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.