For those interested in writing better trip reports there is a “Guide to Writing Rigorous Reports of Exotic States of Consciousness” at https://qri.org/blog/rigorous-reports
A trip report is an especially hard case of something one can write about:
english does not have a well-developed vocabulary for exotic states of consciousness
even if we made up new words, they might not make much sense to people that have not experienced what they point at, just like it’s hard to describe color to blind people or to project a high-dimensional thing to a lower dimensional space.
For those interested in writing better trip reports there is a “Guide to Writing Rigorous Reports of Exotic States of Consciousness” at https://qri.org/blog/rigorous-reports
A trip report is an especially hard case of something one can write about:
english does not have a well-developed vocabulary for exotic states of consciousness
even if we made up new words, they might not make much sense to people that have not experienced what they point at, just like it’s hard to describe color to blind people or to project a high-dimensional thing to a lower dimensional space.