Archaic Revival

didgeridoo birds and i by terence mckenna the archaic revival history is ending

because the dominator culture has led the human species into a blind alley as the inevitable

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

a great horned mushroom goddess, before history, before standing armies, before slavery and

property, before 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 occurs.

Where the plant-human symbiosis shows up the spirit 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 here.

And why does this matter?

It matters because it shows that the way out is back.

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 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 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 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.

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,

ecstasy, orgiastic sexuality,

and the defeat of the three enemies of the people.

And the three enemies of the people

are hegemony,

monogamy,

and monotony.

And if you get them on the run,

you have 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

and self-definition through thing fetish.

Getting it all connected,

tapping into the gutter.

Getting it all connected, tapping into the gutter.

And the guy in mind.

And the guy in 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 experience,

we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies.

But with that experience,

the compass of the self can be set.

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 ecstatic dance,

through psychedelics,

sexuality,

intelligence.

Intelligence.

This is what we have to have

to make the forward escape into hyperspace.