shattering liquid acid
you should try actually doing drugs

[Anonymous No.10524561]

>>10523668
I'm doing it sincerely :^)
>>10523705
True. But he captures a sort of autistic angst I can identify with.
>>10523865
Autism and schizophrenia are opposite on the spectrum...

[Anonymous No.10524568]

>>10524371
>hasn't done a thumbprint yet
Top pleb

[Anonymous No.10524794]

>dude i'm just going to transcribe my g-chats and then change the name

fucking hack

[Anonymous No.10524940]

Terence McKenna is a dumb stoner meme. All McKenna YouTube lectures with mushroom background art link to "watch Joe Rogan pea brain get blown by scientist" tao is ten or fifteen years too old to be into this bs

[Anonymous No.10524943]

>>10524561
>But he captures a sort of autistic angst I can identify with.

Kill yourself

[Anonymous No.10525617]

the better book is being released 2 weeks later

[Anonymous No.10526571]

>>10523610
I was tempted to give it a go because I feel in the mood for some psychedelic /lit/, but if I wanted to read nonsense in that vein I'd just go to 420chan and find the most rambling, psychotic thread in the first handful of pages

[Anonymous No.10526605]

>>10523534
>lmao layers of irony my dude
pathetic

[Anonymous No.10526611]

>>10524087
I fear you might be right. Everyone should do acid, I'm, but only some people should actually do it.

[Anonymous No.10526650]

>>10523178
none of his books suck

[Anonymous No.10526799]

Anyone got some recs for psychedelic literature? I've done a couple of the entry level ones Fear and Loathing and Doors of Perception already.

[Anonymous No.10527120]

>>10526799
-The Teachings of Don Juan
-Wolfsong
-Taipei

[Anonymous No.10527556]

>>10526799
Rose of Paracelsus
Acid Dreams
Storming Heaven
The Great Stoned Age
PIHKAL
TIHKAL
Pharmako Gnosis

[Anonymous No.10528040]

>>10524943
>hating on autism
Why are you here?

[Anonymous No.10528088]

>>10526605
he is this shining beacon of a symptom of our era, like a cancerous tumor somehow glowing from chemotherapy

[Anonymous No.10528162]

honestly, the only people i can see reading books about psychedelics are people too afraid to touch them and those that wanna be in with the hippy crowd.

There are still times when ill be thinking about a trip and ill remember something that happened, that i had forgotten previously and it shatters some part of myself i thought was solid. The last thing i want to be doing is reading about someone elses trip.

[Anonymous No.10528192]

>>10525617
Ha!

Oh god it is true. BNW here we come. The boomers are finally going to do it just in time to off themselves.

Time to get your guru on and make mad cash.

I hear that shit does nothing that your brain can't already do with some secret techniques.

[Anonymous No.10528308]

>>10528162
>honestly, the only people i can see reading books about psychedelics...
sounds like a problem of personal vision

[Anonymous No.10529657]

>>10528162
t. le real psychonaut

[Anonymous No.10529663]

>>10528192
>secret techniques
The only secret is how the techniques are impervious to analysis...

[Anonymous No.10529808]

>>10528192
The techniques aren't secret

[Anonymous No.10529836]

>>10529808
reveal the methods then

[Anonymous No.10531262]

>>10527556
Cheers, only a couple there, the Shulgins, were on my list for next