I have recently become a little re-enchanted about the idea of alien life while listening to some of our community's dialog about episode
#150 of the Psychedelic Salon [DIRECT
Mp3 Download], specifically on
the C-Realm and
the Cleaver.
I'm also thinking of the recent comments made by NASA moon walkers
Dr Edgar Mitchell and even
Buzz Aldrin. Top all of this off with the Vatican's chief astronomer publicly stating that "...the vastness of the universe means it is possible there could be other forms of life outside Earth, even intelligent ones and that this belief doesn't contradict the Catholic faith because aliens would still be God's creatures!"
All this brought back the fascination I experienced back in 1994 when first reading
True Hallucinations. Terence McKenna did such a phenomenal job speaking at this conference, maybe because he was not speaking to his usual audience.
At any rate, I wanted to share some of this rekindled enthusiasm on my blog. So please take a
listen for yourself when time permits. I will leave you with the following message from the good bard:
What the mushroom says about itself is this: that it is an extraterrestrial organism, that spores can survive the conditions of interstellar space. They are deep, deep purple - the color that they would have to be to absorb the deep ultraviolet end of the spectrum. The casing of a spore is one of the hardest organic substances known. The electron density approaches that of a metal.
Is it possible that these mushrooms never evolved on earth? That is what the Stropharia cubensis itself suggests. Global currents may form on the outside of the spore. The spores are very light and by Brownian motion are capable of percolation to the edge of the planet's atmosphere. Then, through interaction with energetic particles, some small number could actually escape into space. Understand that this is an evolutionary strategy where only one in many billions of spores actually makes the transition between the stars - a biological strategy for radiating throughout the galaxy without a technology. Of course this happens over very long periods of time. But if you think that the galaxy is roughly 100,000 light-years from edge to edge, if something were moving only one one-hundredth the speed of light - now that's not a tremendous speed that presents problems to any advanced technology - it could cross the galaxy in one hundred million years. There's life on this planet 1.8 billion years old; that's eighteen times longer than one hundred million years. So, looking at the galaxy on those time scales, one sees that the percolation of spores between the stars is a perfectly viable strategy for biology. It might take millions of years, but it's the same principle by which plants migrate into a desert or across an ocean.
I couldn't figure out whether the mushroom is the alien or the mushroom is some kind of technological artifact allowing me to hear the alien when the alien is actually light-years aways, using some kind of Bell non-locality principle to communicate. The mushroom states its own position very clearly. It says, "I require the nervous system of a mammal. Do you have one handy?"
From: Tryptamine Hallucinogens and Consciousness by Terence McKenna
Thus the idea was that the mushrooms could be symbiotically incorporated into DNA, by way of the known method it replicates - unzips and transcribes the code.
This kind of thing is the only way that it could catalyse or enhance the likes of eyesight - continuing long beyond the actual trip wearing off.
Using symbiosis to explain how something can continue to be beneficial after it has been digested and gone from the body, then means you need to ask - well, what's in it for a mushroom to bond with human DNA? And out of that you begin to consider other forms of consciousness and intelligence.
It is in no way outlandish to suggest there can be plants and other creatures that have ways to bond with human DNA or other DNA. Viruses for example are known to get inside cells, and change the cell's instructions - that is changing the DNA. Viruses tend to be known of for their destructive effects; that doesn't mean there aren't variants that are symbiotic thus beneficial. Remember, symbiotic is the opposite of parasite. With a parasite the infecting lifeform benefits and the host is debilitated, with symbiosis both the host and the bonding lifeform benefit.
In most cases, folks that take mushrooms (and other entheogens, psychedelics) report it has a beneficial long term effect for them.
he ventrue himself deep in to the wildness of the novelty, using his bardic skills to cut through it. he was a heretic in the context of status quo thus condemned in this schizophrenic society. that's a hell of a burden to take upon oneself. there are facts pointing the validity of terence ideas - at least some of them. in a fairly precise way one could point the benefits of the mushroom. demons are to be(a)ware of so i guess it is important.
mushrooms mechanism and are much more complex then a knock in the head experience, thou it is a communication form too it says us "avoid blows on the head or it'll hurt you".
so what the mushroom tell us - i dont think anybody can translate it with a precision one would like to see. too poor is our language.
> in some 15 years, I've listened to just just about every Terence mp3 there is, and he more than once described the way he goes about tripping as something along the lines of "once a month, heroic doses (5grams dry), in silent darkness ..." His death in 2000 minus 15 years would put as at 1985. It just seems highly unlikely to me that all these talks detailing his tripping habit were held pre-1985.
> He used DMT all of 9 times... Can you quote a source on that? Would be greatly aprreciated.
That seems to me to be what psychedelics are all about making people realise.
And similarly, this here comment seen from a more absolut point of view, it's just a load of balls that makes no difference whatsoever - it's monkey chatter. If you already know it, yeah it makes sense. But that's the point - you don't know it because of words, you know it because of things you experienced." So true. Building Tulpas, we are. Defining reality. Stretching it. The art of distraction. Cue the lightning.
That seems to me to be what psychedelics are all about making people realise. And similarly, this here comment seen from a more absolut point of view, it's just a load of balls that makes no difference whatsoever - it's monkey chatter. If you already know it, yeah it makes sense. But that's the point - you don't know it because of words, you know it because of things you experienced. Even if you only go a small bit of time beyond the 'big bang' and get to when atoms begin to appear. Consider how unlikely it is that such a thing would appear, and be stable, and then! - loads more of them somehow are also made, and they are all so similar (some say exactly the same, well they all look the same from far away), and then they start to connect to other different atoms, which also are regular..........it's preposterous to suggest that kind of thing can happen by chance. It's preposterous to suggest that anything happening by chance, explains a damn thing either. 'chance' the phenomena - from whence did it come? Look at the complexity required before 'chance' can get a stage to begin performing on.
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