The Synthetic Reality: Horrors and Hopes for the Future – a Shamanic Perspective

February 8th, 2019

By Sergey Baranov

Contributing writer for Wake Up World

Horrors and Hopes for the Future – a Shamanic Perspective

Technology is valuable, but must be advanced with great wisdom and caution.

In my recent book, The Mescaline Confession [1], I wrote a chapter about a stark vision I one day received from the Huachuma cactus, warning of a future in which our own technology will devour us.  Huachuma, also known as San Pedro, is a sacred cactus native to the Andes which is shamanically used in Peru and has been for thousands of years.  Its active ingredient is the alkaloid mescaline, which was made known to the world by Aldous Huxley in his book The Doors of Perception [2]. 

Technology, the cactus told me, is not our God — it is our servant. Technology itself is a tool that is neither inherently good nor bad, but technology without wisdom is weaponized stupidity.  Recently, I stumbled upon a profound essay that echoed these revelations quite closely, Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us [3], published by Bill Joy in Wired magazine way back in April, 2000.  Primarily about the potential dangers of giving artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and nanotechnology greater autonomy and control over their given roles, it also critiqued the rabid transhumanist movement, a giddy group, hell-bent on merging our bodies and minds with computer technology in a quest for god-like, never-ending life.  What these people fail to realize is that our short time here already can and does lead to immortality of much greater value, that living and dying cannot be easily separated, and that ancient technologies for understanding the absolutely essential nature of life and death have existed for millennia, upon the very ground on which we stand.

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