433 - Consciousness Browsers

Program Notes

Guest speaker: Rak Razam

Today’s podcast features Rak Razam’s 2014 Palenque Norte Lecture, which was originally titled “Cosmic Consciousness To Convergence: Activating the Species.” As you can see, I have shortened it to a phrase that Rak used in his talk, “Consciousness Browsers,” which is an excellent way to describe the psychedelic experience. During his talk, Rak ranges from a discussion of his research into the shamanic use of ayahuasca, to black holes, consciousness as a bit torrent, and the concept of a species swarm. One of my favorite quotes from this talk is: “The heroic thing really is doing what needs to be done, or discovering something of value, and bringing it back and sharing it with the tribe.”

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Transcript

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Greetings from Cyberdelic Space, this is Lorenzo and I’m your host here in the Psychedelic

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Salon.

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Now, although I planned on getting this podcast out yesterday,

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I kind of got waylaid by listening to reports about the big storm

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that’s underway in the northeast of the U.S. right now.

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I’ve actually got a lot of friends in the area,

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not to mention all of our fellow salonners

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who are going to have to shuttle a lot of snow this year.

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Is it just me, or are some parts of this planet

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slowly morphing

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into areas that are now unfit for human habitation? Granted, snow can be fun under the right

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circumstances, but dealing with a lot of snow and ice and cold weather each year most definitely

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takes something out of you. My mother and stepfather relocated from northern Illinois

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when they were in their early 70s and moved to Florida, where they enjoyed almost another 20 years. But during that time, every one of their

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friends that they had left behind up north died long before they did. Obviously, there were a lot

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of other factors involved in their longevity, but I’m convinced that getting out of the winter

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weather was the primary thing that helped them live so long.

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Now, for today’s talk, we’re going to again go back to the 2014 Palenque Norte lectures that were held at Burning Man.

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And today’s speaker is Rak Razam, whose work I’ve mentioned here in the salon before.

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As you may remember, Rak is the man who created the book and the video that are titled,

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Aya Awakenings, that deal with his exploration of the shamanic medicine, ayahuasca.

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Now in the Burning Man program,

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Rak’s talk was titled, Cosmic Consciousness to Convergence, Activating the Species.

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But during his talk, he says that the title is,

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Psychedelics and Theogens and the Species Activation.

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But as you can see, I decided to call this talk Consciousness Browsers,

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which is the wonderful phrase that I heard for the first time when Rack used it in the talk that we’re about to listen to.

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Now, over the years, there have been a lot of suggestions for what to call our psychedelic medicines.

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Jonathan Ott and his team came up with the word entheogen,

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which is a fine word and one that I often use in conjunction with our sacred medicines.

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However, when it comes to a description of the psychedelic experience,

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well, I don’t see how we can improve on Rack’s concept of consciousness browsers.

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Maybe he didn’t come up with it himself, but after trying several search engines to locate another instance of it, Consciousness Browsers And as you’ll notice in a moment, the first minute or so of Rack’s talk didn’t get recorded.

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But having been in charge of recording some of the Palenque Norte talks in past years myself,

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when I didn’t even get some of them recorded at all,

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well, let’s be thankful that only a few sentences were lost.

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And now, in mid-sentence, here is Rack Razam delivering his 2014 Palenque Norte lecture at Burning Man.

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And at that time, I hadn’t really done ayahuasca or any of the other…

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I’ve done psilocybin mushrooms and a few other different plant entheogens,

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but predominantly I was coming from a psychedelic background.

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And I think that’s where many of us have come from.

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But in the years since, the entheogenic movement has really sprouted very dynamically and in a very beautiful way. And my second assignment

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after Albert Hoffman in January 2006 was to go down to the Amazon in South America, in

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Peru, and to really discover what this mythic archetype of the shaman was all about and

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why that role had really been extinguished from the Western mainframe,

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why it was really guru-ized and revered a lot in the West

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because we don’t have shamans, we don’t have medicine people,

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because for the last 500 years or so of our recorded history,

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we have eradicated every culture we’ve come into contact with

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that had a deep relationship with the planet

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that involved entheogenic or mind-altering plants

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and the medicine people that was associated with that.

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We’ve had the eradication in the West

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of all the witches and the medicine women.

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There’s been a real genocide on multiple levels,

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both with indigenous cultures and with people within the West

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who evinced any connection to spirit itself.

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And so my assignment going down to Peru was totally self-set by myself

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to write about and to encounter what this whole rise in shamanism was about

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and what ayahuasca was about

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and to discover why so many westerners were going

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down to the jungles of South America to partake of this vegetal medicine. I was there for nine

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weeks and that became a book which is out now called Aira Awakenings and here at Palenque Norte

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at midnight they’re screening the film adaption of that book which has just come out at the start

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of this year 2014 also called Aira

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Awakenings. So that’s a little bit about my background. Basically, I went very deep down

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the rabbit hole, and there’s this whole idea of the heroic journey. And it’s not, again,

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in the Western sense. They’ve made, just like they’ve made spirituality, they’ve made this

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whole heroic journey almost something to be reserved or not to be proud of

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but it’s not about going out and

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the heroic thing really is doing what needs to be done

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or discovering something of value

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and bringing it back and sharing it with the tribe

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and that’s the full circle, that’s coming full circle

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so for me that heroic journey took seven years

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to fully integrate my first blush of ayahuasca experiences and to

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make media of them in the two books our awakenings and ayahuasca sessions uh and now the film and so

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it’s very interesting because after seven years of having made media about altered states and

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ayahuasca and the entheogenic explosion i’m now going back full circle to peru in september and

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leading some of my first retreats with Percy Garcia, Kieran

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Darrow down there that I respect, and getting back into the medicine.

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So usually at festivals like Palenque here and all over the world in Australia and in

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North America, I usually talk about ayahuasca because that’s something I’ve got a lot of

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experience with, but I also come from this psychedelic background, and so I really like to explore how modalities like ayahuasca interact and interface with movements that have come

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before and with, basically, consciousness browsers like psychedelics and like the entheogens,

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and there’s other pathways as well, and how this all fits into a bigger picture.

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So this talk I’m doing here tonight at Palenque is called From Cosmic Consciousness

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to Convergence, Psychedelics, Entheogens and the Species Activation. So, you know, to research

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and to go back to some of the basic fundamental building blocks, many people, when we’re talking

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about psychedelics or ayahuasca, they’ll tell you their experiences, but it’s very hard to come back to these base concepts and discuss them with a sort of scientific

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rigor or a shared understanding that makes it palatable. So I really wanted to look at

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what is consciousness, right? I mean, you know, if you’ve ever had any deep consciousness

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experiences, you know, you can get to these singularity points

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where consciousness is everything.

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Consciousness is all there is,

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but it’s shaping and it’s mapping

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and it’s clothing itself

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in all these myriad of forms

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that make up reality

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that seem to be separate.

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They seem to be these discrete particles

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in what we are also told is a wave formation.

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It’s this collective canvas that consciousness expresses itself on.

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So I was really interested in looking at how previous waves of consciousness

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and different generations have expressed the idea of what is it

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and what’s going on with it.

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And I first came across this philosopher, Alfred North Whitehead,

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through Terence McKenna.

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Terence would throw off these wonderful terms like concrescence,

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and I’d have to go up and look it up,

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this manifestation of things,

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the way things seem to pull together

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and to almost like a sandpitcher that’s turned upside down

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and all the layers find themselves and they actualize,

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they become from this void of unbecoming.

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There’s still central mystery, which to this day,

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even the quantum scientists will have language for it,

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but they do not know.

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They cannot verifiably say what it is.

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And it’s very strange because our entire civilization

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and our technology and the way we import and carry ourselves

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and how we navigate through the world

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is all dependent upon consciousness.

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So I first came across this philosopher,

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Alfred North Whitehead,

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who once defined consciousness as

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the awareness of awareness

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or the apperception of pattern as such.

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And I think they say this in other frames of reference as well.

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It’s like the pattern within the noise.

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You know, there’s a lot of information.

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Well, there’s a lot of noise out there,

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but it’s how you grok or how you lock into seeing

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which bits of it are valid or which bits of it make sense,

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which bits are reflected in a way which congeal together

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to make up a meaningful reaction

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and are then transmitting to you some type of pattern.

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Because if there’s a pattern, there is a consciousness behind it.

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I mean, the pattern is consciousness, as I think we might be about to find out.

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So as well as this definition of consciousness from Alfred North Whitehead,

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every culture has their own definitions.

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You go back through this idea of the mind-brain dynamic

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all the way through the classic civilizations

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with Rome and Greece.

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In the march of civilization as we know it,

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what Terence also used to call his story,

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you know, and there’s hyphen in there,

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it’s the story that patriarchal culture has told

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of the conquest and the wars and who conquered who and our distancing from nature.

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But by around the turn of the 19th century,

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I mean, you know, there’s this resonance.

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There are waves to history.

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I won’t go into Terence’s idea of the time wave,

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but there are some very resonant ideas that time is either cyclic

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or there’s waves of certain type of energies that are coming through

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that manifest slightly differently,

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but there’s different patterns coming through.

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So in the 19th century, there was this revival of spiritualism as well.

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And in a really strange way,

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it very dynamically mirrors the mid-20th century psychedelic explosion.

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So at this time, as evolution in medicine and disciplines like

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psychology were actually just actualizing themselves and starting to come into existence,

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there were philosophers like Henry Bergson, who was a French philosopher, and he was really

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looking at ideas around consciousness. But consciousness has quite often been defined

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through the lens of the intellect and through these general parameters which are only facets of overall consciousness.

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Henry Bergson had the famous phrase saying, the universe is a machine for making gods.

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And that was 19th century terminology.

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And machine now we would probably update with a lot more organic cloud you know, cloud computing type of distributed consciousness

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metaphors. But he was basically saying there was a process or intellect at work in the universe

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which creates consciousness. And we can’t grasp the whole tale of the beast or the whole beast

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by just using the intellect. And he was really big on this idea of intuition and of using the

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intuition and of exploring the imagination and originally you

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know in in times past imagination used to mean more than it means now it’s not just daydreaming

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or thinking things up it’s using your creative faculties your entire life energy your chi and

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your mind body heart connection to dream in or to ride in uh you know the mimetic sort of sculpting of the intellect into physical form.

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But you imagine, you know, it’s more than just…

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So the mind has these different compartmentalizations

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and much more capability than science itself has really explored.

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So that was Henry Bergson.

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Another famous psychologist of the 19th century and the turn of the 20th century

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was William James. He was a Canadian Medical Association doctor who came to America as well,

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and he formed, I think he formed the American Medical Association. He was very, you know,

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respected. He was an early pioneer of nitrous oxide and of using alterants to explore consciousness.

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of nitrous oxide and of using uh alterants to explore consciousness um and you know nitrous is a very interesting one that again is is often overlooked um but there were there were many

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people in back then who were still within the medical profession we hadn’t had the split

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between medical scientific you know rational minds exploring consciousness with mind alterants and

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what had to be become buried and underground

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with the psychedelic movement

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once things became criminalized later on in time,

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which we’ll get to.

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So things like nitrous oxide, mescaline, opium, peyote

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were very prevalent in the medical underground

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of the turn of the century into the 19th, 20th century.

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And it interestingly does seem to parallel what was

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happening a generation or three later with the psychedelic revolution. So in 1898, William James

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gave a very famous lecture at Harvard University, this very choice phrase where he said,

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like Henry Bergson before him, he refused to believe that the fangs of cerebralism alone could explain the function of the brain and consciousness.

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As far as our understanding goes, he said, that would be as great a

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miracle if we said thought is spontaneously generated or created

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out of nothing. He went on to say that our waking consciousness and

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rational consciousness are two types of consciousness, while all

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about it there are different variations of consciousness

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separated by only the flimsiest of screens.

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That was from his famous book,

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The Varieties of Religious Experience, he published in 1902.

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So another contemporary of these gentlemen in the early 20th century

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was Richard Morris Buck, who wrote this book,

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Cosmic Consciousness, A Study in the Evolution ofth century was Richard Morris Buck, who wrote this book, Cosmic Consciousness,

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A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind.

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And this is where a bit of the title comes from.

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So he said that in his book that cosmic consciousness is a mystical state above and beyond self-consciousness,

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which is man’s natural state,

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which in itself is above pure sentient animal consciousness, and so on. So he introduced

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the idea that there was a stepping stone of consciousness itself through rudimentary sort

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of sapience into this sentience, into these aggregating levels where it gets finessed

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finer and finer and finer. And so the levels of awareness we normally think of as consciousness

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when we’re awake,

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as I’ll get to a bit later, are only one frequency of consciousness. And as we know, we cycle through, whether that’s normal day consciousness

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or being asleep and going to that level of dream consciousness

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or the imagination or focusing and then problem solving.

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There’s many different switches on the dial that we can turn on.

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So William Morris Buck wrote this book, Cosmic Consciousness,

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and what he wanted to look at was these perceptions of what he called cosmic consciousness,

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and he mapped the historical record, and you’ve got to remember this is his story.

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So it’s a flawed experiment to begin with,

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but he was looking at basically the saints, the mystics, the seers, the sadhus,

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different cultures which exhibited tendencies to have consciousness

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beyond the normal Western groove.

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And he wrote this book that mapped different characteristics

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and similarities between all these sages and seers and mystics,

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whether that’s Mohammed or Jesus or William Blake or people like that, which have left historical

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records, it sometimes become calcified and become dogma in Bibles and other religious texts,

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which funnily enough, most of the original religious founders in their writings would say,

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do not form a church, do not write this down,

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the kingdom lies within, practice these techniques,

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don’t write it down, that’s another form of consciousness which is going to lead you down the wrong path.

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Anyway, William Morris Buck compared all these mystics

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and there was men and there was women

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who exhibited similar characteristics

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and from that he sort of extracted this idea

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that there was a certain percentage of the gene pool,

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or you could maybe say the meme pool, maybe the spirit pool,

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there’s a certain percentage of people throughout history

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who have always exhibited this ability to have elevated states of consciousness beyond the norm,

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some of them to the degree which would attain this apparent oneness with source consciousness,

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with this feeling of holistic type of integration

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with all of existence. And if you’ve ever had, you know, Sasha Shulgin, God bless him,

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many thanks for all his gifts, also invented, you know, the Shulgin scale. And here’s this

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idea of, you know, plus one, plus two, plus three, plus four, and ideas of consciousness.

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So, you know, many different psychedelic commentators did as well.

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Timothy Leary had the eight stages of neurosomatic consciousness

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where he would list, you know, different states.

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You may get to marijuana may bring on a body somatic sort of consciousness at this level.

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You know, LSD may bring on a neuroelectric consciousness at the next level.

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You might get to neuroatomic consciousness.

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So the idea of cosmic consciousness,

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every culture has their language for it.

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And if you look through some of these religious books

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that have been written down, like the Rig Veda and things like that,

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they will describe their sacraments like the Somas of antiquity,

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which they use to achieve elevated states of consciousness.

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So this has been a pattern throughout recorded history.

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So one thing, again, William Morris Buck said,

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instead of just using intellect as an integer for cosmic consciousness,

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he envisaged a type of consciousness that was itself conscious of life

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and order in the universe with this interconnected perspective,

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which is more intuitive knowing than just factual understanding.

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So, you know, we can recognize that both in ourselves, in animals, in the shamanic paradigm,

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they believe that plants are sentient and have consciousness.

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And this is what I’ll get to a bit later in this idea that the species themselves, all

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species are alive and have some type of consciousness, some rudimentary type of consciousness.

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And I believe that each of the species are sharing…

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They have different frequencies, but overall those frequencies

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collect into a gestalt of frequencies which add up to

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something that’s getting closer to a Gaian mind,

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which is not the full cosmic consciousness, but it’s basically the planetary mind. And, you know, it scales up from there. So let me not get too far ahead of myself.

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So the idea of, okay, Wikipedia defines cosmic consciousness as the concept that the universe

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exists as an interconnected network of consciousness, with each conscious being linked to every other.

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Sometimes this is conceived of as forming a collective consciousness which bands the cosmos. Other times it is conceived of

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as an absolute or godhead from which all conscious beings emanate. Now, again, in many different

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religious traditions and in many spiritual and philosophical traditions, they have this idea.

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In Indian mysticism, there’s this idea of Indra net and of each like nodal point being a jewel in this whole net of the life you know

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force itself um there’s the idea of teal hard to shardin who had the news sphere which is sort of

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uh this concrescence again or this amalgamation of everything of human endeavor of intellect and of

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everything we’re creating is coalescing

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in this information sphere around us,

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which is getting very close to what the Internet is becoming.

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In the 1970s, James Lovelock, who was an ex-NASA physicist,

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had the idea of Gaia, the Gaia hypothesis.

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He termed it that the whole Earth is a living organism,

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and intelligence and life itself cascades through all the species and makes up an organic, holistic whole.

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So, you know, nowadays that whole theory is sort of rebranded a bit as whole systems theory, which allows science to explore it without any dogma.

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So what many mystics and seers have talked about is this idea of connecting to larger states of consciousness itself.

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And when you do get to these higher vibrational frequencies of consciousness,

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it starts to sort of smear out back to source.

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You get to a certain plateau within which you’re leaving the more terrestrial realms and you’re going into deep core consciousness itself.

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In some of the Sufi traditions, they call that the Godhead.

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Many people who have had near-death experiences

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say they go into this white light sort of tunnel experience.

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You know, other people might call it the void.

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I’ll get to it a bit later in the talk, but, you know,

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in quantum terminology, they call this

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the implicate, this idea that there’s this realm which everything comes from.

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So William Morris Buck mapped this across the historical record, and interestingly enough,

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he thought that it seemed to be on the increase. There seemed to be some type of momentum to

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the manifestation in history

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and in culture itself of people who would say

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they were having transcendent experiences

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and also deep sort of cosmic connection to source experiences.

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And so, you know, that could be an anomaly

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in his historical record-keeping

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and in the fact that the sample he did

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was the ones that have survived into history.

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But it does seem interesting that as we enter the 20th century,

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we do seem to see this level of consciousness

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and of experimentation with psychedelics and antigens

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manifest in the millions.

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And statistically within that millions,

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there is definitely, I would say, tens of thousands of people who have had deep core, you know, Godhead experience.

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One thing that Buck also overlooked because he was studying as a Victorian era sort of scholar, he was studying Western cultures, is he overlooked the shamanic cultures.

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He overlooked all the indigenous cultures, which are the gatekeepers of their traditions and of their

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relationship with the planet. In the Peruvian traditions that I’ve experienced and learned from,

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they have a term, Pachamama, which means, you know, it’s a term for the earth herself

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as a living organism. And they treat the earth as a living organism. They understand that,

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you know, you can connect with it through the entheogens or through power plants

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like ayahuasca or San Pedro cactus.

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But these tribes have also kept that flame alive,

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not just of the plants,

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but of the relationship to the planet as an organism.

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And so that has sort of been overlooked

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in the Western understanding of cosmic consciousness over time.

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So the cosmic consciousness is on the rise. Traditionally in indigenous

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cultures, plant gnosis was often sanctioned through the mediation of a village shaman.

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Many cultures had this healing medicine person who would work on behalf of people and work

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with the plants. Traditionally in some cultures, the shaman would take things like ayahuasca

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to effect healing for the patient, and the patient wouldn’t take the medicine.

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So in some instances, people in indigenous cultures didn’t experience

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altered reality with sacraments like ayahuasca,

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although to be fair, in their culture, they had the blinkers off.

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They were living in the jungle, in direct, unmediated connection with the planet,

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with the living life force and the energy and the chi of the planet all around.

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And again, under that umbrella of the idea of Pachamama as a living organism,

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of the earth as the mother who births and sustains through her abundance.

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And so that in itself is an altered state,

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especially compared to the diluted and denuded consciousness

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that Western understanding has been reduced down to.

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So this idea that the consciousness is on some type of momentum,

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in the West at least,

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in whole systems theory, which is that idea of Gaia

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hypothesis, there’s many different ideas that, you know, you can’t suppress something. You know,

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in every ism, you’ll find this idea that second law of thermodynamics is, you know, everything

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has an equal and opposite effect. So in psychology, if you repress a fear or a phobia or something,

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it’ll manifest somewhere else. It won’t just go away. It’ll come back to bite you later.

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It’s similar with consciousness, right?

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So his story, I mean, for the last 500 years,

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definitely back to the start of the industrialization

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when we’ve really raped, pillaged, and plundered the planet

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and used it as a resource to build this mechanization,

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which is a direct diametric opposite to this vegetal Pachamama relationship with the organic feminine of the planet.

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There was this sort of yang opposite to the feminine planetary matrix and the abundance that is there,

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where Western consciousness has taken and it could

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only take what it thought it needed in the west if it could not see the planet as a living organism

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so we’ve had this slow drift over history of trickling down to like you know horses with

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blinkers on to not see the planet as a living, loving organism.

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And that energy built not just the industrialization and the mechanization of our culture

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and the intellect that we’ve seen

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that has created planetary culture as we have it now,

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which is still relentlessly spreading like a virus across the planet

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and is now at a tipping point of bio-killing.

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You know, we’re about to kill the embedded womb-verse that we’re in.

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And so at the same time as this, this equal and opposite reaction happens

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and this slow drift from the turn of the 19th century and the 20th century

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and the early experiments

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with things like mescaline and POT and nitrous oxide,

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they started building in Western culture

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through the medical establishment, the psychoanalysis,

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but there was this build-up of pressure.

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And so to come back to psychedelic culture again,

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1943, Albert Hoffman says he has this famous bike ride.

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He goes back to the 25th

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compound of lysergic acid he experimented upon, and he has this strange presentiment,

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which was the English translation of, in German, it’s something like Vorgonhol, and it means

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something a lot deeper. In Basel, in 2006, when I was at the 100th birthday symposium for Albert Hoffman.

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He told us all.

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He told us all his secret origin.

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He said he was born in Basel, Switzerland,

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which itself was originally a medieval town which was involved with alchemy.

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And over the next 500 years, it evolved to be involved in chemistry.

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And Sando laboratories are there and all these big laboratories.

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But they remember their connection to alchemy and to what alchemy really was to this idea of you know changing not just lead to gold

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but to changing the base uh soul into a higher vibrational frequency like the the medieval

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alchemists like john d and a lot of other people weren’t just interested in like what has now

00:28:22 ►

become chemistry they were interested in the soul and in consciousness itself

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and elevating that and purifying that soul.

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So LSD exploded upon the world very quickly from 1943 onwards.

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And I suspect it’s because it was bottled up.

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This need for consciousness to express itself

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was flattened for 500 years in the West

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as we built up this charge of history to mechanize and to industrialize and to build.

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But it built up this need to connect, to connect back to the feminine,

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back to the mother, back to the abundance of nature herself.

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And so it can’t be eradicated. It’s in every culture.

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You know, George Orwell has this bit in 1984.

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It can’t be eradicated.

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It’s in every culture.

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You know, George Orwell has this bit in 1984.

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It’s like the forces of control,

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the forces of this prime intellectual masculine yang that wants, this pure, you know,

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force that wants to control the whole world,

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wants to eradicate the orgasm, you know,

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which is the primal energetic.

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It’s not just yin,

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but it’s this primal life force that you can’t eradicate. But the forces control it’s the yin yang it’s the dao all over again they’re in internal dance

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so by the 1940s 1950s um psychedelics explode onto the scene you know they trickle out of the

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medical establishment um it’s been very well documented i’m not sure if you are aware of this

00:29:42 ►

but mk ultra the cia were one of the the main people behind the psychedelic explosion all the way back to world war ii with oss the

00:29:49 ►

precursors to the cia they had um from the 1950s onwards they had a program called mk ultra which

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was basically funding a lot of the psycho uh um analysis analysis people a lot of the medical

00:30:02 ►

establishment to work with lsd um and to get it out into the community.

00:30:07 ►

And then as it started to really escape to even larger degrees,

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they were completely flooding the Haight-Ashbury

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and completely controlling a large supply of LSD.

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For some grand social experiment to this day, we do not know why.

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A lot of the psychedelic mythology

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and commentators like to think that

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LSD has detorned the anti-war movement

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and it kept people in a more spaced out headspace.

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But I suspect there is a central intelligence

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that goes way beyond the CIA

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and I suspect that there were some very good people.

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Because the interesting thing was

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there was a mind war from the late 1940s

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all through the 50s and 60s

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where everyone was doing LSD.

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The establishment, the medical establishment,

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the artists, the bohemia,

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the corporations were using LSD

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while it was still legal as a creativity tool.

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People were having amazing reactions from it

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and they discovered that it was an amplifier

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and the CIA would use it as a brainwashing tool

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and have an amazing result and go, my God, this is it. This is the truth serum we’ve been

00:31:08 ►

looking for. And then the next day, it wouldn’t work as a truth serum and the person taking

00:31:12 ►

it would just love the CIA to death. And it very quickly became apparent that it was an

00:31:17 ►

amplifier for whatever you had within you. It wasn’t just one thing for one people. But

00:31:22 ►

it was this amplifier. So one of the people that was turned on during this wave of the 50s

00:31:27 ►

was a very famous writer called Aldous Huxley.

00:31:30 ►

And he was part of the intelligentsia,

00:31:32 ►

and he developed a plan for LSD to turn on the intelligentsia,

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to make it trickle down, turn on the politicians,

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the corporate leaders, the religious leaders,

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and to have it trickle down through safe pathways

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to be embraced by the culture in a way which wasn’t going to cause a blowback

00:31:48 ►

and an equal and opposite reaction.

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And so Eldridge had this idea that what was happening with the LSD experience

00:31:55 ►

wasn’t actually basically the LSD itself.

00:31:59 ►

It was LSD was basically neurochemically working on the brain

00:32:03 ►

to reveal what he called the mind at large

00:32:06 ►

and interestingly enough this has actually been proven in the last few years with experiments with

00:32:10 ►

the mri scans on what the what uh psychedelics and entheogens are doing which i’ll get to a bit later

00:32:16 ►

um but his theory was according to this uh the mind at large and and huxley was also involved

00:32:24 ►

coining the term psychedelic uh in with Dr. Humphrey Osmond.

00:32:28 ►

Psychedelic means to manifest the mind.

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They went through a lot of different variations, but that’s the one they came down to.

00:32:35 ►

According to Huxley’s theory of mind at large, he said that each one of us is potentially mind at large,

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but to make biological survival possible

00:32:45 ►

that had to be funneled down through the reducing valve of the brain and the nervous system so what

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came out at the other end was a measly trickle of the kind of consciousness which helps us stay

00:32:55 ►

alive on the surface of the planet and so it’s this idea that you know to survive down here on

00:33:00 ►

the gravity well we’ve reduced that cosmic consciousness which really is debilitating in a sense,

00:33:05 ►

because you can’t go out and function.

00:33:06 ►

You can’t pee.

00:33:07 ►

You can’t go off and do bodily functions

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when you’ve merged with the universe at large,

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unless you can orchestrate some type of self-fulfilling,

00:33:15 ►

autonomous, reciprocal, higher consciousness maintenance

00:33:18 ►

of your system so you could do that.

00:33:23 ►

But basically, we need to have the level

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of we have evolved the level of consciousness we’ve had for a reason so everything there is

00:33:31 ►

you know an intellect and intelligence and an evolution behind why we’re at this stage

00:33:37 ►

and his story history is only 10 000 or so years old and you know people like graham hancock and

00:33:43 ►

other archaeological scholars are finding

00:33:45 ►

evidence of civilizations that go back a lot further. But there’s this idea in different

00:33:50 ►

cultures of different world ages and shifts in consciousness. So in this stage of where

00:33:55 ►

we’re at, we’ve only had a certain frequency of consciousness, but it is changing.

00:34:01 ►

So this idea that the brain, what happens on uh in altered states whether that’s

00:34:06 ►

through you know meditation or tantra or psychedelics or plant entheogens it’s not necessarily the

00:34:12 ►

substance itself i think i’ve read in the in the chemical literature that lsd is actually

00:34:17 ►

synthesized and absorbed by your body in the first 19 minutes that it’s taken right very quickly and

00:34:24 ►

usually you don’t actually start to feel the effects of lsd before the first 19 minutes that it’s taken, right? Very quickly. And usually, you don’t

00:34:25 ►

actually start to feel the effects of LSD before the first half an hour or so, and it lasts for

00:34:29 ►

like, you know, eight hours. So how can this be? It is not the substance itself. It is what it is

00:34:34 ►

unlocking in your brain. Now, this is very interesting because there’s been some very

00:34:38 ►

key scientific studies in the last five years or so that have proven this as well. The Beckley Foundation in the United Kingdom did some studies with MRI brain scans in 2012 when they were looking at

00:34:51 ►

patients who had legally taken psilocybin mushrooms under these controlled conditions,

00:34:56 ►

and they looked at what it was doing to areas of their brain, and they found that it actually

00:35:01 ►

switches off certain areas of the brain, not just one bit, but a few different adjoining areas,

00:35:07 ►

which together are called the default mode network, right?

00:35:11 ►

The DMN.

00:35:13 ►

And this is so interesting because we’re just discovering that this is not…

00:35:16 ►

And that basically confirms what Huxley thought about the mind at large

00:35:20 ►

and the filtering valve.

00:35:22 ►

There’s another researcher who is a Brazilian neuroscientist

00:35:26 ►

who presented at the MAPS conference in 2013

00:35:28 ►

called Drulio Barros de Arajo,

00:35:32 ►

and he similarly found that with fMRI scans,

00:35:36 ►

he proved that the hallucinogenic brew ayahuasca

00:35:39 ►

was reducing the neural activity in the default mode network.

00:35:43 ►

So with that technology, which again, let’s embrace,

00:35:48 ►

and for all the horrors of history,

00:35:51 ►

this level of consciousness brought us the tools to look back within ourselves

00:35:54 ►

to now confirm that we don’t need them,

00:35:56 ►

that these substances and these things are opening up the potential of the brain

00:36:01 ►

as a mechanism to, I think, receive consciousness, not just transmit consciousness, to open mechanism to i think receive consciousness not just transmit

00:36:06 ►

consciousness to open up to love larger levels of consciousness um and so you know this this

00:36:12 ►

changes everything and this is these are two independently confirmed studies in the last few

00:36:16 ►

years and there’s been others you know so they’re confirming it with different substances now

00:36:20 ►

that they are switching on and switching off different parts of the brain and when they do that what you’re what what is left is what is having the transcendental experience from

00:36:29 ►

um and depending on i almost liken these substances whether they’re man-made psychedelics in a lab

00:36:36 ►

or entheogens which comes from the greek uh it was rebranded in the 80s by albert hoffman and uh

00:36:43 ►

a few other commentators

00:36:45 ►

to sort of get away from the stigma of psychedelics

00:36:47 ►

at that time in the early 80s.

00:36:50 ►

And it meant to invoke the divine within.

00:36:54 ►

It’s often, entheogen is often applied to the plant sacraments.

00:36:58 ►

But ultimately, you’ve got to remember,

00:36:59 ►

in the matrix of this planet, there is no,

00:37:03 ►

every distinction is artificial

00:37:05 ►

when you say what is natural

00:37:06 ►

and what is not natural.

00:37:07 ►

I mean, we all know that, you know,

00:37:09 ►

stuff made in a lab,

00:37:10 ►

you may have a deeper relationship

00:37:11 ►

or find a resonance

00:37:13 ►

with the plant-based entheogens.

00:37:15 ►

John Lilly, who was a famous

00:37:18 ►

sort of psychedelic researcher

00:37:19 ►

in the 60s and 70s,

00:37:21 ►

said that he felt that

00:37:22 ►

the man-made substances in the lab,

00:37:24 ►

he worked a lot with

00:37:25 ►

ketamine, he said they were like empty rooms. And so to use another commentator, this idea of

00:37:32 ►

morphic fields or this idea that they’re all frequencies, and so that the man-made chemicals

00:37:37 ►

develop relationships with us just like the plants, but it’s the plant-based entheogens

00:37:42 ►

that we have had relationships with for hundreds of thousands of years. And there’s neurophysiology to our brain, which is structured that way to

00:37:49 ►

receive. We’ve got these cannabinoid receptors of the brain to receive things like cannabis.

00:37:53 ►

We’ve got the DMT in our brain. We have endogenous tryptamines and chemicals that

00:38:00 ►

allow us to connect to these larger frames of mind. So all of these, I feel, are almost like browsers.

00:38:08 ►

If you have Internet Explorer open or Chrome or Opera,

00:38:10 ►

it’ll be a slightly different way to surf the web,

00:38:13 ►

but you’re still surfing this information event horizon of the Internet.

00:38:17 ►

And it’s the same with these substances.

00:38:19 ►

Used with respect and used in the right way, the right set and setting,

00:38:22 ►

they’re like browsers to take us to this infinite playground of consciousness.

00:38:27 ►

But we have deeper relationships with some of them.

00:38:31 ►

So the really interesting thing about this idea of the default mode network being turned

00:38:35 ►

off is how this now interacts with what the brain is.

00:38:40 ►

Because for many, many years, science has actually said to us that the brain is a transmitter of consciousness.

00:38:47 ►

You were born, you have a brain, it’s a mechanical box that does this thing, and it’s called consciousness.

00:38:55 ►

And that’s it.

00:38:55 ►

If you die, so does the box, so does your brain, and so does your consciousness, and you’re dead, and there’s nothing more.

00:39:01 ►

Well, if the mind at large is true, which science is now pulling back that curtain

00:39:06 ►

and realising it might be,

00:39:08 ►

what is consciousness?

00:39:09 ►

And so even back in some of these people I mentioned

00:39:11 ►

at the turn of the 19th into 20th centuries,

00:39:13 ►

they grokked this as well.

00:39:15 ►

All these people who realised it wasn’t just about the intellect

00:39:17 ►

and this mechanistic way to approach consciousness.

00:39:20 ►

And they said, what if it’s like the radio or the TV,

00:39:23 ►

the more modern analogy, it’s your switching channels

00:39:26 ►

and if you destroy the TV, the signal is still being broadcast

00:39:30 ►

and it can be picked up by another receiver.

00:39:33 ►

So what if the brain is a receiver of consciousness

00:39:36 ►

as well as a transmitter?

00:39:38 ►

Now to me this seems very resonantly true

00:39:41 ►

and it seems like this is what science is coming to.

00:39:44 ►

We do know

00:39:45 ►

that parts of the brain that are damaged can be uh it’s like the brain can reroute it’s almost

00:39:50 ►

like the internet itself you know is designed to reroute um information going around it and

00:39:54 ►

different parts of the brain can serve the functions of other parts of the brain if they

00:39:58 ►

are damaged um which is interesting it almost suggests that it’s a holographic type of mechanism. But in general, consciousness is, I believe,

00:40:08 ►

the brain is a receiver of consciousness itself.

00:40:12 ►

So that brings up this idea,

00:40:15 ►

if consciousness is received, where is it received from?

00:40:18 ►

What is the transmitter of consciousness

00:40:20 ►

and what is the delivery mechanism?

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Because the thing with most of our understandings

00:40:26 ►

when it comes to energy,

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electromagnetic energy is broadcast or transmitted

00:40:31 ►

in a certain way, but it peters out after a while.

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There’s a doctor called Larry Dossey,

00:40:38 ►

and he has a book called The Power of Premonitions.

00:40:40 ►

And he reminds us that electromagnetic signals weaken according to distance

00:40:47 ►

and they can be blocked.

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Electromagnetic signals can be blocked.

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Now consciousness doesn’t have that.

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We wouldn’t want to fall out of consciousness Wi-Fi range

00:40:55 ►

and realize we just fall over because we’ve gone out of bandwidth,

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we’ve fallen out of the connection.

00:41:01 ►

Consciousness doesn’t work like that.

00:41:02 ►

So it doesn’t appear to be on the em emf frequencies

00:41:05 ►

you know um it appears to be a non-local phenomenon and non-local phenomenon is actually a euphemism

00:41:13 ►

to say that it is uh it’s everywhere if it’s not local it’s everywhere it’s it’s it’s embedded in

00:41:19 ►

the very fabric of reality and this one thing follows on from the other that it has to

00:41:25 ►

be that if it’s if it’s not local it has to be non-local and it’s just it’s um embedded within

00:41:30 ►

the fabric of the universe itself it’s omnipresent it’s everywhere at once so we start to get into a

00:41:37 ►

bit of quantum sort of area now and i must say you know that there’s nothing worse than an art-based

00:41:42 ►

intuitive in you know trying to grasp to grasp these more scientific terminologies.

00:41:48 ►

But I do encourage us.

00:41:49 ►

We need to integrate some of these raw scientific ideas

00:41:53 ►

and approach them with different areas of the brain,

00:41:55 ►

like the intuition, like the imagination,

00:41:57 ►

and see how they fit as puzzle pieces.

00:42:00 ►

Einstein posited in his theory of general relativity

00:42:03 ►

that space and time are not separate, but are parts of the same space-time continuum, where very rapidly, all the quantum scientists are developing theories, and they work for a certain, they build up, you know, ideological platforms and scaffolding and go out on a very, very long limb, and then they discover that they don’t quite work and they come back to another central point.

00:42:24 ►

long limb and then they discover that they don’t quite work and they come back to another central point um another uh quantum physicist i’ve drawn some information from is david bomb and he has

00:42:31 ►

this idea that there is an implicate and an explicate that basically everything that is

00:42:37 ►

manifested in the material world comes from an implicate source that on these higher vibrational

00:42:42 ►

dimensions as you go in further, there is, like

00:42:46 ►

mystics and like different religious, you know, beliefs have, there is a source. There is something

00:42:51 ►

which everything comes from. And he said that the universe may be nothing more than a giant

00:42:57 ►

hologram created by the mind, and that consciousness itself, you know, it might be some subtle form of

00:43:02 ►

matter intrinsically embedded in all things from

00:43:05 ►

this implicate level.

00:43:07 ►

So yet again, this changes the whole Western dynamic of what consciousness is and what

00:43:11 ►

happens when we alter consciousness with these neurochemical browsers like psychedelics and

00:43:16 ►

antigens.

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Now, there’s a developing field of endeavor called quantum biology, which is trying to apply how things on the quantum level

00:43:27 ►

actually anchor itself in the physical level

00:43:31 ►

and how that works on a biological level.

00:43:33 ►

And I find this very interesting

00:43:34 ►

because there was a 2007 paper in Nature magazine,

00:43:37 ►

which is one of the core scientific magazines,

00:43:39 ►

which saw evidence for, quote,

00:43:42 ►

wave-like energy transfer through quantum coherence in

00:43:45 ►

photosynthetic systems. Now, photosynthetic

00:43:48 ►

systems means plants, means the

00:43:49 ►

vegetal life forms, and they’re saying that they

00:43:51 ►

can see that there could be the potential

00:43:53 ►

for quantum

00:43:54 ►

processes going on in the plant kingdom,

00:43:57 ►

which brings up this idea,

00:43:59 ►

again, of the mind at large and not

00:44:01 ►

being anchored to the body, because

00:44:04 ►

it’s not just that the humans or the animals or the mammals

00:44:06 ►

or certain species have the potential for consciousness

00:44:09 ►

because of their brain structure.

00:44:11 ►

It’s that all living things engage with this quantum biological process

00:44:17 ►

and then draw from implicate source and download, basically, consciousness itself.

00:44:24 ►

from implicate source and download, basically, consciousness itself.

00:44:30 ►

There was a famous test in the late 60s by Cleve Baxter,

00:44:34 ►

who, again, was an ex-interrogation specialist for the CIA.

00:44:37 ►

There again was the good old MKUltra days.

00:44:41 ►

And he did a test which has been discredited since.

00:44:45 ►

But there haven’t been many. Interesting enough, science doesn’t like to experiment with plants. With all the different tools that it has at its disposal

00:44:51 ►

now, they’re still not really interested in plants because they have this ideological

00:44:55 ►

divide and this ideological predisposition to not believe in it. But Clive Baxter did

00:44:59 ►

these tests with plants and testing their galvanic skin response, and basically, you know, he’d play music to them,

00:45:05 ►

and they would show the feedback from his…

00:45:09 ►

Basically, it was like the lie detector.

00:45:10 ►

He was hooking up a lie detector to plants,

00:45:12 ►

and he would get positive responses back when he treated,

00:45:15 ►

gave good energy out, and when he would harm a plant,

00:45:17 ►

he would get negative back.

00:45:19 ►

But it was interesting because these experiments, you know,

00:45:23 ►

if we’re going to integrate what the true spectrum of consciousness is,

00:45:27 ►

I believe it’s across all the species.

00:45:29 ►

It’s not just the ones we think with the brain structures.

00:45:33 ►

It’s in the plant kingdom as well.

00:45:36 ►

So this interspecies communication of relating to plants as sentient species

00:45:42 ►

is very, very pronounced when you enter the shamanic paradigm.

00:45:45 ►

And so we’ve gone through this wave of psychedelia in the 50s and 60s.

00:45:50 ►

I have this little riff that I say in my book.

00:45:54 ►

It’s almost like you get the politicians you deserve every generation.

00:45:57 ►

You get the entheogens or the medicine you deserve every generation.

00:46:00 ►

So we had the psychedelic renaissance and explosion

00:46:03 ►

because we had that multiple-generation build-up of psychic energy wanting to express

00:46:08 ►

itself and it came through the psychedelic prism and through that lens and uh and we’ve had that

00:46:14 ►

and that sort of you know acid opened the mind a generation later ecstasy opened the heart and a

00:46:18 ►

generation later the plant kingdom with madre ayahuasca is the one of the lead avatars is helping

00:46:24 ►

to open up the soul.

00:46:25 ►

And it’s like a gradation is happening where we weren’t ready to go back to the jungle,

00:46:31 ►

to go to the jungles of South America in 1950.

00:46:34 ►

You know, William Burroughs went there in 1950 and had some infamous Ayahuasca experiences he wrote up in the Yahé letters

00:46:40 ►

where he said he saw the, you know, giant, cosmic vagina that he ran screaming from.

00:46:45 ►

And it was too much because it was too alien.

00:46:49 ►

It was like we had distanced ourselves from the garden

00:46:51 ►

and from the connection with nature.

00:46:52 ►

So nature had to come to us through the lab and through LSD,

00:46:56 ►

which was one molecule different from LSA, the morning glory seeds,

00:46:59 ►

the liloquy of the Mesoamerican people,

00:47:01 ►

and perhaps the same soma that was used in the Rites of Eleusis

00:47:06 ►

for 2,000 years all through those mystery cults.

00:47:11 ►

But it had to come through the lab.

00:47:13 ►

And then we had, now we’re ready for the garden.

00:47:15 ►

So science has also caught up.

00:47:18 ►

We have much more availability of technology to finesse

00:47:21 ►

on a very micro, astute sort of level what consciousness is

00:47:27 ►

and we currently know that the human brain has five different frequencies there’s beta alpha

00:47:32 ►

theta delta and gamma measured in cycles per second or hertz each of which have their own

00:47:37 ►

characteristics and produce specific brain functionality for, let me look here. So beta is 14 to 40 hertz. That’s waking

00:47:50 ►

consciousness, reason and logic. Alpha is 7.5 to 14 hertz, a state of deep relaxation, light

00:47:56 ►

meditation and intuition. Theta is 4 to 7.5 hertz. And that’s when you’re in deep REM sleep,

00:48:04 ►

when you’re in deep dream or deep meditation

00:48:06 ►

or in those deep spiritual and psychoactive states of unity and oneness, which would be

00:48:11 ►

very close to getting close to cosmic consciousness. Delta is 0.5 to 4 hertz,

00:48:19 ►

the slowest brain frequency manifesting in a deep dreamless sleep or egoless meditation.

00:48:24 ►

And then there’s gamma which

00:48:25 ►

is above 40 hertz the fastest frequency thought to produce insight flow and rapid information

00:48:30 ►

processing and interestingly enough gamma was only discovered recently with the advent of eeg

00:48:35 ►

machines that read the brain which to me proves that there probably are you know more levels of

00:48:40 ►

consciousness we just don’t have the technology to read them yet.

00:48:50 ►

So interestingly enough, you know, plants also resonate at some of those deeper,

00:48:59 ►

more dreamlike states, and they resonate and have feedback sort of that is very positive at those states. So it’s like they seem to be, plant consciousness seems to respond and have its growth improved

00:49:06 ►

at the 0 to 15 hertz frequency range, delta through alpha.

00:49:11 ►

So it gets interesting.

00:49:13 ►

So again, to bring this back to the Amazonian tradition, they’ve always believed in plant

00:49:18 ►

sentience.

00:49:19 ►

There’s many different indigenous shamans or curanderos, as they call themselves.

00:49:23 ►

There’s many different specialities.

00:49:25 ►

There’s the vegetalistas, which work with a plethora of plants.

00:49:29 ►

The tobaccoeros, the ayahuasqueros, who specialize in ayahuasca.

00:49:32 ►

And all of them understand that there’s a plant sentience

00:49:36 ►

and there’s spirits in the plant.

00:49:38 ►

And when they say spirit, it means something different

00:49:39 ►

than what we mean spirit.

00:49:41 ►

It definitely means this autonomous, intelligent life form

00:49:44 ►

that’s good and bad in the spiritual kingdom the the vegetal world opens up this whole cosmology

00:49:51 ►

this whole sort of paradigm of uh vegetal intelligence which goes deeper and deeper

00:49:56 ►

into the great green matrix um there’s this whole idea of validated reality the baseline world we

00:50:03 ►

live in there’s virtual reality which

00:50:06 ►

we’re creating through our technology and there’s vegetal reality which is the original technology

00:50:10 ►

and has the original networks you know of the web of life that we are modeling and biomimicking at

00:50:15 ►

the moment so the shamans work with uh you know the medicinal plants like things like ayahuasca

00:50:21 ►

and they work for on behalf of healing for their patients

00:50:25 ►

and they connect to this plant world and they connect and they sing these vibrational codes so

00:50:31 ►

they say that madre ayahuasca while being a purgative and working on a physical level

00:50:35 ►

personally you know i find it it feels like it um again we’re talking about the default mode

00:50:40 ►

network you can on ayahuasca i feel basically my subconscious permeating into my conscious mind and ideating and and my heart it’s a heart mind connection

00:50:51 ►

which i will you know go through whatever issues or problems or my loved ones or the history of

00:50:56 ►

the universe and i will ideate and all emotionally ideating connect to it and um it’s that’s where

00:51:03 ►

the healing comes from from from freeing up those modes

00:51:05 ►

of the brain which have locked you down into an egoic structure. And the shamans provide their

00:51:10 ►

healing. The shaman provides healing, ayahuasca provides healing, and you are your own medicine

00:51:15 ►

as well because they believe that there’s an energy body. And over time, we all have imprints

00:51:21 ►

and hurts and wounds, and we have stored those in our emotional body, in our energetic body,

00:51:27 ►

and that’s how illness manifests.

00:51:29 ►

The skin or the physicality is the last resort.

00:51:32 ►

When you get sick, that’s because there’s been a subtle disturbance

00:51:35 ►

in one of the more finer frequencies of being.

00:51:38 ►

And so they work to the shamans in ceremony,

00:51:40 ►

and they might use ayahuasca, madre ayahuasca,

00:51:43 ►

as a vibrational tool as a

00:51:45 ►

diagnostic to go all right i have a patient who has cancer or aids or uh you know something they’re

00:51:50 ►

working on as a specific healing issue um and they find a plant and in western science we understand

00:51:56 ►

that the the neurochemistry in a plant or in the physicality of things is how we do with medicines

00:52:02 ►

in the shamanic paradigm they understand understand that the vibrational template for everything

00:52:09 ►

is the true medicine and the true magic.

00:52:12 ►

And almost like the doctrine of signatures in the West,

00:52:14 ►

you can understand the essence of something like the walnut might be good for the brain function

00:52:18 ►

because it looks like a walnut, you know.

00:52:20 ►

And they understand that they can ask on the astral, on that vibrational realm where it’s all connected and there’s no separation.

00:52:28 ►

They can ask different consciousnesses, different spirits to help heal their patients.

00:52:33 ►

And the consciousness, it might be the spirit of another plant.

00:52:37 ►

It might be Remo Cuspi, a tree, something like that.

00:52:40 ►

It will sing its vibrational code in what they call an Icaro.

00:52:45 ►

And it’s a vibrational imprint.

00:52:49 ►

It’s its essence as vibration,

00:52:50 ►

which is transmitted through the help of ayahuasca

00:52:53 ►

to the curandero to sing into the patient.

00:52:56 ►

So it’s affecting at a distance, reality at a distance,

00:52:59 ►

because everything is made up of vibration.

00:53:01 ►

And so, again, this is their deep science of curanderismo,

00:53:05 ►

which they’ve been perfecting for tens of thousands of years,

00:53:08 ►

if not more.

00:53:09 ►

And every indigenous culture, right,

00:53:12 ►

has had these relationships with the plants.

00:53:15 ►

And, again, it’s not the physical plants,

00:53:17 ►

it’s the spirits in the plants.

00:53:19 ►

You know, Maria Sabina is a famous Mexican shamaness

00:53:22 ►

from the 1950s.

00:53:23 ►

She basically is the mother of us all here at Palenque North,

00:53:28 ►

for all the listeners who are listening to this podcast.

00:53:30 ►

For modern Western psychedelic entheogenic culture,

00:53:36 ►

Maria Sabina was the Virgin Mary.

00:53:39 ►

She was the mother who introduced Gordon Wasson,

00:53:41 ►

who was the now proven CIA-connected.

00:53:45 ►

He worked for Wall Street, was a famous banker.

00:53:48 ►

He was the president.

00:53:49 ►

He was in charge of propaganda.

00:53:51 ►

That was his official term at J.P. Morgan, one of the big banks on Wall Street.

00:53:55 ►

But he was a mycologist, and he was interested in magic mushrooms.

00:53:58 ►

And he was searching for this almost mythical magic mushroom

00:54:01 ►

because his wife was Russian,

00:54:02 ►

and the Russians have remembrance of different properties of mushrooms.

00:54:07 ►

And, you know, Mesoamerica, there’s been the psilocybin mushrooms,

00:54:12 ►

ayahuasca, the liliquia I mentioned before, the morning glory seeds,

00:54:16 ►

salvia divinorum, which was actually in the same areas

00:54:20 ►

that Gordon Wasson was looking for the mushroom in,

00:54:23 ►

but that was the really secret knowledge,

00:54:26 ►

which they didn’t let him in on.

00:54:27 ►

So it took till the 90s for Salvia divinorum

00:54:29 ►

to be popularised in the West.

00:54:31 ►

But all of these are sacred plants,

00:54:33 ►

and the indigenous people have relationships

00:54:36 ►

that they develop with them because they understand

00:54:38 ►

it’s the interconnected web of being that is Gaia,

00:54:42 ►

is the matrix of the planet,

00:54:44 ►

and these plants are sort of avatars.

00:54:46 ►

They’re sort of like in computer terminology, they’re sub-programs of the larger framework

00:54:53 ►

of the planet itself. And it’s by developing relationships with them that we can heal ourselves

00:55:01 ►

and find right relationship with the planet. And the whole idea of dis-ease, it’s in the language.

00:55:06 ►

You’re not at ease.

00:55:07 ►

You’ve fallen out of the right groove.

00:55:10 ►

You know, when you eat well, when you think well, when you love well,

00:55:13 ►

everything’s great, you know, because,

00:55:15 ►

and you are probably as an electromagnetic organism

00:55:18 ►

receiving and broadcasting better frequency signal

00:55:21 ►

because everything’s in right relationship.

00:55:24 ►

So the modern world is too

00:55:27 ►

caught up in this denser energetic state you know um we’ve got the first time i went down to to uh

00:55:33 ►

to the amazon the shamans were amazed you know we’ve got the the ringtones and computers and

00:55:38 ►

we’ve always got a screen now mediating our our relationship with the world and it creates a

00:55:43 ►

certain relationship with consciousness.

00:55:45 ►

You get a little burst of dopamine

00:55:46 ►

every time you check your Facebook feed.

00:55:49 ►

I’m addicted, right?

00:55:50 ►

I’m totally addicted.

00:55:51 ►

But it’s like it starts to develop the muscle

00:55:54 ►

of those pathways of the brain

00:55:55 ►

at the expense of the other pathways,

00:55:58 ►

of the imagination and the intuition

00:56:00 ►

and the heart-based spaces.

00:56:01 ►

So it’s really about letting go

00:56:04 ►

of just what we think of as the mind,

00:56:06 ►

as the intellect,

00:56:08 ►

and remembering to let go of all those type of screens

00:56:12 ►

and all those filters that are mediating again the mind at large

00:56:16 ►

and what deeper reservoir of consciousness is out there.

00:56:20 ►

So the first time I went down to Peru in 2007,

00:56:23 ►

documented in the book, I Awakenings, I was very blessed to bump into Dennis McKenna,

00:56:27 ►

who is the brother of Terence McKenna.

00:56:30 ►

And he did a lot of work with Ayahuasca Project in the early 1990s,

00:56:34 ►

which was the first medical study looking at long-term uses of Ayahuasca

00:56:39 ►

and what it does to the brain.

00:56:40 ►

In essence, they found in controlled studies that Ayahuasca works

00:56:44 ►

on the synaptic pathways of the brain, almost like a computer program when you do the cleanup program and it defrags.

00:56:50 ►

And it relinks all those pathways back up that have got a bit frayed and decayed.

00:56:57 ►

And it replenishes and it heals those pathways.

00:57:01 ►

So that’s why you often feel very great after ayahuasca,

00:57:05 ►

ayahuasca afterglow.

00:57:07 ►

Neurochemically, in your brain structure,

00:57:08 ►

you’ve been re-energized and re-linked up.

00:57:11 ►

But I was talking to Dennis as well,

00:57:13 ►

and we were thinking about this idea again of consciousness

00:57:15 ►

and what ayahuasca is opening up.

00:57:17 ►

And he said to me,

00:57:19 ►

if the brain is a receiver of consciousness,

00:57:21 ►

then perhaps consciousness itself is a singularity point, much like black

00:57:26 ►

holes, where energy is compacted so densely in on itself that it collapses. And that collapse in the

00:57:32 ►

brain may be what causes consciousness. Now, it’s true. It’s a mini singularity. It’s like on some

00:57:37 ►

level, you know, they’re trying to fit the quantum model to the mind-brain relationship at the moment.

00:57:46 ►

There’s a few different ideas of how that could work, and I’ll get to that in a minute.

00:57:53 ►

So I’m really interested in this idea of black holes as well, because they’re quite recent in astrophysics and in our perception of what science is telling us of what we were embedded in the universe.

00:58:05 ►

Has anyone ever seen those pictures of galaxies on the internet?

00:58:09 ►

And they look, if you’ve ever seen a picture

00:58:11 ►

of the synaptic brain structure of your brain,

00:58:15 ►

they look like neuronal networks.

00:58:17 ►

They look like all the stars are like nodal points again

00:58:21 ►

in these sort of macro-galactic synaptic pathways.

00:58:25 ►

And it seems like on some level, like the ancient alchemists used to say,

00:58:28 ►

as above, so below, it seems that nature replicates the same,

00:58:34 ►

not just themes, but she builds herself on the micro and the macro scales.

00:58:39 ►

So when Dennis was talking to me about black holes

00:58:41 ►

and this idea of singularity and perhaps consciousness itself is a singularity,

00:58:45 ►

and one of the thoughts is that black holes, they are found now at the center of most of the galaxies they’re looking at.

00:58:53 ►

They’re finding black holes at the center.

00:58:54 ►

And they think this is the core mechanism that helps galaxies evolve

00:59:00 ►

and is the central nodal point within which it’s evolving out of.

00:59:04 ►

But also they suspect that it could be at the heart of an atom,

00:59:08 ►

at the heart of the smallest, at the biggest scale,

00:59:10 ►

with black holes in the galactic level,

00:59:13 ►

and at the smallest scale, at the atomic level,

00:59:15 ►

inside, when you go to that quantum level, that’s the thing,

00:59:18 ►

there could be a singularity process happening like a black hole as well.

00:59:23 ►

So, again, that’s as above, so below, like ancient wisdom said.

00:59:29 ►

So, interestingly enough, there is this other very famous culture,

00:59:32 ►

the Maya, the Mayan culture of Central America, South America,

00:59:38 ►

all down to even up to North America.

00:59:40 ►

There’s a lot of drift in the different cultures, not just the Maya,

00:59:44 ►

but the different Ameri-Indian cultures,

00:59:47 ►

which both had connections to entheogenic plants

00:59:51 ►

and had perceptions of what was happening with consciousness

00:59:55 ►

and what was happening with our relationship to the cosmos

00:59:59 ►

and how that related on Earth.

01:00:01 ►

Now, the Maya believed that consciousness

01:00:06 ►

was to be found at the center of our galaxy, right?

01:00:09 ►

Which is very interesting.

01:00:11 ►

But they would even think of there being a galaxy,

01:00:13 ►

whatever in their language.

01:00:14 ►

In their language, they believed at the center of the galaxy

01:00:17 ►

was a being they called Hunabku,

01:00:20 ►

and it translates to the womb of the Great Mother.

01:00:24 ►

You know, again, again a feminine birthing all

01:00:27 ►

giving uh entity that lied at the heart of what they considered because they were stargazers

01:00:34 ►

they took entheogens they had um maybe ayahuasca they definitely had the san pedro cactus the

01:00:40 ►

mescaline cactus um dmt snuffs were all throughout sort of Mesoamerica as well,

01:00:45 ►

and DMT has different modalities that cultures would use.

01:00:50 ►

But because of that and because of their vegetal,

01:00:53 ►

organic relationship with the planet,

01:00:56 ►

they also developed this, I guess,

01:00:59 ►

more feminine organic understanding of reality

01:01:01 ►

and of consciousness, and they were stargazers,

01:01:04 ►

and they could map to an amazingly precise,

01:01:07 ►

to this day, micro-nano-level almost scale of time to eons of time

01:01:13 ►

by using calendricals, which they devised.

01:01:16 ►

I mean, these are the original trippers, scientific trippers,

01:01:20 ►

what they could do with their elevated consciousness.

01:01:24 ►

So interestingly enough, Hunabku, the womb of the Great Mother,

01:01:28 ►

is not just a resonant idea.

01:01:30 ►

In 2002, NASA confirmed that at the heart of our galaxy is a black hole.

01:01:36 ►

This is only in 2002, right?

01:01:38 ►

And so this is exactly what the Mayans said, you know, hundreds of years ago,

01:01:42 ►

that there was an entity or there’s something at the center of the galaxy

01:01:45 ►

which is called the womb of the Great Mother.

01:01:47 ►

And here’s the thing.

01:01:48 ►

I’ll give you a bit of background about black holes.

01:01:51 ►

So because we’ve had a lot of the Hubble telescope

01:01:55 ►

and we’ve had a lot of, excuse me, new technology looking outwards,

01:01:58 ►

looking up into the galaxy to look at stars,

01:02:02 ►

we’ve been getting a lot more understanding.

01:02:04 ►

There was the Swift

01:02:05 ►

gamma ray burst mission in 2004, the Fermi gamma ray telescope in 2008. Both of them

01:02:12 ►

helped deepen our understanding of black holes. And NASA has confirmed, yeah, there is this

01:02:16 ►

supermassive black hole, which according to the current theories, black holes don’t just

01:02:22 ►

suck in all matter and light and energy and it’s like

01:02:26 ►

going down the plug hole and that’s it, nothing more. Everyone used to think that that was the

01:02:30 ►

end, you know. Everything is absorbed by a black hole, nothing comes out of a black hole. Now,

01:02:35 ►

the current cutting-edge astrophysics has confirmed that’s not true. So, here’s what happens.

01:02:42 ►

Black holes also spit out jets of ionized gas into space,

01:02:47 ►

huge flaming jets of plasma that reach galaxies wide, right?

01:02:52 ►

These jets are bits of matter that are accelerated by the event horizon they enter

01:02:56 ►

and are rebounded so fast they give off gamma rays that convert energy to light.

01:03:01 ►

So plasma, which is one of these primal underlying forces of energy in

01:03:06 ►

the galactic structure, is produced, is secreted by the black hole at the center of our galaxy.

01:03:14 ►

Like a mother, she is giving birth with these plasmic ejaculations, we could say.

01:03:22 ►

And here’s the interesting thing. These jets of plasma, they think, help heat up space,

01:03:29 ►

change the cosmic environment,

01:03:30 ►

and may be directly responsible for sparking stars into existence.

01:03:35 ►

It’s the mother.

01:03:37 ►

It’s like when a forest fire goes through and it burns everything down,

01:03:42 ►

but certain seeds germinate from the intense heat.

01:03:45 ►

Nature has cycles at work, as above, so below, yet again,

01:03:48 ►

which mimic and replicate,

01:03:50 ►

and we can learn a lot from looking down here

01:03:51 ►

and applying that to up there.

01:03:53 ►

So here’s what I wonder.

01:03:55 ►

NASA confirms there’s a black hole at the center of the galaxy.

01:03:57 ►

The Mayans thought there was.

01:03:58 ►

The Mayans also thought the center of the galaxy

01:04:00 ►

was the seat of consciousness.

01:04:02 ►

If our brains are receivers of consciousness

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on some quantum biological way, with the singularity at the heart of consciousness here, with the

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black hole as the projector of consciousness there, what if the minds were right? What

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if the seat of consciousness in our galaxy is the center of the black hole? And what

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if it’s something like, you know, the analogy I used earlier was a radio set or a TV set. But what if the center of the galaxy is something like a

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pan-galactic cloud computer? What if there’s this distributed consciousness and it’s all, you know,

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amassing there from, you know, they don’t really know what’s at the other side of the black hole.

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They think it could be a singularity, it could be a wormhole. It could lead to another dimension,

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an alternate dimension.

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It could lead to what David Bohm considered to be the implicate

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to these deeper levels of source consciousness,

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to energy, because consciousness is energy.

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When we’re saying consciousness or energy

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or every culture with its language

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like Godhead or whatever,

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they’re all just labels for

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some type of consciousness.

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But you’ve got to remember

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that on some of the more mystic understandings, consciousness is alive when it’s broadcast as a

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signal from the source. Imagine this nodal network going on from us and our brains to

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pangalactic cloud computer at the center of the galaxy to the implicate level. It’s a network that is the delivery mechanism for consciousness.

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So, what if our current mapping of the structural similarities

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of the big massive to the art cars that go by?

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Yeah, what if basically what we’re seeing is this delivery mechanism

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of consciousness coming from an implicate source through the

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galactic portal. And what if this happens all throughout the universe? What if the way

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that consciousness is radiated from source is through this, what appears to be on a galactic

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level, like synaptic pathways. So you’ve got galactic neuronal pathways that activate the life forms.

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So we do know that galactic emissions affect magnetic fields,

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they affect energy on Earth,

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and that there’s this cascading effect that everything affects everything else, basically, right?

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And so the Earth has a magnetic field

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in relationship with the Sun’s magnetic field.

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The Sun is in relationship with deep galactic energies

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because it’s all connected, because it’s all alive,

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because they’re all living organisms, you know.

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And just as indigenous people who understand

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not just energy and consciousness

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and they have appreciation of the planet

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as a alive organism,

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they also, you know, most indigenous cultures that I’ve heard on,

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whether it’s like the Dogon believe they come from Sirius,

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the Mayans may come from,

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they all believe they come from different star systems.

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But interestingly enough, at least five or six of the indigenous cultures

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I’ve heard some of the more esoteric knowledge of

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believe they come from different star systems.

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And they’re not saying they come down in, you know,

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mechanical devices from outer space.

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But think of it. It transmits.

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Consciousness transmits from galactic center,

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and the center is everywhere.

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Because where is the center of the universe?

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Where is the edge of the universe?

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It’s expanding on the material level.

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But the center is within.

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It’s the idea of implicate source.

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So I wonder, as it cascades through

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and it manifests,

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consciousness is received by,

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well, before there were brains,

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how did consciousness build a brain?

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You know, how did we get this mechanism

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to receive consciousness

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unless it doesn’t even need,

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you know, there’s a deeper template of being

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within which consciousness can form what it needs on a physical level.

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So we do know that since the much-belly-hooed 2012 phenomenon,

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here’s a really interesting thing.

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It wasn’t necessarily the end of the world as we knew it,

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but it was the end of one world age and the beginning of another.

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And that’s what the true essence of the Mayan calendar

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and of most indigenous cultures who have psychoactive plans

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who appreciate the earth as a living organism understood,

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that there is this idea of cyclic time.

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There is this idea that we go through certain world ages of time

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and, you know, one finishes and it’s not the end of the world,

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but another one begins.

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The reason a lot of the doom and gloom and the apocalypse

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got put into the Hollywood meme about 2012,

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because many indigenous cultures have left us these maps of cyclic time,

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and they say, hey, in the cycles, there is death and rebirth.

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And what happens periodically is that everything gets raised on the earth.

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Remember I’m saying the forest fire goes through

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and more things germinate

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and the black holes emit these plasma-wide jets,

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galaxies-wide plasma-wide jets.

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Destruction and birth are two sides of the same coin.

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It’s like I was saying at the start.

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Western culture denuded and repressed consciousness

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and spirituality for so long

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that it erupted in the 20th century

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in the psychedelic movement because it couldn’t be suppressed it had an equal and opposite effect

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so we do know that in 2012 we have crossed the galactic elliptic our orbit um you know in our

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solar system and the solar system in the galaxy has tipped over the middle point of the galaxy

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and we are now being bombarded bombarded is the only word for it i mean i i’ve as a experiential journalist i’ve

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interviewed not just psychedelic people but astrophysicists and really seek out as much

01:09:30 ►

astrophysics as you can because it is deeply psychedelic and um the thing is uh over the

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cusp of the elliptic we’re now being bombarded by all these uh galactic energies which we were

01:09:42 ►

hidden from it’s like we’ve gone from a back lane little road to a 10-lane LA superhighway. And we’re now getting these magnetars, which

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have 100,000 times more power than the sun every second, just radiating through the galactic

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channels down into the sun. There’s all these protective mechanisms in the sun, in the magnetic

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field, in the way that our Earth itself’s biosphere is engendered to block out deep UV rays and deep radiation from space.

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Cosmic rays, which are coming in, are on the increase.

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Science debates whether it’s increasing more

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or it goes through a fluctuation of booming and busting.

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Here’s the thing I found out as well.

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Cosmic rays interact with the upper atmosphere

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and produce the heavier elements in the periodic table.

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It’s like they wouldn’t exist without cosmic rays coming in they’ve confirmed now that cosmic rays control or are

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directly related to the cloud cover and to the weather we have on the earth um and so we’re

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seeing all this wild weather i won’t go into the whole global warming thing except to say

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you google got global warming solar system nasa and you’ll find a report from NASA in about 2007.

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Jupiter, Neptune, all the planets in our solar system are warming.

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It’s like, yes, we have man-made emissions which are causing warming,

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but we’re also having deep galactic emissions which are coming in and are affecting the planetary consciousness,

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whether that’s with the planet itself is going through its changes

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as an organism in a life form, and so are we as it trickles down to us so um one of the things which are really important to our consciousness is

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magnetic fields uh in 2008 new scientist magazine interviewed kelly posner a psychiatrist at columbia

01:11:16 ►

university who said the most plausible explanation for the association between geomagnetic activity

01:11:22 ►

and depression and suicide is that geomagnetic storms desynchronize

01:11:27 ►

circadian rhythms and melatonin production.

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Now, the pineal gland,

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which regulates circadian rhythms

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and also melatonin production,

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is very, very sensitive to magnetic fields.

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And here’s the thing,

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that those same pathways,

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melatonin is what fills the serotonin pathways

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in the daytime,

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and that’s why melatonin helps you adjust when you’ve got jet lag or you’re changing time zones.

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In the nighttime, DMT travels down those pathways. If you do nine days of darkness,

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it’s called the darkness retreat or sort of ordeal. Some indigenous cultures don’t use plants

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to do this. Our brains endogenously secrete DMT,

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and if you are nine days and nights in total darkness,

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you will start to trip balls.

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You will completely endogenously secrete your buildup of DMT

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because it hasn’t been burnt out by the light

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and turned into… made way for the melatonin.

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So nature has built in these systems, these default mechanisms,

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and so, you know, we have, interestingly enough, you know, it’s still yet to be fully 100% confirmed that we have DMT production in the pineal gland.

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Although they have, in the last six months or so, confirmed that DMT is produced in the pineal gland in rats, which are obviously, you know, they do these studies on rats because they have a lot of deep genetic similarities

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and structural similarities to us in experiments.

01:12:52 ►

But the pineal gland all throughout history

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has been thought to be this third eye

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and this thing that is directly in the centre of your head

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where it’s hidden away from the light.

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So it doesn’t receive direct sunlight,

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so it would seem to resonantly be

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involved in the production of DMT, which is sensitive to light as well. So I’m coming

01:13:12 ►

up to some really interesting stuff, and I’m coming up to the end of my talk here, but

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DMT is produced by your brain. We won’t say the pineal gland, but by your brain. It’s

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in the blood. It’s in the bone marrow. It’s produced by us DMTs in the plant kingdom, obviously. The resurgence and popularity of ayahuasca, that

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is the key visionary component of ayahuasca. Ayahuasca has an MAO component, which is from

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the ayahuasca vine, the Benisteriopsis carpi, and admixture plants that are added, like

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chikruna or chaliponga, which contain DMT. But it’s a mechanism to use

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because we have fallen out of right relationship

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with our own ability to do this.

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You know, nature has built in the DMT into our brains,

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into the insects’ brains, into the plant, the mammals.

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It’s threaded throughout through most…

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Much of nature’s kingdom has this almost neurotransmitter of DMT to connect us together.

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It’s like it’s the sentient browser which connects us together.

01:14:11 ►

So there seems to be this celestial daisy chain which comes from deep core galactic central.

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you know, central.

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The Mayans also realized that the end of their calendar was,

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they called it 0.0.0.0.0,

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anchoring straight up to galactic center.

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So what this made me realize is, you know,

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indigenous cultures are talking about cyclic time.

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This is what the Mayans are saying,

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that where we were linking up,

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and 2012 was just, you know, a tick of a clock in a 26,000-year timekeeping clock.

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And it’s not an idea of time

01:14:45 ►

because their understanding of time was cyclic.

01:14:48 ►

And it was this idea of synchronous time.

01:14:50 ►

And this idea that things go in waves

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and there’s this, anyway, synchronous time.

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But at 0.0.0, you’re aligned up to galactic center.

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And what I understood that, I had this intuition

01:15:02 ►

that it’s like when you have mobile reception and you get four bar signal so you know we have spent the last tens of thousands of years

01:15:12 ►

on like one bar signal you go back to the dark ages you go back to the start of history the war

01:15:17 ►

all the thing and we blame ourselves because of ego and it’s like we’ve fallen out of the mind at

01:15:22 ►

large having the ability to receive

01:15:25 ►

core consciousness and cosmic consciousness but what i’m really grokking now is we’re not in

01:15:31 ►

control we’re not necessarily to blame for the fact we didn’t have consciousness and we’ve done

01:15:36 ►

the best we had we could as a species with what we had but we are coming um into this time of what

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i call four bar galactic godhead consciousness where we are linked up this time of what I call four-bar galactic godhead consciousness,

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where we are linked up to the center of the galaxy where consciousness is projecting from

01:15:51 ►

and connecting to the distributed consciousness in all things which have the structure to receive it.

01:15:56 ►

So four-bar galactic consciousness.

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I feel it’s almost like to update the analogy of the radio receiver and of the television set

01:16:04 ►

to a more 21st century sort of and of the television set to a more

01:16:06 ►

21st century sort of a riff of like a bit torrent right and so imagine if consciousness is a bit

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torrent being projected from four bar galactic godhead consciousness in the center of the black

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hole and when it is received by the structures which it itself has built to to you know receive

01:16:22 ►

consciousness the brain structures or even with the plants um whatever template they’ve got to receive consciousness nature builds

01:16:30 ►

life to receive the message of itself to breed more of itself like it’s a self-fulfilling program

01:16:35 ►

here’s the interesting thing though to tie this into the topic of my talk that you know

01:16:40 ►

psychedelics entheogens and the species activation’re saying before, all the species seem to be sentient or sapient to a certain level,

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including the plants.

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And in the shamanistic worldview, they consider the earth and the rocks.

01:16:53 ►

They say there are these apus.

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There are these consciousnesses in the rocks.

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And they’re the first layer of consciousness, the oldest layer.

01:17:01 ►

And when they came down from the stars, that’s what they say,

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the star beings came down and they settled and made form and they’ve formed the lands and they’re

01:17:11 ►

resting there and they’re your bedrock, they’re your bedrock foundation. So what if all the species

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themselves are receiving a different frequency of the bit torrent of pangalactic consciousness?

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And then what if the cradle of life itself

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is like, you know, all the species

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are like a satellite dish to

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receive consciousness and then

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reformulate the code, the program,

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and then build it on this planet.

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And so we’re seeing this multiplicity

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of life forms manifest and evolve

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and continue the code going. But they’re

01:17:42 ►

receiving the consciousness of the code from

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implicate source through the pangalactic neuronal networks,

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and the satellite dish of all the different species together

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synergistically are forming a gestalt,

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and they’re reforming the program,

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and the app is loading, right?

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That’s just something to think about.

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So this is like an organic mesh network,

01:18:04 ►

a terrestrial DNA receiver from galactic

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signal, a species satellite dish, a pan-galactic big torrent from galactic center. And so what I

01:18:13 ►

believe has been happening with things like psychedelics and entheogens, indigenous cultures

01:18:17 ►

have kept the entheogens and now we’re seeing in the first few decades of the 21st century,

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we’re seeing this entheogenic explosion.

01:18:26 ►

We’re seeing ayahuasca predominantly helping heal people.

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There’s a built-in fail-safe with ayahuasca.

01:18:32 ►

She’s been around forever, right?

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But we didn’t necessarily need her en masse back in the 50s.

01:18:37 ►

The psychedelic explosion layered the vibe.

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It broke down the white picket fence America

01:18:42 ►

to get ready for even the ecstasy in the 80s to break down and open the hard trucker and now in the noughts again to go back to the garden, to be ready for vegetal intelligence, to have this layering over time, turning off the default mode network of the species.

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You know, all of these things are browsers which act on different facets of our consciousness.

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And over larger periods of time as a species,

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I feel we’re being groomed.

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I feel we’re being groomed for a return

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to something like cosmic consciousness,

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or what, where I’m from in Australia,

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indigenous Australians, the aboriginals say,

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is dreamtime consciousness,

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where it’s that state where you can almost multitask,

01:19:22 ►

because humanity has anchored and held these states

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of altered states of dreamtime consciousness before,

01:19:28 ►

but we fell out.

01:19:29 ►

We fell out into history.

01:19:31 ►

We had the fall, the fall of consciousness,

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which is in all these myth maps, right?

01:19:36 ►

And I’m saying this happens regularly

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over larger galactic cycles of time

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and indigenous cultures, God bless all our ancestors,

01:19:45 ►

have left us these maps of consciousness and some of these indigenous tribes and people have been the caretakers for the

01:19:50 ►

plants which now it is time to get on the train on the bike but they’re like training wheels because

01:19:56 ►

the plants are helping especially ayahuasca are helping cleanse us and bring us back to you know

01:20:02 ►

this holonic integration where like snowflakes you know that

01:20:06 ►

work that dr emoto does with water crystals and you can project um thoughts and feelings like uh

01:20:12 ►

you know at the water and it’s like we are being groomed and cleansed and made uh we’re polished

01:20:19 ►

our you know like injurious net with all jewels, we’re being polished to reveal within ourselves that we are consciousness.

01:20:28 ►

And consciousness is more than just what we’ve thought.

01:20:32 ►

It is this manifestation of the divine.

01:20:35 ►

This is manifestation of source consciousness from the wave into the particle into what appears to be a separate of consciousness.

01:20:43 ►

But that age is

01:20:45 ►

is passing and so it’s not about relying on a psychedelic or an entheogen like ayahuasca but

01:20:53 ►

it’s about embracing what encounter you encounter on your path for your best uh polishing and

01:20:59 ►

cleansing and revealing the divine within because, if we can hold the signal,

01:21:07 ►

they’ve discovered that we’re 70% water,

01:21:08 ►

we’re electromagnetic beings,

01:21:13 ►

and DNA emits bio-photons,

01:21:15 ►

and it’s communicating with light.

01:21:17 ►

They’ve done these tests with the cosmic ray.

01:21:19 ►

Cosmic rays are always coming in,

01:21:22 ►

but they’ve done deep core ice core samples,

01:21:23 ►

and they’ve seen which,

01:21:26 ►

they can tell which eras and what times the cosmic rays have been coming in and it seems to pretty accurately map the surges and evolution

01:21:31 ►

because you know i believe that the uh the dna is receiving signal and that’s when we evolve they

01:21:37 ►

know that dna only evolves when the environment changes and so what we’re seeing on the planet

01:21:43 ►

at the moment is you know there’s they’re seeing on the planet at the moment is, you know,

01:21:47 ►

they’re calling it the fourth great terrestrial extinction.

01:21:50 ►

We’ve gone through, they can tell from everything that’s gone before.

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And, you know, it’s all just biomass.

01:21:58 ►

It’s all just a physical form that divine intelligence has incarnated to serve the function, what is needed in the environment at that time.

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So I believe that the psychedelics

01:22:06 ►

and the entheogens and what they’re revealing within us is this divinity and this higher level

01:22:13 ►

of consciousness, which the default mode networks, which is off for the mind at large to receive more

01:22:18 ►

of the signal. And when we do this as groups and while we’re seeing this momentum in psychedelic

01:22:23 ►

culture and entheogenic culture, this, I call it the global shamanic resurgence, we’re seeing this momentum in psychedelic culture and entheogenic culture this this uh you know i call it the global shamanic resurgence we’re forming a circuit of people that

01:22:30 ►

can hold more signal and when we do that it’s like a species swarm it’s like it’s like you know

01:22:37 ►

baraka footage on fast forward when what’s coming in and what we’re coming up to is perfectly

01:22:43 ►

synchronizing with what we have within us

01:22:45 ►

to hold and to reveal.

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And so with that, I will leave you with a quote from William Blake.

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We might soon be able to see a world in a grain of sand

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and heaven in a wildflower

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to hold infinity in the palm of our hands

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and eternity in an hour.

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I am Rack Razam, and I thank you.

01:23:03 ►

Many blessings. Aloha.

01:23:01 ►

I am Rack Razam and I thank you

01:23:02 ►

many blessings

01:23:03 ►

Aloha

01:23:04 ►

so if you are looking

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ir-awakenings.com

01:23:11 ►

I have a book on

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my journey down to South America

01:23:13 ►

and all of this

01:23:14 ►

but in a very beautiful

01:23:15 ►

poetic lyrical way

01:23:16 ►

mapping the shamanic resurgence

01:23:18 ►

there’s a film screening here

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in Palenque

01:23:20 ►

at midnight

01:23:21 ►

tonight

01:23:22 ►

IR Awakenings

01:23:23 ►

which is probably

01:23:24 ►

the most closest

01:23:25 ►

you can get to a DMT ayahuasca

01:23:27 ►

experience without taking it in Surrey Lloyd

01:23:30 ►

Film, anchoring that experience.

01:23:32 ►

I’m starting a new leg of my journey

01:23:33 ►

two weeks after Burning Man, going down to

01:23:36 ►

Peru and deepening my own relationship

01:23:38 ►

with the medicine and leading retreats with

01:23:39 ►

Percy Garcia.

01:23:41 ►

I will be doing that on a regular basis.

01:23:44 ►

I hope to see you all again

01:23:46 ►

thank you you’re listening to the psychedelic salon where people are changing their lives

01:23:55 ►

one thought at a time wow that was a real tour de force as they say in some foreign lands

01:24:03 ►

as we were listening to Rack’s talk just now I realized that for anyone who is new here in the salon,

01:24:10 ►

they may not realize how many concepts he’s integrated into this talk.

01:24:15 ►

Several of the things that he mentioned in a sentence or two have been the focus of entire podcasts.

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And I think Rack has done a considerable amount of integrative thinking here,

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which makes his work feel so refreshingly new.

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And before I forget it, near the end of his talk, Rack mentioned that DMT was sensitive to light.

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Well, here’s something that isn’t widely known about DMT.

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And that is the fact that if you get a large enough crystal of it, let’s say a brownie pan full,

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then if you take a screwdriver to chip it out,

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you’re going to discover that it’s picoelectric. Or so I’m told. I don’t know why, but I have this

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strange hunch that one day that little fact is going to be important. Actually, I just realized

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I’m starting to sound a little dotty here. The pico Electric part is a fact. But that the fact may be important one day is just my opinion.

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And we should never forget that although we are entitled to our own opinions,

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we are not entitled to our own facts.

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I think a lot of us forget that sometimes.

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Now as a companion piece to the talk by Rack Razam that we just listened to,

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you may want to surf over to YouTube and listen to a brief presentation

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that Bernardo Kastrup gave

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at one of Deepak Chopra’s conferences last year,

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because it ties directly to what Rak was saying.

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And I’ll link to that talk in the program notes,

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which, as you know, you can get to via psychedelicsalon.us.

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And for now, this is Lorenzo,

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signing off from Cyberdelic Space. Be careful out there, my friends. Thank you.

⚗️ alembic

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