| Human history represents such a radical break with the natural systems of
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| biological organisation that preceded it that it must be the response to a kind
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| of attractor or dwell point that lies ahead in the temporal dimension.
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| Persistently western religions have integrated into their theologies the notion
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| of a kind of end of the world. |
| And I think that a lot of psychedelic
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| experimentation sort of confirms this intuition.
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| I mean it isn’t going to happen according to any of the scenarios of orthodox
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| religion, but the basic intuition that the universe seeks closure in a kind of
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| Omega point of transcendence is confirmed.
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| It’s almost as though this object in hyperspace, glittering in hyperspace,
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| throws off reflections of itself, which actually ricochet into the past,
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| illuminating this mystic, inspiring that saint or visionary, and that out of
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| these fragmentary glimpses of Eternity we can build a kind of a map of not only
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| the past universe and the evolutionary ingression into novelty, but a kind of
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| map of the future.
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| This is what Shamanism has always been about.
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| A Shaman is someone who has been to the end.
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| It is someone who knows how the world really works, and knowing how the world
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| really works, means to have risen outside, above, beyond the dimensions of
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| ordinary spacetime and cozooistry and actually seen the wiring under the board:
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| stepped outside the confines of learned culture and learned and embedded
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| language into the domain of Wittgenstein called the unspeakable,
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| the Transcendental presence of the Other, which can be sectioned in various
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| ways to yield Systems of Knowledge which can be brought back into ordinary
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| social space for the good of the Community.
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| So in the context of 90% of human culture, the Shaman has been the Agent of
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| Evolution, because the Shaman learns techniques to go between ordinary reality
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| and the domain of the ideas: this higher dimensional continuum that is somehow
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| parallel to us, available to us and yet ordinarily occluded to us by cultural
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| convention out of the fear of the Mystery, I believe, and what the Shamans are,
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| are people who have been able to de-condition themselves from the community’s
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| instinctual distrust of the Mystery, and go into this bewildering Higher
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| Dimension, and gain Knowledge, recover the jewel lost at the Beginning of Time,
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| save souls, cure, commune with the Ancestors and so forth and so on.
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| Shamanism is not a religion — it’s a set of techniques, and the Principle
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| Technique is the use of psychedelic plants.
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| What psychedelics do is they dissolve boundaries; |
| and in the presence of
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| dissolved boundaries One cannot continue to close One’s eyes to the ruination
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| of the Earth, the poisoning of the Seas and the consequences of two thousand
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| years of unchallenged Dominator culture, based on Monotheism, hatred of Nature,
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| suppression of the Female and so forth and so on.
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| So, what Shamans have to do is act as exemplars by making this cosmic journey
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| to the domain of the Gaian Ideas, and then bringing them back in the form of
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| Art, to the struggle to Save the World.
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| The Planet has a kind of intelligence, that it can actually Open a Channel of
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| communication with an individual human being.
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| The message that Nature sends is transform your language through a synergy
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| between Electronic culture and the Psychedelic Imagination; |
| a synergy between
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| Dance and Idea; |
| a synergy between Understanding and Intuition, and dissolve the
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| boundaries which your culture has sanctioned between you.
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| Become part of this Gaian Supermind.
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| I mean I think it’s fairly profound, it’s fairly Apocalyptic.
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| History is ending, I mean we are to be the generation that witnesses the
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| Revelation of the purpose of the Cosmos.
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| History is the shock wave of the Eschaton.
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| History is the shock wave of Eschatology.
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| And what this means for those of us who will live through this transition into
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| Hyperspace is that we will be privileged to see the greatest release of
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| Concressed Change probably since the birth of the Universe.
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| The twentieth 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
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| swept.
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| «If the truth can be told so as to be understood it will be believed»
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| The emphasis in House music and rave culture on physiologically compatible
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| rhythms, and this sort of thing, is really the re-discovery of the art of
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| Natural Magic with sound.
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| That sound, properly understood, especially percussive sound, can actually
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| change neurological states, and large groups of people getting together in the
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| presence of this kind of music are creating a telepathic community, a bonding,
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| that hopefully will be strong enough to carry the Vision out into the main
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| stream of Society.
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| I think the Youth culture that is emerging in the nineties is an End of the
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| Millennium culture that is actually summing up Western Civilisation,
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| and pointing us in an entirely different direction; |
| that we are going to
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| arrive in the Third Millennium in the middle of an Archaic revival which will
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| mean a revival of these physiologically empowering rhythm signatures, a new Art,
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| a new Social Vision, a new relationship to Nature, to Feminism,
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| to Ego — all of these things are taking hold, and not a Moment too Soon. |