Erasmo Calzadilla
HAVANA TIMES — In this post, I would like to share an image I dragged back from “beyond” during my last adventure with entheogens. We’ll be going scuba-diving into the depths of Being, so get ready.
A transversal cut across Being reveals its similarity to a planet: both are made up of a round outer crust and a red-hot core. Let us travel outwards from the inside.
At the very heart of Being, we find a point of boundless energy, a kind of metaphysical singularity that writhes in an endless struggle with itself. Neither time nor space nor any category we can think of survives the immense “pressure” of this region. Some call it hell, and it is indeed an infernal “place.”
As we move away from the furnace in which the world is being perpetually forged, we penetrate the magma. Tumultuous, dense and fluid, the magma shows us the first signs of “material” consistency. Contraries, categories and entities lie here in an embryonic state, but the intense “heat” prevents them from solidifying.
As we move further out, the “temperature” drops further. At one point, the magma crystallizes and breaks up into small “solid” and rigid units with well-defined edges. We have reached the crust. The stones wedged in the crust are the elements out of which “the world we live in” is made.
Because of their rock-hard and reifying nature, concepts are incapable of capturing the unstableness and fluidity that lies beneath them. When they attempt to do so, they stumble upon insurmountable paradoxes, like those attributed to Xenon. In the best of scenarios, reason manages to understand its own limitations and the necessity of a “beyond”, but it never manages to “see it.”
On the basis of the above, we can rethink some terms used in common parlance:
What did you think? Do you think I’ve gone off the deep end, that I’ve mocked you, that I’ve revealed a great mystery? Or do you rather just want to kill me?
I think it’s a suggestive image, provided we do not reify it.
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