if 6 was 9
I’d like to figure out an equation or a way of proving that the past is still in existence. I don’t mean in memory; I mean that anything that has been or will be is still lively in existence at this very moment.
I might have misunderstood Quantum Theory at first, or thinking about General Relativity; or I might have just been plain high or in a manic episode. But about a year ago, I was sitting in the basement of my dad’s house and I was starting to think about the idea of the 60’s happening at the same time as then, 2010.
I really thought about it, then I started listening to ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’ by Bob Dylan.
I heard that song like I had never heard it before. It was as if Bob Dylan was recording it at the same exact time as I was listening to it.
Actually, I think I might’ve thought about more of this when I was under the influence of mania or ‘acid’ when I was 20… I was just getting into the Nuggets compilation that came out by Rhino around that time. And just about when my mind started to take off to new dimensions, I remember playing a lot of the music from it. But what’s really funny, and very hard to portray, is how closely related a lot of the lyrics from Nuggets was to how I was feeling around that time.
The first song on the Nuggets (Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era) is the Electric Prunes’ ‘I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night’. And I couldn’t have put that week of new heights in better words. The lyrics from that song really capture what I was going through that first night. And listening to ‘Psychotic Reaction’ by the Count Five was another one that captured that moment and time completely.
It was very eerie actually, though exciting, to listen to that music then. I really had the feeling that they were writing and coming up with the ideas to the songs as I was going through that experience. It was a shattering concept of time to think that maybe it’s not A->B, such as pretty much everyone thinks. It was like I was in a mental cloud of euphoria and dreams (having this neurological breakdown) but that the Electric Prunes and Count Five were diggin’ the vibes of collective unconsciousness and then wrote the songs back in the 60’s that I was listening to in 2006. It was a fantastic feeling to think that time and existence could be just as fascinating as Back to the Future 2.
I think it’s a shame how narrow-minded and shallow so much of our culture and current times are. If you have something like Bi-Polar (or as it used to be called Manic Depression, which means pretty much the exact same thing), they’ll most likely want to sedate you to think just like everybody else.
If it wasn’t for Isaac Newton having been in a manic state of mind, and coming up with the law of gravity and so much of the foundation for classical physics, when he was 22; we wouldn’t have our little luxuries as cell phones, microwave ovens and automobiles. So it’s not surprising to me to wonder why we don’t have our flying cars like they did in the Jetsons, because our culture globally encourages limited creative thought and imagination. And they withhold psychedelic substances from us that would really free us from our perpetuating stagnant situation. I think I’m just starting to ramble now… but there’s got to be a change in ‘thinking’. People need to break away from conventional thought and take a journey to the center of their minds and realize that they’re being completely duped by bullshit politicians; before we really start to de-evolutionize…
“I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.”
- Albert Einstein
