“Messages from beyond” are forms of information, and information is a trickster

Information is low on the totem pole of consciousness, just a notch up from raw data and a leg up from total noise. In contrast to knowledge or wisdom or understanding—which, we imagine, well up from within or slowly blossom with time and diligence—information comes in discrete packages of data, signals bursting from without. Information is perhaps the most worldly (even "fallen") form of knowledge—newspaper listings, messages scrawled on match-books, coded satellite transmissions, as well as maps of systems, astrological...

But what if the medium is the message?

Information is low on the totem pole of consciousness, just a notch up from raw data and a leg up from total noise. In contrast to knowledge or wisdom or understanding—which, we imagine, well up from within or slowly blossom with time and diligence—information comes in discrete packages of data, signals bursting from without. Information is perhaps the most worldly (even "fallen") form of knowledge—newspaper listings, messages scrawled on match-books, coded satellite transmissions, as well as maps of systems, astrological...

Terminal. What other journey, you might ask, begins at the end?

Information is low on the totem pole of consciousness, just a notch up from raw data and a leg up from total noise. In contrast to knowledge or wisdom or understanding—which, we imagine, well up from within or slowly blossom with time and diligence—information comes in discrete packages of data, signals bursting from without. Information is perhaps the most worldly (even "fallen") form of knowledge—newspaper listings, messages scrawled on match-books, coded satellite transmissions, as well as maps of systems, astrological...

There is a difference between psychedelic experiences and psychedelic people

Information is low on the totem pole of consciousness, just a notch up from raw data and a leg up from total noise. In contrast to knowledge or wisdom or understanding—which, we imagine, well up from within or slowly blossom with time and diligence—information comes in discrete packages of data, signals bursting from without. Information is perhaps the most worldly (even "fallen") form of knowledge—newspaper listings, messages scrawled on match-books, coded satellite transmissions, as well as maps of systems, astrological...

It is too close, too far-out, its sacred transmissions too muddled with the scandalous grit of its concrete historical unfoldment

Information is low on the totem pole of consciousness, just a notch up from raw data and a leg up from total noise. In contrast to knowledge or wisdom or understanding—which, we imagine, well up from within or slowly blossom with time and diligence—information comes in discrete packages of data, signals bursting from without. Information is perhaps the most worldly (even "fallen") form of knowledge—newspaper listings, messages scrawled on match-books, coded satellite transmissions, as well as maps of systems, astrological...