The Truth Requires No Belief
This is not a very scientific part of the wrap
Because it's very hard to convince people
That there are nonhuman intelligences this side of Ganapo Ganubi
And when you tell them zhat these nonhuman intelligences are accessed
Through the diminutive mushrooms growing on their front lawn
They just write you off as a squirrel
But this question of the nonhuman intelligences
Is very, very much on the agenda
All shamans in all times and places have claimed this
Though the thing that so pleases me about DMT
Is, you know, a lot of people will not take a psychedelic like LSD or Psilocybin or something Because it lasts hours and hours
Inevitably, a thing lasting that long
You're gonna end up dealing with your stuff
Your anxiety, your fear, your this and that
And a lot of people don't care for that sort of thing
With DMT, it lasts four minutes
And so, how lost in an examination of childhood trauma can you get in four minutes
Especially when you have hundreds of elves tugging at your coat sleeves
It's really an incredibly powerful tool
We have the UFO people claiming there are nonhuman intelligences
But they have no reliable method of contact that works for a skeptic
The great thing about DMT is, it doesn't require belief
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The truth requires no belief
It is the truth
The truth requires no belief
It is the truth
This, to my mind, is the great and chilling mystery in the center of the psychedelics
And once you've encountered these things
You have to take them seriously
To the point of, you have to understand where do they fit in to the great order of being
What are... these things?
How can there be a life-forms not made of matter
In other words, how can they be intelligent and coherent
But have no fixed body outline
Is the universe, in fact, populated By nonhuman, nonmaterial intelligences
That we somehow contact using drugs?
Where are they when you're not there?
Is it an ongoing thing
Is something going on on this planet are these the controllers
Are you getting into a back channel
That you're not cleared for
Or, and this is to my mind, the most chilling and appalling and exhilarating possibility of all
When you go back over the shamanism thing
You say, you know, you shamans know where is this all coming from
They will tell you it comes from ancestors
Well, that's a cheerful and fairly sanitized concept
But when your deconstructed ancestors are dead people
[Chorus]
The truth requires no belief
It is the truth
The truth requires no belief
It is the truth
What is actually being suggested there Is that there is a kind of ecology of souls
One energy threshold over
That is co-present with this world
Well, strangely enough that's what the Irish myth of the fay says
It says these are dead people
These are souls that linger in our environment
And this is what souls look like
Again, folklore is only a guide
But if what we are dabbling with
If what lies at the end of the road of shamanism is the dissolution of the boundary
Between life and death itself
Then the million-year intuition that this was a path worth following
Will be dramatically vindicated
Praise the sun
Be alive like this, no Celebra
Amen, praise the sun
Celebrate the fact that we are living