When I spoke with my son Andrew about our recent local mushrooms he said
Aha! And now emails me a link about...
panspermia
(which seems to be a notion put up by Francis Crick, no less)
http://bluehoney.org/2010/01/14/psychedelic-mushrooms-from-outter-space/
- from which I copy just this: McKenna is the name of this speaker:
As far as the role of the psilocybin mushroom, or its relationship to us and
to intelligence, this is something that we need to consider. It really isnšt
important that I claim that itšs an extraterrestrial, what we need is a body
of people claiming this, or a body of people denying it, because what wešre
talking about is the experience of the mushroom. Few people are in a
position to judge its extraterrestrial potential, because few people in the
orthodox sciences have ever experienced the full spectrum of psychedelic
effects that are unleashed. One cannot find out whether or not therešs an
extraterrestrial intelligence inside the mushroom unless one is willing to
take the mushroom.
Hmm. I appreciate this is not poetryetc matter - unless some members have
been mushroom nibblers...
Max
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