"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 Psilocybin - Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide
by O.T. Oss & O.N. Oeric
Terence McKenna Land
Entheogenic Garden
The Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension