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symbioidljA very interesting McKenna interview
* Date of interview: 11 October 1996
* Uploaded: 13 August 2002
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The other thing to notice is that, and this is true of all fungi, they're what is known as primary decomposers. They exist only on dead matter. That's the only karmaless place in the food chain. Vegetarianism compared to that is an orgy of mass slaughter. I guess I have a slight Buddhist bias here. But it seems to me that we've only known about DNA since about 1950, and we're already talking about completely redesigning ourselves based on reprogramming the human genome. So it may be that this is a stage that any intelligent being, species, organism, anywhere in the universe passes through, a phase where it takes control of its own design process. And Stropharia cubensis looks to me like it's been designed for immortality, information storage, low-speed space flight, an ability to adapt to an incredible variety of environments. So I'm willing to at least entertain the possibility, based on the fact that it talks to you and fills you with alien information, that it may in fact be an artefact of extra-terrestrial origin.
This is how real aliens would do it. They don't arrive in the middle of the night with an interest in your asshole like the stories we're given, that's preposterous. Still less do they have an interest in the electrical grid, or the Gross National Product, or any of that. The problem with an extraterrestrial is to know when you're looking at one. I once visited the world's largest radio telescope in Araceibo, Puerto Rico, and they search for extra-terrestrial life with this thing. It's so large a telescope it's basically a dish suspended in round valley. And underneath the dish there's pasture land, and white cattle, and Stropharia cubensis... It's like this amazing image of this instrument studying the centre of NGC-3622, and yet a hundred feet from the main control booth is probably what they're looking for. (laughter)
* Date of interview: 11 October 1996
* Uploaded: 13 August 2002
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The other thing to notice is that, and this is true of all fungi, they're what is known as primary decomposers. They exist only on dead matter. That's the only karmaless place in the food chain. Vegetarianism compared to that is an orgy of mass slaughter. I guess I have a slight Buddhist bias here. But it seems to me that we've only known about DNA since about 1950, and we're already talking about completely redesigning ourselves based on reprogramming the human genome. So it may be that this is a stage that any intelligent being, species, organism, anywhere in the universe passes through, a phase where it takes control of its own design process. And Stropharia cubensis looks to me like it's been designed for immortality, information storage, low-speed space flight, an ability to adapt to an incredible variety of environments. So I'm willing to at least entertain the possibility, based on the fact that it talks to you and fills you with alien information, that it may in fact be an artefact of extra-terrestrial origin.
This is how real aliens would do it. They don't arrive in the middle of the night with an interest in your asshole like the stories we're given, that's preposterous. Still less do they have an interest in the electrical grid, or the Gross National Product, or any of that. The problem with an extraterrestrial is to know when you're looking at one. I once visited the world's largest radio telescope in Araceibo, Puerto Rico, and they search for extra-terrestrial life with this thing. It's so large a telescope it's basically a dish suspended in round valley. And underneath the dish there's pasture land, and white cattle, and Stropharia cubensis... It's like this amazing image of this instrument studying the centre of NGC-3622, and yet a hundred feet from the main control booth is probably what they're looking for. (laughter)
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Date: 2003-07-15 08:42 am (UTC)so many levels. Not only does he provide one of
the most interestings twists on information, but
he does it in a way that brings a real feel of
intimacy...his words and voice if you listen to
the mp3's of his speech...it is like listening
to one of us, he has a delicious sense of humor
and style, such charisma. He comes across as
a real person, rather than some dry guy philosophizing
with no texture or tangible_ness.
with that said...yeah, having grown them and taken
them into my being...they -are- aware of themselves
more than any plant I know...I feel the herb does
as well but the shrooms are like, way stronger energy
consicious_ness...or portal. For sometimes I think
not so much of the mushroom, for that is also a container
just as our bodies are for our souls/ether/energy. Not
so much the medium as the message/destination. Little space ships
growing all over the place.
I feel bad I never went that far with the ones I had, thing
is...I didn't have anyone here and I'm just not ready
to go to Mars without a crew or at least someone else
there in case of whatever.
Sorry for my delay in response, kind of been buckling down
with life. I will
write soon.
peace