Mind Meld 151 | The Map Is Not the Territory with Jeremy Johnson
THIRD EYE DROPS
Michael Phillip, SpectreVision Radio
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2019
⏱️ 97 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Third eye drops are intended for open-minded adults. |
| 0:03.7 | Now administering third eye drops. Good day my friends tremendous to tickle you with this transmission, as it always is. |
| 0:28.9 | If you interface with this media vessel often, you know I've got some go-to phrases. |
| 0:35.2 | Some of them are purposeful go-tos, some of them are accidental unconscious mutterings I'm sure but one of those |
| 0:47.5 | purposeful go-tos aside from using the verb skeet too often. I mean come on it's it's a highly ludicrous |
| 1:00.1 | underused word we got to breathe some life back into skeet. We got to skeet some life back into skeet. I'm sorry. |
| 1:08.0 | But one of my purposeful go-tos is the phrase, the map is not the territory. I don't know how many times I've said it. |
| 1:17.5 | I believe I first heard Robert Anton Wilson say it. I think I may have also heard Terence McKenna say it. I think I may have also heard Terrence McKenna say it, I'm not sure, but after a few |
| 1:26.9 | click-a-eclacks I determined where the phrase actually originated with Alfred Corbinski, a Polish-American scholar who apparently |
| 1:38.0 | Robert Anton Wilson was a huge fan of, hence his use of it and upon perusing his Wikipedia page thoroughly |
| 1:50.1 | for about 20 seconds I I was blasted with a gem that made it pretty clear where |
| 1:57.3 | Corbinski's head was that when he came up with that phrase. It says, quote, no one can have direct access to reality, given |
| 2:08.5 | that the most we can know is that which is filtered through the brain's responses to reality. |
| 2:17.0 | Hence, his best known dictum, the map is not the territory. |
| 2:22.0 | I am so glad that Corbinski was talking about reality at large |
| 2:27.9 | when he said that phrase. It makes it that much better. So in other words we confuse the symbols with the world |
| 2:36.1 | itself as Alan Watts says. We're unable to separate our metaphorical interpretation of a thing with the actual thing itself. |
| 2:49.3 | But there's an even more delicious wonder dip here because I was thinking about it and there are two very |
| 2:56.7 | different types of maps with two totally distinct purposes. There are analytical ones that require like grammatical |
| 3:09.1 | precision, say in math, math, science, or coding, |
| 3:15.0 | it's probably going to do you a lot of good |
| 3:17.0 | to really familiarize yourself |
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