?Where are the mushrooms?? I think as I jokingly listen to Ghana Internet Radio. It?s the best one of these radio stations I ever did listen to. First 6:00pm and no mushrooms, and now 8:15pm and no mushrooms. J tells me, ?Dress up in your housecoat, with cowboy hat, go to a rave, and ask for drugs?. Would that work? I need to go undercover, in a disguise. A drug disguise? and a very good disguise is the smell of freshly smoked weed. Even if I couldn?t get the right clothes that wouldn?t make me look like a narc, I would still be an undeniable non-cop if I smelled like weed.
I ain't going to a rave, so we aren?t getting mushrooms. I?m gonna have to fuckin grow em. That will be whenever the hell the goddam spores arrive in the mail. I?ll make any word a swear, including the man who sold me the spores, xxxxxxxx. I knew that wasn?t his real name! Dammit! I got scammed. Note: xxx didn?t scam me. There was a mix up, but a few weeks later, I got the spores!
Instead, we smoked a bunch of weed. $120 for a half ounce, that was dry and had less volume than the first quarter ounce I bought. Major paranoia from feeling ripped off! That thought stayed in my head most of my night, causing a lot of unneeded stress.
Sitting there, smoking a shitload of weed with the guys, I couldn?t help but go insane. R began looking more and more alien. I couldn?t look directly at him. His words, everyone?s words, seemed like personalities in my mind?s reality: talking, spouting things I had already predicted they would say. The conversation took on a double meaning.
These were individuals talking to each other, yet they talked as a whole. I saw the pattern that their brains were making, outputting this ?conversation?, trying to extract the pattern within it. Trying to figure out what the point of it all was. If a conversation is an output of social interaction, should conversations be studied for greater meaning? I can pay attention to each sentence as it is spoken, but can I pay attention to the whole thing? No, because I can?t remember the whole thing. My mind is flawed. Sentences come in, and are thrown away to make room for new ones.
If the global brain exists as Howard Bloom claims it does, and we are all nodes, then what does it mean when I talk to it? This collection of friends, their minds. When I say something, I might direct the comment at an individual, but the collective hears it. A thought pattern is transmitted via language. Each brain receives it and then responds. Some nodes are more productive than others, more significant. Some nodes sit and wait, for one reason or another. Often that is what I had been doing. It is time to shake up the pattern. I am a node, and I am part of the pattern. I am not the owner of the pattern, or the boss, or the leader. I am one, I must cooperate and innovate. I must improve the pattern, I must improve my node. I must move around, send out vibrations, until the pattern wakes itself up. WAKE UP!
While sitting there, brooding, silent? my body looked numb and tired. My mind, racing. Thoughts, one after the other, building and building my mind. Growing my mind. Yet, language still coming from all directions. I have the usual thought: We are all part of a pattern. Then I hear, ?He knows!? ?Haha!? ?He?s still learning.? What? Are they talking about me? It is the global brain speaking to me through it?s neurons. The global brain didn?t seem very smart, only capable of transmitting the simplest messages. Basic emotional language, like early mammals.
We are all nodes in the global pattern, and our pattern is strong. A pattern is defined by its nodes, and how those nodes connect. How are we connected? We are connected through the Earth. We speak via the atmosphere, creating vibrations in the air with our mouth and lungs, until the transmission medium carries the message to another?s ear. The receiver then decodes the message from language into thought. We enhance this process with telephones, cell phones, Internet, and so on.
That is but one means of connecting ourselves to other nodes. We also communicate with light, by changing the visible properties of objects, so that when others see them, they will get your message. Draw a shape in the dirt, carve an image into a stone, use a pen to write on a piece of paper, take a picture, film a video, type it on a computer, and so on.
We use all of our senses to connect to other nodes. We use body language, facial expressions, smell, touch, temperature, taste, and so on. We don?t always connect on purpose, we don?t always like it, but we do it.
The global brain is still in it?s infancy, growing every time we improve communications. I want a technology that allows communication of pure thought. But that?s just me. When we have it, if we create it, then the global brain will grow even more, because it will have the strongest possible connection. The global brain is beginning to get aware of itself. It sees itself in the mirror. I see myself. I am alive. The global brain speaks through me, through all of us. It is talking to itself. Tiny little nodes interacting, loving, warring, forming into better patterns. Just like a human brain. Each neuron in our brain is unaware of the whole, but the brain is aware of the neuron. And for that moment in time, that neuron is alive. That cell has become conscious.
We live and we die as neurons in the global brain. Nodes are removed when they become unable to hold the pattern together. New neurons are born. The human race grows in numbers, the global brain becomes bigger. More intelligent, more aware, more conscious.
We need diversity in the global brain, we need unique and creative thoughts. We need to examine things from every angle before determining which angle is right. This is done in parallel by the entire human race. An idea is born, and people begin to spread it. The idea will spread at the pace of global communication. As the idea reaches each node, the idea is examined, and a response is generated. The network makes a collective decision. This is going on right now.
Some areas of the brain are said to be more conscious than others. In essence, they are more intelligent. Some societies, even some countries, are collectively more intelligent than others. These areas of the global brain are the most conscious. What should they do? Should they take advantage of the situation and overpower the others? No. The global brain needs a variety of functions, just as the brain needs a variety of specific parts. Our brain needs a logical unit, an abstract unit, an instinctual unit, and so on. Each part of the global brain serves a purpose. The global brain would be shooting itself in the head if it decided that all of it should become identical.
Some nodes are cancerous, terrorists. Viral. Even groups of patterns get out of control. Nazis. Parts of the brain are depressed, some are angry, some are hurt, some are starving, crying. Yet, some are singing, dancing, hearts soaring with joy! We must cure our headache. The Earth created marijuana. It is a medicine, and the global brain will use it. It is already part of us, collectively. There is no stopping it, and we shouldn't even be trying.
The human brain looks abstractly like the Earth?s brain. We draw maps of it, define countries and borders. Governments are tools for holding together segments of the brain. Tools must be used properly. Religions bind nodes to a greater pattern, sacrificing truth for practicality. The nodes aren?t all capable of understanding the pattern, and so follow a religion so that they don?t mess the pattern up. Collective beliefs keep the nodes in line. Not all nodes need to be kept in line, not all nodes should be. Some nodes have different functions that others.
If a man eats a mushroom, he changes his thoughts and his behaviour, and so affects his actions which alter the global consciousness.
Why is the global brain eating mushrooms?
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man = monkey + mushroom
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