RE: Evolution

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