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So I'm going to give a talk.

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All right, and the talk may at times not seem to be about ancient aliens.

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But if you follow me, if you just keep running with me, you'll see how all these things intersect.

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And I hope that what I have to say today will shed light on the UFO and abduction mystery

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and bring another tool that we can use to understand these problems.

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So that's roughly where I'm going.

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I'm going to step down.

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I'll be less visible, but what's more important is the images on the screen.

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What I'm saying today, elements of it are in each of these three books that I depict on the screen.

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But there's no one book that covers what I'm going to say today.

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Look, here's the modern attitude to drugs.

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And I think it's right.

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I'm going to talk a lot about psychedelics today.

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Psychedelics are extremely, extremely serious business.

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In my view, I don't wish to impinge on the sovereignty of others.

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People must make their own adult choices, but I don't think that psychedelics are for recreation.

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I think psychedelics are for deep personal work and deep personal exploration.

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They are nature giving us allies to find out who and what we are.

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We need to set aside the mind programming of 50 years of the war on drugs.

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Remember the ghastly people behind it.

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People like Richard Nixon.

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Remember the people who made that happen.

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And ask yourself, are the reactions that I'm having to psychedelics?

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If you've never taken psychedelics and you feel negative about them, ask yourself, if that's a genuine feeling,

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or if that's a feeling that's been put into your mind by 50 years of ideology?

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And let's go from there.

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I do agree.

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We don't want psychedelics for children.

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Psychedelics are an adult matter.

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Honestly, in our society, we will better protect our children from these powerful substances,

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if they're legal.

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And if we surround them with wise and loving advice, instead of with terror and fear in

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the threat of jail sentences and all that horror, the war on drugs has ruined far more

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lives than the drugs themselves.

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Anyway, things change.

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1,700 years ago in Egypt, here's a school room.

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There are writings on the wall in the dark-letter oasis.

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And the Greek writings include positive references to drugs in context of a story from the

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Odyssey about the Trojan War.

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Helen of Troy gives her guests a drug.

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Most likely it was opium.

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That takes away grief and anger and brings forgetfulness of every ill, whoever should drink

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this down when it is mixed in a bowl would not let fall a tear down his cheek in the

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course of that day at least.

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I can't imagine that being written on the wall of a modern school room.

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So we have a hint that ancient attitudes were a little different from ours.

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And then here's the poppy goddess, the opium poppy goddess, from Kinosos in Cretan and

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Heraclion.

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Gold signet ring.

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You'll see that it is showing also poppies.

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And there's the opium poppy up there.

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Now does everybody remember the poem Kublaikhan?

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Let me say if I can remember some words in Xanadu did Kublaikhan a stately pleasure dome

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decree where off the sacred river ran through caverns, mesulist to man down to a sunless

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sea.

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As Colouridget mits this fragment with a good deal more not to recoverable, composed

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in a sort of reverie brought on by two grains of opium in the fall of the year 1797.

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Unfortunately the postman came to the door in the middle of writing the poem and by

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the time he'd taken delivery of the package he'd forgotten the rest of it.

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But his inspiration came from a source that we would frown upon today.

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I don't like the title of embezzan's book, Naotic Plans because it deals with much more

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than Naotic's.

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But it's an excellent source on the use of visionary plants in the ancient world.

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Here we see some interesting things.

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There is, yeah, this little red spot's not good.

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There is, there is Nefertiti presenting an opium poppy heads to her husband, Arkinatan.

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And imagine Prince Philip doing that with Queen Elizabeth today.

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And here the datora flower, powerful visionary substance, we're seeing rays of datora entering

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into the initiates third eye.

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And then there are lots of images of the blue water lily in ancient Egypt.

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And actually the blue water lily is a visionary substance.

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They weren't just enjoying its fragrance.

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And we know that for sure.

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Because traces of a liquid extract from the blue water lily were discovered in Alibaster

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and the stars stored in Tudon Commons too.

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And that's how you release the psychedelic element of the blue water lily in a tincture

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with wine.

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This is the ancient Egyptian tree of life.

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And here we see the god of both, the god of wisdom and the writing.

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Writing the name of Pharaoh set the first on the tree of life.

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Effectively saying, you have earned the life of millions of years.

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It's interesting that the tree of life has been identified by my good friend Dennis McKenna,

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the brother of Terence McKenna, Dennis is an ethnopharmacologist, has been identified as

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Akasha Nilotica, which is rich in dimethal trip to me.

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DMT, the most powerful hallucinogen known to man.

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Now, there's a certain chemical process involved in getting the DMT out of the bark of the tree.

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It's quite complicated.

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And a lot of academics who have addressed this say no, the ancient Egyptians would never

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have had the chemical knowledge to extract DMT from Akasha Nilotica.

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What a rubbish.

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Where do we get the word chemistry from?

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Chemits, the ancient name of Egypt.

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That's why we get the word alchemie.

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That's what the Arabs used to refer to Egypt as alchemit.

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And this are on word chemistry, is derived from that.

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Of course, they knew what they were doing.

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So we can say, I think, after thousands of years, that we do know what the ancient Egyptians

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were smoking.

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And then Tutankhamon's tomb, this amazing series of images of the initiate.

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And he is joined by rays to a star in the sky.

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And those rays are entering into the third eye, the pinnial glam.

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And this meme is going around on the internet.

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But it's rather interesting, actually, how the eye of Horace resembles the pinnial

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glam.

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And we see lots of pinnial references in Ancient Egypt.

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And of course, the pinnial glam is the source of dimethyltrip to mean in our bodies,

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at least the latest scientific research, realizes that because be aware we're all illegal

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in this room.

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DMT is a natural brain hormone.

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We all produce it, usually in subcycadelic quantities.

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But the association with the pinnial glam, the third eye is particularly strong.

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T1 Arkai, I showed this slide yesterday.

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This is the Colossusia and the Acupana pyramid at T1 Arkai.

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And as I mentioned yesterday, many have speculated that these are some kind of ancient alien

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ray guns in the hands of these statues.

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But actually, they're not their snuff trays for consuming dimethyltrip to mean.

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Snuffs.

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They resemble the snuff trays that are still found in the Amazon today.

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They were identified by Dr. Manual Torres as snuff trays.

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And other paraphernalia for the consumption of powdered seeds of an adenant through

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the Colubrina, which is basically pure DMT.

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This incredible pyramid city in Peru, about 60 miles north of Lima, Coral, was unknown

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20 years ago.

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At that time, academics were saying there are no pyramids in the new world as old as

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the pyramids of Giza.

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Well, they were wrong because these pyramids are as old as the pyramids of Giza.

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By the Orthodox Trilogy, they're about 3,000 BC.

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Massive excavation.

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And what they found was they archaeologists believe that big cities only form with power structures

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and warfare, and they go and make war on others.

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And that's the driving factor.

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Again, absolute rubbish.

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This huge urban civilization lived at peace with all its neighbors.

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It never made war.

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It never built any walls.

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And what did it import from the Amazon, hallucinogenic snuffs were found all over the

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archaeology.

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So it seems to be possible to make fantastic cities and pyramids while at the same time

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consuming these demonized substances that we are so terrified about in our society.

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Ah, Francisco de Oriana, one of the conquistadors.

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He finds himself in 1541 at the head of the head of the Amazon River.

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And he's going to go on a hunting expedition with 20 of his guys in a long boat.

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And they're going to get back to their camp the same day, the Amazon disagrees.

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Four thousand miles later, they end up in the Atlantic Ocean.

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On the way, they observe many large cities along the banks of the river.

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Sophisticated cities with amazing arts and crafts.

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And Ariana is stunned and he writes this in his diary.

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But afterwards he was never believed.

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They all thought he made it up.

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How could there be cities in the heart of a pristine rainforest?

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It doesn't make sense.

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But he was right.

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And the tragic clearances of the Amazon for economic purposes today are revealing the remains

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of those garden cities that the Amazon rainforest was not a pristine environment.

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It was a man-managed environment, a garden, a huge garden that was cultivated with great

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knowledge by the people who lived there.

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They invented a soil, a man-made soil called Terapreta, which automatically renews its fertility

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through bacterial action.

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And it's more than 11,000 years old.

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It is still functioning with incredible fertility and people seek out those areas of the

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Amazon where that soil was laid down to grow things.

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So we are looking at some kind of advanced knowledge in the Amazon long long ago.

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And then the clearances again are revealing what?

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Geoglyphs, huge earthworks, even stone circles are coming out of the Amazon jungle.

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There's a whole area of the human story that's just missing for us there.

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Now, the Amazon is home to more than 150,000 different species of plants and trees.

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But there are two of them that are particularly interesting.

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This one is called Shakruna in the Amazon.

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The botanical name is Sikotria Viridis.

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And the leaves contain substantial concentrations of dimethal triptomy, DMT.

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Here's the thing.

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We have an enzyme in our gut called Monoaminoxidays.

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And Monoaminoxidays switches off DMT on contact.

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So you can take as much DMT orally as you like.

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You could brew up a tea of hundreds of these leaves, drink gallons of it and all you'd

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get as a stomach ache.

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You certainly wouldn't be tripping at all.

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But they found out a way to do this in the Amazon.

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And this is a work of what should rightly be called ethnopharmacology because they learned

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that if they mix these leaves with this vine, which is the Ayahuasca vine, it turns out

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that the vine contains a Monoaminoxidays inhibitor.

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So it switches off the enzyme in the gut and allows the DMT and the leaves to be absorbed

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orally when the two are cooked together with water from the creek.

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It looks like very simple technology.

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But how did they do that?

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How did they find those two plants out of 150,000 that do nothing separately but brought

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together, produce an astonishing visionary journey, which can be utterly life-changing?

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How did they find that out?

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So they break up lengths of their vine and they put it into the cooking pot then they put

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about 300 leaves on top of that, then more lengths of the vine and then they boil it up with

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water from the creek for hours and hours and hours and it reduces down, they add more water

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to keep boiling it up, pouring it off, usually into plastic bottles these days and eventually

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you end up with about a liter of this ghastly tasting brew called Ayahuasca, which I would compare

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to essence of old socks, a bit of battery acid, some sulfur, just a hint of chocolate.

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The shudderingly ghastly taste, I'll come on to what follows later, but there's the Ayahuasca

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brew.

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There are two other ways they make it, there's another brew in the Ames and called Yajai.

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Yajai is essentially identical to Ayahuasca in its composition, but they use the again

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the Ayahuasca vine, but they use another vine also, the leaves of which deploptoris, Cabrera,

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contained dimethyltrip to mean and also contained 5 MAO DMT.

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So there's a slightly different journey with Yajai, very interesting.

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The high-endies, we drove 200 miles north of Lima, then we turned right into the

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and these heading for a place called Chavine, up into the mountains 14,000 feet, the terrain

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of the Thundergots.

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And then we come to Chavine de Huantar and the Spaniards were very upset about it.

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They discovered their stones of notable grandeur.

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It was a Huaca, the shrine of the most famous of the pagans, as Rome or Jerusalem is

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to make their offerings and sacrifices because the devil in this place gave them many

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oracles.

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So there were pilgrimages to Chavine and they went into deep underground chambers for

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some reason.

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And that's what the chambers look like.

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And occasionally, occasionally you're going to meet horrible creatures like this, which

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is part serpent and part human, and the galleries go on for fields like miles.

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And what were they doing there?

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What were these galleries for?

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What these galleries for for?

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We now know, was to create a setting for a powerful psychedelic experience, a powerful

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visionary experience.

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And that visionary experience was mediated by the San Pedro cactus.

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And the San Pedro cactus, as you can see in the iconography, they show us the, sorry,

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they show us the San Pedro cactus there.

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The San Pedro cactus contains mescaline, the same active ingredient that we find in

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Pailty.

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So the whole pilgrimage of Chavine was about a visionary journey in those deep underground

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halls.

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And we see Pailty being venerated in Monte Alban, in a Haca, a Pailty bowl from Western

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Mexico, and there's the Pailty cactus down there.

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Palenki, the pyramid of the inscriptions.

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years in the future.

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They were highly scientific people and they made enormous use of psychedelics.

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They venerated silo-side Mexicana.

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These are the Maya mushroom stones from Guatemala.

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There was a central part of their culture.

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heads on the one side.

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civilization, bringer.

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The ol-Mecs were the predecessors of the Maya, and the ol-Mecs also used visionary

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substances, particularly the fly-agric amanita moscaria.

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We can see on the left an ol-Mec, we're, maybe, we're jaguar wearing an amanita moscaria

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cap and here we have a mushroom transforming into the jaguar god.

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So perhaps you've all heard of soma?

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It's spoken of extensively in the Vedas.

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And there's been a lot of argument over many years as to what it was because it gave

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the priests contact with the divine.

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They entered the divine realm.

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Scientific research has revealed what it is.

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It was again amanita moscaria.

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Now the thing about amanita moscaria is that it's actually quite difficult to journey

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on it when you first take it if you eat it.

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What they discovered is that when it's passed through a human or an animal body and

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emitted in urine, if you drink the urine, it's removed.

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All the impurities have been removed and you get a very powerful psychedelic journey.

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As a matter of fact, this is what the shaman's in Siberia do.

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They piss it off all of them.

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After eating the mushrooms and then members of the tribe come and drink from the bowl.

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And it's the scientific research is established that you can pass the potency of amanita

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moscaria through seven human bodies before it loses its power.

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Normally when we drink tea, you know, we pee, urine and or beer.

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But there's a line in the vein that talks about the priest's drinking soma and pissing soma.

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moscaria.

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Aluses, a sad place today about 30 miles outside of Athens ruined temple complex.

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But it was the beating heart of the ancient Greek world.

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It was the essence of ancient Greece.

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Cicero wrote Athens has given nothing to the world more excellent or divine than the

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Elucinian mystery.

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Cicero was an initiate, so was Plato, so was Aristotle, so was softly, so was pindar.

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We know that the pilgrims went to eluses and they were brought down, they were first

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of a brew, they were given something to drink called the cichion.

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And then they were taken down into deep underground galleries, the tilestrian, very like

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those at Chavine and they were then underwent life-changing experiences.

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So happy is he who having seen these rights goes below the hollow earth, for he knows

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the end of life.

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And he knows it's God sent beginning, that's pindar.

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Sophocles wrote, Thrice happy are those mortals who having seen these rights, depart

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for Hades and their idea of Hades was very different from ours, by the way.

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depart for Hades for Bemalone is granted to have a true life there.

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In other words, the experience that the initiates were having was enabling them to overcome

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their fear of death and to know that there was something beyond that this life is not

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all we have.

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Well, scientific research has revealed the answer, basically they were taking LSD.

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The Kaikian beverage consisted of barley and clavisheps pas barley, which is a non-poisonous

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form of ergot containing LSD like visionary alkalides.

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This transformative place which was finally destroyed by Christian fanatics was the center

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of Greek culture.

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So anything we value in Greek culture and we value a lot, let us remember that they

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valued the use of visionary experiences highly.

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And maybe we in our society today by demonizing visionary experiences, maybe we're not

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right, maybe we're out of step completely with the human story.

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So we shouldn't be surprised to find the use of psychedelics at the heart of many advanced

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civilizations because actually psychedelics appear to have played a key role in the emergence

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of modern human behavior.

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This is what I call six million years of boredom.

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This is the evolutionary journey from the last common ancestor with the chimpanzee to us

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here today.

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You know, for it wasn't until two and a half million years ago that our ancestors

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started to make stone tools.

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But when they'd made them, this is what they look like, when they'd made them, they

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stuck with them without any change for more than a million years.

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What does this tell us?

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They were passing down cultural information and they were absolutely rigid in their mental

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process.

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They were on a set of rails that they could not escape from.

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And actually when they did introduce a new stone tool, it stuck for a million years as well.

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So these guys would not have been incredibly interesting people to have been with.

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They were, they might have had us for dinner, I don't know, but they were, they were

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really rather dull.

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become anatomically modern.

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We were anatomically modern for the last 200,000 years.

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But that archaic behavior persists until less than 100,000 years ago and really less than

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40,000 years ago.

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And suddenly you get this amazing explosion of art.

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It actually happens all over the world and the art is unbelievably good and very strange

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in its appearance.

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What is this art about?

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What has led our ancestors to suddenly become symbolic beings, to be very definitely

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recognizable as us.

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For example, the oldest surviving cave art in the world is interesting.

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It depicts what are called the theory anthropes.

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That's from the Greek theory on which means wild beast and antropos, which means man.

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They are part animal.

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This is the head and horns of an orac, a wild species of bull on the body of a human being.

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And here's a on the right, a lion man carved out of mammoth ivory.

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He's 32,000 years old.

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He's got the head of a lion and the body of a human being.

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Are they depicting just people dressed up in skins or is something else going on here?

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Well, something else is going on.

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And let me tell you that this is all over the world.

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So on the left, we are seeing an image from Shova cave in France.

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It's 32,000 years old.

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And we see, sorry, the light on the way clicker is absolutely useless.

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We see bison man here.

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It's got the head and horns of a bison, but the body of a human being.

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And he is straddling a large female form, from a pubic triangle there.

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But weirdly, she's headless.

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You see, she's completely headless.

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And yet her right arm is transforming into the head of a lion.

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One of these lions down here.

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Now that is not something you see every day.

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No one you're hunting on the place.

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This is a moment of shape shifting or of transformation.

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This is a transformation into a paryanthropic form.

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Here from South Africa, the Cedarberg,

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perched on a zigzag, we see humans transforming into antelopes.

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And here from the Drackensburg in South Africa, about 8,000 years old,

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human bodies but the heads of e-lands.

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And this one's got two huge feathers growing out of his back,

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like he's going to turn into a bird.

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And you see this lumpy stuff around the one on the right?

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Actually, that's two serpents.

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one there, and one there.

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So my goodness, I mean, where did the inspiration for this come from?

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We know that they wouldn't see it when they were out hunting.

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So what inspired them?

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What led them to this?

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Why is this grid between two eyebexes at LASCO?

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What about these flows of dots and these early renditions

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of the windows logo at Al Castillo Cave in Spain?

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Well, research.

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Before the war on drugs really kicked in,

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some very interesting scientific research

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was done with human volunteers and a variety of psychedelics.

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LSD, DMT, Mescalin, Sala Sibin, and so on.

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The scientists would interview the volunteers

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and ask them to describe their experiences.

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They found that certain commonalities were emerging.

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Those commonalities, including in stage one,

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brightly-syntilating flashing geometrical patterns

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and colors, zigzag lines, starbursts, spirals,

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so on and so forth.

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Then they seem to begin to take shape.

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Then often there's a sense of passing through a vortex

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into a seamlessly convincing parallel realm.

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And on the other side, this volunteer, I believe he was

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under the influence of Mescalin, metat, entity, metat being.

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And this is what the being looked like to him.

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He wore a modern business suit, but he had the head of a fox.

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Now, that really is not different in concept

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from lion man and bison man from the painted caves.

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And it makes you wonder whether, in the painted caves,

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they were inspired in the same way.

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Now, I want to pay tribute to the late great Terrence McKenna

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and his fantastic breakthrough book, Food of the Gods,

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which we all know, and Terrence is one of the world-class geniuses.

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So sad that we lost him young, but he's with us still

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on the internet.

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Here, I'm going to focus on the academic research.

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Actually, Professor David Lewis Williams

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from the University of Wood, Wattersrand

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was researching what he caused the Neurosycheological Model

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of Cave Art back in the 1970s.

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And initially, he was violently opposed

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by his colleagues in anthropology and archaeology.

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Because what he's saying essentially

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is that all of this art and all of its commonalities

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are because it is visionary art.

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This is the art of shamanism.

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And shamanism is always about altered states of consciousness.

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One of the most effective means for introducing

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those altered states is psychedelics.

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Of course, meditation, dancing around a fire for 24 hours

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will do it as well.

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But no doubt that we're dealing with an art

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of altered states of consciousness.

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And I would recommend, of all David's book,

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the mind in the cave is the most important.

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And it will give you a straight line

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into this new insight into what Cave Art is all about.

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It wasn't about hunting magic.

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It was about depicting the other realms

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that the visionary artist went into.

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And of course, we have visionary artists working today.

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People like Alex Gray, people like Martina Hoffman,

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who are inspired by the same experiences.

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Well, science catches up his new scientists,

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trumpeting the earliest evidence

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for magic mushroom use in Europe.

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Well, because they finally found an image

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which actually shows magic mushroom,

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suicide, Hispanica painted in the cave.

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But of course, the art itself tells us

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that they were using these substances long before.

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We didn't need to find that image to know

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that we're dealing with visionary art.

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At the same time that we begin,

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that we see the evidence for this new form of art appearing,

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everything in the human story changes.

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Stone tools, hunting tactics, spiritual ideas.

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They start burying their dead.

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And they start burying them with grave goods,

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with food and water.

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They have some sense that death is not the end

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that people go on.

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And all these things took a quantum leap forward

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at the same time, our ancestors began to record

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typical altered states of consciousness experiences

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in their art.

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It's probably the time that we started speaking languages.

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And the linguistic evidence suggested that it's regarded

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as the most significant change

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in the whole story of the evolution of human behavior.

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And while it is impossible to say

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that that change was caused by psychedelic experience,

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it correlates so closely with the evidence

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that they were using psychedelics

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that we must consider that as a possibility.

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We need to take a fresh look at ancient art

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from all around the world.

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Maybe psychedelics have played a much greater role

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in the story of civilization than Hiddharthubian admitted.

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So there's a Toleta ceramic.

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You can see that the figures are

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mistransforming into a serpent, just like that lion woman

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from Shavekave, her head transmitting into a lion.

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These figures are typical of visionary art,

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the All-Mek figureines.

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What was Theziest doing killing a creature

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that was part bull and part human being?

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The minitor is a visionary creature.

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A bull man wrestling with a lion from a card,

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1800 BC.

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These figures from Mesopotamia.

475
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:09,000
And of course, all of the ancient Egyptian gods,

476
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,920
all of them were gods of vision.

477
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:14,120
They were very anthropic in form.

478
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:17,000
And that is really one of the most common elements

479
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,880
of vision, reart, is a creature that is part animal part

480
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:20,560
human in form.

481
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:22,760
So Thoth with the head of an eye-bist

482
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:26,240
and new-bist the guide of souls with the head of a jackal.

483
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:29,200
This on the bottom right, you see a lovely image

484
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:30,680
from one of the tombs of the nobles.

485
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:32,880
This is a noble woman on the right.

486
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,640
And she is looking at her own soul, which

487
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:38,960
is in the form of a bird headed version of her.

488
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:41,440
She's looking at her own soul at the moment of death.

489
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:45,800
And of course, the great sphinx is another Therianthrop.

490
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,440
So it's reasonable to wonder.

491
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:52,320
Why is our society today so rabbit

492
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:55,240
about consciousness altering drugs and plants?

493
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,760
Particularly where the psychedelics are concerned,

494
00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:00,880
what is it that those in power are really afraid of?

495
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:02,160
Why?

496
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:05,400
Why do they demonize these substances?

497
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:07,920
It's a serious criminal offense to possess DMT,

498
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:11,480
whether in smokeable form, which is, by the way,

499
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:14,680
a rocket ship to the other side of reality,

500
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:19,400
or whether in the IOSCA brew, which is a slower and gentler

501
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,640
journey with more negotiation.

502
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:23,440
Have either of those in your possession.

503
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:24,360
You can go to prison.

504
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:25,760
You can have your life ruined.

505
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:27,120
You can have your door broken down.

506
00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:29,080
You can be humiliated.

507
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:30,720
All joy can be taken away from your life.

508
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:32,520
Yet DMT is a natural brain hormone.

509
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:34,680
We'll have it.

510
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:36,880
Function is unknown, like of research.

511
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:40,280
Why are we persecuting people for exploring their own consciousness

512
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:42,840
with this natural substance?

513
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:45,120
Particularly since our society is not against all

514
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:48,000
to the states of consciousness, per se.

515
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,200
Our society allows big farmer to make billions of dollars

516
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:54,680
a year from drugs that alter consciousness.

517
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:59,240
The unholy alliance of the pharmaceutical industry

518
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,320
and the medical industry,

519
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:04,200
inventing psychiatric industry,

520
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:07,400
inventing new mental illnesses every year,

521
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,480
for which new consciousness altering pills are prescribed,

522
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:13,640
to keep us further and further enriching the coffers

523
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:14,680
of big farmer.

524
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:20,280
So whether it's antidepressants, prosa, or saroxat, for example.

525
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:21,680
I speak from experience.

526
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:23,640
I had a very bad episode of Depression,

527
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,040
and I was prescribed prosa, and saroxat.

528
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:28,720
And at that time, I wasn't thinking clearly,

529
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:30,480
but these are horrible drugs.

530
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:31,600
They are really horrible.

531
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:33,240
For the first time in my life,

532
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:36,080
I began to seriously contemplate suicide.

533
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:39,440
And that's when I realized that the medicine I was taking

534
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:41,200
was doing this to me.

535
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:43,640
Much better ideal, my depression, some other way,

536
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:44,920
rather than take big farmer.

537
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:48,160
But then when I tried to cut it out, it got worse.

538
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:50,920
And I really came very close to killing myself.

539
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,520
What I did was I took each pill,

540
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:56,280
and I sliced it into tiny bits,

541
00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:59,480
and I would each day I would take just slightly less.

542
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:03,160
And after about five months, I was out of there.

543
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:07,720
And we should just as well, because four to five, thank you.

544
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:12,640
Because four to five months later,

545
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,920
I went to the Amazon jungle for my first experience with Ayahuasca.

546
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:19,440
And you do not want to be on SSRI, anti-depressants,

547
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:23,320
when you are taking Ayahuasca, there's a dangerous drug interaction.

548
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:26,920
Ritaly, of course, is for what they call attention deficit disorder.

549
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:29,840
In other words, a cheerful and active child.

550
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:33,160
Give them, give them, rental into shut them down.

551
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:36,280
And so, deep hypocrisy, we are allowing,

552
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:39,440
and we are encouraging, and we are glorifying

553
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:41,960
all the states of consciousness, like this horrible drug,

554
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:45,400
the most boring drug on the planet, alcohol.

555
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:48,960
Which, by the way, is responsible for just orders

556
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:51,640
of magnitude, more deaths, and illness, and sickness,

557
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,120
and disease than any of the illegal drugs.

558
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:55,920
Huge numbers, at heart.

559
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:55,920

560
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:56,920
Yeah.

561
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:58,920
Yeah.

562
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,680
The road accidents, the cirrhosis of the liver.

563
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:03,480
I mean, it's a dreadful blight.

564
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:05,280
And yet, we glorify this drug.

565
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,480
And we encourage people to drink it.

566
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:09,480
And we even advertise it.

567
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:12,720
So what's going on here?

568
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:17,240
You know, we have the possibility of many different states of consciousness.

569
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:21,240
We aren't just confined to one, but our society really

570
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,880
values and glorifies just one state of consciousness.

571
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:28,280
That's what I call the alert problem-solving state of consciousness.

572
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:32,360
And it's in a social framework of top-down control.

573
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:35,880
I think that things like the anti-depressants

574
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:41,000
and alcohol are accepted glorified in our society,

575
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,600
because they don't challenge that mindset.

576
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,880
You'll drink at the end of a hard day at the office,

577
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,920
just chills you down slightly, and it makes you more efficient the next day,

578
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:52,360
as long as you don't drink too much.

579
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:56,440
And the anti-depressants, maybe your depression would make you non-productive.

580
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:58,840
You'd just be lying at home on the couch.

581
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:01,040
And maybe they get you back to work.

582
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:06,040
So it seems that they are tolerating substances that alter consciousness.

583
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:10,600
As long as they don't challenge the alert problem-solving state of consciousness.

584
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:12,640
And that's the problem with psychedelics,

585
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:14,920
because they do challenge that state of consciousness.

586
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:18,960
They actually lead us to question everything.

587
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:22,160
They question their established control system of our society,

588
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:26,600
and the states of consciousness that serve it.

589
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:32,160
Now, I will say one other thing, by the way,

590
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:36,920
which is I'm not against the alert problem-solving state of consciousness.

591
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:40,200
I mean, it has its place, you know.

592
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:44,760
When I get on an airplane, I would like the pilot to be in an alert problem-solving,

593
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:46,720
state of consciousness.

594
00:34:46,720 --> 00:34:50,600
I want him to stay that way all the way till he lands me safely on the ground.

595
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,560
After that, I don't mind what he does with his head.

596
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:56,760
This is choice.

597
00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:59,920
I'm going to take you into a little bit of narcissism.

598
00:34:59,920 --> 00:35:03,880
This all does touch on the mystery that we're here to discuss.

599
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:08,200
Nosticism was regarded as a heresy,

600
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:12,640
who regarded it as a heresy, the Catholic Church, regarded it as a heresy.

601
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:15,160
That was when a particular faction of Christianity,

602
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:18,160
who took the scriptures extremely literally,

603
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:23,680
were allowed to pull on the jackboot of the Roman state

604
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,360
and become the overwhelming faction in Christianity,

605
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:30,440
at which point they then set about persecuting all other factions of Christianity.

606
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,680
Amongst whom, most intriguingly, were the Nostics,

607
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:38,160
who believed that a revealed knowledge of the divine was central to the spiritual process.

608
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:40,200
They used psychedelic mushrooms.

609
00:35:40,240 --> 00:35:44,520
We can see imagery of psychedelic mushrooms in there.

610
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:46,320
Art.

611
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:48,880
We know about Nosticism,

612
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:52,960
because a cache of Nostic documents were found near this temple.

613
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:56,480
This is the temple of Hathor at Dendra in Upper Egypt.

614
00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:58,480
It's an amazing temple, by the way.

615
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:00,640
And about 50 miles away, less than that,

616
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:05,440
at a place called Nagha Madhi, a peasant in 1945,

617
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:08,800
preparing a field came across an earthenware jar.

618
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:11,080
And he excavated it and lo and behold,

619
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:14,080
it contained lots and lots and lots of documents, books,

620
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,120
very old that had been buried there.

621
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,000
He did not know what they were.

622
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,640
He took them back to his household,

623
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:23,880
and his mother actually threw five or six of them in the fire

624
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:25,760
to use for a kindling.

625
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:28,360
Before he said, hang on, maybe we can sell these.

626
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:32,040
And well, it turned out that what had happened in the period

627
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:35,680
about 400 AD, when the Nostics were being persecuted

628
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:39,320
by the powerful, then powerful Roman Catholic Church,

629
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:42,400
a group of Nostics hid a body of their texts,

630
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:46,000
a library of their texts, in the hope that it would somehow

631
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,160
survive because they knew they were going down.

632
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:49,400
And it did survive.

633
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:52,640
And what it did was, it carried the Nostic message right

634
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:54,480
through into the 20th century.

635
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:56,720
Previously, all we knew about them was from those who

636
00:36:56,720 --> 00:36:59,800
persecuted them, and actually they made them out to be bad guys.

637
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:02,200
But when we read the Nostic texts,

638
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:05,360
we find that we're dealing with an incredibly sophisticated

639
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:09,380
extraordinary cosmology, which I can't really

640
00:37:09,380 --> 00:37:11,440
unfold to you in depth here.

641
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:14,760
I would recommend one actually two books.

642
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:18,160
The secondary source, the best secondary source on Nosticism,

643
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:23,880
is John Lam Lash, and the book is called Not In His Image.

644
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,800
But go to the primary source, the Naghamaadi Library,

645
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:32,040
the translations of those texts, which exist now,

646
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:34,640
and we can all access them.

647
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:37,640
The standard definition of Nosticism was that this

648
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:39,440
was from those who hated Nosticism.

649
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:42,920
It was ideas or coherent systems that are characterized

650
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:46,120
by an absolutely negative view of the visible world

651
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:47,400
and its creator.

652
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:50,080
And the assumption of a divine spark in man,

653
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:52,480
his inner self, which had been enclosed

654
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:55,960
within the material body as a result of a tragic event

655
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:58,840
in the precosmic world, from which it can only escape

656
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:01,880
to its divine origins by means of the saving noses.

657
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:03,240
Now, this isn't quite true.

658
00:38:03,240 --> 00:38:04,640
There are elements about that are true,

659
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:07,960
but Nosticism's Nostics never hated the world.

660
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:10,320
They never embraced the world.

661
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:11,200
And how could they not?

662
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:13,240
Because the world was there, effectively,

663
00:38:13,240 --> 00:38:16,040
it got us, and what they called an A on Sophia,

664
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:18,120
the goddess of wisdom.

665
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:21,680
It's a complicated cosmology, but there's this distant realm

666
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:22,920
called the Plorama.

667
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:26,720
That's the realm of the true Godhead, as far as Nostics are concerned.

668
00:38:26,720 --> 00:38:29,680
And there, these entities, the A ons exist.

669
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:32,880
And there's Sophia, and she starts to imagine a singularity.

670
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:36,880
She starts to envisage the Anthropos, the creation of humanity.

671
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:39,480
And so in love, there she become with this idea.

672
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:41,920
So in Ratchi, there she become with this idea,

673
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:45,680
that she falls from the Plorama into the realm of matter.

674
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:48,560
And there, she coalesces as the planet Earth.

675
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:53,200
In that fall from the Plorama, a tragic accident does occur.

676
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:54,800
Other entities are created.

677
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:59,800
One of them is called the Demi Urge by the Nostics.

678
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:05,440
And the Demi Urge does not want the Divine Spark in Man

679
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:07,360
to be realized.

680
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:10,040
The Demi Urge's whole project is to convince us

681
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:11,400
that he is God.

682
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:12,400
He's not.

683
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:16,960
He's a minor, pumped up, supernatural, with a huge ego,

684
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:18,840
who's constantly, if you read the Old Testament,

685
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:20,240
telling us to kill people.

686
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:25,240
He wants to suppress the Divine Spark in Man,

687
00:39:25,240 --> 00:39:27,960
and for that purpose, he has evil angels who are called

688
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:32,960
icons who mingle amongst human beings.

689
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:36,320
And here's the kicker.

690
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:38,240
From the Nostics point of view, the entity

691
00:39:38,240 --> 00:39:40,800
that we have all been brought up to believe is God,

692
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:44,840
whether we call him Jehovah or Yahweh or Aala.

693
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,320
From the Nostics point of view that was not God at all.

694
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:48,600
We've been misled.

695
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:52,400
That was the Demi Urge, who pretended he was God,

696
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:56,680
who pumped us up to believe in Him, the chief of the icons

697
00:39:56,680 --> 00:40:01,200
of malicious, jealous, egotistical, minor, supernatural,

698
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:04,040
who, under many names and guises, has looted many

699
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:06,840
into believing that he is God, our creator and the creator

700
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:07,680
of the world.

701
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:09,200
You know the usual suspects that movie,

702
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:10,560
do you remember that there was a line,

703
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:12,480
the greatest trick that Devil Ever played,

704
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:15,120
has to be convinced the world he didn't exist.

705
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:16,520
Nostics take it one step further.

706
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:18,520
The greatest trick that Devil Ever played

707
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:20,640
was to convince the world that he is God.

708
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:24,600
Envying the Divine Spark within us, the Demi Urge

709
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:28,040
and his icons seek to mislead and enslave mankind

710
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:30,000
and work to prevent us from ever awakening

711
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:31,640
to our true potential.

712
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:35,240
They spread fear and hatred and suspicion amongst us

713
00:40:35,240 --> 00:40:38,200
and drive us into all manner of reckless crime

714
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:41,480
into wars and frauds and all things hostile

715
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:43,320
to the nature of the soul.

716
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:46,680
So the Nostics story of the Garden of Eden

717
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:48,760
turns everything upside down.

718
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:50,640
We have been brought up to believe this happened

719
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:51,640
was the bad guy.

720
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:53,320
The Nostics say no.

721
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:54,440
That is not correct.

722
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:56,080
The serpent is the good guy.

723
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:57,800
Why is he the good guy?

724
00:40:57,800 --> 00:40:59,640
Because he's saying to Adam and Eve,

725
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:04,680
you have been kept in a state of sleep by the Demi Urge.

726
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:07,160
If you are to progress as souls,

727
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:10,640
you must know the difference between good and evil.

728
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:12,080
If you don't know that difference,

729
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:13,760
then you can't make informed choices.

730
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:15,400
And if you can't make informed choices,

731
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:17,960
then you have no responsibility for what you do.

732
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:20,360
You can only learn and grow by making choices.

733
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:22,800
Therefore, the serpent says to Adam and Eve,

734
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:25,680
eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

735
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:29,120
For that act, which is a fundamental,

736
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:32,400
nostic step, the Adam and Eve

737
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:33,400
and a driven out of the garden.

738
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:35,640
But the interesting thing is what is the tree of knowledge

739
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:36,520
of good and evil?

740
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:39,400
In Nostic art, it's psychedelic.

741
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:43,320
It's again mushrooms that are the tree of knowledge

742
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:44,400
of good and evil.

743
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:47,160
And there, we see the serpent and what is he?

744
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:50,520
He's not a typical terriam thrope with the head

745
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:53,400
of a human being and the body of a serpent.

746
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:57,520
In almost all the ancient art that is shown.

747
00:41:57,520 --> 00:42:00,280
And of course, Adam and Eve had driven out of the garden.

748
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:01,760
They're never to return.

749
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:03,480
The angels come along with swords

750
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:05,800
and humiliatingly beat them on the bottoms

751
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:09,040
with the flaps of the swords and drive them out of the garden

752
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:11,440
and then angels are posted to present mankind

753
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:13,920
from ever entering the garden again.

754
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:14,800
We'll come back to that.

755
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:19,480
But another upside-down thing is, according to the Nostics,

756
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:22,120
the flood wasn't inflicted to punish evil,

757
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:24,600
but to punish humanity for having risen so high

758
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:28,600
and to take the light, the noces that was growing amongst men

759
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:31,560
and the survivors were thrown into great distraction

760
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:33,960
and into a life of toil so that mankind

761
00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:36,120
might be occupied with worldly affairs

762
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:38,200
and might not have the opportunity

763
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:40,640
of being devoted to the Holy Spirit.

764
00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:43,680
Throughout history, those who've sought the liberating

765
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:46,800
and the noces have been persecuted.

766
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:49,240
Go this route, expect to be persecuted.

767
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:55,560
The tragic late persecution of the Nostics

768
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:58,080
were a people called the cathars in Southwest France.

769
00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:02,520
Somehow, the Nostic idea survived the persecutions

770
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:04,160
of the Roman Empire.

771
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:07,240
And it spread out, and we see elements of narcissism

772
00:43:07,240 --> 00:43:08,640
moving up through the Balkans

773
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:09,920
and then into Northern France.

774
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:11,400
And then they settled in southern France.

775
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:15,880
Southwest and France near to Luz and Alby.

776
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:18,200
And this is the area of the cathars.

777
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:22,520
This was a beautiful, beautiful medieval civilization.

778
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:24,680
The two words don't normally go together.

779
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:27,320
But here we are in the 12th century with a civilization

780
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:30,600
that believes in the absolute equality of men and women

781
00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:32,960
that seeks universal literacy

782
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:35,520
whereas the Catholic Church was against universal literacy

783
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:38,280
and would not even allow people to earn a Bible.

784
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:40,960
And which creates great poetry, the true doors,

785
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:42,520
come from the cathars.

786
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:45,880
They were paper makers because they wanted to spread literacy

787
00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:47,400
around the world.

788
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:51,400
What the one problem they had was that they believed

789
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:55,760
the Pope was the agent of the devil on earth.

790
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:58,560
And that was a really dangerous thing to believe

791
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:00,720
in the 12th century.

792
00:44:00,720 --> 00:44:04,520
And so the Roman Catholic Church declared a crusade.

793
00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:07,120
It was called the Alby Gensian Crusades.

794
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:11,320
After the town of Alby that you can see on the map there.

795
00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:13,840
And the purpose of that crusade was what

796
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:15,400
we call ethnic cleansing today.

797
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:17,760
It was a complete genocide of the cathars.

798
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:20,440
The cathars fought back.

799
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:23,760
But they were overwhelmed by this huge army of harm

800
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:25,680
and damage that came down from the north

801
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:28,120
with these hideous weapons and just smashed them

802
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:31,840
to pieces, killing the population of entire cities.

803
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:34,840
The entire population of Bezier, whether they were cathars

804
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:39,440
or not were all killed in this horrible war.

805
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:41,000
And the books of the cathars were burned.

806
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:42,880
The cathars themselves were burned at the state.

807
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:45,800
By the way, the ink position was created for this.

808
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:47,120
We all know about the ink position.

809
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:51,360
It's first acts where the persecution of the cathars.

810
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:54,640
So from the nostic point of view, that Demiage and his icons

811
00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:57,400
and their human servants are always trying to steal the light.

812
00:44:57,400 --> 00:44:59,880
And they're certainly doing so today.

813
00:44:59,880 --> 00:45:04,320
If that nostic scenario were correct,

814
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:08,720
where might we expect these forces to manifest?

815
00:45:08,720 --> 00:45:11,920
Well, I think they manifest in the three mainstream

816
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:14,160
monotheistic religions.

817
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:15,840
I'm sorry to say that.

818
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:21,080
These religions are now bureaucracies and power structures

819
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:24,720
that distribute ideology, that act as intermediaries

820
00:45:24,720 --> 00:45:29,640
between us and the divine, that tell us what to think.

821
00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:30,840
It's not so long.

822
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:33,960
It's a 17, 1700s with the last burnings of witches

823
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:34,800
in England.

824
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:38,160
And I think it was even later in America.

825
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:41,240
And of course, the scandals within the Vatican.

826
00:45:41,240 --> 00:45:45,200
And then Islam stoning women to death,

827
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:46,440
in the name of God.

828
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:48,160
So women look at another man.

829
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:49,320
And then what?

830
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:51,040
She gets killed for that.

831
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:52,600
And this is done in the name of God.

832
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:55,720
Ask yourself, is that a God or is that a demon

833
00:45:55,720 --> 00:46:00,200
that is being served by these kind of actions?

834
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:04,320
So the mass murder of the Yazidis by Islamic State,

835
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:08,840
Yazidis religion has its roots in ancient nocesterson.

836
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:13,600
I call the Islamic State an Abrahamic death cult.

837
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:16,640
It's one of many Abrahamic death cults

838
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:19,200
that have existed down the ages.

839
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:23,200
And then switching another iconic force is the state itself.

840
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:26,320
What is the state, but a huge engine bureaucracy

841
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:30,040
that absorbs our wealth and then uses it to empower itself

842
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:32,480
or we're saying that it's acting for us.

843
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:34,840
Taking away our responsibilities, that's

844
00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:35,840
what the state's about.

845
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:37,640
And we need to have responsibility if we're

846
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:38,560
to grow and develop.

847
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:41,000
We can't divest that onto bureaucrats.

848
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:42,880
It doesn't serve us by doing that.

849
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:46,240
And of course, states operate on fear and hatred

850
00:46:46,240 --> 00:46:47,280
and suspicion.

851
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:49,960
They press those buttons and make us fear and hate

852
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:51,560
and suspect other people.

853
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:53,520
I don't know about you, but I really

854
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:54,920
detest patriotism.

855
00:46:54,920 --> 00:47:03,480
Because I see no reason why I should feel

856
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:05,640
especially loyal or connected to somebody,

857
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:07,680
just because they happen to be born on the same bit of land

858
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:08,520
I was born on.

859
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:11,280
Well, what have they done to merit my respect?

860
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:12,520
Apart from birth is nothing.

861
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:13,680
It's an accident.

862
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:15,480
Why is that important?

863
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:17,040
Why should I care about that?

864
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:18,440
If we're going to be patriotic,

865
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:20,960
let's be patriotic to the entire human race

866
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:22,440
and to all life on this planet.

867
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:29,760
You know, let's not fall into the trap of these iconic powers

868
00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:32,080
that seek to divide us from one another.

869
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:34,040
I've had, of course, the big corporations

870
00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:37,840
are all about taking away our responsibility as well.

871
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:41,320
So we are living in an iconic world in many ways.

872
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:44,560
And the media, God help us.

873
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:45,720
Well, it's horrible.

874
00:47:45,720 --> 00:47:50,040
I mean, this constant deluge of misery and fear and dread

875
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:55,000
and we're living in a soup of very negative vibrations

876
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:58,440
that are being put out by the civilization that we are part of.

877
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:01,080
We need to change this.

878
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:03,480
What these iconic forces have done is they've created

879
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:05,720
a kind of consciousness monopoly.

880
00:48:05,720 --> 00:48:07,360
They've given an effective monopoly

881
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:08,880
to a single state of consciousness

882
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:12,440
and they enforce that monopoly with draconian criminal sanctions.

883
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:13,880
And I think that's dangerous.

884
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:17,200
I think it may even be socially suicidal.

885
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:19,600
Of course, as I said, the alert problem solving

886
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:21,440
state of consciousness does have its place.

887
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:22,320
It's good for the military.

888
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:24,320
It's good for commerce.

889
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:27,360
It's good for more mundane aspects of science,

890
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:29,680
not necessarily the inspired aspects of science.

891
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:31,400
But it has its place.

892
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:34,000
And we are told that if we just buy into this

893
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:37,880
that we will have a future of endless prosperity,

894
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:39,920
but we all know that's not true.

895
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:42,000
We all live through this.

896
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:45,280
We know that the banks can't go on magically printing electronic

897
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:49,000
money forever, that the system is actually broken

898
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:51,600
and just being fixed up with band-aids right now.

899
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:54,800
It's a system which multiplies pollution all around

900
00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:57,560
this glorious planet of ours for short-term,

901
00:48:57,560 --> 00:49:01,160
profit gains, not never thinking long-term.

902
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:03,120
It's a system that has created.

903
00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:06,040
Not only created nuclear weapons, which is madness in itself,

904
00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:09,200
but having created them proliferated them all around the world.

905
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:11,640
So we're living with these heaps of deadly poison

906
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:14,240
that we ourselves have made, which are capable of making life

907
00:49:14,240 --> 00:49:16,480
on earth impossible.

908
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:21,560
Look, I mean, our society has to be insane.

909
00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:24,080
This is clinical insanity that we're dealing with here.

910
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:25,880
This is not normal adjusted behavior.

911
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:27,280
We are fucked up.

912
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:28,280
Okay?

913
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:30,280
APPLAUSE

914
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:37,720
And, you know, much-bonded economic system.

915
00:49:37,720 --> 00:49:41,480
Yeah, it's sure it's great, but millions of people are starving

916
00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:42,000
in the world.

917
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:43,440
There are brothers and sisters.

918
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:45,360
There are fellow human beings.

919
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:48,440
There, instead of desperate, they go from one day to the next

920
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:50,960
never having enough food to put in their mouths.

921
00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:54,040
So why are we taking pleasure in our wealth and our power when this

922
00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:55,040
is happening?

923
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:58,240
We've got to fix this first before we do anything else.

924
00:49:58,240 --> 00:50:01,000
And then, what again is happening with our civilization,

925
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:04,640
is it's disrespecting sacred realms.

926
00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:08,640
The Amazon, the rainforests of the world are ultimate sacred realm.

927
00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:12,280
And we are just cutting these things down, you know, why?

928
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:17,280
To plant soybeans, to feed cattle, so we can eat hamburgers.

929
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:18,320
What a bad deal.

930
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:21,120
Take a pristine rainforest and turn it into a hamburger.

931
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:22,040
This is madness.

932
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:23,640
Total, total madness.

933
00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:28,880
And actually, the economic solution to the Amazon is to make it

934
00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:32,200
so that the peoples of the Amazon never need to cut down another tree.

935
00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:33,960
We can afford to do that.

936
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:36,880
Please look after the Amazon for the world.

937
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:38,120
What are your economic needs?

938
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:39,320
Let's meet them for you.

939
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:42,240
Don't cut down if we were saying that's what we'd be doing.

940
00:50:42,720 --> 00:50:45,800
But we're not saying, so we spend billions and billions of dollars

941
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:49,480
on weapons of mass destruction to murder one another

942
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:51,360
in ever more sophisticated ways.

943
00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:54,560
We do nothing about the problem of the Amazon.

944
00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:57,440
Obviously, something's really wrong.

945
00:50:57,440 --> 00:50:59,680
We're not going to move to a new state of consciousness

946
00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:01,560
using the old one.

947
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:03,400
Nosticism has been shattered.

948
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:08,200
I think we need to look to shamanism for our answers.

949
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:10,600
A form of shamanism.

950
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:11,600
Thank you.

951
00:51:12,240 --> 00:51:16,000
A form of shamanism that fits into the modern urban industrial

952
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:17,400
context.

953
00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:19,840
And there are places in the world where shamanism is still

954
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:20,480
in full flow.

955
00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:23,400
The Amazon rainforest is an example.

956
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:27,640
Where indeed there are people who don't even know we exist.

957
00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:31,120
And when I talk to Amazonian shamanism, as I did extensively,

958
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:35,920
about their work and about the sickness of the West,

959
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:37,440
they see it clearly.

960
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:40,480
What they said to me was, the problem is, you guys have

961
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:43,160
to sever your connection to spirit.

962
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:45,880
If you don't reconnect to spirit,

963
00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:48,080
you're going to bring the whole house of cards down

964
00:51:48,080 --> 00:51:50,320
on our heads as well as yours.

965
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:51,520
This is an urgent matter.

966
00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:55,440
And that's why a kind of reverse mission reactivity

967
00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:57,840
is now underway.

968
00:51:57,840 --> 00:51:59,520
You know, used to be the case that us in the north,

969
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:01,800
we sent the missions down to the south to bring them

970
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:03,200
the good news.

971
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:05,760
Well, now it's shaman's who are doing mission

972
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:08,720
regennies to the north to bring us the good news,

973
00:52:08,720 --> 00:52:10,040
which is there is a remedy.

974
00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:19,720
And that remedy, of course, requires us to set aside 50 years

975
00:52:19,720 --> 00:52:21,480
of mind programming.

976
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:25,760
And that is, they suggest Iosca, a portal to enchanted realms.

977
00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:27,720
Yes, it does make you vomit.

978
00:52:27,720 --> 00:52:29,520
Yes, it does give you diarrhea.

979
00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:31,040
Yes, that is embarrassing.

980
00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:34,600
But what Iosca teaches you is that your body is not

981
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:36,520
the most important part of yourself.

982
00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:37,840
It's just your vehicle.

983
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:39,200
It may need some cleansing.

984
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:42,120
And that's what the purge is about.

985
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:46,560
But it needs cleansing in order to allow the consciousness

986
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:47,600
to thrive.

987
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:49,960
And it's the effects of Iosca on consciousness

988
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:50,840
that are most intriguing.

989
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:53,440
And for those who've not drunk Iosca,

990
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:56,360
the imagery of this Iosca shaman, Pablo Amaringo

991
00:52:56,360 --> 00:52:58,720
that I'm showing here, will give you a sense

992
00:52:58,720 --> 00:53:02,440
of the enchanted universe that Iosca takes us into where

993
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:06,160
it is normal to encounter intelligent entities who

994
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:08,880
communicate with us, who may take human form,

995
00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:11,480
may take animal form, may appear as serpents.

996
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:14,240
It's really all very interesting.

997
00:53:14,240 --> 00:53:16,160
There's a very insistent message in Iosca.

998
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:18,480
I'm showing art from Alex Gray on the left

999
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:21,280
and from the late Robert Venosa on the right,

1000
00:53:21,280 --> 00:53:23,600
both of whose art has been profoundly influenced

1001
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:24,920
by Iosca.

1002
00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:27,280
And the message is one of those universes that

1003
00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:29,960
almost everyone who drinks the brew sooner or later reports

1004
00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:33,280
is about the sacred magical enchanted nature

1005
00:53:33,280 --> 00:53:37,320
of all creation and the interdependence of material

1006
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:40,520
and spiritual realms.

1007
00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:46,000
There's a life review in the Iosca experience.

1008
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:48,560
That's why you often hear people crying during Iosca

1009
00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:49,280
sessions.

1010
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:52,640
I've undergone quite a number of these life reviews.

1011
00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:57,360
It's why 13 years later, I'm still working with Iosca.

1012
00:53:57,360 --> 00:54:01,920
I suppose had about 60 sessions over the last 13 years.

1013
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:05,160
Because I still feel it has something to teach me.

1014
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:06,920
There's a very good line about psychedelics.

1015
00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:08,280
I forget who was the source.

1016
00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:09,840
Maybe Timothy Leary.

1017
00:54:09,840 --> 00:54:13,400
With psychedelics, when you've got the message,

1018
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:14,400
hang up the phone.

1019
00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:20,160
I still feel that I have more to learn from Iosca.

1020
00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:22,960
And that's why these days only about once a year,

1021
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:24,560
I go have an Iosca session.

1022
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:26,080
And I'm going to have an Iosca session

1023
00:54:26,080 --> 00:54:28,680
in Northern California quite soon,

1024
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:34,560
which I'm anticipating with a certain amount of dread

1025
00:54:34,560 --> 00:54:37,840
and also a certain amount of joy.

1026
00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:41,240
Session with our son and our daughter-in-law

1027
00:54:41,240 --> 00:54:45,320
and is very bonding to have these sessions with family members.

1028
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:51,600
What it does is it shows you as you are.

1029
00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:54,520
We surround ourselves with walls.

1030
00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:56,920
Often we say cruel or hurtful things to other people

1031
00:54:56,920 --> 00:54:59,520
or act against the interests of those other people.

1032
00:54:59,520 --> 00:55:01,720
But we persuade ourselves, it's okay.

1033
00:55:01,720 --> 00:55:03,320
That was a reason why we did that.

1034
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:05,400
Even if we've been mentored, examine it to all,

1035
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:08,800
I wasca brings it right into your face.

1036
00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:12,200
It shows you the effect of your words on that person.

1037
00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:14,200
And you feel it from their point of view.

1038
00:55:14,200 --> 00:55:17,120
My God, did I say that?

1039
00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:19,480
I caused that pain.

1040
00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:25,000
And you find yourself in a state of awakening.

1041
00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:27,600
When you realize you're not the sweet, beautiful person

1042
00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:28,680
you thought you were.

1043
00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:30,800
There's a lot of work to do.

1044
00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:33,480
And you come out of the Iosca session

1045
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:37,960
with a strong motivation to change the way you function in the world.

1046
00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:42,440
It is very difficult to change a lifetime of bad habits.

1047
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:45,600
Let us not imagine that Iosca is an easy road.

1048
00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:47,760
The work begins after you've drunk it

1049
00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:49,680
when you integrate the lessons that you've learned

1050
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:51,880
and most of us most of the time fail to do that

1051
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:53,720
and we have to keep on working at it.

1052
00:55:53,720 --> 00:55:56,680
But little by little gradually, I've seen amongst people who

1053
00:55:56,680 --> 00:55:59,280
work with Iosca changes due to take place.

1054
00:55:59,280 --> 00:56:00,680
And it's valuable.

1055
00:56:00,680 --> 00:56:06,680
It's been described as 20 years of psychotherapy in one night.

1056
00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:09,000
Very effective for getting people off addictions

1057
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:12,200
to hard drugs, particularly heroin and cocaine.

1058
00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:14,840
There's a great clinic in Peru called Taki Wasi

1059
00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:17,680
at the town of Tarapota run by Dr. Jacques Mabit

1060
00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:21,800
where they have an incredible record of getting people off

1061
00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:22,920
addictions to hard drugs.

1062
00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:26,560
A month at Taki Wasi does an Iosca sessions,

1063
00:56:26,560 --> 00:56:29,480
more than half of them leave completely free of addiction,

1064
00:56:29,480 --> 00:56:32,480
no withdrawal symptoms they never return to it again.

1065
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:35,360
Far more effective than bloody methadone.

1066
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:36,400
You know?

1067
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:39,920
Methadone is just another addictive drug.

1068
00:56:39,920 --> 00:56:43,240
That's what our society gives heroin addicts, methadone.

1069
00:56:43,240 --> 00:56:46,040
But Iosca far more effective.

1070
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:48,240
Gabo Mate, another medical doctor in Canada,

1071
00:56:48,240 --> 00:56:51,160
was again achieving fantastic results,

1072
00:56:51,160 --> 00:56:53,840
getting people off addictions to hard drugs in Canada

1073
00:56:53,840 --> 00:56:57,360
with Iosca, Canadian government stepped in and stopped him.

1074
00:56:57,360 --> 00:56:59,920
They said you do this again, you are going to prison.

1075
00:56:59,920 --> 00:57:01,520
Iosca is a drug.

1076
00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:06,600
Well, so they want heroin and cocaine addicts apparently.

1077
00:57:08,120 --> 00:57:11,080
Most frequently we encounter the spirit of Iosca

1078
00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:15,600
as a creative guide, as a healer, and as a moral teacher.

1079
00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:17,960
Many of us in the West who've drunk Iosca

1080
00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:21,160
have the sense of contacting an entity, a real entity,

1081
00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:23,360
not a figment of our imaginations.

1082
00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:26,440
And a word has a reason, she's often called mother Iosca,

1083
00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:27,640
or the grand mother.

1084
00:57:28,840 --> 00:57:32,560
This is the manifestation of Iosca in the West.

1085
00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:34,400
In the Amazon jungle, some of the tribes

1086
00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:36,960
regard the spirit of Iosca as male,

1087
00:57:36,960 --> 00:57:39,840
but we're experiencing her predominantly as a feminine entity.

1088
00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:41,600
And I think that's targeted.

1089
00:57:41,600 --> 00:57:45,040
I think that is part of bringing the divine feminine back

1090
00:57:45,040 --> 00:57:46,440
into the Western culture.

1091
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:48,640
Where it's desperately, desperately needed.

1092
00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:52,600
So I can't prove this.

1093
00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:55,800
I can't prove that the visions we have on Iosca

1094
00:57:55,800 --> 00:57:57,600
are any kind of reality.

1095
00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:00,440
They may just be our brain on drugs.

1096
00:58:00,440 --> 00:58:02,600
But the more serious scientific research

1097
00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:05,040
that's been done into this is opening up the possibility

1098
00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:07,440
that that is not the case, that what is happening

1099
00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:10,280
with these substances is that they are re-tuning

1100
00:58:10,280 --> 00:58:12,960
the receiver wavelength of the brain.

1101
00:58:13,040 --> 00:58:16,720
And they are allowing us to enter into consciousness

1102
00:58:16,720 --> 00:58:21,000
areas of reality that are normally closed off to us.

1103
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:23,040
There are many, we understand areas of reality

1104
00:58:23,040 --> 00:58:24,080
that are closed off.

1105
00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:26,120
Back to here, we can't see them with the naked eye.

1106
00:58:26,120 --> 00:58:28,040
We need an instrument to see them, a microscope.

1107
00:58:28,040 --> 00:58:30,600
I'm suggesting that these substances are like that.

1108
00:58:30,600 --> 00:58:34,480
They're instruments that extend the receiving capacity

1109
00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:36,880
of the brain and allow us suddenly to realize

1110
00:58:36,880 --> 00:58:39,640
that we're part of a much wider reality.

1111
00:58:39,640 --> 00:58:43,160
And this is where the spirit of Ayahuasca lives,

1112
00:58:43,160 --> 00:58:45,280
but not only her.

1113
00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:47,720
There is darkness in that realm too.

1114
00:58:47,720 --> 00:58:50,680
When you drop your shields, as you must do to benefit

1115
00:58:50,680 --> 00:58:54,520
from Ayahuasca, there's a risk that darkness comes in.

1116
00:58:54,520 --> 00:58:56,000
You have to adjust as in this world,

1117
00:58:56,000 --> 00:58:58,760
there is a battle of good and evil soul, so in other realms.

1118
00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:00,360
And we have to remain alert to that.

1119
00:59:00,360 --> 00:59:02,560
We are always defined by our choices.

1120
00:59:02,560 --> 00:59:03,640
We always can choose.

1121
00:59:03,640 --> 00:59:05,680
We do not have to choose the evil path.

1122
00:59:05,680 --> 00:59:08,760
We can always choose the good path.

1123
00:59:08,760 --> 00:59:09,960
So what are we doing here?

1124
00:59:09,960 --> 00:59:12,480
What actually journey are we on?

1125
00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:13,680
What is consciousness?

1126
00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:16,080
What happens to me when I die?

1127
00:59:16,080 --> 00:59:19,160
What is reality?

1128
00:59:19,160 --> 00:59:20,560
Consciousness is a mystery.

1129
00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:25,080
Certainly the brain is involved in it, but it's not clear exactly

1130
00:59:25,080 --> 00:59:25,600
how.

1131
00:59:25,600 --> 00:59:28,200
There's an assumption in our society that the relationships

1132
00:59:28,200 --> 00:59:30,920
like this, that the brain makes consciousness,

1133
00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:33,080
the way a generator makes electricity.

1134
00:59:33,080 --> 00:59:36,440
If you hold that view, you can't believe in life after death.

1135
00:59:36,440 --> 00:59:39,240
The generators broken, consciousness ends.

1136
00:59:39,240 --> 00:59:40,120
You're just meat.

1137
00:59:40,120 --> 00:59:41,200
That's the end of your story.

1138
00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:42,000
There's nothing else.

1139
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:44,480
Nothing else at all.

1140
00:59:44,480 --> 00:59:48,440
And this is accepted as ground truth by majority of scientists,

1141
00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:50,600
so though it's never been examined or proved.

1142
00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:53,200
There's another possibility, which is that the relationship

1143
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:54,360
of consciousness to the brain,

1144
00:59:54,360 --> 00:59:56,360
I'm using an analogy here, obviously,

1145
00:59:56,360 --> 01:00:00:00,080
is more like the relationship of the TV signal

1146
01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:01,880
to the TV set.

1147
01:00:01,880 --> 01:00:06,120
There, if you break the TV set,

1148
01:00:06,120 --> 01:00:07,560
the signal still there.

1149
01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:09,640
Signal doesn't go away.

1150
01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:12,440
You can damage the TV set, it'll damage the picture,

1151
01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:14,680
but the signal is still there.

1152
01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:17,720
See, mainstream scientists who look at this,

1153
01:00:17,720 --> 01:00:20,480
they say, I can prove your brain makes your consciousness,

1154
01:00:20,480 --> 01:00:22,200
because if I damage an area of your brain,

1155
01:00:22,200 --> 01:00:23,880
your consciousness will be affected.

1156
01:00:23,880 --> 01:00:25,280
But that's true with the TV picture.

1157
01:00:25,280 --> 01:00:27,640
You damage the screen, the picture will be affected,

1158
01:00:27,640 --> 01:00:32,000
but that consciousness, the essence is still there.

1159
01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:33,880
The signal is strong, and it goes on.

1160
01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:35,520
And if that is the relationship,

1161
01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:37,640
then we can understand reincarnation,

1162
01:00:37,640 --> 01:00:41,640
because consciousness is not an artifact of the brain.

1163
01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:44,200
Consciousness is manifesting through the brain,

1164
01:00:44,200 --> 01:00:46,280
very, very different.

1165
01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:50,200
Albert Hoffman, the discoverer of LSD.

1166
01:00:52,720 --> 01:00:56,520
So he was working in his lab at Sandoz in the 1940s

1167
01:00:56,520 --> 01:00:58,960
with lots of different synthetics of Ergot.

1168
01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:02,560
And he set off to ride home one day at the end of the day's work,

1169
01:01:02,560 --> 01:01:05,320
and he had a really bizarre journey on his bicycle.

1170
01:01:05,320 --> 01:01:08,520
And the reality was just kind of melting down all around him.

1171
01:01:08,520 --> 01:01:11,160
And when he got home, he thought he was dying, actually.

1172
01:01:11,160 --> 01:01:13,440
And then he realized that he'd absorbed something

1173
01:01:13,440 --> 01:01:17,280
through his skin in the lab, and he thought he knew what it was.

1174
01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:19,280
And it seemed pretty bloody powerful.

1175
01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:21,480
So he went back the next day, and he took what he thought

1176
01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:23,080
was a small dose.

1177
01:01:23,080 --> 01:01:25,960
Actually, he was a giant dose of LSD.

1178
01:01:25,960 --> 01:01:29,200
And he had just an extraordinary experience.

1179
01:01:29,200 --> 01:01:31,960
And that was the beginning of LSD in our society.

1180
01:01:31,960 --> 01:01:34,000
He was totally legal for years,

1181
01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:36,560
and it was used by psychotherapists.

1182
01:01:36,560 --> 01:01:38,680
By the way, for those who say that taking psychedelics

1183
01:01:38,680 --> 01:01:40,600
shortens your life, bear in mind,

1184
01:01:40,600 --> 01:01:42,360
Albert Hoffman, who continued to take LSD

1185
01:01:42,360 --> 01:01:45,040
all his life, lived until the age of 102.

1186
01:01:49,040 --> 01:01:51,800
He said, and he was happy.

1187
01:01:51,800 --> 01:01:54,560
He was a very happy man.

1188
01:01:54,560 --> 01:01:57,520
And he makes this point that reality is inconceivable

1189
01:01:57,520 --> 01:01:59,440
without an experiencing subject.

1190
01:01:59,440 --> 01:02:01,880
It's the product of the exterior world of the sender

1191
01:02:01,880 --> 01:02:04,320
and of a receiver.

1192
01:02:04,320 --> 01:02:06,600
Maybe there's more to the exterior world

1193
01:02:06,600 --> 01:02:08,520
than our senses, even when extended

1194
01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:10,760
by the finest scientific instruments

1195
01:02:10,760 --> 01:02:12,920
are normally able to receive.

1196
01:02:12,920 --> 01:02:14,880
Blake was onto this idea with his notion

1197
01:02:14,880 --> 01:02:18,520
of the doors of perception that we're not seeing things clearly,

1198
01:02:18,520 --> 01:02:21,400
that the doors of perception are dirty, and muddied.

1199
01:02:21,400 --> 01:02:23,760
But if they were cleansed, everything would appear to man

1200
01:02:23,760 --> 01:02:25,880
as it is infinite.

1201
01:02:25,880 --> 01:02:29,160
For man has closed himself up till he sees all things

1202
01:02:29,160 --> 01:02:31,760
through narrow chunks of his cavern.

1203
01:02:31,760 --> 01:02:36,760
William James was the brother of the great novelist Henry James

1204
01:02:36,880 --> 01:02:39,400
and William James was a psychologist

1205
01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:42,000
at the turn of the 20th century.

1206
01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:46,240
He experimented with nitrous oxide, not known as a major psychedelic,

1207
01:02:46,240 --> 01:02:49,200
but it had a profound effect on him.

1208
01:02:49,200 --> 01:02:54,680
It made him realize that our normal waking consciousness,

1209
01:02:54,680 --> 01:02:57,120
rational consciousness as we call it,

1210
01:02:57,120 --> 01:02:59,040
is but one special type of consciousness.

1211
01:02:59,040 --> 01:03:00,720
While all about it, parted from it

1212
01:03:00,720 --> 01:03:02,440
by the filmist of screens,

1213
01:03:02,440 --> 01:03:06,880
their live potential forms of consciousness very different.

1214
01:03:06,880 --> 01:03:08,080
And he says something important.

1215
01:03:08,080 --> 01:03:12,480
No account of the universe in its totality can be final,

1216
01:03:12,480 --> 01:03:15,720
which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded

1217
01:03:15,720 --> 01:03:16,720
at any rate.

1218
01:03:16,720 --> 01:03:20,520
They forbid a premature closing of our accounts with reality.

1219
01:03:20,520 --> 01:03:23,560
And I would say that's what mainstream science has done.

1220
01:03:23,560 --> 01:03:26,280
It has prematurely closed our accounts with reality.

1221
01:03:26,280 --> 01:03:28,080
It says, we got this all figured out.

1222
01:03:28,080 --> 01:03:30,840
We haven't even begun to figure it out.

1223
01:03:34,480 --> 01:03:37,480
Others, Huxley, the doors of perception again.

1224
01:03:37,480 --> 01:03:42,480
He regarded psychedelics as what he called gratuitous graces,

1225
01:03:42,960 --> 01:03:44,880
that the normal function of the brain is actually

1226
01:03:44,880 --> 01:03:46,680
to shut most of reality out.

1227
01:03:46,680 --> 01:03:50,600
Otherwise, we'd just be overwhelmed by the massive sensations

1228
01:03:50,600 --> 01:03:51,440
that are coming in.

1229
01:03:51,440 --> 01:03:54,040
So he regards the brain as a reducing valve.

1230
01:03:54,040 --> 01:03:57,480
And what he suggests psychedelics do is they just loosen off

1231
01:03:57,480 --> 01:04:01,360
the reducing valve a little bit and allow more of reality

1232
01:04:01,360 --> 01:04:04,400
in through these permanent or temporary bypasses.

1233
01:04:04,400 --> 01:04:06,640
They're flows something more than

1234
01:04:06,640 --> 01:04:10,640
and above all, something different from the carefully selected

1235
01:04:10,640 --> 01:04:14,160
utilitarian material, which are narrowed individual minds

1236
01:04:14,160 --> 01:04:19,280
regardless of complete or at least sufficient picture of reality.

1237
01:04:19,280 --> 01:04:22,560
Back to Hoffman, again, this issue of the receiver wavelength

1238
01:04:22,560 --> 01:04:24,920
of the brain, the true importance of LSD

1239
01:04:24,920 --> 01:04:27,320
in related hallucinogens lies in their capacity

1240
01:04:27,320 --> 01:04:31,080
to shift the wavelength setting of the receiving self

1241
01:04:31,080 --> 01:04:34,920
and thereby to evoke alterations in reality consciousness.

1242
01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:38,000
Rick Strassman did extensive research

1243
01:04:38,000 --> 01:04:40,080
with Dimith Altruptimin and Human Volunteers

1244
01:04:40,080 --> 01:04:41,960
at the University of New Mexico.

1245
01:04:44,520 --> 01:04:49,120
And he suggests that what we are tuned into,

1246
01:04:49,120 --> 01:04:51,360
he calls it channel normal.

1247
01:04:51,360 --> 01:04:54,720
Most of the time, we tuned into channel normal.

1248
01:04:54,720 --> 01:04:57,640
But there's lots of other channels broadcasting.

1249
01:04:57,640 --> 01:05:00,200
And he's suggesting that Dimith Altruptimin

1250
01:05:00,200 --> 01:05:02,400
allows us to access those channels.

1251
01:05:02,400 --> 01:05:04,080
Now, are they real or not?

1252
01:05:04,080 --> 01:05:05,520
Here's Rick's conclusion.

1253
01:05:05,520 --> 01:05:09,520
These worlds are usually invisible to us and our instruments

1254
01:05:09,520 --> 01:05:13,000
and are not accessible using our normal state of consciousness.

1255
01:05:13,000 --> 01:05:16,200
However, just as likely as the theory

1256
01:05:16,200 --> 01:05:19,520
that these worlds exist only in our minds

1257
01:05:19,520 --> 01:05:23,360
is that they are in reality outside us and freestanding.

1258
01:05:23,360 --> 01:05:26,440
If we simply change our brains receiving abilities,

1259
01:05:26,440 --> 01:05:30,640
we can comprehend and interact with them.

1260
01:05:30,640 --> 01:05:37,880
So you put somebody on LSD and you stick them

1261
01:05:37,880 --> 01:05:40,560
in an MRI scanner.

1262
01:05:40,560 --> 01:05:42,200
What a horrible thing to do.

1263
01:05:42,200 --> 01:05:46,040
LAUGHTER

1264
01:05:46,040 --> 01:05:48,960
Outside the MRI scanner, the scientist is standing there

1265
01:05:48,960 --> 01:05:50,200
looking at the screen.

1266
01:05:50,200 --> 01:05:53,920
And he's seeing specific changes in brain activity,

1267
01:05:53,920 --> 01:05:57,720
in brain chemistry and electricity.

1268
01:05:57,720 --> 01:05:59,280
Quite visible.

1269
01:05:59,280 --> 01:06:04,880
Inside the MRI scanner, the volunteer is having intense visions.

1270
01:06:04,880 --> 01:06:07,840
The volunteer reports those visions to the scientist.

1271
01:06:07,840 --> 01:06:11,320
The scientist says, no, those visions are not real.

1272
01:06:11,320 --> 01:06:14,440
Those visions are just the changes that I observe in your brain.

1273
01:06:14,440 --> 01:06:17,120
We can reduce them to that because consciousness

1274
01:06:17,120 --> 01:06:20,400
is just an epiphany phenomenon of brain activity.

1275
01:06:20,400 --> 01:06:22,840
It would just reduce them to the physical changes in the brain.

1276
01:06:22,840 --> 01:06:24,520
There's nothing more than them to that.

1277
01:06:24,520 --> 01:06:26,840
What a rubbish idea.

1278
01:06:26,840 --> 01:06:30,640
The simple analogy to show how stupid this logic is

1279
01:06:30,640 --> 01:06:32,080
is a telescope.

1280
01:06:32,080 --> 01:06:34,040
We want to look at a distant star.

1281
01:06:34,040 --> 01:06:37,240
We're going to point our telescope at the right region of the sky.

1282
01:06:37,240 --> 01:06:38,480
First it will not be visible.

1283
01:06:38,480 --> 01:06:40,240
Then we focus the telescope.

1284
01:06:40,240 --> 01:06:43,640
As we focus it, physical changes take place

1285
01:06:43,640 --> 01:06:45,760
inside the barrel of the telescope

1286
01:06:45,760 --> 01:06:48,120
in the relationship between the lenses.

1287
01:06:48,120 --> 01:06:51,240
Eventually, the star comes into view.

1288
01:06:51,240 --> 01:06:54,000
We'd be completely wrong to reduce the star

1289
01:06:54,000 --> 01:06:57,320
to the physical changes inside the barrel of the telescope.

1290
01:06:57,320 --> 01:07:01,560
They've simply allowed us to see the star, which was always there.

1291
01:07:01,560 --> 01:07:03,520
And that's the suggestion with DMT and the brain

1292
01:07:03,520 --> 01:07:06,200
that the physical changes that it introduces temporarily

1293
01:07:06,200 --> 01:07:09,320
and the brain allow us to see areas of reality

1294
01:07:09,320 --> 01:07:12,440
that are normally closed off to us.

1295
01:07:12,440 --> 01:07:18,640
20th century technological societies are infants in this field.

1296
01:07:18,640 --> 01:07:21,000
We need to sit at the feet of shamans of tribal

1297
01:07:21,000 --> 01:07:24,160
and hunter gatherer societies and learn from them.

1298
01:07:24,160 --> 01:07:25,560
And altered states of consciousness,

1299
01:07:25,560 --> 01:07:27,760
visionary states, trans states are actually

1300
01:07:27,760 --> 01:07:30,760
the universal feature common to all shamanism.

1301
01:07:33,320 --> 01:07:34,840
In these altered states of consciousness,

1302
01:07:34,840 --> 01:07:37,640
it's very common for shamans to report encounters

1303
01:07:37,640 --> 01:07:39,560
with intelligent supernatural entities,

1304
01:07:39,560 --> 01:07:43,360
which they usually construe as spirits.

1305
01:07:43,360 --> 01:07:45,520
Based sometimes take human form, sometimes they're

1306
01:07:45,520 --> 01:07:47,960
theory anthropic, sometimes they're animals.

1307
01:07:47,960 --> 01:07:49,920
And shamans of all cultures also report

1308
01:07:49,920 --> 01:07:51,960
that they themselves transform into animals

1309
01:07:51,960 --> 01:07:54,360
or theory anthrobs during their trans journeys

1310
01:07:54,360 --> 01:07:56,600
in the spirit world.

1311
01:07:56,600 --> 01:07:58,720
Now, here's a mystery.

1312
01:07:58,720 --> 01:08:01,320
Many of the experiences that shamans

1313
01:08:01,320 --> 01:08:04,360
report with quote unquote spirits

1314
01:08:04,360 --> 01:08:08,200
are very similar to the encounters with quote unquote aliens

1315
01:08:08,200 --> 01:08:10,200
reported by tens of thousands of people

1316
01:08:10,200 --> 01:08:13,200
in the West who believe they've been abducted by UFOs.

1317
01:08:15,840 --> 01:08:20,280
This again is the work of Pablo Amaringo.

1318
01:08:21,400 --> 01:08:24,280
The Amazonian Iowasca, visionary artist,

1319
01:08:24,280 --> 01:08:27,960
and look, there's a UFO in his painting up there.

1320
01:08:29,840 --> 01:08:32,760
And actually, there's lots of UFOs in his paintings,

1321
01:08:32,760 --> 01:08:36,880
as well as terianthropes, this bird-headed human being here,

1322
01:08:36,880 --> 01:08:39,200
and there's the UFOs, there's the terianthrop.

1323
01:08:39,200 --> 01:08:42,040
And then, what about this one?

1324
01:08:42,040 --> 01:08:45,000
This sense of gazing up into the universe.

1325
01:08:45,000 --> 01:08:49,520
And then here we have a flying saucer,

1326
01:08:49,520 --> 01:08:50,920
at least that's how we're going to see it.

1327
01:08:50,920 --> 01:08:53,720
And we have a classic creature of vision

1328
01:08:53,720 --> 01:08:56,320
serpent with the head of a human being smoking a pipe.

1329
01:08:58,520 --> 01:09:00,760
So, Pablo Amaringo has passed away,

1330
01:09:00,760 --> 01:09:03,560
but in the early days when I was researching my book, Supernatural,

1331
01:09:03,560 --> 01:09:06,400
I talked to him at some length, and I said Pablo,

1332
01:09:06,440 --> 01:09:08,920
why are you constantly painting flying saucers

1333
01:09:08,920 --> 01:09:10,600
in your Iowasca visions?

1334
01:09:11,760 --> 01:09:15,160
Are these beings from other planets who are coming here?

1335
01:09:15,160 --> 01:09:16,840
Is this what you're telling us?

1336
01:09:16,840 --> 01:09:19,320
And he said, no, he said,

1337
01:09:19,320 --> 01:09:22,920
what the flying saucers are is vehicles

1338
01:09:22,920 --> 01:09:25,760
for entering and leaving the spirit world.

1339
01:09:26,760 --> 01:09:28,520
And suddenly I got a revelation.

1340
01:09:28,520 --> 01:09:30,920
When a shaman speaks of the spirit world,

1341
01:09:30,920 --> 01:09:33,640
he's not very far from a quantum physicist speaking

1342
01:09:33,640 --> 01:09:36,720
of parallel realms and parallel dimensions.

1343
01:09:36,720 --> 01:09:39,960
It's as though he's saying that there's another area of reality

1344
01:09:39,960 --> 01:09:42,680
and these are ships that take us in and out of that.

1345
01:09:42,680 --> 01:09:46,680
And this made me wonder whether actually the UFO

1346
01:09:46,680 --> 01:09:49,920
production experience may be much more mysterious than we think.

1347
01:09:49,920 --> 01:09:53,360
Maybe it isn't just physical beings,

1348
01:09:53,360 --> 01:09:56,880
a bit like us with higher tech coming from the playities,

1349
01:09:56,880 --> 01:09:57,800
or whatever.

1350
01:09:57,800 --> 01:10:00,640
Maybe this is some kind of interdimensional contact

1351
01:10:00,640 --> 01:10:01,480
that's going on here.

1352
01:10:01,480 --> 01:10:03,360
Maybe that's why UFOs are so elusive.

1353
01:10:03,400 --> 01:10:04,640
So difficult to pin down.

1354
01:10:04,640 --> 01:10:06,360
One minute there there on a radar signal,

1355
01:10:06,360 --> 01:10:07,720
next minute there gone.

1356
01:10:07,720 --> 01:10:11,000
Maybe there's a there slipping into another dimension

1357
01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:11,840
of reality.

1358
01:10:11,840 --> 01:10:12,920
Maybe that's what's going on.

1359
01:10:12,920 --> 01:10:15,240
Just bear that in mind.

1360
01:10:15,240 --> 01:10:19,320
If we want to know about the phenomenology of shamanism,

1361
01:10:19,320 --> 01:10:21,280
what shaman see what the experience,

1362
01:10:21,280 --> 01:10:24,920
Mitchie Aliad's vast term on shamanism,

1363
01:10:24,920 --> 01:10:26,800
is the place to go.

1364
01:10:26,800 --> 01:10:29,080
And if we want to know about the experiences

1365
01:10:29,080 --> 01:10:32,680
of UFO abductees, we have tremendous dossiers

1366
01:10:32,680 --> 01:10:34,280
of information to draw upon.

1367
01:10:34,280 --> 01:10:38,160
The late great Dr. John Mac, for example,

1368
01:10:38,160 --> 01:10:41,360
who was formerly professor of psychiatry at Harvard University,

1369
01:10:41,360 --> 01:10:43,880
you're telling me I have 10 minutes.

1370
01:10:43,880 --> 01:10:45,720
Sorry?

1371
01:10:45,720 --> 01:10:47,080
I thought I entered the 1230.

1372
01:10:50,920 --> 01:10:51,800
What?

1373
01:10:51,800 --> 01:10:53,040
Are you right or am I right?

1374
01:10:57,000 --> 01:10:58,080
Well, that makes a change.

1375
01:10:58,080 --> 01:10:59,560
I'm glad to be right about something.

1376
01:10:59,560 --> 01:11:02,760
Oh, yeah.

1377
01:11:02,760 --> 01:11:03,320
OK.

1378
01:11:03,320 --> 01:11:05,160
Anyway, John Mac, Harvard University,

1379
01:11:05,160 --> 01:11:08,360
tried to fire him because he took the stories of UFO

1380
01:11:08,360 --> 01:11:09,800
abductees seriously.

1381
01:11:09,800 --> 01:11:11,120
Danny Sheen is the lawyer.

1382
01:11:11,120 --> 01:11:13,240
He's here at contact in the desert who

1383
01:11:13,240 --> 01:11:15,640
fought that action against Harvard and made sure

1384
01:11:15,640 --> 01:11:18,200
that Johnny, that John Mac, kept his job.

1385
01:11:18,200 --> 01:11:19,720
John Mac was a great man.

1386
01:11:19,720 --> 01:11:22,080
I'm privileged to have known him as a friend.

1387
01:11:22,080 --> 01:11:23,960
Tragically, he was killed in a car accident

1388
01:11:23,960 --> 01:11:26,560
in England in 2004.

1389
01:11:26,560 --> 01:11:28,160
But Hopkins, great research.

1390
01:11:28,160 --> 01:11:29,800
UFO abduction's David Jacobs as well.

1391
01:11:29,800 --> 01:11:31,800
We have a vast dossier of information

1392
01:11:31,800 --> 01:11:33,200
on the experience of UFO abductees.

1393
01:11:33,200 --> 01:11:36,960
So we can compare it with the experiences of shamans.

1394
01:11:36,960 --> 01:11:40,280
So the spirits that shamans encountered

1395
01:11:40,280 --> 01:11:42,560
most frequently first of hearing the form of animals,

1396
01:11:42,560 --> 01:11:46,280
birds, or fish, or as terianthropes.

1397
01:11:46,280 --> 01:11:48,720
Oddly enough, in UFO abduction's, this is quite common.

1398
01:11:48,720 --> 01:11:52,560
Minutes before her abduction by a small humanoid's US UFO

1399
01:11:52,560 --> 01:11:54,280
abductee Virginia Horton, remembered

1400
01:11:54,280 --> 01:11:56,600
talking to an intelligent, great deer.

1401
01:11:56,600 --> 01:11:58,880
And added there was a person inside this deer.

1402
01:11:58,880 --> 01:12:01,280
Another American reported seeing a deer looking

1403
01:12:01,280 --> 01:12:02,520
through her window.

1404
01:12:02,520 --> 01:12:05,880
Another saw wolf standing squaly on her bed,

1405
01:12:05,880 --> 01:12:07,240
looking in its eyes.

1406
01:12:07,240 --> 01:12:09,800
John Mac summarizes the aliens appear

1407
01:12:09,800 --> 01:12:11,880
to be consummate shape shifters.

1408
01:12:11,880 --> 01:12:13,760
Often appearing initially to the abductees

1409
01:12:13,760 --> 01:12:16,880
as animals, owls, eagles, racoons, and deer

1410
01:12:16,880 --> 01:12:21,080
are among the creatures the abductees have seen initially.

1411
01:12:21,080 --> 01:12:23,840
Shamans report being floated up into the sky

1412
01:12:23,840 --> 01:12:27,160
or climbing up on threads or ropes of light,

1413
01:12:27,160 --> 01:12:30,080
often to metal objects in the sky.

1414
01:12:30,080 --> 01:12:34,480
We have the same thing, abduction's one saying,

1415
01:12:34,480 --> 01:12:36,480
I sort of feel like I'm on an elevator,

1416
01:12:36,480 --> 01:12:37,960
except there's no walls.

1417
01:12:37,960 --> 01:12:40,960
Another actually sees threads of light,

1418
01:12:40,960 --> 01:12:43,760
just as the Bushman Shamans do.

1419
01:12:43,760 --> 01:12:47,320
American UFO abductee Andrea reported a line

1420
01:12:47,320 --> 01:12:49,280
or thread of light extending from her navel

1421
01:12:49,280 --> 01:12:51,160
to the beings who are abducting her

1422
01:12:51,160 --> 01:12:53,080
and that streamers of light were coming out

1423
01:12:53,080 --> 01:12:54,880
of one of these beings to her body.

1424
01:12:54,880 --> 01:12:57,640
These threads of light seem to be used to pull her up

1425
01:12:57,640 --> 01:12:58,120
to the ship.

1426
01:12:58,120 --> 01:13:00,160
So there's strange correspondences

1427
01:13:00,160 --> 01:13:02,200
between the experiences of shamans

1428
01:13:02,200 --> 01:13:04,080
and the experiences of UFO abductees.

1429
01:13:04,080 --> 01:13:08,160
Many shamans, instead of being abducted to the sky,

1430
01:13:08,160 --> 01:13:12,560
they're abducted underground or underwater by the spirits.

1431
01:13:12,560 --> 01:13:16,240
This is also found in the phenomenology of UFO abductees.

1432
01:13:16,240 --> 01:13:19,480
Betty Afer Ahoh was abducted for the first time.

1433
01:13:19,480 --> 01:13:21,800
The UFO plunged into the sea and came out again

1434
01:13:21,800 --> 01:13:24,560
and then entered huge crystalline caverns

1435
01:13:24,560 --> 01:13:27,400
which brought into a vast underworld.

1436
01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:31,120
Carlos Diaz sees a UFO floating over his head.

1437
01:13:31,120 --> 01:13:32,760
He feels disoriented.

1438
01:13:32,760 --> 01:13:34,840
Suddenly, he sees that the craft is now standing

1439
01:13:34,840 --> 01:13:38,320
inside a cave that was lined with stalactites

1440
01:13:38,320 --> 01:13:40,200
and stalactites.

1441
01:13:40,200 --> 01:13:43,760
And of course, the classic experience of shamanism

1442
01:13:43,760 --> 01:13:47,600
is the shamanical deal, where the shaman is subjected

1443
01:13:47,600 --> 01:13:49,440
to bizarre surgery by the spirits,

1444
01:13:49,440 --> 01:13:51,720
where they tear his or her body apart

1445
01:13:51,720 --> 01:13:53,920
implant objects into it, reassembled

1446
01:13:53,920 --> 01:13:55,800
and put them back together again.

1447
01:13:55,800 --> 01:13:59,040
This is very common in the UFO abduction experience.

1448
01:13:59,040 --> 01:14:02,360
The experience of surgery at the hands of the abducting

1449
01:14:02,360 --> 01:14:03,000
beings.

1450
01:14:03,000 --> 01:14:07,840
Often, they are putting objects into our bodies as well.

1451
01:14:07,840 --> 01:14:11,800
And we have bone counting.

1452
01:14:11,800 --> 01:14:15,640
We have, for example, here's a Yakut shaman

1453
01:14:15,640 --> 01:14:18,000
cited by Elia, the spirits cut off his head,

1454
01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:20,160
which they set aside.

1455
01:14:20,160 --> 01:14:22,600
And Sandra Larson, beings removed her brain

1456
01:14:22,600 --> 01:14:24,960
and set it down beside her.

1457
01:14:24,960 --> 01:14:27,120
They have bone counting.

1458
01:14:27,120 --> 01:14:29,640
The Siberian shaman, Kislov told how he had been cut

1459
01:14:29,640 --> 01:14:33,600
into pieces on a black table by two black and two fair beings

1460
01:14:33,600 --> 01:14:36,360
who counted his bones.

1461
01:14:36,360 --> 01:14:38,800
Again and again, this bone counting is reported

1462
01:14:38,800 --> 01:14:41,160
by UFO abduction, as well.

1463
01:14:41,160 --> 01:14:44,440
And then shaman's are always having sex with spirits.

1464
01:14:44,440 --> 01:14:47,400
I actually know a shaman whose wife has left it

1465
01:14:47,400 --> 01:14:51,520
because of all the stuff he's up to in the spirit world.

1466
01:14:51,520 --> 01:14:52,960
He's got babies over there.

1467
01:14:52,960 --> 01:14:56,640
He keeps going back and taking part in their lives, too.

1468
01:14:56,640 --> 01:15:00,240
Well, this is also reported by UFO abductions.

1469
01:15:00,240 --> 01:15:02,880
Sex with the aliens is quite a common element

1470
01:15:02,880 --> 01:15:05,280
of the UFO abduction experience.

1471
01:15:05,280 --> 01:15:08,440
And there's a lover in the alien realm, hybrid offspring

1472
01:15:08,440 --> 01:15:10,640
to whom the abductees brought repeatedly,

1473
01:15:10,640 --> 01:15:14,440
apparently in order to hold and cut her, cuttle his hybrid chance.

1474
01:15:14,440 --> 01:15:16,160
So these two very different realms,

1475
01:15:16,160 --> 01:15:17,600
actually at the level of experience,

1476
01:15:17,600 --> 01:15:19,880
begin to feel quite similar.

1477
01:15:19,880 --> 01:15:22,440
This is the 12th century Rupert's bed,

1478
01:15:22,440 --> 01:15:24,680
bed, codecs.

1479
01:15:24,680 --> 01:15:28,280
So we see an object in the sky filled with eyes.

1480
01:15:28,280 --> 01:15:29,160
We know it's in the sky.

1481
01:15:29,160 --> 01:15:31,040
Here's the stars.

1482
01:15:31,040 --> 01:15:32,560
Eyes in this strange object.

1483
01:15:32,560 --> 01:15:35,480
Then there's a line coming down from it

1484
01:15:35,480 --> 01:15:39,160
to the womb of this woman where we see a child growing.

1485
01:15:39,160 --> 01:15:40,880
And lo and behold, in the basket, there's

1486
01:15:40,880 --> 01:15:45,520
a little goblin and he's holding mushroom.

1487
01:15:45,520 --> 01:15:47,800
Is that telling us something?

1488
01:15:47,800 --> 01:15:51,840
The eyes are very common in DMT experience.

1489
01:15:51,840 --> 01:15:54,240
DMT's closely related to Sala Sibin.

1490
01:15:54,240 --> 01:15:57,240
This is Alex Gray's cover for DMT, the spirit molecule.

1491
01:15:57,240 --> 01:16:00,040
And there are some similarities with the Keshlandrum

1492
01:16:00,040 --> 01:16:02,040
UFO sighting as well.

1493
01:16:02,040 --> 01:16:05,040
Then what the hell is this?

1494
01:16:05,040 --> 01:16:09,320
Art de Gelder, 1710, baptism of Christ.

1495
01:16:09,320 --> 01:16:10,800
OK.

1496
01:16:10,800 --> 01:16:12,520
That looks to me.

1497
01:16:12,600 --> 01:16:15,720
That looks to me like a flying saucer up there.

1498
01:16:15,720 --> 01:16:19,960
This drawn in 1710, and these rays of light coming down.

1499
01:16:19,960 --> 01:16:22,360
What is this about?

1500
01:16:22,360 --> 01:16:23,560
Mysterious books.

1501
01:16:23,560 --> 01:16:25,880
Shamans are often given books.

1502
01:16:25,880 --> 01:16:29,160
Maria Sibina was given a book by a spirit.

1503
01:16:29,160 --> 01:16:30,960
She learned many things from the book to help her

1504
01:16:30,960 --> 01:16:33,400
do a work better and help people who need help

1505
01:16:33,400 --> 01:16:36,240
and know the secrets of the world where everything is known.

1506
01:16:36,240 --> 01:16:38,920
The spirits wouldn't allow Maria to keep the book,

1507
01:16:38,920 --> 01:16:41,480
which she said remains in the sky.

1508
01:16:41,480 --> 01:16:44,480
Betty Hill had a similar experience.

1509
01:16:44,480 --> 01:16:47,240
She was given a large book by the being

1510
01:16:47,240 --> 01:16:49,720
she identified as the leader of the aliens.

1511
01:16:49,720 --> 01:16:52,080
He reclaimed it from her before she was allowed

1512
01:16:52,080 --> 01:16:52,880
to leave the ship.

1513
01:16:52,880 --> 01:16:55,520
Betty Andristan was given a small blue book

1514
01:16:55,520 --> 01:16:58,400
with 40 luminous pages, but soon afterwards,

1515
01:16:58,400 --> 01:16:59,080
it disappears.

1516
01:16:59,080 --> 01:17:01,440
Why are Shamans and UFO abductees

1517
01:17:01,440 --> 01:17:03,560
both reporting the same kind of experience?

1518
01:17:03,560 --> 01:17:06,360
Many UFO abductees return with a sense of mission

1519
01:17:06,360 --> 01:17:08,560
and of responsibility for the deep knowledge

1520
01:17:08,560 --> 01:17:11,160
and healing powers that they've received.

1521
01:17:11,160 --> 01:17:12,280
Shamans are the same.

1522
01:17:12,280 --> 01:17:14,720
They come back from the spirit world with deep knowledge

1523
01:17:14,720 --> 01:17:19,200
and healing powers which they desperately want to share.

1524
01:17:19,200 --> 01:17:22,200
What a fairies and elves.

1525
01:17:22,200 --> 01:17:28,560
And why do they have so much in common with aliens and spirits?

1526
01:17:28,560 --> 01:17:32,640
Now, the person who first realized this was Jacques Valle

1527
01:17:32,640 --> 01:17:35,160
and I highly recommend his amazing book,

1528
01:17:35,160 --> 01:17:40,080
published in 1969, called Passport to Magonia.

1529
01:17:40,080 --> 01:17:43,080
In my book, Supernatural Published in 2005,

1530
01:17:43,080 --> 01:17:46,640
I took that dossier of evidence regarding the connection

1531
01:17:46,640 --> 01:17:49,440
with Ferry's and elves forward,

1532
01:17:49,440 --> 01:17:52,480
with all the information that has come out since 1969.

1533
01:17:52,480 --> 01:17:56,840
But the basic work is the work of Jacques Valle.

1534
01:17:56,840 --> 01:17:59,440
From the Middle Ages until the mid-20th century,

1535
01:17:59,440 --> 01:18:03,320
fairies, just like spirits, just like aliens were renowned

1536
01:18:03,320 --> 01:18:06,520
and feared for abducting people.

1537
01:18:06,520 --> 01:18:11,240
You did not want to get close to the fairies dancing in a ring.

1538
01:18:11,240 --> 01:18:13,560
You might feel a magnetic compulsion,

1539
01:18:13,560 --> 01:18:16,000
but if you come close to that dancing ring of fairies,

1540
01:18:16,000 --> 01:18:20,560
if you touch it, you will be drawn immediately into another world.

1541
01:18:20,560 --> 01:18:23,880
There are many reports from medieval times of this.

1542
01:18:23,880 --> 01:18:25,760
You find yourself in another world.

1543
01:18:25,760 --> 01:18:28,360
You think you're spending three or four hours there?

1544
01:18:28,360 --> 01:18:29,680
They entertain you.

1545
01:18:29,680 --> 01:18:32,120
You might have a little relationship.

1546
01:18:32,120 --> 01:18:33,600
Things could be interesting,

1547
01:18:33,600 --> 01:18:36,320
but eventually they say it's time for you to go home.

1548
01:18:36,320 --> 01:18:37,560
And they send you back.

1549
01:18:37,560 --> 01:18:42,800
When you get back, you discover that 500 years have passed.

1550
01:18:42,800 --> 01:18:44,720
Your village has fallen into ruin.

1551
01:18:44,720 --> 01:18:47,520
There's a story about somebody who wants to disappear.

1552
01:18:47,520 --> 01:18:49,520
It's a bit like the missing time phenomenon

1553
01:18:49,520 --> 01:18:51,800
with youth for abductions, except it seems

1554
01:18:51,800 --> 01:18:53,800
that youth for abductions have got kinder.

1555
01:18:53,800 --> 01:18:58,440
Now we don't have 500 years of missing time, just five hours.

1556
01:18:58,440 --> 01:19:02,120
And I sometimes wonder that circling dancing process.

1557
01:19:02,120 --> 01:19:04,920
Is there technology in these other realms, whatever they are?

1558
01:19:04,960 --> 01:19:08,200
Who is the fairy dance, an early form of what eventually

1559
01:19:08,200 --> 01:19:11,080
became the UFO, the spiraling, turning thing

1560
01:19:11,080 --> 01:19:15,080
that can sweep us into another reality altogether?

1561
01:19:15,080 --> 01:19:16,880
Fairies were sometimes cruel.

1562
01:19:16,880 --> 01:19:18,880
The tortured and hurt human beings.

1563
01:19:18,880 --> 01:19:21,480
But like aliens and spirits, they could be kind.

1564
01:19:21,480 --> 01:19:22,920
They gave gifts to people.

1565
01:19:22,920 --> 01:19:24,960
Sometimes material wealth, sometimes knowledge,

1566
01:19:24,960 --> 01:19:28,480
sometimes healing powers to enable them to improve their own lives

1567
01:19:28,480 --> 01:19:29,880
and the lives of others.

1568
01:19:29,880 --> 01:19:32,720
Like aliens and spirits, fairies have the power of flight.

1569
01:19:32,720 --> 01:19:34,200
They make use of aerial vehicles,

1570
01:19:34,200 --> 01:19:36,960
which in those days were construed as flying boats,

1571
01:19:36,960 --> 01:19:40,600
flying castles, flying carriages, et cetera, et cetera.

1572
01:19:40,600 --> 01:19:44,080
Abductions by fairies often took place underground

1573
01:19:44,080 --> 01:19:47,080
into the hollow hills, into the caves.

1574
01:19:47,080 --> 01:19:49,440
At the top, we see a group of fairies dancing in a ring,

1575
01:19:49,440 --> 01:19:52,080
low and behold, an ammonita, mascara, a mushroom.

1576
01:19:52,080 --> 01:19:55,240
In front of them, down below, we see a young man

1577
01:19:55,240 --> 01:19:58,920
being seduced by fairied maidens, taken into the underworld.

1578
01:19:58,920 --> 01:20:00,560
Well, that's a clump of mushrooms on the ground

1579
01:20:00,560 --> 01:20:01,720
between them as well.

1580
01:20:04,600 --> 01:20:08,160
Fairies often take the form of fairion throbs.

1581
01:20:08,160 --> 01:20:14,160
Here is Melucine, a feared medieval fairie, part serpent,

1582
01:20:14,160 --> 01:20:17,560
part woman, renowned for abducting human babies.

1583
01:20:17,560 --> 01:20:21,960
This is a woodcut from Holland, 15th century group of fairies

1584
01:20:21,960 --> 01:20:23,480
dancing in a ring.

1585
01:20:23,480 --> 01:20:26,040
As you can see, they are classic fairy unthrobs,

1586
01:20:26,040 --> 01:20:28,560
part animal, part human in form.

1587
01:20:28,560 --> 01:20:33,000
And it's obvious that the fairy, a bit, you're in the cave art,

1588
01:20:33,160 --> 01:20:36,440
must have been inspired by similar experiences.

1589
01:20:36,440 --> 01:20:38,520
And again, there are compelling crossovers

1590
01:20:38,520 --> 01:20:41,760
with reported experiences of modern UFO contactis.

1591
01:20:41,760 --> 01:20:45,120
Here's an image from Angolem in France, 27,000 years old,

1592
01:20:45,120 --> 01:20:48,280
that the dark eye and just the hint of a nose

1593
01:20:48,280 --> 01:20:50,800
and a mouth, the high, domed forehead.

1594
01:20:50,800 --> 01:20:52,160
This is particularly interesting.

1595
01:20:52,160 --> 01:20:56,600
I'd sat in front of this for hours in Peshmerl Cave in France.

1596
01:20:56,600 --> 01:21:01,560
So we see something in the sky here above it.

1597
01:21:01,680 --> 01:21:04,600
And then we see this figure with the high domed forehead

1598
01:21:04,600 --> 01:21:08,760
and the narrow point to chin below it.

1599
01:21:08,760 --> 01:21:12,840
And if we redraw that, it really looks a lot

1600
01:21:12,840 --> 01:21:15,960
like the modern idea of the gray sitting there

1601
01:21:15,960 --> 01:21:19,800
on a 24,000 year old cave.

1602
01:21:19,800 --> 01:21:22,440
And in those caves also, there are images

1603
01:21:22,440 --> 01:21:25,560
that archaeologists can't explain, like this one.

1604
01:21:25,560 --> 01:21:26,400
And this one.

1605
01:21:26,400 --> 01:21:30,120
But they look a lot like Pablo Amaringo's flying sources

1606
01:21:30,120 --> 01:21:33,920
in his visionary art.

1607
01:21:33,920 --> 01:21:36,680
Three of these images, two of these images,

1608
01:21:36,680 --> 01:21:40,160
were created in the Stone Age.

1609
01:21:40,160 --> 01:21:41,800
15,000 years ago or more.

1610
01:21:41,800 --> 01:21:46,200
One of them was created by one of John Max subjects.

1611
01:21:46,200 --> 01:21:48,520
And she said that just before her abduction,

1612
01:21:48,520 --> 01:21:52,560
the aliens would project this image into her visual field.

1613
01:21:52,560 --> 01:21:57,040
The top right is the image from the modern UFO

1614
01:21:57,040 --> 01:22:03,320
object, the other two images are from the painted caves.

1615
01:22:03,320 --> 01:22:05,760
Rick Strassman studied the effects of dimethyl

1616
01:22:05,760 --> 01:22:08,320
trip to meet on human volunteers at the University

1617
01:22:08,320 --> 01:22:09,920
of New Mexico in the 1990s.

1618
01:22:12,480 --> 01:22:14,720
His volunteers said a number of interesting things.

1619
01:22:14,720 --> 01:22:16,520
More than half of them had experiences

1620
01:22:16,520 --> 01:22:18,560
that were very similar to the experiences of UFO

1621
01:22:18,560 --> 01:22:19,560
objecties.

1622
01:22:19,560 --> 01:22:21,600
Jim is a DMT volunteer.

1623
01:22:21,600 --> 01:22:23,880
He says there were clinical researchers probing

1624
01:22:23,880 --> 01:22:25,040
into my mind.

1625
01:22:25,040 --> 01:22:27,240
There were sort of long fiber optic things

1626
01:22:27,240 --> 01:22:29,320
that they were putting into my pupils.

1627
01:22:29,320 --> 01:22:33,840
Carl spotted a lot of elves, prankation, ornery.

1628
01:22:33,840 --> 01:22:36,600
Holding up placards, showing me these incredibly beautiful

1629
01:22:36,600 --> 01:22:39,120
complex, whaling geometric scenes,

1630
01:22:39,120 --> 01:22:43,200
Ben felt something being inserted into his left forearm.

1631
01:22:43,200 --> 01:22:45,120
Just to below his wrist, it was long.

1632
01:22:45,120 --> 01:22:48,240
There were no reassurances with the probe, simply business.

1633
01:22:48,240 --> 01:22:52,040
Lucas finds himself abducted to a space station.

1634
01:22:52,040 --> 01:22:53,840
And there were at least two presences.

1635
01:22:53,840 --> 01:22:56,640
One on either side of me guiding me to a platform.

1636
01:22:56,640 --> 01:23:01,120
I was also aware of many entities inside the space station.

1637
01:23:01,120 --> 01:23:04,120
Bear in mind, these are reports by people

1638
01:23:04,120 --> 01:23:06,280
who are lying on a hospital bed in the University

1639
01:23:06,280 --> 01:23:08,120
of New Mexico, having been given

1640
01:23:08,120 --> 01:23:10,560
an intravenous infusion of the most powerful psychedelic

1641
01:23:10,560 --> 01:23:14,760
non-to-man, which also is a natural brain hormone.

1642
01:23:14,760 --> 01:23:16,840
Well, as you can see from the image on the bottom right,

1643
01:23:16,840 --> 01:23:19,360
I am not an artist.

1644
01:23:20,360 --> 01:23:21,760
My gift is words.

1645
01:23:21,760 --> 01:23:23,760
I can't draw to say my life.

1646
01:23:23,760 --> 01:23:25,760
But I was in the Amazon.

1647
01:23:25,760 --> 01:23:28,160
I did mention this at the panel yesterday,

1648
01:23:28,160 --> 01:23:30,960
where I was sitting on a bench in the jungle.

1649
01:23:30,960 --> 01:23:34,240
I'd drunk the brew, and suddenly above me,

1650
01:23:34,240 --> 01:23:37,360
there appears a group of flying saucers.

1651
01:23:37,360 --> 01:23:41,760
And I see this fellow with the insect eyes on the right.

1652
01:23:41,760 --> 01:23:43,560
You see my notes about him there.

1653
01:23:43,560 --> 01:23:47,800
He's there, and he's looking at me, and I suddenly know

1654
01:23:47,960 --> 01:23:50,800
they are going to take me.

1655
01:23:50,800 --> 01:23:54,800
And I'm terrified.

1656
01:23:54,800 --> 01:24:00,120
And I open my eyes, and I shout, no!

1657
01:24:00,120 --> 01:24:01,720
And the vision vanishes.

1658
01:24:01,720 --> 01:24:03,080
And I said, yes, today.

1659
01:24:03,080 --> 01:24:05,280
Of course, what I should have done was

1660
01:24:05,280 --> 01:24:08,840
kept my eyes closed and said, yes!

1661
01:24:08,840 --> 01:24:09,800
Yes!

1662
01:24:09,800 --> 01:24:12,200
Take me!

1663
01:24:12,200 --> 01:24:15,160
Sometimes I encourage fails us.

1664
01:24:15,160 --> 01:24:16,960
I've never seen these guys again.

1665
01:24:16,960 --> 01:24:20,560
I've seen some amazing entities in vision.

1666
01:24:20,560 --> 01:24:23,360
I've been enrapped in the coils of Mother Iowa's

1667
01:24:23,360 --> 01:24:26,960
got a time when I was so low and so hating myself.

1668
01:24:26,960 --> 01:24:29,520
And she just laid that huge serpent head on my shoulders

1669
01:24:29,520 --> 01:24:31,160
and looked me in the eye.

1670
01:24:31,160 --> 01:24:34,120
I felt like two hours, and the message was,

1671
01:24:34,120 --> 01:24:37,720
you need to learn to love yourself.

1672
01:24:37,720 --> 01:24:39,720
It's really important for any human being.

1673
01:24:39,720 --> 01:24:48,720
But these guys didn't come back, and I hope they will one day.

1674
01:24:48,720 --> 01:24:51,200
Again, I'm just giving some comparisons

1675
01:24:51,200 --> 01:24:56,120
between the different experiences reported by Rick's volunteers.

1676
01:24:56,120 --> 01:25:00,920
And something else I reported yesterday at the panel.

1677
01:25:00,920 --> 01:25:03,080
A number of the volunteers met entities

1678
01:25:03,080 --> 01:25:05,960
who actually said to them this, they said,

1679
01:25:05,960 --> 01:25:09,360
we are so pleased you've discovered this technology.

1680
01:25:09,360 --> 01:25:13,080
Now we can communicate with you much more easily.

1681
01:25:13,080 --> 01:25:16,040
Let's consider this possibility that these demonized substances

1682
01:25:16,040 --> 01:25:20,720
may be a technology that enablers to vastly broaden our access

1683
01:25:20,720 --> 01:25:22,480
to reality.

1684
01:25:22,480 --> 01:25:25,480
So DMT is an entirely natural product of the human body.

1685
01:25:25,480 --> 01:25:28,920
It's unique, it's an endogenous human psychedelic,

1686
01:25:28,920 --> 01:25:32,080
it's in our blood plasma, urine, cerebrospinal fluid,

1687
01:25:32,080 --> 01:25:35,800
but we don't know what it's therefore.

1688
01:25:35,800 --> 01:25:38,200
And it's association with the pinnial gland

1689
01:25:38,200 --> 01:25:41,000
is more and more clearly established by science.

1690
01:25:41,000 --> 01:25:43,600
Interestingly, in evolutionary older animals,

1691
01:25:43,600 --> 01:25:46,480
such as lizards and amphibians, it's also called the third eye.

1692
01:25:46,480 --> 01:25:48,760
The pinnial gland in these evolutionary older animals

1693
01:25:48,760 --> 01:25:51,760
actually has a lens of connear and a retina.

1694
01:25:51,760 --> 01:25:54,160
In humans, it has sunk deeper into the brain.

1695
01:25:54,160 --> 01:25:56,000
It is no longer subject to light,

1696
01:25:56,000 --> 01:26:00,600
but what I'm suggesting is that maybe DMT is the lens on that eye,

1697
01:26:00,600 --> 01:26:04,800
which allows us a sixth sense, which allows us to gain access

1698
01:26:04,800 --> 01:26:08,960
to areas of reality normally close to us.

1699
01:26:08,960 --> 01:26:10,240
Now, here's the controversial thing.

1700
01:26:10,240 --> 01:26:13,320
And I want to be very clear about this.

1701
01:26:13,320 --> 01:26:17,040
I am not claiming that the experiences

1702
01:26:17,040 --> 01:26:19,360
had envisioned are not real.

1703
01:26:19,360 --> 01:26:21,720
I believe they are real.

1704
01:26:21,720 --> 01:26:25,200
Rick Strassman recognized the remarkable similarities

1705
01:26:25,200 --> 01:26:27,840
between UFO abductees reports and the reports

1706
01:26:27,840 --> 01:26:29,400
of his own volunteers.

1707
01:26:29,400 --> 01:26:31,080
And we know they weren't abducted because they

1708
01:26:31,080 --> 01:26:33,560
were on the hospital bed in the University of New Mexico.

1709
01:26:33,560 --> 01:26:36,760
He proposed that UFO abductees might be spontaneous

1710
01:26:36,760 --> 01:26:40,840
overproducers of Indogenous DMT.

1711
01:26:40,840 --> 01:26:44,560
And he's at pains to emphasize that this did not imply

1712
01:26:44,560 --> 01:26:47,280
that such experiences mediated by DMT

1713
01:26:47,280 --> 01:26:49,880
were in any way unreal.

1714
01:26:49,880 --> 01:26:52,200
We have to widen our definition of reality

1715
01:26:52,200 --> 01:26:54,880
and realize that we're immersed in a complex reality

1716
01:26:54,880 --> 01:26:58,040
of which we only sometimes see a part.

1717
01:26:58,040 --> 01:27:01,400
By conceiving of the brain as a receiver of information,

1718
01:27:01,400 --> 01:27:03,800
one can accommodate the biological model

1719
01:27:03,800 --> 01:27:06,560
of changing brain function with a chemical.

1720
01:27:06,560 --> 01:27:08,840
At the same time, it allows for the possibility

1721
01:27:08,840 --> 01:27:11,240
that what is being received while not usually

1722
01:27:11,240 --> 01:27:13,880
perceptible is consistently and very

1723
01:27:13,880 --> 01:27:17,080
fibrously existent for a large number of individuals.

1724
01:27:17,080 --> 01:27:20,240
It may indeed reflect stable, freestanding

1725
01:27:20,240 --> 01:27:23,800
and parallel planes of reality.

1726
01:27:23,800 --> 01:27:27,760
Interpretation is built into perception from the outset.

1727
01:27:27,760 --> 01:27:30,720
We human beings, we cannot see something

1728
01:27:30,720 --> 01:27:34,080
without interpreting it immediately.

1729
01:27:34,080 --> 01:27:37,360
And those interpretations are very much based

1730
01:27:37,360 --> 01:27:39,960
on our cultural context.

1731
01:27:39,960 --> 01:27:43,160
I suggest this, that the experience that was once

1732
01:27:43,160 --> 01:27:47,440
construed as fairies and aliens,

1733
01:27:47,440 --> 01:27:49,440
that the experience that shamans

1734
01:27:49,440 --> 01:27:52,680
control as encounters with spirits,

1735
01:27:52,680 --> 01:27:56,200
the experience that we constru as encounters with aliens,

1736
01:27:56,200 --> 01:27:59,680
it's all one experience viewed

1737
01:27:59,680 --> 01:28:02,000
through different cultural spectacles.

1738
01:28:02,000 --> 01:28:04,320
We are dealing with one phenomenon here,

1739
01:28:04,320 --> 01:28:07,120
which has been with the human race for tens of thousands

1740
01:28:07,120 --> 01:28:07,800
of years.

1741
01:28:07,800 --> 01:28:10,880
And from time to time, down the millennia,

1742
01:28:10,880 --> 01:28:13,800
it has brought us the forbidden fruit of noces

1743
01:28:13,800 --> 01:28:18,120
and reawakened us to the true nature of things.

1744
01:28:18,120 --> 01:28:21,720
Now, I still have 25 minutes.

1745
01:28:21,720 --> 01:28:23,920
We'll get there.

1746
01:28:23,920 --> 01:28:25,760
I'm going to be the devil's advocate for a moment.

1747
01:28:25,760 --> 01:28:27,800
I'm going to advocate something

1748
01:28:27,800 --> 01:28:29,600
that I actually don't believe.

1749
01:28:29,600 --> 01:28:30,720
But I'm going to put it out there,

1750
01:28:30,720 --> 01:28:34,080
just as a fairer food for thought, because it is relevant.

1751
01:28:34,080 --> 01:28:36,240
Our all the different techniques and substances

1752
01:28:36,240 --> 01:28:38,360
for altering consciousness really

1753
01:28:38,360 --> 01:28:41,280
portals to other worlds and dimensions,

1754
01:28:41,280 --> 01:28:44,360
as shamans and increasingly some scientists believe,

1755
01:28:44,360 --> 01:28:47,560
or could there be some other explanation?

1756
01:28:47,560 --> 01:28:52,160
Well, when I've asked Hardline materialist scientists

1757
01:28:52,160 --> 01:28:54,920
like Richard Dawkins about this, what they say is,

1758
01:28:54,920 --> 01:28:56,520
oh, yeah, it's very easy to explain.

1759
01:28:56,680 --> 01:28:59,720
There's a brain module for these kind of experiences.

1760
01:28:59,720 --> 01:29:01,400
It's hard-wired into the human brain.

1761
01:29:01,400 --> 01:29:02,920
That's why you find the experiences

1762
01:29:02,920 --> 01:29:03,920
and the same all over the world

1763
01:29:03,920 --> 01:29:06,600
and cross culturally and through time.

1764
01:29:06,600 --> 01:29:08,240
Now, I get brain modules.

1765
01:29:08,240 --> 01:29:09,320
We understand that.

1766
01:29:09,320 --> 01:29:13,040
We have a brain module for intuitive physics.

1767
01:29:13,040 --> 01:29:14,440
I mean, it's very, very clear.

1768
01:29:14,440 --> 01:29:17,720
We can do amazing calculations of physics

1769
01:29:17,720 --> 01:29:21,120
without even knowing we're doing them.

1770
01:29:21,120 --> 01:29:22,920
That's why when Jimmy was throwing the t-shirt,

1771
01:29:22,920 --> 01:29:25,280
so earlier, were they t-shirts?

1772
01:29:25,280 --> 01:29:26,120
I don't know.

1773
01:29:26,120 --> 01:29:28,600
Anyway, people were able to catch them.

1774
01:29:28,600 --> 01:29:29,600
Here's how it is.

1775
01:29:29,600 --> 01:29:32,360
I mean, it suddenly picks up a rock

1776
01:29:32,360 --> 01:29:34,840
and they throw it at you.

1777
01:29:36,200 --> 01:29:39,080
Your mind without thinking it through

1778
01:29:39,080 --> 01:29:42,440
will calculate trajectory, force of throw,

1779
01:29:42,440 --> 01:29:45,720
angle of throw, position of throw, your position,

1780
01:29:45,720 --> 01:29:47,360
and you're going to dodge that rock.

1781
01:29:47,360 --> 01:29:48,280
You're going to get out of the way.

1782
01:29:48,280 --> 01:29:49,880
And I understand that brain module

1783
01:29:49,880 --> 01:29:52,800
because if our ancestors didn't have rock dodging genes,

1784
01:29:52,800 --> 01:29:55,240
they wouldn't have passed their genes onto their kids.

1785
01:29:55,240 --> 01:29:59,160
But why would millions of years of evolution

1786
01:29:59,160 --> 01:30:02,200
equip the whole human race with brain modules

1787
01:30:02,200 --> 01:30:04,400
for fairy antthropes and abductions

1788
01:30:04,400 --> 01:30:06,480
by spirits and fairies and aliens?

1789
01:30:06,480 --> 01:30:09,480
Why should these spirit modules

1790
01:30:09,480 --> 01:30:12,400
only be activated in altered states of consciousness?

1791
01:30:12,400 --> 01:30:14,320
What use could they be?

1792
01:30:16,960 --> 01:30:18,760
This is Francis Crick.

1793
01:30:18,760 --> 01:30:21,520
Francis Crick won the Nobel Prize

1794
01:30:21,520 --> 01:30:25,600
for the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.

1795
01:30:26,800 --> 01:30:28,160
So what I'm going to report to you now,

1796
01:30:28,160 --> 01:30:30,560
let me be very clear, this is the work of Francis Crick,

1797
01:30:30,560 --> 01:30:32,800
Nobel Prize winner, not Graham Hancock.

1798
01:30:33,920 --> 01:30:36,560
Francis Crick did not believe that the DNA molecule

1799
01:30:36,560 --> 01:30:38,680
could have evolved on this planet.

1800
01:30:38,680 --> 01:30:40,720
This is the man who got the Nobel Prize

1801
01:30:40,720 --> 01:30:42,480
for deciphering DNA.

1802
01:30:42,480 --> 01:30:44,960
He did not believe it could have evolved here.

1803
01:30:44,960 --> 01:30:46,920
And the reason why is this?

1804
01:30:46,920 --> 01:30:51,320
The earlier formed about four and a half billion years ago

1805
01:30:51,320 --> 01:30:53,800
for the first 600 million years,

1806
01:30:53,800 --> 01:30:57,640
it was too hot to support any kind of life.

1807
01:30:57,640 --> 01:31:00,680
The moment the cooling began within 100 million years

1808
01:31:00,680 --> 01:31:03,880
between 3.9 and 3.8 billion years ago,

1809
01:31:03,880 --> 01:31:08,880
the entire planet was covered with seeding bacterial life.

1810
01:31:08,880 --> 01:31:11,320
It was all over the planet.

1811
01:31:11,320 --> 01:31:13,520
And Crick's view was that that could not have happened

1812
01:31:13,520 --> 01:31:14,640
in such a short time.

1813
01:31:14,640 --> 01:31:17,800
The primeval soup accidental bumping together

1814
01:31:17,800 --> 01:31:21,080
of molecules could not have created the complex DNA

1815
01:31:21,080 --> 01:31:23,840
RNA system in such a short time.

1816
01:31:23,840 --> 01:31:26,120
Now Crick was not a spiritual man,

1817
01:31:26,120 --> 01:31:31,120
but he pointed out that the Big Bang is nearly 14 billion years ago

1818
01:31:31,120 --> 01:31:33,520
and that there is time for life to have evolved twice.

1819
01:31:33,520 --> 01:31:39,080
So he proposed, in a distant galaxy, far, far away,

1820
01:31:39,080 --> 01:31:42,520
an advanced civilization emerged on a planet.

1821
01:31:42,520 --> 01:31:46,400
And then one day, that advanced civilization discovered

1822
01:31:46,400 --> 01:31:48,800
that they faced certain annihilation.

1823
01:31:48,880 --> 01:31:51,320
Perhaps a supernova was going to go off

1824
01:31:51,320 --> 01:31:54,040
in their vicinity, sterilizing their planet.

1825
01:31:54,040 --> 01:31:55,760
Their first thought would have been

1826
01:31:55,760 --> 01:31:58,200
to get themselves off the planet.

1827
01:31:58,200 --> 01:32:00,640
But maybe they didn't have the tech to quite do that.

1828
01:32:00,640 --> 01:32:02,640
And the distances between interstellar space

1829
01:32:02,640 --> 01:32:05,280
are enormous and how do you preserve life

1830
01:32:05,280 --> 01:32:08,240
for hundreds or millions of years of space travel?

1831
01:32:08,240 --> 01:32:11,360
So what he suggested was they'd go for the next best option.

1832
01:32:11,360 --> 01:32:14,560
They'd try to save the essence of life.

1833
01:32:14,560 --> 01:32:17,360
They would genetically engineer bacteria,

1834
01:32:17,360 --> 01:32:20,200
packed with DNA.

1835
01:32:20,200 --> 01:32:24,480
They would put them into cryogenic chambers on spaceships

1836
01:32:24,480 --> 01:32:26,520
and they would send them off in all directions

1837
01:32:26,520 --> 01:32:29,120
into the universe in the hope that one day,

1838
01:32:29,120 --> 01:32:32,200
one of those spaceships would fall upon a planet,

1839
01:32:32,200 --> 01:32:35,280
spill out its bacteria and begin the process of evolution

1840
01:32:35,280 --> 01:32:36,840
again.

1841
01:32:36,840 --> 01:32:39,280
And that's what Crick suggests is the origin of life

1842
01:32:39,280 --> 01:32:42,000
on this planet that 3.9 billion years ago,

1843
01:32:42,000 --> 01:32:44,840
one of those spaceships hit the early Earth, spilled out

1844
01:32:44,840 --> 01:32:48,360
its content of a carriage of bacteria,

1845
01:32:48,360 --> 01:32:52,280
and 3.9 billion years later, here we are,

1846
01:32:52,280 --> 01:32:54,600
the descendants of those bacteria,

1847
01:32:54,600 --> 01:32:57,960
as a result of evolution.

1848
01:32:57,960 --> 01:32:59,400
Now, yeah.

1849
01:32:59,400 --> 01:33:01,800
Yeah.

1850
01:33:01,800 --> 01:33:03,240
Broadly speaking, that's Crick's message.

1851
01:33:06,680 --> 01:33:08,920
We don't have time to go into detail into DNA,

1852
01:33:08,920 --> 01:33:13,920
but DNA, as we all know, is a code, ACG&T,

1853
01:33:13,920 --> 01:33:15,040
and there are two types of DNA.

1854
01:33:15,040 --> 01:33:18,480
There's coding DNA, which actually makes proteins,

1855
01:33:18,480 --> 01:33:21,520
makes our bodies, makes the physical self,

1856
01:33:21,520 --> 01:33:24,080
and then there's so-called junk DNA,

1857
01:33:24,080 --> 01:33:26,320
which many scientists are now beginning to realize.

1858
01:33:26,320 --> 01:33:30,120
Isn't junk, and the 97% of it is that stuff?

1859
01:33:31,280 --> 01:33:35,520
All human languages have an extraordinary property,

1860
01:33:35,520 --> 01:33:37,560
whether you're speaking in a wits,

1861
01:33:37,560 --> 01:33:40,760
or Japanese, or Hosa, or Russian.

1862
01:33:41,720 --> 01:33:44,200
There's a consistent relationship

1863
01:33:44,200 --> 01:33:48,200
between rank and frequency of words,

1864
01:33:48,200 --> 01:33:50,200
a consistent relationship,

1865
01:33:50,200 --> 01:33:54,600
and that relationship, which appears as a straight line

1866
01:33:54,600 --> 01:34:00,280
on a graph, that relationship is found in junk DNA.

1867
01:34:00,280 --> 01:34:03,000
And when I called up Eugene Stanley, who published his findings

1868
01:34:03,000 --> 01:34:06,600
in Science in November 1994, when I called him up in Austin,

1869
01:34:06,600 --> 01:34:09,640
Eugene, what do you think this really means?

1870
01:34:09,720 --> 01:34:11,400
He said, I hesitate to say it,

1871
01:34:11,400 --> 01:34:15,560
but I think there's a message written in our DNA.

1872
01:34:15,560 --> 01:34:19,000
I think there's a message for us if we could only decode it.

1873
01:34:20,760 --> 01:34:24,520
Well, it turns out that DNA is an amazing storage vehicle,

1874
01:34:24,520 --> 01:34:28,280
and big bunny is now being put into using DNA

1875
01:34:28,280 --> 01:34:31,400
to store vast quantities of data.

1876
01:34:32,920 --> 01:34:35,080
Martin Luther King's speech Shakespeare Sonnets,

1877
01:34:35,080 --> 01:34:37,960
and so on and so forth, have all been successfully stored on DNA,

1878
01:34:37,960 --> 01:34:40,680
it would in theory be possible to encode the entire knowledge

1879
01:34:40,680 --> 01:34:43,480
of a civilization on DNA.

1880
01:34:43,480 --> 01:34:46,440
And there are highly conserved sections of DNA,

1881
01:34:46,440 --> 01:34:50,520
which never change over billions and billions of years of evolution.

1882
01:34:50,520 --> 01:34:53,480
That's why we have 70% of our genes in common with fruit flies,

1883
01:34:53,480 --> 01:34:54,120
by the way.

1884
01:34:57,000 --> 01:35:01,160
So maybe what it is is that in the altered state

1885
01:35:01,160 --> 01:35:05,080
of consciousness, we're gaining access to that hidden archive

1886
01:35:05,080 --> 01:35:06,520
of knowledge and information.

1887
01:35:06,520 --> 01:35:09,080
Maybe it isn't a hidden doorway to a parallel realm.

1888
01:35:09,080 --> 01:35:12,040
Maybe it is a hidden archive within our DNA.

1889
01:35:12,040 --> 01:35:14,200
I also prefer the parallel realm,

1890
01:35:14,200 --> 01:35:17,080
but I just share this with you as another thought

1891
01:35:17,080 --> 01:35:18,040
that we can bring to this.

1892
01:35:18,040 --> 01:35:22,200
Whatever these things are, they are not just brain candy.

1893
01:35:23,560 --> 01:35:27,000
Psychedelics used reverently with respect,

1894
01:35:27,000 --> 01:35:31,800
with the right intent, with responsibility can be utterly

1895
01:35:31,880 --> 01:35:35,960
transformative and can change the way we think about everything.

1896
01:35:37,640 --> 01:35:39,000
Science is beginning to catch up.

1897
01:35:40,280 --> 01:35:43,720
Science is now seriously investigating the incredible powers

1898
01:35:43,720 --> 01:35:45,320
of psychedelics for healing.

1899
01:35:46,120 --> 01:35:49,560
I was at a conference at Horizon's Conference in New York a couple of years ago.

1900
01:35:49,560 --> 01:35:50,760
There was a US Marine there.

1901
01:35:51,400 --> 01:35:55,640
He had suffered from terrible posttraumatic stress disorder.

1902
01:35:57,720 --> 01:36:01,560
Luckily for him, he was selected as a volunteer in a trial

1903
01:36:01,560 --> 01:36:02,440
with psilocybin.

1904
01:36:03,560 --> 01:36:07,000
The result was that his posttraumatic stress disorder

1905
01:36:07,000 --> 01:36:10,360
vanished completely and he became totally healed.

1906
01:36:11,000 --> 01:36:16,120
And then he started to think, how lucky he was,

1907
01:36:16,120 --> 01:36:18,040
that he was given access to that trial.

1908
01:36:18,040 --> 01:36:23,480
He said, we as Marines, we are taught never, never to leave a body behind.

1909
01:36:23,480 --> 01:36:27,320
And I feel I'm leaving all my buddies behind because the bloody system in this society

1910
01:36:27,320 --> 01:36:29,720
won't allow them to have access to psilocybin.

1911
01:36:30,360 --> 01:36:31,640
Which gave me this healing.

1912
01:36:32,920 --> 01:36:35,320
This is a developing story.

1913
01:36:35,320 --> 01:36:39,720
We are finding out that these substances are incredibly useful

1914
01:36:39,720 --> 01:36:40,680
therapeutically.

1915
01:36:40,680 --> 01:36:43,320
And that is the doorway that will eventually open us

1916
01:36:43,320 --> 01:36:46,040
into the true exploration of their mystery

1917
01:36:46,040 --> 01:36:49,160
and the light that they can shed on the mystery of consciousness.

1918
01:36:49,960 --> 01:36:52,680
Steve Jobs was a big LSD taker.

1919
01:36:53,240 --> 01:36:56,760
As a matter of fact, he would often, the first question he would ask

1920
01:36:56,760 --> 01:36:59,560
for people applying for a job when they came to his office was

1921
01:36:59,720 --> 01:37:00,840
have you taken LSD?

1922
01:37:02,120 --> 01:37:05,320
If they hadn't, they didn't get the job because he felt that

1923
01:37:05,320 --> 01:37:07,560
those experiences made them better programmers.

1924
01:37:08,600 --> 01:37:13,800
Steve was Neac told Time Magazine how he got the concept of Apple,

1925
01:37:13,800 --> 01:37:16,600
the first microcomputer during an LSD trip.

1926
01:37:18,840 --> 01:37:22,200
And well, he has Francis Crick with his extraordinary ideas.

1927
01:37:22,200 --> 01:37:24,920
Turns out Francis Crick was a big user of LSD.

1928
01:37:25,800 --> 01:37:30,360
He used it when it was legal in the 40s and 50s and he carried on using it

1929
01:37:30,360 --> 01:37:31,160
when it was illegal.

1930
01:37:31,960 --> 01:37:36,360
But he admitted to a friend that the first time he really got it

1931
01:37:36,360 --> 01:37:37,640
about the double helix.

1932
01:37:37,640 --> 01:37:39,560
Of course, there was a lot of scientific work.

1933
01:37:39,560 --> 01:37:43,960
But the first time he really got it was when he was on LSD.

1934
01:37:43,960 --> 01:37:45,800
That's when it gelled.

1935
01:37:45,800 --> 01:37:47,320
And he knew what he was dealing with.

1936
01:37:47,320 --> 01:37:50,920
So if this report is correct, of course, Crick's

1937
01:37:51,000 --> 01:37:53,000
a state are vehemently denying it.

1938
01:37:53,000 --> 01:37:57,080
But there are too many people who knew Crick, who know this to be true.

1939
01:37:57,960 --> 01:38:02,200
Then it wasn't the problem solving mentality that led to the discovery of this great

1940
01:38:02,200 --> 01:38:03,400
scientific breakthrough.

1941
01:38:03,400 --> 01:38:05,320
It was visionary experience that led to it.

1942
01:38:06,120 --> 01:38:08,280
The nostic story of the Garden of Eden,

1943
01:38:08,280 --> 01:38:12,520
noces knowledge of good and evil is essential for the progress of the soul.

1944
01:38:14,120 --> 01:38:18,360
And there again, we remind ourselves the serpent is a classic creature of vision.

1945
01:38:19,320 --> 01:38:21,640
And here's Genesis 3, 24.

1946
01:38:23,240 --> 01:38:27,640
So we know that Adam and Eve have been driven out of the garden for eating

1947
01:38:27,640 --> 01:38:29,160
of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

1948
01:38:30,760 --> 01:38:32,600
But why are they to be kept out of the garden?

1949
01:38:34,120 --> 01:38:39,480
There's a really weird passage in Genesis where the entity, the deity,

1950
01:38:39,480 --> 01:38:46,120
the demirge, whatever we choose him to be, says we must keep them out of the garden

1951
01:38:47,080 --> 01:38:54,920
less the eat of the tree of life and become gods like us.

1952
01:38:56,200 --> 01:38:57,160
Who are us?

1953
01:38:57,960 --> 01:38:59,800
What are they talking about here?

1954
01:38:59,800 --> 01:39:02,680
Somewhere in all of this, the mystery of the knowledge of good and evil

1955
01:39:03,480 --> 01:39:07,000
and the mystery of immortal life, I think, like and sealed.

1956
01:39:08,120 --> 01:39:09,640
What's a stake is not a small thing.

1957
01:39:10,200 --> 01:39:13,400
There's a struggle underway for the future direction of human consciousness.

1958
01:39:13,560 --> 01:39:17,400
It's better to engage with that and realize that this is going on rather than presenting,

1959
01:39:17,400 --> 01:39:18,440
pretending it isn't happening.

1960
01:39:19,160 --> 01:39:25,560
We live in a society that will send us to prison if we make use of time on its sacred plants

1961
01:39:25,560 --> 01:39:27,480
to explore our own consciousness.

1962
01:39:27,480 --> 01:39:32,840
Yet surely the exploration and expansion of the miracle of our consciousness

1963
01:39:33,560 --> 01:39:36,120
is the absolute essence of what it is to be a human being.

1964
01:39:37,000 --> 01:39:41,800
I would suggest by demonizing and persecuting altered states of consciousness today,

1965
01:39:41,800 --> 01:39:47,720
we may actually be denying ourselves the next vital step in our own evolution.

1966
01:39:56,760 --> 01:40:05,240
If we are to heal the planet, the very first thing we must do is re-establish contact

1967
01:40:05,880 --> 01:40:14,840
with spirit and in order to do that, we must first assert and attain sovereignty over our own

1968
01:40:14,840 --> 01:40:20,600
consciousness. Our consciousness is a place that our governments, the state, the bureaucracy,

1969
01:40:20,600 --> 01:40:22,600
have no right to go.

1970
01:40:22,840 --> 01:40:24,840
Thank you.

1971
01:40:31,240 --> 01:40:36,440
And I think it's urgent. I think we live in a time of crisis and a time of change.

1972
01:40:36,440 --> 01:40:41,240
A change of consciousness is desperately needed if we can make it

1973
01:40:41,960 --> 01:40:46,920
then a bright future lies ahead of us if we don't then well who knows?

1974
01:40:46,920 --> 01:40:50,040
We may indeed become the next lost civilization.

1975
01:40:50,040 --> 01:40:51,560
Thank you ladies and gentlemen.

1976
01:40:52,600 --> 01:40:55,560
Thank you.