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