The Mushroom Speaks

The Mushroom Speaks

By Terence McKenna

"I am old, older than thought in your species, which is itself fifty times older than your history. Though I have been on earth for ages I am from the stars. My home is no one planet, for many worlds scattered through the shining disc of the galaxy have conditions which allow my spores an opportunity for life. The mushroom which you see is the part of my body given to sex thrills and sun bathing, my true body is a fine network of fibers growing through the soil. These networks may cover acres and may have far more connections that the number in a human brain. My mycelial network is nearly immortal, only the sudden toxification of a planet or the explosion of its parent star can wipe me out. By means impossible to explain because of certain misconceptions in your model of reality all my mycelial networks in the galaxy are in hyperlight communication across space and time. The mycelial body is as fragile as a spider's web but the collective hypermind and memory is a vast historical archive of the career of evolving intelligence on many worlds in our spiral star swarm. Space, you see, is a vast ocean to those hardy life forms that have the ability to reproduce from spores, for spores are covered with the hardest organic substance known. Across the aeons of time and space drift many spore-forming life-forms in suspended animation for millions of years until contact is made with a suitable environment. Few such species are minded, only myself and my recently evolved near relatives have achieved the hyper-communication mode and memory capacity that makes us leading members in the community of galactic intelligence. How the hypercommunication mode operates is a secret which will not be lightly given to man. But the means should be obvious: it is the occurrence of psilocybin and psilocin in the biosynthetic pathways of my living body that opens for me and my symbiots the vision screens to many worlds. You as an individual and man as a species are on the brink of the formation of a symbiotic relationship with my genetic material that will eventually carry humanity and earth into the galactic mainstream of the higher civilizations.

Since it is not easy for you to recognize other varieties of intelligence around you, your most advanced theories of politics and society have advanced only as far as the notion of collectivism. But beyond the cohesion of the members of a species into a single social organism there lie richer and even more baroque evolutionary possibilities. Symbiosis is one of these. Symbiosis is a relation of mutual dependence and positive benefits for both of the species involved. Symbiotic relationships between myself and civilized forms of higher animals have been established many times and in many places throughout the long ages of my development. These relationships have been mutually useful; within my memory is the knowledge of hyperlight drive ships and how to build them. I will trade this knowledge for a free ticket to new worlds around suns younger and more stable than your own. To secure an eternal existence down the long river of cosmic time I again and again offer this agreement to higher beings and thereby have spread throughout the galaxy over the long millennia. A mycelial network has no organs to move the world, no hands; but higher animals with manipulative abilities can become partners with the star knowledge within me and if they act in good faith, return both themselves and their humble mushroom teacher to the million worlds all citizens of our starswarm are heir to."





http://futurehi.net/docs/Mushroom_Speaks.html

 

Wow. Sounds like Terence McKenna has a life. Not.

 

Do you know who mckenna is? Or are you just some dipshit being a smartass?

 

Surfcali, Terence McKenna is our psychedelic forefather. Show some respect.

 

what so called "life" do you have that's so much better than the one he had. that's right, HAD; he's dead moron. and being that you don't know this, i bet that you know absolutely nothing about him. and i also bet that you think people that take psychedelics have no lives, while people that don't take them do have lives. what a cheap theory that is! and one must wonder why you're a member of this forum if you believe in such theories.

 

Haha...psychedelic forefather? Mushrooms are cool, but damn. Not that cool. And from reading that (half a paragraph before I decided it was the lamest thing i've ever heard), he seems a little off the rocker. What makes this guy so great...?

Heh, then you have this guy above me, who asked me a question, then answered it in the next sentence...then convinced himself it was true. Maybe you should lay off the psyco-delics.

 

He pioneered the research of many psychedelic substances, mainly DMT and it's analogues, like psilocybin and 5-meo-dmt. He is to DMT, what Tim Leary is to LSD. And, yes, I think the term "psychedelic forefather" is appropriate.

 

Who cares about all that? Has he ever saved someone's life? No, so why act like hes some kind of god? Johnny Damon has done more in his life than this guy. And Johnny's still alive.

 

He's done more than you and I have. Red Sox are bitches. And Maybe Johnny Damon shouldn't be alive.

 

I agree about the Red Sox, as i'm a Yankees fan. But saying he's done more than me? For one, you have no idea who I am...what if I was a doctor who's saved 3 lives this week? Two..thats based on personal opinion. How did he make the world a better place for people that don't do mushrooms or psychadelics? Saying he's done more than another person is almost as rediculous as that shit about the speaking mushroom.

 

I never said he saved lives and made a difference in the main stream sense, but to the users of psychedelics he is royalty. You're right, though, I shouldn't have assumed that you haven't done anything of merit, but you assumed the same about Uncle McKenna. All I'm asking you to do is to show some respect, if for no other reason than the fact that he's dead.

 

He didn't make the world a better place for people that dont do mushrooms or psychedelics but that is why this is posted in the mushroom sub forum of the psychedelic forum so people that are interested in and do mushrooms/psychedelics can read a piece by one of the pioneers of the topic. I dont find it so difficult to understand.

 

I never argued that to begin with. I said whoever wrote that must not have a life (which...heh, is true). Then everyone jumped the gun like I offended their god or something. I was simply saying that there's people out there who have done a lot more than him, so they don't need to get their panties in a bunch telling me about how he's better than me or anyone else.

 

We never said he was BETTER than anyone, we just said that he has done a lot for the psychedelic community. Therefore, he has our respect.

 

maybe you should stop being an ego-maniac fuckass.

 

surfcali's idea of "a life" is going to be different than any one other person's idea of a life,so why do people get offended when Terrence doesnt measure up to surfcali's standards?
Because surfcali is now not measuring up to thier own standards of respect for Terrence.
No one is at wrong,all is well.
Conflict is natural and essential!

 

i'm not offended by any of that. i'm offended by him being an ego-maniac fuckass.

 

Is "fuckass" even a word? I think not...nice try though, dude.

 

pfft. bye TROLLen.

 

I've heard the word "fuckass" used numerous times. It is way more common than hearing someone disrespect dead people.