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Fields medalist Voevodsky on his "spiritual" experiences. From an obscure-ish Russian interview (which I used DeepL to translate) https://t.co/JZUyFbVDRY
what he means by "beings" intensity of experiences https://t.co/4SK2LUuUOZ
dissatisfaction with hypotheses people offered him [reminding me strongly of Robert Anton Wilson] interesting phrase: "game whose host is fear" his search for biographies of people with similar experiences. Mostly only found Jung. https://t.co/GXFXKkWgrN
on not getting sucked into a crazy theory https://t.co/C7tU1oMf0X
on sensory clarity (in Shinzen's sense), maybe some emptiness would overall love to see Shinzen's reaction to this whole interview (knowing that he had the same situation). If someone could show it to him it would be awesome https://t.co/WL9Ila4vtp
This part is hard to make it (for me), but it appears to be about working with "intuitions" that come from "spirits" (Muses?) Importance of letting these "seeds" grow, dangers of trusting them naively https://t.co/clYNjwrNxD
when asked to give his best theory for his experiences: non-human "minds" which ought to be able to be studied in a natural-scientific way https://t.co/YawhajVb3s
his ideas for studying Jung's "synchronicity" scientifically https://t.co/XuxO0XQrra
studying synchronicity continued https://t.co/mh235HWtaf
whether he believe he's lost his mind https://t.co/pi9sMmYSF7
Links to part 1 and 2 of the interview, archived, in Russian https://t.co/L5o1ZMBuNI https://t.co/Cy3hPb6IZ0