How do you feel today?

Sound like a shrink, do I? Well let’s try a more existentialist posture, shall we? How does your Universe feel today? Enlightened, vibrant, curious?

Have you considered that this whole 2012 thing could be for real? Well if you are on my page, you might be a little hazy on just what term “real” actually means, but I guess you get the point, something fantastic, somewhere is waiting to happen, to paraphrase physicist, John Wheeler. What we was talking about was an underlying matrix to our 3 dimensional nature, we so casually refer to as reality and this layer of activity wants to be known, it wants to reveal itself to us, but it knows we are scared.

Bowie spoke of this, when he told us of a “star man waiting in the sky”, he tell us that he would like to come and meet us but “he’s afraid he’d blow our minds” Notice how Bowie says, he would blow our minds and not our bodies, for what are we but creatures of the mind, this is the true home of our perception, the brain merely acting to conduct the stream of information, an information stream, which as described by Aldous Huxley, is in fact a traffic reduction system and not, as we may have presumed a means to actually gather information!

Where is the proof for this? Well, let’s not get into too much of a debate here, as my fingers my tire but let me show you a little something to raise your awareness of what it is I speak of. The psychedelic compounds that are once more making the stage in medical research such as MDMA, DMT, psilocybin and the likes actually cause blood flow to the brain to reduce and not, as we may have previously anticipated, cause flow to increase!!! The brain acts in a similar way to a near death experience, that is to say, it reduces participation in funneling our awareness into a time constrained, matter matrix and instead allows something far more substantial to be experienced by the observer.

Channel 4 recently screened the wonderful Professor David Nutt and his team discussing the use of MDMA for treating clinical depression and post traumatic stress disorder. “Drugs Live” did what it said on the tin - an ethical committee passed the screening of the use of this currently scheduled Class A compound, to be interpreted under brain scanning devices and what we saw was a remarkable and terrifically misunderstood substance, one that will no doubt now, need to be completely revised for use.

This is a revelation to the bystanders but hardly news to those who have ever experienced the compound, the question is what now? The answer surely has to be to take psychedelic research out form under the carpet from where it was swept in the neurosis of the 70s capitalist dogma that prevailed and once more we will be sat at the table of nature to offer us a more authentic relationship with the Gain mind, to beg her forgiveness for the delusion of the psyche and the pathology it has unleashed on the planet. The future is uncertain but one thing is clear - “Go green or die, the plants can show us the way!”