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An Earnest Attempt to Free the Self
Informed by years of lived struggle, frontline work in ambulances and psychiatric units, and a relentless search for what is most true, Shangri-La is a poetic and penetrating work of spiritual philosophy for those still seeking answers to their deepest questions.
Unshielded, expansive, and confrontational, it blends philosophy, psychology, mystical insight, and inner adventure into an implosive work designed to shatter self-limiting beliefs.
You don't need doors to open if you break down the walls.
Mystical Mushroom Musings is a brief, raw work of psychedelic philosophy and spiritual memoir, written from the unstable edge between ego dissolution and return. Through journal fragments, mystical insight, dark humor, existential terror, and recursive loops of thought, Tor Syvrud (written under the pseudonym Søren Sørenson) records what happens when the constructed self cracks open and glimpses both madness and liberation. It is not a guidebook, not a polished doctrine, and not a celebration of psychedelics as an easy path. It is a concentrated artifact of awakening: dangerous, funny, vulnerable, profane, and strangely tender.
Contents
Part I: In Filth it Shall be Found
Part II: Fuck the Game
Part III: A Sliver of Liberation
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This paper synthesizes developmental models of psychology with foundational paradigms of theoretical physics to propose a novel framework that highlights the contingent nature of all models. In doing so, the model proposed implies the undermining of models as such. A developmental progression is presented from the classical mechanics of modernity to the relativistic mechanics of postmodernity to the quantum black hole dynamics of metamodernity. Each paradigm is revealed to be partially true within its context and depth (scale) of application. Through revealing a fractal, mirrored interconnection between micro and macro frameworks, quantum mechanics and black hole dynamics are understood to be symmetrical and deeply interrelated phenomenon. The implication is that discoveries in either realm, recontextualized for scale, will lead to a deeper understanding of the other. Two appendices are included. The first connects the implications of the Un-Unified Theory to the possibility of a free clean energy revolution, and the second provides further details on the fractal nature of the model. Finally, an “Exploration Space” is appended with the intent of sharing working theories and ideas for the purposes of collaboration.