WEBVTT 00:10.700 --> 00:22.920 This is me sitting in a hut in the upper Pujamaya Basin of Kamasari, Amazonas, Colombia, 1971, age 22, with graph paper in front of me. 00:22.920 --> 00:33.300 I am not a mathematician and never showed great talent for precise and formal thinking. 00:33.300 --> 00:46.780 As a result of a series of very peculiar experiences in the Amazon many, many years ago, which are described in true hallucinations. 00:47.120 --> 00:52.840 True hallucinations. Behind us, the unknown. Before us, the secret. 00:52.840 --> 01:02.740 The basic assumption upon which all science rests is the idea that time is invariant. 01:03.300 --> 01:12.020 That if you must picture time, you must picture it as an absolutely feature plane. 01:12.020 --> 01:23.940 No love affair, no war, no economic collapse, no domestic spat, is ever like any other. 01:23.940 --> 01:31.420 In our experience, each moment has the property of uniqueness. 01:31.420 --> 01:33.260 But science, in order to modify the time, will not be able to do so. 01:33.260 --> 01:33.280 Science, in order to modify the time, will not be able to do so. 01:33.280 --> 01:40.300 its cosmos has to deny this and create the myth of pure duration. How do things 01:40.300 --> 01:45.160 come into existence? And how do they maintain themselves? And how do they 01:45.160 --> 01:53.500 disappear? And what is the unfolding of the world as we experience it? 01:53.500 --> 02:33.300 I'm Dennis McKenna, Terence McKenna's younger brother. We pursued the odd and bizarre 02:33.300 --> 02:41.600 in nature for many years. His approach has been very speculative and metaphysical. 02:41.600 --> 02:48.560 The thing that is critical here and why all governments are nervous in the 02:48.560 --> 02:54.860 presence of it is the psychedelic experience in the environment of 02:54.860 --> 03:00.800 youth culture and technology. It just is, it's a dagger pointed at the heart of 03:00.800 --> 03:04.540 the old 03:04.640 --> 03:09.640 discredited and defunct cultural style. 03:09.640 --> 03:15.440 Your honor, as you can see from this film footage, it wasn't our fault. 03:15.440 --> 03:27.120 I mean everybody knows there's something wrong with the world and if you read 03:27.120 --> 03:34.220 left-wing politicians or deconstructionists or thoughtful historians, 03:34.220 --> 03:40.600 they will offer thoughtful critiques of our situation. But the question is, you 03:40.600 --> 03:41.720 know, the Tolstoy 03:41.720 --> 03:48.080 question, what is to be done? I think we should try to become examples for each 03:48.080 --> 03:54.800 other and learn from each other. And you know it's a matter of turning off to 03:54.800 --> 04:02.620 mainstream values, turning on to the new communications technology, turning on 04:02.620 --> 04:10.720 to shamanism, traditional shamanism, its techniques, its communities, and 04:10.720 --> 04:11.720 and 04:11.720 --> 04:14.160 dematerializing our culture. 04:14.160 --> 04:20.720 Neuro-cybernetic globalized tribe. Creative dreaming in the presence of 04:20.720 --> 04:29.420 technology is a place where, haunted by genies, you know, genies that will wrap 04:29.420 --> 04:34.840 you in the in the blanket of their mysterium and lead you forward. 04:34.840 --> 04:41.600 March forth humanity to greet a new dawn as you slid and swat the 04:41.600 --> 04:42.360 world. 04:42.360 --> 04:47.780 Crawled and walked down the spiral chains of evolutionary metamorphosis to your final 04:47.780 --> 04:52.600 awakening. For this is the day when you will sleep no more. 04:52.600 --> 05:10.510 The pre-created, post-industrial, constipated, existential, prosthesis-divided creature that 05:10.510 --> 05:15.890 we are is going to crack its exoskeleton and the new primitive is going to be born. 05:15.890 --> 05:16.890 And the new primitive is going to be born. 05:16.890 --> 05:17.890 And the new primitive is going to be born. 05:17.890 --> 05:18.890 And the new primitive is going to be born. 05:18.890 --> 05:19.890 And the new primitive is going to be born. 05:19.890 --> 05:21.910 And the new primitive is going to walk out. 05:21.910 --> 05:30.230 With black contact lenses implanted in the eyelids, menus hanging in space, 05:30.230 --> 05:38.790 able to access vast three dimensional simulacrums of imaginary realities, but basically living 05:38.790 --> 05:47.750 a close to hunter-gatherer lifestyle in very small localized human communities with very 05:47.750 --> 05:48.730 focused, 05:48.730 --> 05:55.530 ecological and land-based concerns in the three-dimensional surround and all 05:55.530 --> 06:04.090 all artificiality will be virtual. Every iota of ambiguity that leaves the 06:04.090 --> 06:10.630 communication enterprise makes brings us closer together. I mean our whole task is 06:10.630 --> 06:17.770 to make ourselves understood and to understand others as they wish to be 06:17.770 --> 06:23.910 understood, not as we wish to understand them.