I have found heaven.
Or as close as I think I might be able to get. I am in Princeton IL, and I have been staying with my good friends Shawn and Amanda Clark. They have been on this Mennonite farm with two of our other good friends in intentional community. I went into the fields with them today and picked, tomatoes, corn, and black berries. They are completely self sufficient, and the farm is huge! They went to market today at 2pm to sell a lot of what we harvested. Incredible. We went into Chicago last night - I love that fucking city. They showed me some of the "trendier" parts of town and it was awesome.
Terence McKenna and Lorenzo have been on my mind a lot lately. I've been listening to many a lecture that Lorenzo post on his podcast "Psychedelic Salon." If you are a progressive thinker and think a lot of the laws of science have way to many loop holes to be laws and that most western countries are going to shit, I would definitely suggest taking an hour or so and listening to one of these fantastic podcast. They are changing my life, and I've not even used any of the sacred medicines they talk about (except for Diviners Sage). The Paradigm shift is upon us and things are going to get a hell of a fuck of a lot worse before they get better.
On one of the more recent podcast I listened to, they discussed consciousness. Terence spoke about how loads of researchers have watched people walk across burning hot coals and how their feet don't get burned. He speculates that it is because they are changing their reality around them by tapping into consciousness and controlling the energy surrounding themselves. It was mind blowing because one of the shaman asked one of the researchers if he wanted to walk across the coals with him. He did it with the shaman and didn't get a singe. If a single person can change his immediate reality what would happen if the whole human race tapped into this "energy". I speculate that if we can all transcend some how and come to this level of openness we can all together change reality as we know it. I think we will have to do that once our technological culture evolves so much that it comes back on us and we have nothing left to do but change reality. I think that those of us who do this will survive and those who do not won't - natural selection.
Anyway, I am going to go back to the farm grab dinner with my extended family and head to Colorado. Stay well and chill the fuck out.
