Chaos and Managed Reality

the same don't push us too far meanwhile back at the ranch it's total chaos and what governments do

is manage chaos by telling everybody it's okay watch tv here we spent 500 million dollars to

make a movie for you about flying saucers now watch it now talk about it now think about it

leave us alone you know people are being drugged entertained lied to delayed deferred misdirected

propagandized used abused but nobody has a clue as to where we're going meanwhile there's this inner

dynamic to things guys with ponytails just keep inventing weird stuff and handing it out on the

internet and

do other guys and women keep making strange substances and peddling them in remote parts

of the world and people keep making strange music and dancing and subverting subverting subverting

and this is this is where the dynamic will come from anybody who says they have a plan at this

point is just standing in the way the plan will emerge

of the youth culture out of the dynamic of the situation the aboriginal lifestyle there are so

many of them i'm now realizing i mean in each place i go there's always the other people over

the hill and say well are you going to go see the bushman or would you be seeing the zuni while

you're here or are you going to go to the mixtec villages or would you be going to see the hawaiian

encampment or would you go out to see the ball village or would you go to see the prunpo they're

everywhere these people i mean there's a lot of breast beating about extermination because

we certainly push their numbers back but they watch every gathering from the periphery and

what they're waiting for i think is for the prodigal tribes to drop the pretense of history

and to bring the fruits of the hunt the hunt of history which was a hunt for

energy and the secrets of matter and take it back and lay it not at the feet of the scientist

the manager or the industrialist but at the feet of the shaman

jelly because the shaman's concern is the care of the community not the making of money or the

promoting of a given class or something like that but the care of the community and we have immense

power we human beings have immense power and immense goodness in us but standing between us and

is the trauma of the historical experience and what to overcome that

we are simply going to have to change our minds it's the hardest thing to change

to change minds and you can do it sometimes with rational argument on some small area

like if i spend nine hours maybe i can convince you to switch your medical plan or something

but that's not what we're talking about we're talking about changing our attitude toward what

it is to be a human being on this planet and the only thing i've seen that works fast enough

because if we had a thousand years you know we could hold weekends and

do things and slowly slowly slowly but we don't have that kind of time

so what works is chemical intervention shamanic intervention aboriginal

on modern pathology

the modern mind has served its purpose as a raft it has carried us across the wide swift running

river of history and uh and now it should be abandoned it's become toxic it doesn't serve anymore

we're going out to the natural world we're going to be abandoned in a moment

we should try and move towards the actual world we should push from the past

from the present and change the future and change the future in the near future

the future is long gone we can start again a new generation and see where we go

in some way i'm much more aware that we're going to be under vorstellen by a nation

a retreat from the brink of a historical apocalypse created by overpopulation and

resource abuse and untrammeled militarism and dominator politics and the the the thing that

is critical here and why all governments are nervous in the presence of it is the psychedelic

experience in the in the environment of youth culture and technology it just is it's a dagger

pointed at the heart of the old discredited and defunct cultural style you know seeking through

the human world for wisdom if you must do that then logic would dictate that you confine yourself

to dead people

because there have been so many more so you know long before you get to shri bhagavan rajneesh

how about five years with plato uh or platinus or

newton or you know there have been some good people who have undergone the formality of no

longer existing uh but they're they still have left their books around and they're usually

better companies

than some in the flesh bd-eyed character who has the latest gospel out of beverly hills to share

with you

this is what coffee does to me you see the afternoon it's you get a different creature

here you get an air clawing table coming

poland

is

that's why psychedelics are somehow I think a kind of inoculation against

paranoia paranoia is a failure to perceive the pattern and instead then to

impute to guess the pattern say well I guess the Pope must be running things or

I guess it's the CIA doing it or something it means in the absence of

understanding you falter and then of an error of thought there may be evil in

the universe but what a rough row it has to hoe you know I wouldn't bet on it

that's for sure because the appetite of the universe is for connectivity novelty

light meaning identity and I do think that

it's that optimism is going to be necessary to create a better world that

you know you can't you pessimists cannot make a better world Marxists were

pessimists fascists were pessimists and they what they created was nightmarish

so in but then safe say well but we need realists to create a better world well

but realists in the modern form tend to

be rather down because they're they're factoid freeze if I believe if my if I

believe this world were controlled by governments religions bankers and large

companies I would be freaked out indeed you know but I don't think it's

controlled by any of those those groups are all reacting you know they would

love to control the

Of course they would, but, my God, it's so complicated.

It just keeps slipping through their fingers.

Right before here, I was in London and staying in Westminster,

which is the government part of London where all the big ministries are,

and at night I would have to walk from the ICA,

about a 20-minute walk back to my hotel,

through the darkened streets of Whitehall and Westminster.

And in those huge ministry buildings, after 1 o'clock in the morning,

there are so many lights on, so many lights are burning

in the chancelleries and ministries of the governments of this planet.

And you know why? Because it's getting out of control.

It's slipping from their grip. They have worries.

They're poring over maps. They're looking at computer projections,

saying, you know, what the hell are we going to do?

Uh...

So they're not gaily conspiring to run the world.

They're frantically planning to try and hold on

to their own pathetic bit of turf before it's wrest from their grip.

Let's take a break.