This is probably how you sound after eating too much magical mushrooms. Terence McKenna was apparently a California hippie 20 years too late. Nothing he says here makes any kind of sense whatsoever. "We are a salamander". Sure, brother...
Or this one: "The story of Eden in the Bible is the story of world history´s first drug bust".
LOL.
If i were a psychedelic fungoid species i would love it if humans around me spent their days getting high on me.
ReplyDeleteSome of them even start lecturing about me giving them the most profound of insights.
After a while lots of people believe this and cultivate me in places i never could reach and thrive in before. Like in university students dark closets.
But hey, dont get high on me all the time. You still have to engineer space ship and stuff so i, i mean we, can conquer the universe. No not that universe in your head. The one outside your head.
Evolution in action!
ReplyDeleteDogs, cats and many plants are like this. We think we control them, but what if they actually control us? We can´t live without certain cereals, or even without dogs. Alien scientist: "There is a strange plant at this planet, which attaches itself to a relatively intelligent species of primate, more or less forcing it to genetically engineer new forms which can survive anywhere. Yes, this plant has a very succesful evolutionary strategy".
ReplyDeleteIs Nature pulling our leg, somehow?
ReplyDeleteOf course, the strategy only works as long as the primate in question actually is intelligent and stays on the top of things...
ReplyDeleteA science fiction story on the theme you mentioned could be interesting. We could imagine a mind-parasite that creates the illusion of God and Heaven, and is succesful as long as their human hosts believe in religion (maybe they spread through a religious ritual?), but are threatened by atheism. So the parasite directs religious humans to kill unbelievers, etc etc.
ReplyDeleteThe villain would be a powerful priest who knows the truth but is dependent on the parasite for his power. The tragic hero realizes that he can´t live without the "high" provided by the parasite, so in the end, he mind-melds with one of the weird creatures, etc.
ReplyDeleteSomebody must have written a story like this already!
ReplyDeleteIn the sequel, society has become atheist, but a smart capitalist is hunting down the parasites to extract their psychedelic substance and sell it (as a secular medicine) to the depressed denizens of the new atheist world order...
ReplyDeleteIn another sequel, we meet a crazy cult which knows that religious experience comes from the alien parasite, but worships *the parasite* as God for that very reason. And so on!
ReplyDeleteI just created an entire franchise.
ReplyDeleteDont forget veneral diseases. Do people invent strange ways to copulate and then get sick or do they copulate in strange ways because t hey have parasites and bacteria that makess them only enjoy tbe most "exentric" forms of sex that have a high chance of infecting new "partners" ?
ReplyDeletePride is the march of bacteria and intestinal parasites congregating and trying out new humanh hosts? Maybe.
The "based" underground version.
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DeleteThis comment is funny: "It’s so crazy it has to be true. God exists in extra dimensions at the sub-atomic level. Bacteria and microbes are the closest living embodiments of God. We’ve had it backwards all the time."
DeleteIf you throw in a bunch of HBTQP-heroes in your book it will be hailed by todays litterary critics "as stunningly brave and tought provoking".
ReplyDeletePerhaps Putin can be some kind of Satan Archetype and Biden some demented but well meaning messenger from some kind of secular "God" when religions as such are abandoned.
The "woke" 20 million dollar budget version.
DeleteSomething similar was The Brain Eaters which starred Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock)
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