When we really understand time travel we may find out it's as common as dirt and has been going on all around us is all kinds of physical processes.
This is the key. If you get into deep water with these substances, this is true of psilocybin as well, you don't want to clench, you don't want to assume the fetal position and stop breathing. You want to sit up straight and breathe, and sing, and sing it back, and it will step back. You can take control of your situation ... most of the time.
At still higher doses psilocybin triggers this activity in the language-forming capacity of the brain that manifests as song and vision. Psilocybin may have synergized the emergence of higher forms of psychic organization out of primitive protohuman animals. It can be seen as a kind of evolutionary enzyme, or evolutionary catalyst.
What you call man is time.
Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!
That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with.
The data stream has been corrupted, return to first principles.
One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.
The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.
There will be difficult moments in a five-gram trip, but on the other hand certain questions will be solved forever for you, because you will validate the existence of this dimension. You will see what your relationship to it is.
We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer.
Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the momentum of the historical process, to halt nuclear proliferation, germ warfare, infantile 19th century politics, all these things. It cannot be accomplished through a frontal assault upon it by political means.
Culture is another dimension.
And so, these are the things, the exploration of which, the singing about of which, makes us human beings. The exploration of the universe of the unseen is the business of human beings.
It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable.
It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it is.
Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century.
If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.
Ayahuasca, unlike mushrooms and all these other things is only as good as the person who made it. . . . The ayahuasca is a combinatory drug, and so it brings the human interaction and the lore of it into a much more central position.
I don't think that mass drug taking is a good idea. But I think that we must have a deputized minority, a shamanic professional class if you will, whose job is to bring ideas out of the deep black water and show them off to the rest of us and perform for our culture some of the cultural functions that shaman perform in pre-literate cultures.
The Gaian process is more than a process. It is s self-reflecting entelechy of some sort.
I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are powerful but this isn't mysticism in the ordinary sense to be protected by mumblings about faith and all that. This is the real thing.
History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.
I'm meeting my obligations, somehow, always have, without ever truly working, without ever putting my shoulder to the wheel for the man. Of course I had to deal dope to do this!
This is where I think the psychedelics come in because they are anticipations of the future. They seem to channel information that is not strictly governed by the laws of normal causality. So that there really is a prophetic dimension, a glimpse of the potential of the far centuries of the future through these compounds.
