Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Psychedelic Science | Dr. Dennis McKenna | EP 299" video.

Existence is hierarchically structured; hierarchy is "legality". Hierarchy operates in both directions, top-down (differentiation), and bottom-up (integration). By the universal tendency of association, everything complexifies, or "entitizes". Psychological patterns are composed of, mostly social, memory complexes. What's most important to consider is the birth event's initiation of this patterning.
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Why can't you "possibly know" everything?! The "demonic forces" angle is very problematic. This sort of discussion/thinking would benefit from a focus on the experience of the own "birth event". The typically traumatic value of the birth event is preeminently formative of the character of the life experience proceeding from that time. The requirements of symbol translation are permanent stresses of the human system.
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At 45:00, Jordan says, "One of sources of creativity might be the capacity of the human imagination to generate fictional personalities"...as in dreams. From my perspective that's an inconvenient assumption, that the imagination generates fictional personalities. Full explanation follows the assumption that these "fictional personalities" are actually memory complexes, recollections of persons/personalities previously encountered. Such complexes may be assembled spontaneously for special use, or over long periods, resulting in a degree of autonomy for the complex. Low-level complexes, developing most completely at birth and in early life, those involving physical experience, sensation, body function, physics, operate virtually automatically to offer to awareness state information, which can then be used by awareness to form a contact, by self-identification. The high-level complexes are the personal favorites; the ideas that occupy the spirit, the sense of self...what you LIKE, but for no discernible reason. These are the ideas, or thought generators you habitually operate, especially, testing them in various scenarios. This is what occupies your awareness when it's idle.
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"Impending Mortality"...Maybe the basic benefit of end-of-life psychedelic experience is the attendant nervous system exhaustion. Anxiety is a moderate level of excitation that becomes chronic, capturing nervous energy in a self-contained cycle of expression--a "complex". The exhaustion of this excitation energy resets the system. The psychedelic expression of the experience is liable to engender various symbol translation motifs that can be interpreted "spiritually", such as a vision of God. Seems, though, from the moment of birth we learn to expect continuance; one moment is followed by another and another, inexorably. Then, eventually, we "learn" to expect an end to continuance, inducing a certain cognitive dissonance in relation to the totality of our experience of perpetual continuance, and a certain trepidation at the prospect of "non-existence".
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