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«If the truth can be told so as

To be understood it will be believed»

Human history represents such a radical break with the natural systems of

biological organisation that preceded it, that it must be the response to a

kind of attractor or dwell point that lies ahead in the temporal dimension

Persistently, western religions have Integrated into their theologies the

notion of a kind of end of the world, and I think that a lot of psychedelic

experimentation sort of confirms this intuition. I mean, it isn’t going to

happen according to any of the scenarios of orthodox religion, but the basic

intuition that the universe seeks closure in a kind of omega point of

transcendence is confirmed. It’s almost as though this object in

hyperspace—glittering In hyperspace—throws off reflections of itself,

which actually ricochet into the past, illuminating this mystic;

inspiring that saint or visionary; and that out of these fragmentary glimpses

of eternity, we can build a kind of a map of not only the past of the universe

and the evolutionary ingression into novelty, but a kind of map of the future

This is what shamanism has always been about. A shaman is someone who has been

to the end. It’s someone who knows how the world really works, and knowing how

the world really works means to have risen outside, above, beyond the

dimensions of ordinary spacetime and casuistry, and actually seen the wiring

under the board; stepped outside the confines of learned culture,

and learned an embedded language into the domain of what Wittgenstein called «the unspeakable»: the transcendental presence of the other, which can be

sectioned in various ways to yield systems of knowledge, which can be brought

back into ordinary social space for the good of the community. So,

in the context of 90% of human culture, the shaman has been the agent of

evolution, because the shaman learns techniques to go between ordinary reality

and the domain of the ideas: this higher dimensional continuum that is somehow

parallel to us, available to us, and yet ordinarily occluded by cultural

convention, out of the fear of the mystery (I believe), and what shamans are,

are people who have been able to de-condition themselves from the community’s

instinctual distrust of the mystery, and to go into it, to go into this

bewildering higher dimension, and gain knowledge: recover the jewel lost at the

beginning of time, save souls, cure, commune with the ancestors,

and so forth and so on

Shamanism is not a religion: it’s a set of techniques, and the principal

technique is the use of psychedelic plants. What psychedelics do is they

dissolve boundaries, and in the presence of dissolved boundaries one cannot

continue to close one’s eyes to the ruination of the earth, the poisoning of

the seas, and the consequences of two thousand years of unchallenged dominator

culture based on monotheism, hatred of nature, suppression of the female,

and so forth and so on

So, what shamans have to do is act as exemplars by making this cosmic journey

to the domain of the Gaian ideas, and then bringing them back in the form of

art, to the struggle to save the world. The planet has a kind of intelligence,

that it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human

being

The message that nature sends is: Transform your language through a synergy

between electronic culture and the psychedelic Imagination: a synergy between

dance and idea; a synergy between understanding and intuition; and dissolve the

boundaries which your culture has sanctioned between you; become part of this

Gaian supermind

I mean I think it’s fairly profound; it’s fairly apocalyptic. History is ending.

I mean, we are to be the generation that witnesses the revelation of the

purpose of the cosmos. History is the shock wave of the eschaton;

history is the shock wave of eschatology, and what this means for those of us

who will live through this transition into hyperspace is that we will be

privileged to see the greatest release of concresced change probably since the

birth of

The universe

The 20th century is the shudder that announces the approaching cataracts of

time over which our species and the destiny of this planet is about to be swept

If the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.

The emphasis in house music and rave culture on physiologically compatible

rhythms, and this sort of thing, is really the rediscovery of the art of

natural magic with sound

That sound—properly understood; specially percussive sound—can actually change

neurological states, and large groups of people getting together in the

presence of this kind of music are creating a telepathic community,

a bonding that hopefully will be strong enough to carry the vision out into

the mainstream of society. I think the youth culture that is emerging in the

nineties is an end-of-the-millennium culture that is actually summing up

Western civilisation, and pointing us in an entirely different direction:

that we are going to arrive in the third millennium in the middle of an

archaic revival, which will mean a revival of these physiologically empowering

rhythm signatures, a new art; a new social vision; new relationship to nature;

to feminism; to ego. All of these things are taking hold and not a moment too

soon

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