Strange Attractor
This is a scripted narrative work presented through digital communications between characters including Rose, Adada, and Carlos. The story follows their message exchanges as they discuss a stolen McKenna manuscript, consciousness exploration through botanicals, and set up what they call a "strange attractor" during a full moon. The narrative weaves together themes of psychedelic exploration, digital surveillance, and interpersonal relationships in what appears to be a fictionalized treatment of McKenna's ideas. The characters communicate through streams and packets while tracking each other's activities and experiences.
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Oh my. Oh my. Oh my.
You run my heart. It's a tractor. I dreamed I was a blue apple.
Oh my friends. The future is beautiful. Sleep with me. I need to love you. I need to hold you in my spell.
I don't know where I am tonight. But I wish I was you.
Her name is Rose. I had a dream.
Her name is Rose.
Don't I am where I am tonight?
Her name is Rose.
She is my strange attractor.
I don't know where I am tonight.
But I wish I was with her.
We use botanicals to interface and to do things and go places no one has gone before.
She taught me to live in the future.
My name is Adada.
I speak to you from my heart.
I need to love her.
You can't go there alone.
Adada, Basra, Mandai, Lou Apkin, McKenna, Amalfi, Uberdan, Aya, Luna, Luna, Luna, Luna, Sweet Dreams Rose, Marva, I love you.
It's all it's I'm getting white. Oh, there was a big life
You feel me at home. You're here. You're in the same party. I'll see you. Yeah, that's carry. Oh, yo, yo
I have to tell you
Dancer
Great, you should get out and dance
And I hope he's happy
Have you heard from mom? I mean, I think she's still in Las Vegas, but um, I hope she doesn't lose too much money
She says she's only playing slot machines, but um
Well now this was she would stay in one place because but next she's going to France to do a tour of
black Madonna shrines
She is a trip and they get some virgins
small
Listen I
Got a packet from Cardiff's and
It's pretty strange. I mean
Okay, if he contacts you I
Don't like no matter what don't not give him my address. Okay. I mean, I don't want to see him and
He's in some weird shit these days. No, he wants everybody else to go through the same thing. He has but I'm not interested so
He needs to really just chill out and give it a break. Okay, honey, so that is a warning
But I'm surprised for you guys
And when I get back
Have you heard about this new botanical called blue apples?
because uh, I don't know it was designed by Terrence McKenna and
Supposed to be doing something tonight and you know, it's a full moon. So
You know, I know you know that I hope you enjoy your moon dreams I'm gonna let you know and maybe we'll just meet in fairyland
Okay, I found this present for a daughter and
Check it out
I mean, I bought it in Cairo and I said it was stolen from a bombed out art museum in Iraq and
I don't know what it is, but it weighs a ton and
He better like it
so, okay better gonna cuz um, I'm gonna rehearse and
Yeah, and I almost forgot okay, I'm sending you a bunch of new dance with it
music is Gerald and it reminds me of when you were
Pregnant and I hope you enjoy it
remember
your body is
your home
I got a stream from Carlos. That's still going. I attached a sample over for you to check out
It's pretty intense
He's talking about a mouth of you again. I don't know where he gets this stuff. I think he's planning something really dramatic
He's totally flipped out since the accident
In fact, I think it's even worse now. He's like
Not holding it together
I looked at his bio clock as he's been on streaming for at least four days in a row. Maybe he'll kill himself
Maybe that's the point. I don't want to stay on top of this thing
make sure
the problem is
It looks like
He's the one that stole that manuscript McKenna's been looking for
He's got pictures of it all through his story
I think he's gonna do something crazy. I
Don't trust him. I know you don't trust him, but we still have to deal with this guy
So I'm getting really tired my cycles are very large snake
I think this snake must have been an old boyfriend
Sweet dreams, sweetheart. I hope you can find me later tonight
To cure record like here. It's a rose
I got your dance footage and
As usual, it's really beautiful. And you know, I'm looking forward to you coming back to town
So I'm kind of preoccupied because I got some disturbing packets from a data
Also, I want to remind you you need to do the blue apples with a friend it's important
And I'm going to be doing my usual moon thing so
I'll check in with you later. Bye. Bye
Attach to the cord. It's rose
First thanks for the pictures from Java. It's like a paradise
About tonight though
I received a disturbing message from a data
and
We need to open a second stream on him. I need to be able to find him tonight
And also I'm very concerned about Carlos and I would like for you to look into his stream and see
Where he's coming from?
and
We really need to do these things tonight, it's very important so
Too late. Thank you. Check in later
And record attach to a Dada
report
Hi, sweetheart. It's Rose I
Love you, and I miss you you need to come home
You've been gone too long
I
got your packets and
That ancestor program looks pretty fun
but I am
concerned about
about Carlos stealing McKenna's manuscript.
And it seems like he's losing it.
So I'm worried about you.
And what I'm going to do is I'm going
to do my usual moon thing.
And I had to open a second stream on you.
And I also had him check into Carlos' stream
to see where it's coming from.
And I'm going to come looking for you.
Because I need to find you, sweetheart.
You need to wake up.
So I love you.
I love you so much.
Take care.
And I'm going to check in soon and record.
The computer intro hour.
Set up full moon attractor.
See?
Full moon is available.
Would you prefer botanical pattern drives?
Yes.
Muna, Basra, Mandyan, blue apples, Inanna.
Attract and extract.
Anticipation.
Touch me.
Let us go into the vine and see whether the vines have budded.
Whether the grape blossoms have opened.
On my bed by night, I saw him whom my soul loves.
But found him not.
My beloved is knocking.
Open to me.
My beloved is knocking.
Hunt.
Wake up.
Eat the apples.
Runs.
Wake up.
Eat the apples.
Runs.
Hunt.
Eat the apples.
Runs.
Wake up.
primitive außer boredom
liberalized
waking up
let me
I will rise now and go about the city.
I will seek in erro yours love
You did this undurned
retribution
I feel kind of weightless
Sim countries
In Nayris
Publasm it's not easy to reproduce
I'm having a bit of a time to being as I am right now,
because I can rarely think about myself.
I can't contain my energy right now.
No dimension.
When I first saw HP Alpha Omega Amaltea Eterna in my head,
I just started feeling the succion,
the succion amalgam cortis arcuate in a little day like today.
These little things, they make awful, awful lot of noise
to my ears that are tuned to many frequencies.
Frequencies that can be opened with 30 Amaltea 44.
It never fails.
And these frequencies coming up of these little boys here and girls
and it's and nothing at the same time.
Teach me and talk to me and let me know what's going on.
You know where? You know where?
On the other, on the other side.
Remember the old legend? You heard that.
20 years ago, on the other side.
Breaking through on the other side.
Well, we did it.
We're breaking through on the other side and we are back.
To tell you, with another body,
our same energies are here.
I don't want to sell you anything.
I don't want to talk to you.
You are part of me.
You know what I'm talking.
You are part of me.
You are part of Amaltea.
You are part of a psychic being.
Electric energy go on forever into infinity.
And the sooner you realize and the sooner you realize and feel that,
the better for you.
Because that's the way it is.
I just came to this planet.
I just came to this piece of rock
that you call Earth.
Oh, yes.
Chaos. Energy.
My friends, the future is beautiful.
Oh, yes. What you call a future?
Oh, yes. Oh, yes.
Ectoplasm burning every wall.
No limits for the this.
You know what?
Limits. Limits. Limits. Limits. Limits. Limits. Limits. Limits. Limits.
I don't want limits anymore.
You know, because
there have to be 80 or 70 or 60 orbits
inside this ectoplasmic body.
And that's a long time.
That's a long time for you, not for me,
because I don't exist.
I'm all over you.
I am the sound that's pulling your ear.
I am the guitar string.
I am the scream.
I am the car.
I am the death.
I am the bullet.
I am the one sitting next to you also.
I take many shapes.
And I am energy.
Energy.
I have to take shape.
I want to tell you something.
I want to tell you to you.
I want to tell you that.
It's gonna happen.
Amalthea 36.
We'll do it.
It's man.
It's limp.
Pathbath?
It's limp?
Pathbath.
Pathbath?
Absolutely.
You know where I am tonight.
I know you wish I was with you.
And the light goes off.
With no body.
With no grip.
With no dimensions.
Save your damn life.
Everybody thinks he's normal.
He was single.
And now he thinks he's,
He's like the secret Adam, and he's gonna have something to prove it in.
He's got this story in his head where God is in pain, and suffering is holy.
You know, life isn't a fucking story.
Every nut with a Bible and a vision wants us to know a fucking story.
You know, Carlos wants us to share all of his beliefs.
I am the one sitting next to you.
Death.
Push us away and put us in pain.
McKenna left us a packet on the Mendaya material.
It's all about Eve coming back to Earth at the end of history, and how to get back to the garden.
It's about sacred plants and natural seeds, and nobody can get there alone.
All these other people.
I feel my dreams.
Limits. Limits. Limits. Limits. Limits. Limits. I don't want limits anymore.
We're surrounded by these nets of light, and they're all turning in different directions.
And they're all pulsing at different speeds.
Some of them are incredibly bright, and some of them are incredibly quick.
I'm afraid we'll be too late.
You know, we have a bright future ahead of us.
Just a little time.
The Earth is full of light, and it's so bright.
God is pulling us all together, and we are living in strife.
And it's about time.
It's about time.
We are living in strife.
We're all out of time.
We're dying of grief.
We're dying of pain.
Who is the gardener next to you?
Awesome!
I'm going home to be honest.
I'm not going to ask the future's kid if I'm going home.
I'm going home.
Who is the gardener next to you?
Death!
I think he wants to poison the water.
No, he's not already poisoned.
What I am, my garden is violated.
My temples are desecrated.
My children are suffering.
My womb is dry.
My rivers are sour.
And my body has been torn.
Your kisses will exist.
Your honey will be bitter.
I will come as demon.
Your kisses will exist.
I will come as demon.
Assassin.
I'm talking to you from the Imagimatrix, Rose.
A domain outside of space and time.
A domain unknown to ordinary people.
But over the centuries, exceptional human beings have learned the secret of moving between the worlds, Rose.
The Imagimatrix is the land of all dreams fulfilled.
It's larger than you can imagine, Rose.
It's a universe inside the human mind.
And it's where the future is going.
It is where our destiny lies.
In a place where realities are made of thoughts.
And where the only laws are the laws of the human imagination.
This is the place that shamans have known of for millennia, Rose.
They pass through the portals that normally are reserved for the dead souls.
Moving between the worlds.
There's a technology and an understanding that you can barely imagine.
And the means, the tool, is the blue apples.
And the secret of their chemistry.
This is what has been kept from ordinary mankind for millennia.
This is the real secret behind the idea of magic, Rose.
This is the universe into which your entire world is destined to dissolve.
Mandaean.
I need.
Inanna.
Minan.
Basra.
Mandayan.
Nandayan.
Inanna.
Mandayan.
Inanna.
Minan.
Auma.
Basra.
Mandayan.
The Mandayans are the oldest living Gnostic cult in the world, Rose.
They keep a mythology that has died in the rest of the world.
And the center of their mythology is the faith in a messiah.
No ordinary messiah.
But a messiah who will come at the end of the world with a technique, a machine, a method of some sort.
This secret they have kept intact over countless millennia.
And what secret is it?
I wonder if you know, Rose.
It's the secret of the blue apples.
It's the secret of the creation and concentration of the quintessence of the blue apples and the Minan world that lies behind them, Rose.
Minan?
I know that you're seeking someone.
I know that there is someone who you are looking for.
And I tell you, Rose, the path to this person lies through the Minan.
It lies in the way of the blue apples.
You must consume the icon.
You must internalize the sign of the blue apple in your world, Rose.
And find your way back through the floral labyrinth to the data-hexed one.
The whole earth and the imaginatrix.
The land of all dreams fulfilled.
Through Inanna to the Mandaeans, the secret of the blue apple has been kept.
The secret atom is but half of the mystery.
Eve, mother of us all, the keeper of the blue apple Gnosis, is Inanna.
And from the Mandaeans to the present, the thread is unbroken back into forgotten time.
Remember the blue apples.
Remember the blue apples, Rose.
Remember the blue apples.
Be the web.
They are neither scarce nor abundant.
There are always as many blue apples as there are people to eat a blue apple.
Traces of this lore appear in the various of the world's religions.
You know the story of Eve with her apple.
A confused folklore among a tribe of desert marauders.
Preserving scraps of lore whose origins they knew not.
The story that appears in the Christian Bible is but a garbled trace of and more esoteric.
They preserve a curious, very ancient form of the Eve story.
In which Eve finds an apple.
But it is blue.
The apple that Eve actually ate was eaten by a queen in Atlantis.
Later, these facts had to become secret.
Most people were afraid of the true depths.
I saw this religion, that religion, this sect.
This cult.
Were a group of women cultivating.
Sensitive.
The vine that grows the blue apple is the most sensitive plant that has ever been grown on earth.
It must be taken and exposed to the moon and watered with the minstrel effusions of it.
Other times it must be exposed to the sun and the rain.
All in precise proportions.
In order that a blue apple be bugged.
Or maybe it was Cairo.
I can't tell the difference anymore.
And I was in a cafe.
Looking at an old manuscript.
Somebody wanted to sell me.
Told me it was stolen.
But that whatever I looked for.
When I looked at these pictures.
The pictures in fact.
I felt like I had made these pictures.
And it began all over again.
There I looked.
I saw your face.
And every woman.
No one had ever seen.
When you were building techniques.
I wish I was with you.
I'll be there if I can.

terence mckenna's 1995 state of the stone address. a san francisco lecture on the failures of science, fractals, novelty theory, and psychedelics as a tool for human consciousness.

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