whom would you have rather shared an 'altered state' with...

[bridgit]

Sun Tzu - http://www.kimsoft.com/polwar.htm

Paulo Solari - http://www.arcosanti.org

CG Jung - http://www.cgjungpage.org

Voltaire - http://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk

Stanislaw Lem - http://www.lem.pl/english/main.htm

Owsley Stanley - http://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/stanley_owsley/stanley_owsley.shtml

Philip K. Dick - http://www.philipkdick.com

Philip Glass - http://www.philipglass.com

Buddha - http://www.buddhanet.net

Other - http://www.other.org

[Call Me Wesley]

1. Since I had mine

with Jung, I go with Shakyamuni this time. ;)

[bridgit]

2. coolness...

:hi:

[Call Me Wesley]

3. That's exactly

how I felt! :hug:

[bridgit]

6. i know, we may feel we'd like to deal with people that are able to...

understand us...but looking right through us is another matter perhaps :scared: i'd seen your post the other day, just mentioning Jung as one of hubby (hubby in particular) & my favs :hug:

[Call Me Wesley]

14. I had the honor

to be a friend of one of his students.

:hug:

[bridgit]

17. honor indeed, he uses his 'man & symbol' stuff in practically all his...

artwork

[Call Me Wesley]

21. That's a wonderful book.

It was one of the first books I gave to Heidi, some years ago.

[bridgit]

22. so much more human than Freud = i love that pic CMW, i'm snagg'n it...

:thumbsup: :loveya: well, imo 'more human than' i should say B-)

[Call Me Wesley]

23. I agree.

His attempts also wen t deeper into a 'common consciousness' and how all is connected.

[bridgit]

26. YES! all that back & forth about cigars & stuffed teddy bears left...

little insight into the meta>physical architecture of the mind from top to bottom, and the little widgets in between so as to suggest; the myths & symbols contributing to the ways in which one may respond to 'the all of it'...

[In_The_Wind]

4. Can I have more than one please?

I mean one_at_a_time but it seems a shame to pass on meeting greatness. :hi:

[bridgit]

7. Joani, my sense is that we are required to do so from time to time...

:loveya:

[Sugar Smack]

5. Ohhh, NEAT!!!!!!

:bounce: :bounce: :applause: :applause: :applause: I said Buddha!!

This is SO much happier than my impossible poll!

[bridgit]

9. Sugar Smack!!!

:spank: O8) :loveya: :hippie: :toast:

[asthmaticeog]

8. I would trip with Voltaire.

That would be pretty amazing, I think.

[bridgit]

11. i'm appreciative of your choice...

:hi:

[asthmaticeog]

13. I'm appreciative of your appreciation.

:hi:

Wow, did you ever REEEEEEALY look at your haaaaaaand?

[bridgit]

15. por nada, and yes i did, i found out that i in fact knew it less well...

as i do the proverbial 'back of my hand' :rofl: although that is more sad than funny :cry:

[ghostsofgiants]

10. "With whom..."

If I was into the whole altered states thing, I'd probably go with Franz Kafka or David Lynch, maybe.

[bridgit]

12. my sense is that Lynch would himself induce an 'altered state'...

within then the attendee :thumbsup:

[Catchawave]

16. Goldie and Rose Anne Barr on Larry King this week....

I want what they're smoking :hi:

[bridgit]

18. i know, poor Goldie, i seen part of it and can't figure out how such

successful people end up wherever they are...guess i need to try being successful and see what it's all about :thumbsup:

[Draill]

19. I can't choose between

Jung and PKD. I'm tempted to want to share with both at the same time, but somehow I feel that would be very overwhelming.

Great poll!

[bridgit]

20. know the feeling...

:hi:

[Call Me Wesley]

24. Wow!

12 votes for Shakyamuni so far!

Stanislaw Lem's "The Invincible" was amongst the first sci-fi I read. I remember this one buying at a newspaper stand before my class went off to a holiday. I think I was 12 then. I just reread it the other week.

[bridgit]

27. in the end i am a solaris kind of a gal...

:loveya: Lem's writings :thumbsup:

[Call Me Wesley]

30. Never saw the new movie,

I'm still amazed by Tarkovski's "Solyaris." The initial shots of slowly swaying underwater plants ...

[bridgit]

32. well now there'ya see, i never seen Tarkovski's but have been meaning to..

http://www.solaristhemovie.com Soderbergh's solaris is vital for those who've read the work (great music, cinema all that) but skips certain of the intelligent & colloidal aspects of solaris that played so mesmerizingly in print, an entity mimicking us back; slowly at first, and then into & back out from our dreams where so many human foibles reside.

he makes that point in the book, to paraphrase: 'all we want from exploration is little more than a mirror in which to glimpse ourselves already there'

[Call Me Wesley]

33. I'll order the DVD.

But yes, I think Tarkovski was much closer on the issue. Of course, the space station didn't look as nifty as the new one. If you get a chance, see it.

[bridgit]

34. dude, you just gotta have a nifty spaceship even if you need to...

throw out 80% of the book :rofl: but i think you'll enjoy the new one, it's pretty cool B-)

[Call Me Wesley]

35. LOL!

Forget the book, just let ILM come up with nice CGI, and they'll eat out of our palms! (No, I'll watch it.) :rofl:

[bridgit]

36. heehee, that is plenty funny enough, though in the meantime i'll...

pickup Tarkovski's, i seen it over at Netflix & i'll pit it on our queue :thumbsup: :hug:

[bridgit]

28. that's a big ole W00't, for Shakyamuni, too...

W00't

[JitterbugPerfume]

25. Philip K Dick

IS an altered state

[bridgit]

29. Dick Kick...

sorry, i just had to do it :hi: but you are right, Philip was a tripper of the 1st order :thumbsup:

[JitterbugPerfume]

31. LOL

:toast: :hi: