Akira The Don, Terence McKenna - The Truth Requires No Belief lyrics

This is not a very scientific
Part of the wrap
Because it's very hard to convince people
That there are nonhuman intelligences this
Side of Ganapo Ganubi
And when you tell them zhat
These nonhuman intelligences are accessed
Through the diminutive mushrooms growing
On their front lawn
They just write you off as a squirrel
But this question of
The nonhuman intelligences
Is very, very much on the agenda
All shamans in all times and
Places have claimed this
Though the thing that so pleases me about DMT
Is, you know, a lot of people will not
Take a psychedelic like LSD
Or Psilocybin or something Because it
Lasts hours and hours
Inevitably, a thing lasting that long
You're gonna end up dealing with your stuff
Your anxiety, your fear, your this and that
And a lot of people don't care
For that sort of thing
With DMT, it lasts four minutes and so
How lost in an examination
Of childhood trauma
Can you get in four minutes
Especially when you have hundreds of elves
Tugging at your coat sleeves
It's really an incredibly powerful tool
We have the UFO people claiming
There are nonhuman intelligences
But they have no reliable method of
Contact that works for a skeptic
The great thing about DMT is
It doesn't require belief

The truth requires no belief it is the truth
The truth requires no belief it is the truth

This, to my mind
Is the great and chilling mystery in
The center of the psychedelics
And once you've encountered these things
You have to take them seriously
To the point of
You have to understand where do they fit
In to the great order of being
What are these things?
How can there be a life-forms
Not made of matter in other words
How can they be intelligent and coherent
But have no fixed body outline
Is the universe, in fact
Populated By nonhuman
Nonmaterial intelligences
That we somehow contact using drugs?
Where are they when you're not there?
Is it an ongoing thing
Is something going on on this
Planet are these the controllers
Are you getting into a back channel
That you're not cleared for
Or, and this is to my mind
The most chilling and appalling and
Exhilarating possibility of all
When you go back over the shamanism thing
You say, you know, you shamans know where is
This all coming from
They will tell you it comes from ancestors
Well, that's a cheerful and
Fairly sanitized concept
But when your deconstructed ancestors
Are dead people

The truth requires no belief it is the truth
The truth requires no belief it is the truth
What is actually being suggested
There Is that there
Is a kind of ecology of souls
One energy threshold over
That is co-present with this world
Well, strangely enough that's what the Irish
Myth of the fay says
It says these are dead people
These are souls that linger
In our environment
And this is what souls look like
Again, folklore is only a guide
But if what we are dabbling with
If what lies at the end of the road
Of shamanism is the dissolution
Of the boundary
Between life and death it'self
Then the million-year intuition that this
Was a path worth following
Will be dramatically vindicated

Praise the sun
Be alive like this, no Celebra
Amen, praise the sun
Celebrate the fact that we are living