Conrad and Kubby are reformers, very necessary, very important, but different from the professional biologists. RR Both the late Timothy Leary and yourself are of the Irish Bardic tradition, waxing lyrical at the edge of the Abyss. TM Bad climate, good beer and atavistic genes all lead to visionary melancholy, the necessary condition of good poetry and better shamanism. With the tragic disappearance of aboriginal tribes, we've lost much in the way of oral traditions, communion with Otherworlds, and racial memory. The psychedelic plant experience is an experience of boundary dissolution.
Civilization is a game, an illusion of boundary.
Wipe that away and people will feel each other and the condition of the earth and there will be a naturally unfolding impulse toward new social forms that can heal the indignities inflicted on the land in the past. We're turning the corner on 2,000 and warping towards 2012. Faced with shifting social circumstances, changing patterns of self-perception and amazing astrological overlays, many of us feel like leaves in a whirlpool. Psychedelic experiences, shamanic experiences are penetrations into a higher dimension, a kind of super-space from which the future can at times be discerned. This is why prophecy and seership are inevitably associated with the shamans.