TERENCE MCKENNA: The real issue is what kind of mental world shall people inhabit? 
What kinds of hope shall be permitted? 
What kind of value systems shall be allowed? 
And the value systems that agrandise the possession of things 
the tearing up of the earth 
competition classism racism sexism 
have led us to the brink of catastrophe. 
Now I think we have to abandon western cultural values and return to the 
deeper wisdom of the body in connection with the plans.  
That's the seamless web that leads us back into the heart of nature.  
And if we can do this then this very narrow neck of cultural crisis can be navigated.  
Very little of the past can be saved.  
The architechtonics the machines the systems of monetary exchange and propaganda 
the silly religions the assinine asthetic cannons 
very little of that can be saved.  
But what can be saved is the sense of love and 
caring and mutuality 
that we all uh put into and take from the human enterprise.  
You know theres a Grateful Dead song that says 
you can't go back and you can't stand still 
if the thunder don't get you than the lightning will 
and we now hold 
through the possession of these psychedlics 
catalysts for the human imagination 
of sufficient power that if we use them 
we can deconstruct the lethal vehicle 
that is carrying us towards the brink of apocalypse.  
We can deconstruct that vehicle and redesign it into a kind of starship 
that would carry us and our children out into the broad starry galaxy we know to be waiting us.  
But its a cultural test.  
Nature is pitiless.  
Intelligence is a grand experiment upon which a great deal has been risked.  
But if it proves inadequate 
nature will cover it over with the same kind of 
cool impunity that she covered over the 
dinosaurs, the trilobines and the crosockdarigiens fishes 
and all those other folks who came before.  
So what we must do I think is see our future in the imagination.  
Catalyse the imagination.  
Form symbiotic relationships with the plants. 
Affirm archaic values and spread the good news 
that what is out of control 
what is in fact dying 
is a world that had become too top heavy with its 
own hubris.  
Too bent by its own false value system and too dehumanized to care about what happens to its own children.  
So I say good riddance to it.  
Bring on the archaic revival and 
lets create a new world.  That's it. 
