For those interested, here's my talk, "What is it like to be a Machine Elf?" from Breaking Convention 2015 last month...  https://vimeo.com/136079047
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Very nice! I really liked your energy during your presentation! I also loved the connection you made about how our sober brains are essentially filtering out any sort of possible alien realities that may exist. But introduce DMT to the brain and all the walls are broken down and we are suddenly experiencing the seemingly impossible. Very methodical and well thought out presentation! I greatly enjoyed it and will likely watch it again to catch anything I may have missed! Thank you for sharing! Edit: Just noticed your avatar... Epic! New to The Nexus? Check These Out: One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
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Very nice presentation, laughing cat! You have a very clear and engaging way of presenting quite a complex subject. I really enjoyed that, thank you!
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Thanks dude! 
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I enjoyed your presentation and will comb through your writings when the sun dawns! I wish you well in your future endeavors and can't wait to watch your future presentations! '"ALAS,"said the mouse, "the world is growing smaller every day. At the
beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad
when at last I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have
narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner
stands the trap that I must run into." "You only need to change your direction," said
the cat, and ate it up.' --Franz Kafka
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To be honest, much of this does not resonate for me with the context of my own DMT experiences, but that could just be my own interpretation of the data. I don't see machine elves, never have and perhaps never will..I would not know what a machine elf even is. I have met beings, but it happens more with psilocybin and they are fully animated things that engage me in narratives etc.. There is far far more going on for me with tryptamines and I see much of this stuff as surface level, compared to a lot of the stuff not mentioned so often in pop culture when DMT is discussed. Interesting talk though. Long live the unwoke.
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I hear ya and you're not alone! To be honest, the talk wasn't really about machine elves in particular - it was just a pithy title referencing Nagel's "What is it like to be a bat?". But, actually, I was talking about all entities seen during the DMT experience and considering the question of whether or not they might be conscious, as an alternative to the usual question of whether or not they are 'real'.....
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yeah..that makes sense to me. I don't find the real/unreal debate all that interesting at this point. I think it actually tends to miss the point at times.. I often think about aspects of the self as being some kind of other, from the perspective of the waking conscious self. They might as well be. I don't feel like I am generating them, so if some part of my nervous system is, than what does that say about me in relation to my whole system and it's processes? Where is the "I" in all of this, and where does that self begin and where does it end within that system? Can I really call all of it "me"?..If so, why? Why can I say a part of that system is me, but not refer to parts of the the larger system(s), like trees as "me" as well? ...I dunno... boggles my mind. Long live the unwoke.
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i enjoyed that, cheers laughingcat, good work  INHALE, SURVIVE, ADAPT it's all in your mind, but what's your mind??? fool of the year
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The presentation was quite interesting and exciting!  I enjoyed your level of engagement with what you had to present via the audience. That's something not a lot of people can do. Well done. 'What's going to happen?' 'Something wonderful.'
Skip the manual, now, where's the master switch?
We are interstellar stardust, the re-dox co-factors of existence. Serve the sacred laws of the universe before your time comes to an end. Oh yes, you shall be rewarded.
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Something that I have long reflected on that you have at the center of your talk involves the "consensual" interaction that we have with the entities. I have found the term of "consensual reality" to be a bit of a misnomer because in these instances, consensuality seems relative. When I smoke DMT in the room with someone else, the other person may not be aware of the entities, but it doesn't mean that we (the entities and I) are not aware of each other, and it stands to reason that we are aware of each other. If I might nitpick at the same point, I am curious what the entities' awareness of our physical surroundings and of others in the environment might be. What I might glean from your talk is that I think that you believe they are unaware of these things, but they are quite "physically" affected by the surroundings regardless of their awareness of it. In other words, the size of the room I am in matters. The room is like a container for the experience, which correlates to closed-eye visions as well. In a small room, everything is upclose, and packed together. In a larger room, everything is spaced out accordingly. The physical clutter in the room provides obstacles for them, which they tend to circumvent rather than faze through. I have never seen them directly engage with other people, but then again, I find that without others bound by their awareness, they don't stand much to gain by trying to interact with them. Perhaps in your model, they might be aware of your physical surroundings for so long as you are aware of theirs. "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind" - Albert Einstein
"The Mighty One appears, the horizon shines. Atum appears on the smell of his censing, the Sunshine- god has risen in the sky, the Mansion of the pyramidion is in joy and all its inmates are assembled, a voice calls out within the shrine, shouting reverberates around the Netherworld." - Egyptian Book of the Dead
"Man fears time, but time fears the Pyramids" - 9th century Arab proverb
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