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I don’t get the chills often, but I was watching Riding Giants on my hdtv and saw footage of when Laird Hamilton rode this now famous wave in Tahiti… I got one of those “holy shit” moments. These are pictures of the wave:

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Douglas Rushkoff has done a couple of documentaries for PBS on how the media affects our lives on a daily basis. He gave a talk last year in a bookstore in NYC with another fellow and during this he talked about open source reality. I watched the video, all two hours of it, and then I watched it again a couple of days later when the idea’s they had been talking about started to make more sense. I took the time to transcribe Rushkoff’s introduction because it really made sense and I wanted to be able to refer to it. If you have some free time I would suggest reading it:

“Its funny oddly enough i wasn’t prepared to talk about psychedelics but I may as well. for me the most illuminating thing about taking psychedelics was the insight that i had been living in a particular reality tunnel, right, and that had been constructed for me and some of it has been constructed by myself and we all have been living in these reality tunnels and there are ways you can remove some of the filters, some of the constructs in order to see, or at least see second hand through the chemical.. that theres a whole bunch of different way of looking at things. And it sent me on a mission, ever since college when I had these experiences, to help people get that the reality that we’re living in is much more up for grabs than most of us acknowledge on a daily basis. That, to use the programming metaphor, that reality is open-source, and that if you learn the code through which its programmed then you can be a reality programmer rather than just a user. And that we walk around in our daily life mistaking a lot of whats actually software, for hardware.

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