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From Lao Tzu: wei wu wei ce wu bu zhi --
act without acting and nothing will be out of order.
Simultaneously giving birth and becoming born, action emerges at an aleatory point where ordinary opinion (doxa) completely breaks down, where para-dox irrupts.
For Foucault, the value of psychedelics (particularly LSD) is not that they disclose the truth of being (or the being of truth, or any other perennial wisdom), but that they de-stratify one's action so that the advent of paradox interrupts the ontological and epistemological conventions of truth and falsity. Similarly, Fitzgerald spoke of a "crack up" that Deleuze has integrated into his homage to psychedelia, and Castaneda spoke of a crack that disturbs the egg-like peace of one's conventional sense of events.
To recapitulate: Lao Tzu, (non)action as an aleatory point of the paradoxical event, (non)action as psychedelia, Foucault, Deleuze (Fitzgerald), Castaneda. This is postmodern psychedelia, psychedelia after the subject -- inventive acts of a body without organs.
act without acting and nothing will be out of order.
Simultaneously giving birth and becoming born, action emerges at an aleatory point where ordinary opinion (doxa) completely breaks down, where para-dox irrupts.
For Foucault, the value of psychedelics (particularly LSD) is not that they disclose the truth of being (or the being of truth, or any other perennial wisdom), but that they de-stratify one's action so that the advent of paradox interrupts the ontological and epistemological conventions of truth and falsity. Similarly, Fitzgerald spoke of a "crack up" that Deleuze has integrated into his homage to psychedelia, and Castaneda spoke of a crack that disturbs the egg-like peace of one's conventional sense of events.
To recapitulate: Lao Tzu, (non)action as an aleatory point of the paradoxical event, (non)action as psychedelia, Foucault, Deleuze (Fitzgerald), Castaneda. This is postmodern psychedelia, psychedelia after the subject -- inventive acts of a body without organs.