[00:00:00 - 00:00:14]	 Human history represents such a radical break with the natural systems of biological organization
[00:00:14 - 00:00:25]	 that preceded it that it must be the response to a kind of attractor or dwell point that
[00:00:25 - 00:00:30]	 lies ahead in the temporal dimension.
[00:00:30 - 00:00:37]	 Persistently, Western religions have integrated into their theologies the notion of kind of
[00:00:37 - 00:00:39]	 end of the world.
[00:00:39 - 00:00:47]	 And I think that a lot of psychedelic experimentation sort of confirms this intuition.
[00:00:47 - 00:00:55]	 I mean, it isn't going to happen according to any of the scenarios of Orthodox religion,
[00:00:55 - 00:01:02]	 but the basic intuition that the universe seeks closure in a kind of omega point of
[00:01:02 - 00:01:05]	 transcendence is confirmed.
[00:01:05 - 00:01:14]	 It's almost as though this object in hyperspace, glittering in hyperspace, throws off reflections
[00:01:14 - 00:01:22]	 of itself, which actually ricochet into the past, eliminating this mystic, inspiring,
[00:01:22 - 00:01:33]	 that scepter, visionary, and that out of these fragmentary glimpses of eternity, we can build
[00:01:33 - 00:01:41]	 a kind of map of not only the past of the universe and the evolutionary ingression into novelty,
[00:01:41 - 00:01:44]	 but the kind of map of the future.
[00:01:44 - 00:01:48]	 This is what shamanism has always been about.
[00:01:48 - 00:01:52]	 A shaman is someone who has been to the end.
[00:01:52 - 00:01:57]	 It's someone who knows how the world really works.
[00:01:57 - 00:02:06]	 And knowing how the world really works means to have risen outside, above, beyond the dimensions
[00:02:06 - 00:02:12]	 of the ordinaries based on the cosmistry and actually seen the wiring under the board,
[00:02:12 - 00:02:22]	 stepped outside the confines of learned culture and learned and embedded language into the
[00:02:22 - 00:02:29]	 domain of what Wittgenstein called the unspeakable, the transcendental presence of the other,
[00:02:29 - 00:02:37]	 which can be sectioned in various ways to new systems of knowledge which can be brought
[00:02:37 - 00:02:42]	 back into ordinary social space for the good of the community.
[00:02:42 - 00:02:51]	 So in the context of 90% of human culture, the shaman has been the agent of evolution
[00:02:51 - 00:02:58]	 because the shaman learns the techniques to go between ordinary reality and the domain
[00:02:58 - 00:03:06]	 of the ideas, this higher dimensional continuum that is somehow parallel to us, available
[00:03:06 - 00:03:15]	 to us, and yet ordinarily occluded by cultural convention out of fear of the mystery, I believe.
[00:03:15 - 00:03:22]	 And what shamans are are people who have been able to decondition themselves from the community's
[00:03:22 - 00:03:30]	 instinctual distrust of the mystery and to go into it, to go into this bewildering higher
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[00:03:39 - 00:03:45]	 souls, cure, commune with the ancestors, so forth and so on.
[00:03:45 - 00:03:52]	 A shamanism is not a religion, it's a set of techniques, and the principal technique
[00:03:52 - 00:03:57]	 is the use of psychedelic plants.
[00:03:57 - 00:04:05]	 What psychedelics do is they dissolve boundaries, and in the presence of dissolved boundaries,
[00:04:05 - 00:04:11]	 one cannot continue to close one's eyes to the ruination of the earth, the poisoning
[00:04:11 - 00:04:19]	 of the seas, and the consequences of two thousand years of unchallenged, dominated culture
[00:04:19 - 00:04:26]	 based on monotheism, hatred of nature, suppression of the female, so forth and so on.
[00:04:26 - 00:04:37]	 So what shamans have to do is act as ex-employers by making this cosmic journey to the domain
[00:04:37 - 00:04:45]	 of the gaian ideas and then bringing them back in the form of art to the struggle to
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