Alien Dreamtime

visions by rosettes didgeridoo by terence mckenna the archaic revival street is ending the dominator

culture has led the human species into a blind alley chaosstrophy approaches people look for

metaphors and answers every time a culture gets into trouble it casts itself back into the past

looking for the last sane moment it ever knew and the last sane moment we ever knew

was on the plains of

africa 15 000 years ago rocked in the cradle of the great horned mushroom goddess before history

before standing armies before slavery and property

before war

warfare and phonetic alphabets and monotheism before before before and this is where the future

is taking us because the secret faith of the 20th century is not modernism the secret faith of the

20th century

is nostalgia for the archaic nostalgia for the paleolithic and that gives us body piercing

abstract expressionism surrealism jazz rock and roll and catastrophe theory the 20th century mind

is nostalgic

for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of africa

where the plant human symbiosis occurred

that pulled us out of the animal body and into the tool using culture making imagination exploring

creature that we are

and why does this matter it matters because it shows that the way out is back and that the future

is a forward escape into the past this is what the psychedelic experience means it's a doorway out

of history and into the wiring under the board in eternity.

And I tell you this because if the community understands what it is that holds it together,

the community will be better able to streamline itself for flight into hyperspace.

Because what we need is a new myth.

What we need is a new true story that tells us where we're going in the universe.

And that true story is...

That...

That the ego is a product of pathology.

And that when psilocybin is regularly part of the human experience, the ego is suppressed.

And the suppression of the ego means the defeat of the dominators, the materialists, the product peddlers.

Psychedelics return us.

To the inner worth of the self.

To the importance of the feeling of immediate experience.

And nobody can sell that to you.

And nobody can buy it from you.

So the dominator culture is not interested in the felt presence of immediate experience.

But that's what holds the community.

But that's what holds the community together.

And as we break out of the silly myths of science and the infantile obsessions of the marketplace,

what we discover through the psychedelic experience is that in the body, in the body,

there are Niagara's of beauty.

Alien.

Beauty.

Alien dimensions that are part of the self.

The richest part of life.

I think of going to the grave without having a psychedelic experience.

Like going to the grave without ever having sex.

It means that you never figured out what it was all about.

The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature.

What the archaic revival means is shamanism, ecstasy, orgiastic sexuality, and the defeat of the three enemies of the people.

And the three enemies of the people.

Hegemony, monogamy, and monotony.

And if you get them on the run, you have the dominators sweating, folks.

the dominators sweating, folks, because that means that you're getting it all reconnected.

And getting it all reconnected means putting aside the idea of separateness. So, definition

through thing fetish. Getting it all connected means tapping into the Gaian mind. And the

Gaian mind is what we're calling the psychedelic experience. It's an experience of the living

fact of the intellect of the planet. And without that, we're not going to be able to

live. Without that experience, we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies. But with that

experience, the compass of the self can be set. And that's the idea, that we're figuring

out how to reset the compass of the self through community, through community, through the

community. And that's the idea, that we're figuring out how to reset the compass of the self through community,

through ecstatic dance, through psychedelics, sexuality, intelligence. Intelligence.

This is what we have to have to make the forward escape into hyperspace. Take five here, and

then take an introduction.

Now for some preaching to the choir on the subject of how come it is that the further in you go,

the bigger it gets. I remember the very, very first time I

smoked DMT.

It was sort of a benchmark, you might say, and I remember that this friend of mine, who always got there first, visited me with this little glass pipe, and this stuff which looked like orange mothballs.

And since I was a graduate of Dr. Hoffman's, I figured there were no surprises.

So the only question I asked was, how long does it last? And he said, about five minutes. So I did it.

And it was a flower, like a chrysanthemum in orange and yellow that was sort of spinning, spinning.

It was like I was pushed from behind, and I fell through the chrysanthemum into another place.

And it was a place that didn't seem like a state of mind. It seemed like another place.

And what was going on in this place, aside from the tastefully softened indirect lighting, and the crawling geometric hallucinations along the domed walls,

what was happening?

Was that there were a lot of beings in there.

A lot of what I call self-transforming machine elves, sort of like jeweled basketballs, all dribbling their way toward me.

And if they'd had faces, they'd have been grinning.

But they didn't have faces.

And they assured me that they loved me.

And they told me not to be amazed, not to give way to astonishment.

And so I watched them, even though I wondered if maybe I hadn't really done it.

This time.

And what they were doing was they were making objects come into existence by singing them into existence.

Objects which looked like fabricé eggs from Mars.

Morphing themselves with Mandiane alphabetical bells.

structures. They looked like the concrescence of linguistic intentionality put through a

kind of hyperdimensional transform into three-dimensional space. And these little machines offered

themselves to me, and I realized when I looked at them that if I could bring just one of these little

trinkets back, nothing would ever be quite the same again. And I wondered, where am I, and what is going

on?

And it occurred to me that these must be holographic viral projections from an autonomous continuum that was

somehow intersecting my own, and then I thought a more elegant explanation would be to take it at face value

cookie map out meetings.

that I had broken into an ecology of souls and that somehow I was getting a

peep over the other side somehow I was finding out that thing that you

cheerfully assume you can't find out but it felt like I was finding out and it

felt and then I can't remember what it felt like

because the little self transforming tides interrupted me and said don't

think about it don't think about who we are

think about doing

what we're doing. Do it. Do it now. Do it! And what they meant was use your voice to

make an object. And as I understood, I felt a bubble kind of grow inside of me.

And I watched these little elf tykes jumping in and out of my chest. They like to do that to reassure you.

And they said, do it. And I felt language rise up in me that was unhooked from English.

And I began to speak like this.

I heard the sound of an elephant, a lark, fly, and the sound of the bell.

And next, I heard another song.

And this song was supposed to be the sound of birds, not the sound of animals.

That's why I heard it.

Because I was what?

Lana?

Lana.

or words to that effect wondered then what it all meant and why it felt so good

if it didn't mean anything and i thought about it a few years actually

and i decided you know that meaning and language are two different things

and that what the alien voice in the psychedelic experience wants to reveal

is the syntactical nature of reality that the real secret of

man's

magic is that the world is made of words

and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish

and one of the things that i learned about dmt

was that if you've ever had it even just once then

you can have a dream and in this dream somebody will pull out a little glass pipe

and then it will happen it will happen just like the real thing because there's a button

somewhere inside each and every one of us

gives you a look into the other side

and that's the button that resets the compass

that tells you where you want to sail

good luck

has a name for it except some people call it

or some people say things are really weird

recently

and i think we never notice it and we never talk about it

because we're embedded in a culture that expects us to believe that all times are the same

and that your bank account doesn't fluctuate

except according to the vicissitudes of your own existence

in other words

every moment of your life is a moment of your life

every moment is expected to be the same

and yet this isn't what we experience

and so what i noticed was

that running through reality

is the ebb and flow of novelty

and some days and some years and some centuries

are very novel indeed

and some ain't

and they come and go

on all the different levels of reality

all scales differently

interweaving resonantly

and this is what time seems to be

and science has overlooked this

this most salient of facts about nature

that nature is a novelty conserving

that nature is an engine

and that from the very first moments

of that most improbable big bang

novelty has been conserved

because in the very beginning

there was only an ocean of energy

pouring into the universe

there were no planets

no stars

no molecules

no atoms

no magnetic fields

there was only an ocean of free electrons

and then time passed

and the universe cooled

novel structures crystallized

out of disorder

first atoms of hydrogen

and helium

aggregating into stars

and at the center of those stars

the temperature and the pressure

created something which had never been seen before

which was fusion

and fusion hooking in the hearts of stars

brought forth more novelty

heavy elements iron carbon

four valent carbon

and as time passed

there were not only then elemental systems

but because of the presence of carbon

and the lower temperatures in the universe

molecular structures

and out of molecules

come simple subsets of organisms

the genetic machinery for transformation

transcripting information

aggregating into membranes

always binding novelty

always condensing time

always building and conserving

upon complexity

and always faster and faster and faster

and then

we come to ourselves

and where do we fit into all of this

five million years ago

we were an animal of some sort

where will we be five million years from tonight

what we represent

is not a sideshow

or an epiphenomenon

or an ancillary something or other

on the edge of nowhere

what we represent

is the nexus of concrescent novelty

that has been moving itself together

complexifying itself

folding itself in upon itself

for billions and billions of years

there is so far as we know

nothing more advanced

than what is sitting behind your eyes

the human neocortex

is the most densely ramified

and complexified structure

in the known universe

we are the cutting edge

of organismic transformation of matter

in this cosmos

and

this has been going on

for a while

since the discovery of fire

since the discovery of language

but now

and by now

I mean for the last ten thousand years

we've been into something new

not genetic information

not genetic mutation

not natural selection

but epigenetic activity

writing

theatre

poetry

dance

art

tattooing

body piercing

and philosophy

and these things

have accelerated

the aggression into novelty

so that we have become

an idea excreting force

in nature

that builds temples

builds cities

builds machines

social engines

plans

and spreads over the earth

into space

into the micro-physical domain

into the macro-physical domain

we who five million years ago

were animals

can kindle in our deserts

and if necessary upon the cities of our enemies

the very energy

which lights the stars at night

now

something peculiar

is going on here

something is calling us

out of nature

and sculpting us

in its own image

and the confrontation

with this something

is now

not so far away

this is what

the impending

apparent end of everything

actually means

it means

that

the denouement

of human history

is about to occur

and is about to be revealed

as a universal process

of compressing

and expressing novelty

that is now going to become

so intensified

that it is going to flow over

into another dimension

you can feel it

you can feel it in your own dreams

you can feel it in your own trips

you can feel

that we're approaching

the cusp of a catastrophe

and that beyond that cusp

we are unrecognizable

to ourselves

the wave of novelty

that has rolled unbroken

since the birth of the universe

has now focused

and coalesced itself

in our species

and if it seems unlikely to you

that the world

is about to transform itself

then think of it this way

think of a pond

and think of how

if the surface of the pond

begins to boil

that's the signal

that some enormous

protean form

is about to break

the surface of the pond

and reveal itself

human history

is

the boiling

of the pond surface

of ordinary biome

of ordinary biology

we are flesh

which has been caught

in the grip

of some kind of an attractor

that lies ahead of us

in time

and that is sculpting us

to its ends

speaking to us

through psychedelics

through visions

through culture

and technology

consciousness

the language forming capacity

in our species

is propelling itself

forward

as though

it were going to

shed

the monkey body

and leap

into some

extra surreal space

that surrounds us

but that we cannot

currently see

even the people

who run the planet

the world bank

the IMF

you name it

they know

that the history is ending

they know

by the reports

which cross their desks

that what

the

disappearance

of the ozone hole

the toxification

of the ocean

the clearing

of the rain forest

what this means is

that the womb

of the planet

has reached

its finite limits

and that the human species

has now

without choice

begun the descent

down

the birth canal

of collective

transformation

toward

something

right around

the corner

and

nearly

completely

unimaginable

and this is where

the psychedelic shaman

comes in

because I believe

that what we really

contact

through psychedelics

is a kind of

hyperspace

and from that

hyperspace

we look down

on

we look down

on

both the past

and the future

and we anticipate

the end

and a shaman

is someone

who has

seen

the end

and therefore

is a trickster

because you don't worry

if you've seen

the end

if you know how

it comes out

you go back

and you take

your place

in the play

and you let it all

roll away

and you roll on

without anxiety

this is what

boundary dissolution

means

it means

nothing less

than the anticipation

of the end state

of human history

a return

to the archaic mode

a rediscovery

of the orgiastic

freedom

of the African

grasslands

of 20,000 years ago

a techno-escape

forward

into a future

that looks

like the past

than the future

because

materialism

consumerism

product fetishisms

all of these things

will be eliminated

and technology

will become

nano-technology

and disappear

from our

physical presence

if

we have

the dream

if we allow

the wave

of novelty

to propel

us

toward

the creativity

that is

in

our

minds

and in

our

minds

we can

create

the

world

and

in

our

lives

without

the

need

of

science

and

technology

and

technology

it makes

the

world

a better

place

for

further

evolution

and

I

is to go back to the agents that created language

in the very first place.

And that means the psychedelic plants, the Gaian Logos,

and the mysterious, beckoning extraterrestrial minds beyond,

hooking ourselves back up into the chakras

of the hierarchy of nature, turning ourselves over

to the mind of the total other that

created us and brought us forth out of animal organization.

We are somehow part of the planetary destiny.

How well we do determines how well the experiment of life

on Earth does, because we have become the cutting

edge of that experiment.

We define it, and we hold in our hands the power

to make order.

to break it. It's not a dress rehearsal for the apocalypse. This is not a pseudo-millennium.

This is the real thing, folks. This is not a test. This is the last chance before things

become so dissipated that there is no chance for cohesiveness. We can use the calendar

as a club. We can make the millennium an occasion for establishing an authentic human civilization,

overcoming the dominator paradigm, dissolving boundaries through psychedelics, recreating

a sexuality not based on monotheism, monogamy and monotony. All these things are possible.

If

we can understand the overarching metaphor which holds it all together, which is the

celebration of mind as play, the celebration of love as a genuine social value in the community,

this is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics,

because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else's

being, you can't be led into thing fetishism and consumerism. The message of psychedelics

is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products.

This is terrifying news, and if we are able to make this point, then we can pull back.

We can pull back, and we can transcend. Nine times, so many times, we're going to be able

to come to this point. We can pull back, and we can transcend. Nine times, we're going

to transcend. Nine times, we're going to fall back. Nine times, we're going to transcend.

It's a big moment, and it's a big moment to move forward. Because they're looking at a culture

they're looking at. They're looking at a culture of lack. And it's like, this is a great place. I'm going

Sometimes in the last million years, the ice has ground south from the poles, pushing human populations ahead of it. And those people didn't fuck up. Why should we then?

We are all survivors. We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable. And now, with the engines of technology in our hands, we ought to be able to reach out and actually exteriorize the human soul at the end of time.

Invoke it into existence like a UFO and open the violet doorway into hyperspace.

And walk through it, out of profane history, and into the world beyond the grave, beyond shamanism, beyond the end of history, into the galactic millennium that has beckoned to us for millions of years across space and time.

This is the moment. A planet brings forth an opportunity like this only once in its lifetime. And we are ready.

And we are poised. And as a community, we are ready to move into it, to claim it, to make it our own. It's there. Go for it. And thank you.