Today's Topics:
Shrooming
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From: Christopher Penrose <penrose@silvertone.princeton.edu>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 92 01:33:33 EDT
Message-Id: <9209230533.AA01891@dobro>
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Shrooming
"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."
>From the book Psilocybin - Magic Mushroom Grower s Guide by O.T. Oss & O.N.
Oeric
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End of Subgenius Digest
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