Akira The Don, Terence McKenna - Look What's Going On With Santa Claus lyrics

Uh, an example of how a very ancient, uh
Folk way
Can be incorporated into our culture
Without us even realizing it
Is provided by discussing Amanita Muscaria
If you go to the Encyclopedia Britannica
And you look up Santa Claus
They'll tell you that it has do
With Saint Nicholas
And it got started in the 11th century
But when you look at the Santa Claus story
It's a perfect, uh, uh, mythologem
To analyze from this point of view because

Look what's going on with Santa Claus
Look what's going on with Santa Claus
Look what's going on with Santa Claus
Look what's going on with Santa Claus

First of all
Santa Claus's colors are red and white
The colors of the Amanita Muscaria, for sure
Santa Claus lives at the North Pole
What does this mean?
It means that Santa Claus lives
At the axis mundi
Wherе Yggdrasil, the magic world ash
Of Welsh mythology has, uh, uh, taken root
Santa Claus Fliеs this is what shaman do
(This is what shaman do) santa Claus
Is the master of the reindeer
The animal most associated with
The Amanita Muscaria santa Claus
Is aided in his work
By troops of elves

Look what's going on with Santa Claus
Look what's going on with Santa Claus
Look what's going on with Santa Claus
Look what's going on with Santa Claus

And what is the work of Santa Claus?
To build toys for children
Remember the DMT thing saying, "Look at this
Look at this"
Well, those were off-duty elves clearly
So, so here are all the motif
And I believe that for
Children in our culture
That all the Christer stuff is
Not what Christmas is about
Christmas is about standing in
Front of the tree on Christmas morning
With the gifts arrayed
And the twinkling lights on well, that tree
Is the tree that the Amanita Muscaria forms
Its symbiotic relationship to
It's always spruce or pine
That it has a mycorrhizal relationship with
So, the number of motif
Relating Santa Claus to a
Cult of Amanita Muscaria
There's almost nothing but
Relational motif there
And yet if you suggest this to people
They just back away in horror, ya know