…if it weren't for our tools. Language is a tool, the cutting edge is a tool, social organization is a tool. Marsiliad wrote a book called shamanism, the archaic techniques of ecstasy. Shamanism is essentially a technology. I think we should simply take…

…of cultural renewal. The chief thing which grounds the shaman, at least in my practical experience with them, is the curing. And Marsiliad insists on this, that the primary function of the shaman is to cure and that all these other things go toward that…

…To neurotransmitters, exotic neurotransmitters, or it comes through an exposure to hallucinogens. This is a big argument in anthropology. Marsiliad, who normally I am very deferent to, got this one completely wrong and decided on absolutely no evidence that…

…transcending. It doesn't take place in time. It takes place in the, in this phase space called in ilio tempore. Marsiliad talks about this. It takes place paradigmatically outside of the forward flow of ordinary casuistry. History is the ordinary forward…

…membranes that keep these worlds mutually exclusive and sequestered from contamination by each other just simply dissolve. And you experience what Marsiliad called the rupture of plane. And the rupture of plane is just like poking a hole in nearby space. And…

…of cultural renewal. The chief thing which grounds the shaman, at least in my practical experience with them, is the curing. And Marsiliad insists on this, that the primary function of the shaman is to cure and that all these other things go toward that…

…on our way somewhere and each generation should take a step down the road. These kinds of metaphors of movement. And then Marsiliad talked about, and we could adopt his terminology, he talked about profane and sacral time. And he said, history is profane.…

…All the secrets are being told, all the veils are being lifted, all the doors are being opened. It's that deathbed delirium that Marsiliad was talking about. So that's all I wanted to say about that. The part you needed to hear is that nature conserves…

…idea of what was happening. So, yeah, I think, you know, magic has always striven for effects which technology has achieved. Marsiliad talks about this in a book called no Memories, Dreams, Reflections, a book of essays about how the alchemical dreams of…

…to the unconscious, I suppose it is the unconscious made conscious. In other words, all the mythologies. I think it's Marsiliad in mystreams and mysteries. He talks about the evolution of human flight and says it talks about, first about shamanic…

…So it's very hard to separate all these, to tease these factors apart. Yeah, not everyone would try that. Well, you know, Marsiliad, in his great book on shamanism, he subtitled it the archetype, archaic Techniques of ecstasy. What a shaman is in command…

…of Aristotle is animated, given a dimension of motion. And lo and behold, it becomes the Darwin Wallace theory of evolution. Marsiliad talks about this, about how all the alchemical dreams of the 15th and 16th century. Have been brought to fruition in…

…who actually pull the strings and control the evolution of the mythologies. And in a way, it's a situation of alienation. Marsiliad talks a lot about this in shamanism, the archaic techniques of. Of ecstasy. And in history, the eternal return talks about…