I mean, think about... and I don't think you
could discover consciousness if you didn't
perturb it, because as Marshall McLuhan said,
"whoever discovered water, it certainly wasn't
a fish".
Well, we are fish swimming in consciousness;
and yet we know it's there.
Well, the reason we know it's there is because
if you perturb it, then you see it; and you
perturb it by perturbing the engine which
generates it, which is the mind/brain system
resting behind your eyebrows.
If you swap out the ordinary chemicals that
are running that system in an invisible fashion,
then you see: it's like dropping ink into
a bowl of clear water -- suddenly the convection
currents operating in the clear water become
visible, because you see the particles of
ink tracing out the previously invisible dynamics
of the standing water.
The mind is precisely like that, and the psychedelic
is like a dye-marker being dropped into this
aqueous system.
And then you say, "Oh, I see -- it works like
this... and like this.
