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 it's 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