The Shamen - Re: Evolution with Terence McKenna

"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 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 is 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 cozooistry
and actually seen the wiring under the board:

stepped outside the confines of learned culture
and learned and embedded language into the
domain of 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 to us by cultural convention
out of the fear of the Mystery, I believe, and what
the Shamans are, are people who have been able to
de-condition themselves from the community's
instinctual distrust of the Mystery, and 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 - its a set of
techniques, and the Principle 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 Concressed Change probably since the birth of
the Universe. 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 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
re-discovery of the art of Natural Magic with
sound.

That sound, properly understood,
especially 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 main stream 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, a
new relationship to Nature, to Feminism, to Ego -
all of these things are taking hold,
and not a Moment too Soon.

Shamen - Phorever People

Keep Generating Joy Making
Keep Dreaming on, Phorever People

Keep Generating Joy Making
Keep Dreaming on, Phorever People

We are Phorever People and we don't have to look too far To find Ourselves
Phorever People can it be?

We are Phorever People and we can see Tomorrow in each other's eyes
Phorever People can it be?

Phorever People behold you stand tall, you won't fall
Because you give it your All
With a Magical aura of Wisdom and Will
We'll progress in the future and never stand still
Knowing and Seeing that we're going thru Change
Discovery of Light, starting to arrange
In the Mind with the help of Visualisation
Plan for the Future Civilisation
Making a decision, and knowing it's right
Discovery of Truth in the Vision of Light
Phorever People you will always be
A Step forward in Life for Positivity
So Keep on Believing, and keep on going,
Keep on trying and keep on sowing
The seed that is good - you know that we know
Yo - here we go!

We are Phorever People and we don't have to look too far To find Ourselves
Phorever People can it be?

We are Phorever People and we can see Tomorrow in each other's eyes
Phorever People can it be?

Phorever People for Now and for Then
You say "For When ?" and I say it's Phorever, my friend
Because the Future is Now, and Phorever is Here
Within Visions of Truth, Imagination is Clear
So go forth with Experimentation
Technology for the Future Generation
Add knowing insight and Mystical Might
Phorever People still doing it right!

We are here and now among You
We are here and now among You
We are here and now among You
Add knowing insight and Mystical Might
Phorever People still doing it right!

We are Phorever People and we don't have to look too far To find Ourselves
Phorever People can it be?

We are Phorever People and we can see Tomorrow in each other's eyes
Phorever People can it be?
Phorever People can it be?

Keep Generating Joy Making
Keep Dreaming on, Phorever People

Keep Generating Joy Making
Keep Dreaming on, Phorever People

We are Phorever People and we don't have to look too far To find Ourselves
Phorever People can it be?

We are Phorever People and we can see Tomorrow in each other's eyes
Phorever People can it be?


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