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 that 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 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 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