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.