From a distance, you can hear the brass and the drums as they get closer
And it begins as a sound
It’s very interesting, it begins as a sound
And as it gets louder, there comes a point
Where imperceptibly, it becomes visible
And then, all I can say is, it gets bigger
Just like someone marching toward you through three-dimensional space
(Ma – Marching toward you through three-dimensional space)
And so, it goes from being a little phenomenon on the horizon of your awareness
To, you're there, you're with them
You're playing the tuba, you're marching along
It's happening
It's happening
And then, they peel off and march away and leave you in the same way they came
The archetype of this phenomenon, as far as I can tell is the archetype of the circus
Now, people can say all kinds of things
They can say, well, this is just the autonomous substructures of the psyche manifesting themselves
But sounds to me like a lawyer's explanation
It's hard to smoke DMT, especially if you're not a smoker
It's harsh
Some people don't get enough
I would say, of the people who smoke as much as I think you should smoke
75% probably report something like this
It's hard for people to report
I've had years and years of practice
What I've just told you about this is an incredibly crumpled, compressed edited version Because what is really happening
In there is
One of the reasons I preach DMT so
Furiously is – I just want a larger body of people to take it
So that we can compare data
We need to understand
How is this possible?
It raises whole host of questions
How has it been kept secret
How can millions of people
Go to the grave
Raise children, hold jobs
The news of a doorway standing that agape
Hasn't penetrated
I mean most people believe they're imprisoned in this world
The only hope is maybe 15 years at the Ashram and hideous acts of self-abnegation and control
And actually, the boundary between us and an unspeakably bizarre world
It's 30 seconds away, at any time
As long as you have DMT
That's appalling to me
[Chorus]
I mean, it means we don't know nothing
(We don’t know, we don’t know)
Yeah, we don't know nothing
(We don’t know, we don’t know)
We don't know, we don’t know, we don’t know nothing
We don't know, we don’t know, we don’t know nothing
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, we don't know nothing
(We don’t know, we don’t know)
Yeah, we don't know, we don’t know, we don’t know nothing
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
What to make of it
I've thought about this for years and years and years and
I don't know why there should be an invisible syntactical intelligence
Giving language lessons in hyperspace
That certainly, consistently seems to be what is happening
I've thought a lot about language
As a result of that
First of all, it is the most remarkable thing we do
Chomsky shows
The deep structure of language is under genetic control
But that's like the assembly language level
Local expressions of language are epigenetic
[Chorus]
It seems to me that language
Is some kind of enterprise of human beings
That is not
Finished
It seems to me that language
Is some kind of enterprise of human beings
That is not