The metaphor that makes sense for what we're going through because it gets the biology
of it, it gets the drama of it, it gets the risk of it, it gets the fun and the joy of
it, is the metaphor of birth. We are about to decamp from three-dimensional space and
time. Yes, the Earth is the cradle of mankind but you can't live in the cradle forever.
And we're not in this cradle alone. We are squashing and trampling on hundreds of other
species that have as much right to be here as we are. So through technology, which means
pharmacology, art, and the engineering sciences we are trying to find a doorway into a new
world for the spirit. And it is going to come out of human-machine interfacing, pharmacological
redesign of the human brain-mind-system, possibly digitalising and downloading into the microphysical
realm, we don't know. I mean, if [it] makes your hair stand on end thinking being downloaded
into the digital realm, there was once a fish who had great doubts about this plan to conquer
the land and tried to urge everyone to think again that no good could possibly come of
it.But in fact the forward thrust of evolution is toward higher dimensions, greater complexity,
more information, greater connectedness, and a deeper and deeper sense of the all-pervasiveness
of love and meaning. That's what it's really about.All these disparate physical elements
come to nothing if they don't add up to more than the sum of their parts. And the 'more
than the sum of its parts' is this transcendental element which we call love. That is the part
of the Eschaton that has never left us. That accompanied us across the African grassland
and into history. I mean, granted, bloodied and battered by the experiences of sexism
and racism and so forth but never lost as an ideal, never lost as a guiding light and
an experience. And I really think that when we dissolve all
the boundaries this is what we will discover, is an unconditional caring, un unconditional
affection that flows through all life and all matter and gives it meaning.And you don't
have to wait for the end of the world to get this news. You can just short circuit the
collective march toward that realisation by accelerating your own microcosm of spirituality
through the use of these hallucinogens. They are the doorways that the Gaian Mind has installed
in the historical process to let anybody out anytime they want to, provided they have the
courage to turn the knob and walk through the door.