Greetings from Cyberdelic Space, this is Lorenzo and I'm your host here in the
 psychedelic salon. Today's program is the conclusion of the
 trilogue between Terrence McKenna, Ralph Abraham and Rupert Sheldrake on the
 topic of entities. Earlier today I was thinking about what Terrence said in one
 of the recent programs about the fact that the discussions they were having
 weren't just frivolous conversations but that they were serious investigations
 into topics that the majority of people seldom think about and are rarely
 discussed in public. And that I think is one of the things that's so appealing
 about these trilogues. The fact that the three of them were willing to be
 so public about such speculative issues I think is really impressive. And the
 reason I mention that is so that near the end of today's program when Rupert
 Sheldrake begins talking about how our current system of civilization is now
 devouring the Amazon rainforest, well if you can, pause there for a moment and
 give some serious thought to what he has just been talking about. At least for me
 it brought about an aha moment of understanding how important these big
 picture metaphysical concepts may actually be in playing roles here in our
 physical world. One other thing that you might want to think about is when you
 hear Ralph Abraham talking about human prehistory in the intergalacial period
 hundreds of thousands of years ago, particularly the point where he talks
 about the interior life of early humans. Right there is where I think Graham
 Hancock's book that I referred to in the last podcast comes in. The book is
 titled Supernatural, Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind. And in it he
 reports on the current state of our understanding about prehistoric cave art
 and I think this new book may fill in some of the gaps that Ralph mentions.
 With that we'll get right into the second side of tape six of the trilogue
 with Terrence McKenna, Ralph Abraham and Rupert Sheldrake that was held at
 Esalen in 1989 or 1990. The set of ten tapes weren't really clear about which
 year they were recorded only that it was either 89 or 90 so take your pick.
 Anyhow we'll begin by first listening to a few minutes from the end of the last
 podcast which was of the first side of the tape titled Entities.
 ...incenses that were to be burned...
 Yes, I'll tell you the history of that. You probably know it. A.E. Wade is derived from the Enochian.
 The Enochian is the revelation to John Dee of an earlier magic and when we
 look in the literature of the pre-christian Jews in Jerusalem and
 especially in Alexandria there we find the Markava mysticism. In heaven, you know,
 there's the seventh heaven. I mean seventh heaven. Actually there are eight
 heavens according to the Markava mystics. These are visualized as kind of
 concentric spheres and this is a particular visualization of the spirit
 of the logos of the elastic medium between here and the end of the great
 chain of being, the one God. So in the eighth heaven you have God in his own
 castle, in his own chambers, and along the way there are these chariots, you know,
 with the wheels that go this way and this way and then there's the being
 that's holding up the chariot which has four faces, one facing in each direction,
 the lion and so on, and then there's, to get into the chariot, there are the four
 gates and each gate has four, eight guardians, four on each side and you have
 to repeat each of them with a word, with an instance, and all of this was revealed to
 travelers who were doing their best to be ambassadors. They were going out to
 bring back the necessary knowledge for our evolution and one by one successive
 generations and they wrote down, they kept their records, and they had their
 specific means of traveling which involved putting your head between your
 knees in a dark room in the basement for which reason they spoke of going down to
 the chariot instead of going up to the chariot which was envisioned in the sky.
 So these early travelers of the millennium before Christ had brought
 back this picture which evolved into what we have today under the name of
 ceremonial magic in the Western tradition and since it's quite a long
 history of a constant vision which is a particular, well, verbal, they never drew
 pictures, they just described this in words as far as we know that original
 manuscript where it stands, many of them collected in Jerusalem.
 And translated.
 And translated from Hebrew into English by several different translators and studied by these
 scholars known to people who read Gershwin's Sholom.
 So that is the root of the sigil, the circle, the holy words, the holy ladders, all of that can be traced to the
 millennium, to today and magic.
 But through this Merkabah mystical tradition.
 Very interesting.
 You see, I keep going back to this thing about language.
 You get this same peculiar emphasis on language and letters in the esoteric doctrines that
 surround the chakras in tantric Shaivism.
 A huge amount of exegesis goes into the explication of these letters which appear on the petals
 of the chakras and talking about the ontological status of these letters and what they mean
 and so forth.
 It's as though the medium of language itself is under review in these encounters with these
 entities.
 It may be that somehow the field of language needs to be prepared for communication with
 them or that the field of language can be prepared for communication with them and that
 what happened in the West was some kind of peculiar stiffening of language against the
 ability to perceive and express this stuff that is now beginning to break down.
 Yes, we have to misuse language as our divine responsibility.
 Yes, and that linearity and print and all that conferred upon language an inability
 to deal with the invisible world in any meaningful way.
 And so it just became pathology.
 But now it's returning and people such as ourselves who have one foot in each world
 have a real obligation to cognize this.
 Well, the Indian tradition, according to the theory of Alan Daniel Moon, identifies Shiva
 with Dionysus.
 And Dionysus, according to Diodorus Siculus, writing the history of the world in 50 BC,
 is a translation of Isis to Crete.
 So there's the suggestion then, combining these two historians, of a transmission of
 the Isis legend from Egypt to the Indus River.
 That's sort of the suggested transmission there.
 And if so, we could see the Judeo-Christian tradition preceding primarily from the Chaldean
 and the Hindu primarily from the Egyptian.
 And the enormous differences between these two nearby systems coexisting at the same
 time in evolving but in totally different flavors of images and so on.
 Really different, the language, the Indo-European versus the Semitic, basically.
 Completely different images, language, alphabets.
 And yet, to go back one step, so reaching out, outreach to Catalhoyuk, to try to see
 the common root of the Sumerian, say, Babylonian on the one hand and the Egyptian on the other.
 Each had a version of the Hermetic tradition with magic, with journeys, with afterlife,
 and so on.
 Here we reach the dawn of the horizon of our current vision into the past is there.
 We can't really see into Anatolia very well.
 Well, I believe that the people that you call Egyptian were the African peoples who were
 coming out of Africa as the interglacial proceeded and that the people that you're calling Sumerian
 were these older people who had been already crossed into Asia before the last glacial
 and they were there.
 And then when these two floods came together during the last melt, history was born in
 the subjugation of these...
 So this is the horizon you're suggesting then might actually be the Holocene, that the prehistorians
 never suggest civilizations before the Holocene.
 There's very little discussion of the intelligent science, mythology, and so on of these 100,
 200, 300 thousand year BC, what is going on during these previous interglacials.
 And it could be that there was agriculture.
 I mean, there would be no way to rule that out, that there was an agricultural revolution
 in the interglacial before the Holocene.
 So what do they call the Cro-Magnon or the Neanderthals, I guess is the usual word for
 this period of time.
 So I'm suggesting they had navigation, they had architecture, they had sacred geometry,
 and they had astrology, and they had magic and travel in their own images of the heavens
 and the underworld.
 All of that tradition comes fully formed into the Holocene interglacial from these previous
 interglacials from the memory of people hiding out in caves, preserving their knowledge in
 cave drawings.
 Yes, I think the major cultural artifact that was added during that glacial period that
 the new people expressed as they moved out of Africa 17,000 years ago was pastoralism.
 Pastoralism was invented during that last glacial period when those populations were
 bottled up in Africa.
 All previous human migrations into the Middle East out of Africa had been in the absence
 of domesticated animals.
 When you mentioned that this entity theme was of high importance in the Hermetic tradition,
 was it because you were thinking of the fact that actually the main focus of the, well,
 book four of the Hermetic corpus is this animation of statues?
 This was a major concern of the early Hermetic tradition was to somehow draw the stellar
 demon down into a simulacrum from which it could then articulate.
 Yes, this is a high technology of beyond communication, assisting in the intervention, talking about
 embassies.
 Embassies were temples, and if we were going to think about someday a new society of world
 order, what education would be, what rituals would be, and so on, I think we should take
 out of the fact that our culture had evolved around rituals, that they were very important
 guiding centers, particularly the Akitu festival, the paradigmatic New Year's festival that
 was celebrated annually in Babylonia for 13 years, for 2,000 years without missing a beat.
 This had certain basic elements which characterized our whole history, most particularly the sacred
 marriage and the sacred procession.
 The sacred marriage was the obtaining for a temporary contract for one year between
 the king, that is to say the social organization of humans in this city-state, with a divine
 god and goddess essentially in charge of prosperity, crops and so on.
 So that contract was renewed for a year in the New Year's festival in the sacred marriage,
 which was kind of a ritual that was played out with actors and actresses, but the role
 of the king was actually played by the king, who actually took his power from the ritual.
 Then the sacred procession had to do with the hermetic empowerment of the statues of
 gods and goddesses, which included a lot of animals, mushrooms, and so on, and then these
 were paraded in a circle tour through the town and everything, and one of the days,
 usually these festivals lasted 11 days, so there was plenty of time to do a lot of stuff.
 But Egypt had more festivals than days in the year.
 It wasn't necessary to go to them.
 The priests and priestesses did the work for you.
 You could just keep on working.
 But every day, one of the temples in one of the cities of Egypt would be having one of
 these things where they're doing the work for you, and it involved the magical empowerment
 of these statues.
 The main theme was celestial magic.
 I mean, it was the incorporation or the bringing down the inspiration of Gaia with celestial
 themes, intelligence, and powers, and understanding Gaia as a younger entity than the celestial
 sphere.
 I would see that as the key theory, if there is one, in the hermetic corpus.
 And the reason why a lot of people nowadays practicing magic are specializing in star
 magic and trying to reconstruct it from the corrupt mythology of Western astrology.
 So then, what personal experience do we have of entities?
 I mean, if there are star spirits, as I believe perfectly possible, and I think it's very
 likely you could invoke them by various kinds of magic, and you could somehow connect with
 the star, and I think to do that, you'd have to look at it.
 I don't think it's any good doing this just from books.
 I think you have to lie under the sky and actually connect with the star through line
 of sight, or do it through a mirror or whatever, but you have to look at it.
 Then, if that's possible, what kind of information would such beings impart?
 We know that they thought that Sirius had particular things, Aldebrand, various stars
 had particular properties, and Sir Algol was a dangerous one.
 So there were these widespread beliefs about the properties of particular stars, and then
 there were lots of hosts of lesser stars, and in fact, most books on angels and most
 accounts of angels describe them as innumerable as the stars are.
 And the connection of angels and stars is made very explicit in Christian tradition.
 So there's one class of spirits associated with stars.
 Now, have you ever met one?
 And if we haven't met one, which I haven't, could we or would we want to try and meet
 one by carrying out an appropriate ceremony, invocation, in a suitably receptive pharmacological
 state or whatever?
 Well with the proviso "suitable pharmacological state", I think suddenly the stage becomes
 crowded with stellar demons, earth demons and what have you.
 But you know for sure that they're stellar demons.
 Have you ever connected your experience of a stellar demon with directly looking at its
 resident star and connecting through the senses?
 We do have this experience in a limited way.
 Among the stars there are all these asterisms which are among our most ancient knowledge,
 and I think pictograms, petroglyphs and so on, in many cases are drawings of asterisms.
 It's sort of like a roar shark when you look at the sky, and there are all these dots and
 you could connect them up any way.
 When there's a tradition of connecting them up in a certain way, then you have an astrological
 tradition.
 So mythology, I mean there's star mythology, is all of the Greek myths for example are
 projected into the sky in these asterisms, or what we call constellations.
 So mythology, it's suggested that myth is from "mythos".
 "Mythos" meant the lyrics, the words of the songs from the rituals, and that myths gained
 the power they now have in our conscious and unconscious lives through their secondary
 role in the ritual, which I think the ritual and the myth together as part of our tradition
 is one of the most important things for us to regain.
 And these old rituals were actually the bringing down, I mean the place where star magic was
 worked successfully to empower our evolution.
 Our own experience, like my experience of watching the sky and trying to figure out
 the asterisms, it had only been going on for two or three years.
 However, in all of these astrological systems that we know, the wanderers are particularly
 important and most important, that's on the moon.
 And we do have, I think, travels and communications with the sun and the moon in our recent experience
 of shamanic journeys and dreams.
 There were during the 1960s in Santa Cruz when I first came there, monthly moon festivals
 where we did a ritual that we imagine very much to be like the Dionysian festivals in
 Crete, the Orphic rituals translated to Greece as the Eleusinian Mysteries and so on, where
 psychedelics were sexual rites and star magic were combined into an annual or monthly ritual
 of tremendous power, of adequate power to produce prosperity for people, for animals,
 for plants.
 Peace, I think, was not produced by just a partnership paradigm in a lucky society to
 have escaped the bad habits of the dominator paradigm.
 There was also the conscious interaction with the peaceful initiative of the celestial sphere
 in bringing peace down.
 I mean, Crete had no fortifications.
 They had all this wealth, like they had wealth like Kuwait, and it didn't get captured until
 the third millennium.
 So we have definitely our experience of the sun and the moon, and if we wanted to investigate
 astrology experientially, then perhaps we could concentrate on the sun and the moon.
 Tonight will be a full moon.
 The moon soul will be in its greatest power.
 The spirit between the moon and ourselves, our own soul will be in its most receptive,
 and we can do an experiment.
 The sun, I think we spoke yesterday of the eclipse of the sun and the power of this experience
 in the psyche, and that would be also a place where we could look for a modulation of the
 influence of the sun soul that occurs when the moon soul passes into a linear, rare, collinear
 arrangement with our own soul.
 So those are some experiences that we can have really on a daily basis.
 The star magicians I came to know in Santa Cruz, who came to my class, they get up every
 day, every morning and evening, and watch the sunrise and the sunset, no matter how
 it disturbs their sleep schedule.
 And I think I've been very affected by sunrises and sunsets in my own life.
 Since early babyhood, I have a fantastic fascination with sunrise and sunset.
 In India, I had seen particularly good ones that I felt to be amplified, their meaning
 amplified by the appreciation of an entire civilization, a whole country appreciating,
 knowing, taking the meaning, basking in the rays, and giving conscious attention to sunrise
 and sunset.
 Surya Namaskar and other greetings.
 Surya Namaskar.
 A splendid thing to do with the sun is to greet it on its arrival, and to take note
 of the fact that it did happen again, which we have no reason to believe that it always
 will.
 In our physical environment, we tend to move into cities, move into apartments, exclude
 nature, push it away from ourselves.
 In our mental environment, we actually do the same thing.
 Most people in a culture live in a very conventionalized set of notions that are deeply embedded in
 other conventionalized notions, far from any edge.
 I think when you go to the edges, physically that would mean deserts, jungles, remote and
 wild nature.
 And when you go to the edges in your own mind, meaning meditation, dreams, psychedelics,
 then you discover there's an extremely rich flora and fauna in the imagination that has
 simply been ignored because our tendency has always been to look inward, to build inward,
 and to turn our backs on the raging ocean of phenomena around us that entirely overwhelms
 our metaphors.
 Well, it's all the satanic spirit of science, isn't it?
 I mean, if one says, "What was it that caused this blindness?"
 That's the question you raise.
 There's something that happened around the 17th century that Milton described so well
 in Paradise Lost.
 There is a consciousness of the spirit of Satan, which is what Paradise Lost is largely
 about.
 And there's also a taxonomy of the various demons and fallen angels, which act as malevolent
 powers that somehow influence things, like Mammon, the demon of commercial greed.
 So if Mammon is worshipped, then you have a whole society that's motivated by money,
 Mammon's instrument, and entirely under the influence of commercial greed, as our own
 is, obviously, to a very large extent.
 So here's this personification of Satan, and the primary sin of Satan is pride, turning
 away from God and declaring his own self-sufficiency.
 Well, this is precisely the beginning of turning away from God and the angelic and the whole
 spirit realm, and declaring the self-sufficiency of man.
 It's the humanist illusion.
 So you then have this humanist point of view, and then from that, all God's demons and everything
 else become projections of the human mind, which now becomes a kind of geocentric universe.
 I mean, it's like the old geocentric model.
 You even get it in Ficina, who says, "Man is the measure of all things," when actually
 the order of intelligence could have been the measure of all things.
 Exactly.
 It's humanism.
 And it's this putting man at the center.
 That's why this adopting this alternative position of recognizing all the livings, of
 animism, again, recognizing the living spirit of all nature and living souls of all nature,
 is profoundly repugnant to humanism, but yet is the common ground of all human civilization
 and thought and tradition, apart from this deviation that we're thinking about now.
 So this blinding is a kind of satanic pride, and the spirit of Satan is the spirit of self-sufficiency,
 of being in charge, and the spirit of denial of the whole other realm.
 Like in Goethe's Faust, I mean, Faust being a paradigm scientist, selling his soul to
 the devil in return for unlimited knowledge and power, the paradigm of the entire process.
 By selling it through ceremonial magic, he invokes Mephistopheles.
 So the guiding spirit of modern science, according to the Faust myth, is a demon.
 It's in fact a satanic demon, a fallen angel, Mephistopheles.
 So how seriously does one take, then, the role of Satan and of malevolent spirits in
 this disembodied world, because they're part of its taxonomy and its landscape in many
 traditions, not only the Christian.
 And how seriously does one need to take the idea that our whole society and civilization
 may be under the possession of such a spirit, worshipped through money and other, you know,
 mammon.
 The spirit of mammon, as Milton describes him in Paradise Lost, he says, "Even in heaven,
 his looks and thoughts were always downward bent, admiring more heaven's pavement than
 ought divine or holy else enjoyed in vision beatific."
 So there's mammon, who has this kind of characteristic, and then when he falls to earth, the first
 thing he does, he and his crew opened up the sacred hill and digged out ribs of gold.
 It's the first thing mammon did when he got to earth, and started, and uncovering treasures
 better hid, mother nature's treasures better hid.
 So here's the description of a demon, which actually is the spirit of our whole civilization,
 by Milton in Paradise Lost, as an actual entity.
 Now in that case, it's a kind of poetic entity, but it's also a biblical one, you know, mammon.
 And mammon is one of the hosts of Satan or of the fallen angels.
 So there's this idea of these malevolent powers that goes back much, in every society you
 get these malevolent jinns and deceptive spirits and dangerous entities, of a kind of, in some
 sense autonomous, but in some other sense related to some historical process involving
 human beings.
 So the current manifestation of this satanic entity is the impasse in the world petroleum
 market over supplies, resources, possession, distribution.
 Yes, and obviously, particularly the United States needs this satanic entity to be incarnate,
 and now it can't be incarnate in Russia anymore.
 It's nowhere for a long time, and the entire imagination could focus on the satanic powers
 being over there, you know, communism.
 Now there's a perfect satanic figure emerged for the projection, being Saddam Hussein,
 you know, his pronouncement about hostages and babies starving and stuff.
 You know, now Hitler, the whole sort of projection thing he's got working, and now he's become
 this totally evil power.
 So this same projection is operating, and the question is, you see, one thing that does
 is blind us to the satanic powers within our own civilization, and if we take seriously
 these entities, how much can we admit the possibility that there are these malevolent
 entities like mammon or satanic powers or fallen angels, which are actually guiding
 and perverting the progress of science and technology, which are actually intervening
 and conducting, in many respects, the ways of the world, through influence on people,
 through inspiration, putting ideas in people's minds, which is how these things work, and
 actually channeling or directing a large portion of human history.
 You then get back to the classic scenario that there are some people whose consciousness
 goes beyond that who are fighting on the side of the light, and you get a standard good
 versus evil, celestial struggle, like the great war in heaven, being acted out on Earth.
 And for a lot of people that's a very plausible picture.
 I mean, for these Amazonian, Ayahuasca Christians, the idea that Satan has taken on the force
 of, like the great dragon, is coming into the forest, devouring it and burning it, as
 prophecy is foretold.
 This entire system that devours the forest and destroys and so on, this whole technological
 civilization, Leviathan, as Hobbes called it, is in fact the great dragon, and somehow
 possessed by its spirit, and that this is an entirely destructive spirit, it's the
 satanic spirit, which is destroying the Earth.
 So then you see it's very hard to avoid falling back into this archetype, and then
 the question is, is that the way it really is?
 And I see if one allows for autonomous entities, if one allows for them to have a historical
 rootedness and to represent spirits of things that have happened, or spirits that inspired
 things that have happened, since human history reveals millennia of oppression, exploitation,
 imperialism, enslavement, brutality, torture, and which goes on today, war, domination of
 every kind.
 Is this influence somehow evolving along with humanity, or in some sense inspiring the development
 of civilization, or in some sense intimately and inseparably involved from it?
 Well, probably the process of civilization is going to reveal the final status of this
 shadow within us, because as the constraints of physical resources and energy presumably
 fall away, more and more our self-expression will be unimpeded, and we don't know what
 you get when you get unimpeded human self-expression in architectonic form or social organization
 or something like that.
 On the other hand, it may be just the gradual devolution in which the same old forms continue
 to dominate, but the satanic forms become more and more inflated by energy and attention,
 as it were, as if there were, in the mathematics of the process, two competing attractors in
 this dualistic theory of the battle of good and evil in heaven, of God and Satan in heaven
 struggling with each other to attract a multitude of human souls.
 And the forces of evil, as it were, progressively more inflated by the acquisition of more souls,
 as more and more angels are falling from heaven.
 If we wanted, if people could get together and try to conceptualize the role of their
 species in the evolution of the universe, and decide, vote for the forces of good over
 the forces of evil or something, and then try to redirect the trend of human consciousness
 and unconsciousness toward this other attractor, it would be necessary to, I suppose, to do
 interventions on this level with ritual, with magic, with astrology, with inspiration, with
 imagination, in which attention was redirected to the positive forms, if we can find them,
 if we can identify them, probably everything is disguised as something else, and our ignorance
 is enormous.
 But traditionally, I think, through the study of world mythology, ritual, religion, and
 so on, in the sense of Joseph Campbell, let us say, we could identify, let us say we could
 successfully identify the good genies, and then design rituals, let us say we try to
 present music and visual music on MTV and on the World Cable Network, so that people
 could be exposed to visualizations and harmonizations of these good forms selected through, from
 the world history of mythology, religion, and so on.
 Collect up some of these good rituals, like we felt moon rituals were in the 1960s, and
 do them, present them on TV and so on, would they, or would they not, attract souls?
 And my feeling is that the enhanced, the winning attractiveness of the satanic form somehow
 is irreversible at this time, as far as the human species is concerned.
 It's practically the only evil species, as far as we can see.
 And I don't know about AIDS and so on, that might be actually a celestial intervention.
 The evil forms, the satanic images have been most successful with people, at least during
 this patriarchal time of the past 6,000 years, which seems to coincide with the dawn of history,
 so we don't even know exactly what preceded in the early history of our species.
 So could Eros provide a counter-attractor?
 Well I would think so, it's fantastic.
 It's more interesting than evil.
 It's still, well, the forces of evil of course have adopted every attractor, like mammon.
 I mean money is perhaps not necessarily bad, and prosperity is not necessarily bad, but
 it seems to have been engulfed by the forces of evil.
 Likewise, sexual images have been, are used extensively and have become almost totally
 identified with evil.
 So the shadow side of sexuality in our culture has dominated.
 So how could that be reclaimed?
 How could you even begin that?
 I think we'd have to ask the stars for guidance.
 I'm very positive about the Green Revolution, and I think the revival of the Gaian soul
 and our consciousness of the Earth as a living or divine being is very important.
 But still I don't think this is enough.
 I don't think we could make it out of this cul-de-sac without the stars.
 So I think we need the Gaian and we need the chaotic, that is the celestial sphere, to
 be reconnected, to be coupled to the human spirit in such a way that they're part of
 that, that is the ultimate partnership.
 You're dreaming the dream of alchemical revolution that would do pride to a Renaissance magus.
 That's essentially what you're calling for.
 Yes, it's very close to John Dee's dream.
 John Dee's failed dream.
 And his dream failed because the Thirty Years' War wiped out the possibility of an alchemical
 kingdom in central Europe.
 Queen Elizabeth withdrew from participating in this partnership even before she died.
 And I think that is a key, the failure of courage on the part of Queen Elizabeth might
 be an important historical element in our own fall from a divine path.
 But we can always try again.
 And where would the new alchemical kingdom be?
 I think it would probably have to be in Czechoslovakia.
 You know, there's not much chance that Bush's America are turning into it, or Britain at
 the moment.
 That's where the original alchemical kingdom was planned, for Prague.
 That's right.
 You're on your way.
 I will discuss it with the proper officials.
 I think, I've been in Prague, and I think that it's a really dark place, and there's
 very little hope of eliminating it at this time.
 And I have my highest hopes for England, as a matter of fact.
 I always have been a great Anglophile.
 And particularly now, I think it's very auspicious there, the number of people who are thinking
 and reviving in great detail and with great love and integrity all of these old things,
 digging in the archaeology of the mind and trying to seek rituals and actually perform
 them and live them.
 Well, why don't we call it quits then?
 Okay.
 Did you find it as fascinating as I did when Rupert Sheldrake was talking about the Faustian
 story of Metisopheles?
 And then he brought out the fact that the United States has always needed a demon to
 keep it from examining the satanic powers within our own civilization.
 And then he went on to say that after the fall of the USSR, the focus was shifted to
 Saddam Hussein.
 Now, keep in mind that this trilogue took place before the first Gulf War.
 And now that we seem to be only weeks away from the state-sponsored murder of the very
 same Saddam Hussein, the search for a new Satan is underway.
 It looks like the American fascists in Washington are focusing on Iran while the rest of the
 country, the rest of the world for that matter, sees the new Satan as that insane little bush
 fellow.
 Ah, the world is in flux once again, don't you think?
 There's some kind of a new tidal shift in human consciousness that's already begun.
 I know a lot of you can feel it because you tell me so in your emails.
 What it will amount to and where it will lead us still isn't clear, at least to me.
 But being an incurable optimist, I can't help but believe that things are going to work
 out just fine.
 And those of you who have had the great good fortune to have ventured very deep into the
 far reaches of Entheospace know exactly what I mean.
 I know that Trey understands because in a recent email he said, "I know this thing with
 the great world age shift is really going to happen because I've somehow known it my
 whole life."
 And my bet is that a lot of us have felt that way too, Trey.
 I also received an interesting email from Justin who writes in response to a question
 I asked a while back about what some of you are doing as the year 2012 approaches.
 Well, Justin is part of a new rock group called Bavome.
 It's B-A-V-O-H-E-M.
 And here's what he had to say.
 Our intention with our music is to break people from their molds of habit, get them thinking
 psychedelically and suggest how to properly align their dreams with their will.
 I guess you could say that we're of the mind that what happens on 2012 is what we can create.
 But the lines between doing and being done to are getting harder and harder to discern.
 The music draws on as many influences as musical history has to offer, from Mingus to Motown,
 Beatles to Mozart, Radiohead to Pink Floyd and Michael Bolton.
 Mix it all up, sprinkle a bit of future perspective on it, and you end up with what's been called
 post-historical rock.
 Well, on a personal note, I think that one of their tracks is also reminiscent of an
 old favorite of mine called Morphine.
 The band, that is, not the drug.
 Anyway, it's good to know that there still remains a future for psychedelic-inspired
 rock music.
 I don't know about you, but there's just something about Pink Floyd and Mushrooms that seem to
 go together for me.
 Also this week I received an email from Ben.
 And by the way, I'm not sure if you guys want me to mention your last names here in the
 podcast or not, so I'll continue to only use first names unless you specifically tell me
 otherwise.
 But Ben, and I hope I'm not breaking a rule here, Ben is also known as Valley Sequence
 on Arrowood's Visionary Arts Vault.
 In fact, Valley Sequence is the featured artist for December 2006.
 And here's part of what he had to say in his email.
 "I am writing in regards to psychedelic art and its relation to the coming technological/consciousness
 shift.
 The lecture series by Terrence McKenna was very inspiring.
 When he asked what form this shift would occur or how it would first be seen, it seems that
 Terrence would point to art as the domain for the most future growth.
 I am a traditional and digital artist and am seeking innovative ways of synthesizing
 the traditional with the digital and to create expressions that deal with the medium of perception
 itself.
 He said that the coming art would be an art with teeth, and that's what I see too."
 And if you check out his work on the Arrowood site, you'll see what he means.
 I'm really blown away that an artist this gifted is one of our regulars here in the
 psychedelic salon.
 Ben is correct in his observation about Terrence McKenna's position on the importance of art.
 I've heard Terrence express that thought from many different directions, one of which is
 that today's artists are actually creating a new language for us to use in communicating
 some of the experiences that we have in the entheo space.
 I don't know about you, but when I go to the Arrowood vault and look at Ben's painting
 that's simply titled 4981, I'm swept up in a range of emotions that I experienced a long
 time ago when I saw, I think I saw, a very similar vision one night.
 And that was only the first painting in the series on Arrowood.
 Needless to say, it wasn't the only familiar sight that Valley Sequence captured for me.
 What an interesting and talented clan we have here in the salon.
 Before I go, I guess I should mention again that this and all of the podcasts from the
 psychedelic salon are protected under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial
 Sharealike 2.5 License.
 And if you have any questions about that, you can check on the link at the bottom of
 the psychedelic salon webpage, which can be found at www.matrixmasters.com/podcasts.
 And if you still have questions, you can send them in an email to me.
 The address is lorenzo@matrixmasters.com.
 And thanks again to Chetul Hayuk for the use of their music here in the psychedelic salon.
 And a special thank you goes out to Ralph Abraham and Bruce Dahmer for seeing to it
 that the tapes of these trilogues were preserved and digitized.
 From the email I've been receiving, I think it's safe to say that there are now thousands
 of other people around the world who'd also like to thank you guys.
 And for now, this is Lorenzo signing off from cyberdelic space.
 Be well my friends, and may you all have a joyous and peaceful new year.
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