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There's a war on consciousness
There's a war on consciousness
There's a war on consciousness
There's a war on consciousness
Let's not forget
That ayahuasca is not alone
That it's part of an ancient worldwide system of the targeted, careful, responsible alteration of consciousness
It's recently been shown that the Kykeon used in the Eleusinian Mysteries in ancient Greece was almost certainly a psychedelic brew
That the Soma of the Vedas may well have been a brew based upon the amanita muscaria mushroom, we have the DMT in the ancient Egyptian Tree of Life, we have the whole global cultures of surviving Shamanism and what it's all about is a state of consciousness that's designed to help us find balance, harmony
The ancient Egyptians would have called it; Maat with the universe and to remain mindful that what we're here to undertake on earth while immersed in matter is fundamentally a spiritual journey aimed at the growth and perfection of the soul
A journey that may go back to the very origins of what made us human in the first place
Human in the first place
(Human in the first place)
There's a war on consciousness
There's a war on consciousness
There's a war on consciousness
There's a war on consciousness
Let's not forget
That ayahuasca is not alone
That it's part of an ancient worldwide system of the targeted, careful, responsible alteration of consciousness
It's recently been shown that the Kykeon used in the Eleusinian Mysteries in ancient Greece was almost certainly a psychedelic brew
That the Soma of the Vedas may well have been a brew based upon the amanita muscaria mushroom, we have the DMT in the ancient Egyptian Tree of Life, we have the whole global cultures of surviving Shamanism and what it's all about is a state of consciousness that's designed to help us find balance, harmony
The ancient Egyptians would have called it; Maat with the universe and to remain mindful that what we're here to undertake on earth while immersed in matter is fundamentally a spiritual journey aimed at the growth and perfection of the soul
A journey that may go back to the very origins of what made us human in the first place
Human in the first place
(Human in the first place)
Look, what's happening in the Amazon
The lungs of our planet
This precious home of biodiversity
The old girl's rainforests being cut down and replaced with soya bean farms so we can feed cattle so that we can all eat hamburgers
Only a truly insane global state of consciousness could allow such an abomination to occur
I did a back of an envelope calculation during the Iraq war It seems to me that six months expenditure on the Iraq war would have solved the problem of the Amazon forever
Sufficient to compensate the peoples of the Amazon so that no single tree ever needed to be cut down again
To gardening it and then look after the amazing resources
We can't make that decision as a global community
We can spend countless billions on warfare, on hatred, on fear, on suspicion, on division, but we can't get together the collected effort to save the lungs of our planet
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The message of ayahuasca
Is about the sacred, magical, enchanted, infinite, precious nature of life on Earth
Nature of life on Earth
Nature of life on Earth
Nature of life on Earth
The message of ayahuasca
The universal message
Is about the sacred, magical, enchanted, infinite, precious nature of life on Earth
Nature of life on Earth
Nature of life on Earth
Nature of life on Earth
The lungs of our planet
This precious home of biodiversity
The old girl's rainforests being cut down and replaced with soya bean farms so we can feed cattle so that we can all eat hamburgers
Only a truly insane global state of consciousness could allow such an abomination to occur
I did a back of an envelope calculation during the Iraq war It seems to me that six months expenditure on the Iraq war would have solved the problem of the Amazon forever
Sufficient to compensate the peoples of the Amazon so that no single tree ever needed to be cut down again
To gardening it and then look after the amazing resources
We can't make that decision as a global community
We can spend countless billions on warfare, on hatred, on fear, on suspicion, on division, but we can't get together the collected effort to save the lungs of our planet
[Chorus]
The message of ayahuasca
Is about the sacred, magical, enchanted, infinite, precious nature of life on Earth
Nature of life on Earth
Nature of life on Earth
Nature of life on Earth
The message of ayahuasca
The universal message
Is about the sacred, magical, enchanted, infinite, precious nature of life on Earth
Nature of life on Earth
Nature of life on Earth
Nature of life on Earth
And in these inquiries into the mystery of death
The ancient Egyptians weren't just exercising their imaginations
They highly valued the dream states and it's now known that they used visionary plants like the hallucinogenic blue water lily
The ancient Egyptian Tree of Life has recently been identified as the Acacia nilotica
Which contains high quantities of DMT the same active ingredient that we find in ayahuasca
Now it's difficult to imagine a society more different from the society of ancient Egypt than our society today
We hate visionary states in this society, in our society, if we want to insult somebody
We call them a dreamer
In ancient societies that was praise
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In our society, if we want to insult somebody
We call them a dreamer, (we call them a dreamer, we call them a dreamer)
In our society, if we want to insult somebody
We call them a dreamer, (we call them a dreamer, we call them a dreamer)
In ancient societies that was praise
The ancient Egyptians weren't just exercising their imaginations
They highly valued the dream states and it's now known that they used visionary plants like the hallucinogenic blue water lily
The ancient Egyptian Tree of Life has recently been identified as the Acacia nilotica
Which contains high quantities of DMT the same active ingredient that we find in ayahuasca
Now it's difficult to imagine a society more different from the society of ancient Egypt than our society today
We hate visionary states in this society, in our society, if we want to insult somebody
We call them a dreamer
In ancient societies that was praise
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In our society, if we want to insult somebody
We call them a dreamer, (we call them a dreamer, we call them a dreamer)
In our society, if we want to insult somebody
We call them a dreamer, (we call them a dreamer, we call them a dreamer)
In ancient societies that was praise
And this whole transformation was made possible by this encounter with death
That mother ayahuasca gave me
That leads me to ask what is death?
In our materialist science reduces everything to matter and materialist science in the West says that we are just meat, we are just our bodies
So when the brain is dead that is the end of consciousness there is no life after death, there is no soul we just rot and our gone
But actually many honest scientists should admit that consciousness is the greatest mystery of science
That we don't know exactly how it works
The brains involved in it in some way but we are not sure how
It could be that the brain generates consciousness the way a generator makes electricity, if you hold to that paradigm then of course you can't believe in life after death
That mother ayahuasca gave me
That leads me to ask what is death?
In our materialist science reduces everything to matter and materialist science in the West says that we are just meat, we are just our bodies
So when the brain is dead that is the end of consciousness there is no life after death, there is no soul we just rot and our gone
But actually many honest scientists should admit that consciousness is the greatest mystery of science
That we don't know exactly how it works
The brains involved in it in some way but we are not sure how
It could be that the brain generates consciousness the way a generator makes electricity, if you hold to that paradigm then of course you can't believe in life after death
Now I have some personal experience of this
Not been addicted to heroine or cocaine
But I had a 24-year non-stop cannabis habit
This started off by smoking the herb and naturally vaporizing it but the basic truth is that
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For 24 years I was pretty much permanently stoned
(Permanently stoned)
(Permanently stoned)
And I enjoyed being stoned
(Enjoyed being stoned)
(Enjoyed being stoned)
And I felt that it helped me
With my work as a writer
Perhaps at some point it did but when I first encountered ayahuasca I'd already been smoking cannabis for 16 years
And almost immediately ayahuasca started giving me messages that this was no longer serving me
That it was leading me to behave in negative and unhelpful ways towards others
And of course I ignored those messages for years and years
And went back to being stoned 16 hours a day
Not been addicted to heroine or cocaine
But I had a 24-year non-stop cannabis habit
This started off by smoking the herb and naturally vaporizing it but the basic truth is that
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For 24 years I was pretty much permanently stoned
(Permanently stoned)
(Permanently stoned)
And I enjoyed being stoned
(Enjoyed being stoned)
(Enjoyed being stoned)
And I felt that it helped me
With my work as a writer
Perhaps at some point it did but when I first encountered ayahuasca I'd already been smoking cannabis for 16 years
And almost immediately ayahuasca started giving me messages that this was no longer serving me
That it was leading me to behave in negative and unhelpful ways towards others
And of course I ignored those messages for years and years
And went back to being stoned 16 hours a day