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Yes – the animated background is actually my brain. A friend who was magna cum laude at Yale scanned my brain circa 2000 and found nothing wrong.
The old Brainmachines site was intentionally byzantine in its navigation. The site was up 1996 to 2006, when the URL was changed to Tranceam.org.
Why We Push the Envelope
Taking conscious risk involves overcoming our instincts. No other animal intentionally puts itself in peril. The human race is particularly risk taking compared with other species.
Risk takers include the Type T personality, and the U.S. as a Type T nation, as opposed to more risk-averse nations like Japan.
Type T physical includes extreme athletes and Type T intellectual include Albert Einstein, Terrence McKenna, Karl Jansen, Naotto Hattori, and Galileo.
There is also Type T negative, that is, those who are drawn to bad haircuts, delinquency, crime, hedonistic descent into drug addiction, unprotected sex and a whole litany of destructive behaviors.
All these Type Ts are related, and perhaps even different aspects of the same character trait.
There is a direct link between Einstein and BASE jumper Chance McGuire. They are different manifestations of the thrill-seeking component of our characters: Einstein was thrilled by his mental life, and McGuire–well, Chance jumps off buildings.
The question is, How much is enough? Without some expression of risk, we may never know our limits and therefore who we are as individuals.
“If you don’t assume a certain amount of risk,” says paraglider pilot Wade Ellet, 51, “you’re missing a certain amount of life.”
And it is by taking risks that we may flirt with greatness. We create technologies, we make new discoveries, we enhance the concrescence of reality, but in order to do that, we have to push beyond the set of rules that are governing us at that time.
Western communities are very happy to challenge and stretch themselves physically – in fact, this is considered a very healthy and acceptable activity – but investigating the depths of the mind in a similarly extreme way can be considered illegal, if not heretical.
However, one could consider the rhythmic transcendentalism of trance the bungey jump of the mind.
