at
the
psychedelic dose level of these mushrooms you get a
very important quality in fact the centrally important quality [for] my
Argument which any of you who have ever taken these things have experienced yourselves, and that's what I call boundary
dissolution and
Here's the here's the notion in a nutshell
When you look back through the primates phylogeny
Clear back to the primitive primates the squirrel
Monkeys and those sorts of animals there are always what are called male dominance
Hierarchies, there's an Alpha Male animal who?
through
Brute Force
usually takes the most desirable
Females under his command and sets his lieutenants over the his male
Lieutenants over the rest of the females and this is how these monkey
Societies of order [themselves] well because psilocybin is a boundary
Dissolving
Hallucinogen and because the essence of
ego consciousness
Which is necessary for these boundary hierarchies and for these dominance hierarchies the essence of ego is
Boundary
Definition, so what I'm actually?
suggesting in this book is that we
self-medicated
ourselves into a state of gender equality and partnership
Consciously or unconsciously
By allowing this item in our diet which [suppress]
ego and Hence suppress male dominance
Hierarchies and so the ordinary Momentum of Primate evolution
was interrupted and for a period of about
Who knows pick a number somewhere between 15 and 50 thousand years?
Ending about ten thousand years [ago]
We actually
lived in a kind of Paradise
Where human beings were at equilibrium and in balance with the Earth where men and women?
Were in balance with [each] other and I should have mentioned
this
sexual arousal which went along with the with the mushroom taking
promoted a style of
orgy
Probably at Festivals which were lunar at the new and full moon
everybody basically just jumped each other's bones in a big heat and
the Social consequence of orgy as a
Social style is that it makes it impossible for men to trace lines of male Paternity
This is very important. There is in a society which practices orgy. No concept for men of
My children there is only the concept of our
children meaning the tribe the group so male
Loyalty goes Toward the group and this is very important because once men
discovered male Paternity
they discovered ownership of
hunting grounds food supplies
Women you name it and it
Tended to feed back in to the formation of the ego structure
well and and so I believe that really that was the [Golden] [age] of
Humanity that we all long for and and have a great
poignancy for that has even been called the
Nostalgia for [Paradise] I believe we have this nostalgia for Paradise because we are the victims
of a [halt] you see what happened was
this
African Grassland
environment which was necessary for the
ecology of the mushroom and therefore necessary to maintain this partnership paradise
eventually it all dried up the Sahara turned to desert these people were forced out of
Africa into the ancient middle East and
we fell into
history and
This is the moment at Which
Agriculture was invented
Agriculture because you have to stay in one place and tend the crops and defend the surplus of these successful
Agricultural efforts means the end to nomadism [it] means the birth of cities it
means
the creation through surpluses of
Classes of those who have and [those] who have not it promotes kingship it creates the need for
standing armies you can tell the drift here all the
institutions that we associate with male oppression with
Hierarchy with dominance come into play at that point
So my I don't want to spend too much time on this
But just in a nutshell
that
Situation is the situation in which we were [born] and came to consciousness the parody sickle
situation of Gender partnership that then
dissolved it was really a return back to the earlier Primate style of male dominance and
Hierarchy when the mushroom was no longer available
[we] returned to our old monkey ways and we have been
[practising] those monkey ways ever since [even] as we reach toward the sequencing of the human genome
The exploration of the our system the exploration of the heart of matter nevertheless
we do it from A
psychologically damaged
Perspective now the question of drugs why as a species are we so?
Obsessed and so addicted to so many things
There are a few animals who will break into a compound for
fermented fruit or something like that, but we addicted dozens of
substances and behaviors
Well, I believe that you can make an analogy to
A
Person who was abused or traumatized as a child
The entirety of human history has been acted out in the light of the traumatic
severing of
our connection
into the Gaian mother goddess
Planetary Matrix of Organic wholeness that was the centerpiece [of] the pSychedelic experience
back in the high paleolithic in other words the world of
hallucination and
Vision that psilocybin carries you into is not
your private
unconscious or the architecture of [your] neural
programming, but it is in fact a
kind of
intellect
[for] paleolithic human beings it was the great goddess
Once you sever
from this
Matrix of meaning what James Joyce called the Mama Matrix Most mysterious?
once you sever yourself from that then you have nothing but
rationalism ego and [May]
Dominant to guide you and that's what has led us into the nightmarish
labyrinth of
Technical Civilization
overpopulation
classism Racism
sexism
Propaganda so forth and so on all the ills of modernity, so I wrote this book
making this argument because [I] believe that if we could
Import into straight Society almost [as] A
Trojan horse
the idea that these
psychedelic compounds and plants are not
aberrational they are not
Pathological they are not some minor
subset and possibility that only freaks and weirdos become involved with but rather
They are in fact the catalyst that called for
humaneness out of
animal Nature if we could
entertain this as a
Possibility, it would change the way we think about
So-called primitive
societies
Shamanism the psychedelic experience
Society's
efforts to control and eradicate these substances
And I believe that we [are] really in a race on this planet now
between
education and
Disaster, and it is the the momentum of the ego
that threatens to shove us over the cliff into
Armageddon Famine overpopulation
You can kiss goodbye to democratic values
We are all going to live in an orwellian anthill if we don't what?
Change our minds. We have to change our minds on the on a dime
[I'm] not talking about a 500 you're programmed to
Slowly straighten things out we have I believe less than 30 years to come to terms [with]
the dissolving Ozone hole the toxification of the oceans the greenhouse effect the spread of
epidemic disease
the rise of Fascism [the]
relentless efforts of the free Marketeers to deal products in every corner of the Planet we must
Change our minds, and what we have to do is have recourse to the same
Shamanic Plants and shamanic
practices that allowed our remote ancestors
to come to terms with the mystery of being and their
situation on this planet V the v V the V the rest of Nature
So I
Think it's very important at this time to make this argument as clearly as possible
To launch the idea into society and left a less
argument and Debate
rage
now you may think that I'm
proposing blowing up some already existing edifice of
Theory about how human beings came to be this is not the case as a matter of fact Orthodox
Anthropology hasn't a clue
we are the the
fly in the soup of
natural sciences
Explanation of the evolution of Species it's easy to understand
How one kind of hummingbird emerges from another? It's not very easy to understand how?
creatures that build something like Los angeles
Can Emerge out of creatures who hunt ants by spitting grass?
Down there holes. You know we represent some [kind] of primary break with nature
At the animal level and I believe it's because we have a symbiotic relationship
With all of nature we are wired for this there are
Drug receptors in our brains in our physical brains that have been carried along for a thousand generations
Without really being called [into] use
But now is the time if we really believe that these things expand
[consciousness], then we must
Study them use them apply them because it's the absence of consciousness that is
creating a
terminal
Crisis not only for us as a species but for every living thing on this planet
And I think the psychedelic experience
Ism as much a part of being alive as
sexuality
language
The things which fulfill us and give meaning to the human experience are left
uncomplete and
impossible to assimilate if we don't place the
Capstone on the edifice of our being in the world and the capstone on that edifice is our
right our
obligation and the privilege of
dissolving our
Ordinary Ego boundaries and
Merging with the mind and purpose of the planet, and this is what I was trying to say in the book and this [is] what?
I hope I'm able to communicate to you this evening
Thank you [very] much you