“So you’re saying,” McKenna said when he sat back down with Ethan. “There’s otherworldly information flowing through our Abstract World of Thought”?

  “Yeah, and when you get stoned, you’re opening yourself up to that information you wouldn’t normally see. New and more detailed information than you’ve imagined before. There’s more information in everything you see or think about, producing a much more vibrant reality.

  “The intense experience is uniquely personal, and it’s difficult to see it as something beyond that, but from the unique perspective, you’re not really seeing anything. When you go into a trip with a ‘Me’ perspective, and this is a perspective you develop through life, you’re only a spectator in the New World you entered. You’re seeing the colors and brightness, but you’re not standing far enough back to see the entire picture. You have to see yourself as connected to something greater. You never will until you start looking at your life in connection with all life, most importantly, your species.

  “You’re entering a connected world. Everything is in there. It’s you, but just as importantly, it’s your species, because we are a heavenly species, and once you understand, you discover a life that is you, wrapped up in your species, wrapped up in eternal life that predates us, and will live forever. You discover you are part of a greater life travelling through the very forefront of the space/time continuum and always will be”.

  “I’m starting to look at tripping in the same way. The more I trip, the more I see myself in context with where we are headed as a species. At the same time my experiences are becoming deeply personal,” McKenna replied. “I mostly take psychedelics alone now. I find this produces the most insightful experience.

  “I think that’s the best way,” Ethan agreed. The experience is personal. The context is community”.

  “Yeah,” McKenna replied. “You become much more aware of the World we live in, and what’s holding us back from finding greater potential in ourselves and our species. And you know, when you trip with all this in mind, you get a sense our potential is unlimited”.

  Ethan nodded agreement.

  “I’ve always thought,” McKenna continued, “that consumerism is all our leaders can come up with to move society along. They seem bankrupt of ideas, and have no more plan than to extract and spend until it’s all gone”.

  “I think it’s more sinister than that,” Ethan replied. “By and large, our leaders are motivated by personal greed. They are the opposite of the Collective Consciousness. They don’t want to change the way things are, and create more chaos and distraction so we don’t see the order and stability in the universe we see when we trip”.

  “Yeah,” McKenna agreed. “But when our leaders keep feeding us more of the same with no end in sight, at some point we react and this creates a divide and opening for a new system to replace it”.

  “Absolutely,” Ethan agreed. “The idea of the new system you’re talking about begins in this era. You are the generation who fights for the basic freedom to live without the weight of Authoritarianism, and the right to live with the expectations of love, joy and fulfillment. In the future we eventually achieve this through computerization. We become connected as a society, a global one in fact, and communicate peer to peer, and even peer to everyone. It is our Collective Brain and we learn how it works and it becomes the Collective Consciousness. It’s completely equal and anti-hierarchical. It’s representative of our Agreed Judgment and this leads us to our next Evolution; the Enlightenment”.

  “How’s it work?” Terence asked.

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  “More information started being fed to us, and we could visually see pretty much anything anywhere in the world. If you looked, you could clearly see what was going on in any situation, and when we found violations to the common good, we would draw attention to it, and if enough people were affected, a tipping point would be reached representative of the Common Voice, a Common Value. We called it The Crowd, and when The Crowd spoke, the evil in the violation was decimated including perpetrators and anyone associated with the practice.

  “It was that simple. When people heard of a wrong they would not have done unto themselves, they’d visit that place through their computer, and voice their disapproval. When enough people showed up, change for the Common Good was inevitable.

  “The big thing we have to watch for,” Ethan continued. “Is a Common Voice takes away our leaders authority, and in the future they attempt to use the same technology that gave us the Voice to monitor and subjugate us. More than anything, we must fight to keep peer to peer communication out of the hands of Authority; be it Government or Business. The Common Voice is needed for our Enlightenment. It leads us through the chaos the Leaders, who we later identify as the Magnates, created towards the end of the World as we know it”.

  “What’s going on with me”? Erwin was back. “I think that lady put something in our tea”.

  Ethan stood up and put his arm around Erwin reassuringly. “I think it’s possible our tea was made with Magic Mushrooms.”

  “Magic Mushrooms! Magic Mushrooms!” Erwin cried, but then it occurred to him he didn’t know what Magic Mushrooms were. He knew what psilocybin was, but he didn’t know that’s what Magic Mushrooms were. “What are Magic Mushrooms”?

  “Well, they’re magic,” Ethan replied. “Haven’t you noticed how colourful and magical everything is”?

  Ethan’s words didn’t calm Erwin at all. He was just now realizing he had taken Psychedelics and as far as he was concerned, it amounted to being on heroin.

  “Oh No! Oh No!” he started repeating. Fear filled him. ”I’m hooked. I’m hooked”.

  “He’s going to freak out,” Terence said.

  “It’s okay,” Ethan said to Erwin. “Maybe we should sing or something? Do you want to sing Erwin”?

  “Sing? I’m going to lose my job and you want to sing!” Erwin declared. “Where will I live? Probably just on the street where I can get my fixes”.

  Ethan and Terence looked at each other, not really knowing what Erwin was talking about.

  “Calm down,” was all Ethan could think of to say, as he patted him on the back, but his words were not soothing to Erwin”.

  “I am Freaking Out!” he shouted. ”I am Freaking Out”!

  “Freak Out! Freak Out!” he shouted even louder.

  It was then the woman who had served Ethan the tea showed up.

  “What’s all this? Was my tea too strong?” she asked soothingly, hugging Erwin in an embrace. “Terence likes his tea so strong”.

  She was taller than Erwin. A full head taller, which placed Erwin’s face breast level. They weren’t all that big, but big enough that Erwin knew they were there, especially because she pressed his face against one of them and he could feel her pointy nipple on his cheek. She was an attractive young Indian woman, with piercings and bangles. She wore a traditional sari, but much more provocative than you would expect from a garment that already exposes a provocative amount of flesh. It was of a light orange material and you could kind of see through it. As mentioned, Erwin could definitely feel her pointy nipple through it.

  “Come baby, settle down,” she said, continuing to hold him close.

  Erwin, mama’s boy that he was, settled right in, and started to calm down. If she had actually given him her tit, she would have probably would have had to burp him.

  “See,” she said, running her fingers through Erwin’s thinning hair. “It’s not so bad.”

  “It’s not so bad,” Erwin mumbled from his titty position.

  Ethan gave Terence a sideways glance, “Well this has been lovely,” he said, “but I suppose it’s time we should be leaving”.

  “Yeah,” Terence agreed. ‘Hey, do you want to share information? Maybe we can meet again and talk some more”.

  “I’d love to,” Ethan replied. “You’re one of my favorite people from the 60’s. Erwin what’s our phone number”?

  Erwin, still wrapped in the embrace of the young woman, who was now rubbing his back, told him.