Thoughts on the new book "Tryptamine Palace" by James Oroc

I just finished "Tryptamine Palace" two days ago, and found it to be the most comprehensive attempt to integrate psychedelics, quantum physics, Eastern thought, transpersonal psychology, and the mythology of Joseph Campbell. I've been studying much of the same material and have been in awe at how well all of it fits together and makes sense of this strange world I've come across. Like you and Martin Ball, I was a hard headed atheist, believing that science had explained away all the mystery of life...enter mushrooms just two years ago. In a mere 4 or 5 hours, I was convinced that there was more beauty, wonder, opportunity, personal power and freedom immediately available, than I had ever imagined. I've spent the last couple years trying to figure out what that experience (and subsequently many others) was all about.

Although I have not yet experienced the out of body clear white light of the 5MDE, I've come close with just a light amount of mushrooms and herb. I'm convinced my 3rd eye was awakening - the world dissolved into shimmering light that penetrated my forehead with great intensity and pressure, and my ears started buzzing and crackling and opening up. The full force of it only lasted a minute or so, as my world of light condensed and I came back to a more solid reality. Thinking back on this, there are strong parallels to many times on N,N-DMT where I open my eyes and watch the ferns and trees around me go from vibrantly alive, infused with being and rapidly swaying about, to condensing back into stable (seemingly lifeless) forms, in the space of a minute or two.

I do agree that in these realms, where the mystery reigns supreme, where rigid beliefs are gone and only pure being remains, that we are, for a moment, identifying with the pure white light of infinite potential, or the zero point field. If this is where everything is "condensed" or created from, then this would also have to be termed God. I think that ultimately, we will fully awaken to and realize our true identity, our true Self that is the loving creator of this drama.

Now here's something more original: I propose that this dream is ending. The mask is coming off and we are revealing who or what we truly are. This is the inevitable end to the processes of history. From mere stardust and base elements, this frothing soup has miraculously evolved into the highly complex and structured world we find ourselves in today. As the Mayan Calendar so clearly tracks, the universe has been gaining greater self-awareness at each stage of greater complexity. Self-Awareness. We can see that this process has been accelerating from the big bang up to life's feverish pace we see today. If we carry forward this acceleration of complexity and self-awareness, it becomes clear that there are only a few more years before the whole thing goes completely non-linear/asymptotic where normal models of time and change are meaningless and breakdown. Otherwise known as a singularity.

If you carry forward some major trends of human history in this framework of acceleration, then it looks like paradigm shattering change will be happening daily, and major boundaries that we previously thought were impenetrable, will be (and are) realized to be illusions. This is exactly where the psychedelics come in. They're boundary dissolvers as McKenna was fond of saying. They dissolve boundaries of self and other, interior and exterior, mind and matter.

Now, ultimately, what is the most unimaginable power? It is that of God, the power to create, to take the unmanifest and will it into form. This is the power that we are waking up to! The power of our consciousness is what all those Random Number Generator experiments are discovering! We have only to realize our potential. Where have I heard that word before? Quantum physics! I believe that if we fully identify with the true Self, (the non-dual all), then we will consciously act from the light of the zero-point field, and realize the power of our infinite creative potential. (And this is what we see tested at Burning Man.)

Whew. In conclusion, I believe humanity is collectively going on a psychedelic trip. McKenna said that when you take mushrooms you go through a mini-apocalypse. A death and rebirth. A hero's journey. An in breath and out breath. Full and complete boundary dissolution. A quantum leap. Dissolution of all time and space, into the eternal now. Awakening to the full freedom and power of the present moment.

Oroc, I appreciate your book and your research tremendously. Thank you.

I highly recommend this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Tryptamine-Palace-5-MeO-DMT-Sonoran-Desert/dp/1594...