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SPACE TIME CONTINUUM
WITH TERENCE MCKENNA

ALIEN DREAMTIME




WARNING!

The following pages contain the words to the Space Time Continuum / Alien
Dreamtime album and are to be used as reference material after the album
has been smealed, grokked, or otherwise brainally infused. Do yourself a
favor and discontinue further reading of these pages if you have not first
listened to the album.
You have been warned.





Alien Dreamtime was a multi media event recorded live on February
26th/27th 1993 at the Transmission theater, San Francisco, Ca. A video of
this event produced by Rose-X media house is available through City of
Tribes Communications 63 Fountain st, SF, Ca 94114. The didgeridoo is
played with the greatest respect for all the aboriginal people of
Australia and the spirit of all first world people. All tracks published
by Space Monkey.
Archaic Revival

Allright... tonight, for your edification and amusement... three
raves, two interregnums. Visions by Rose X. Didgeredoo, Stephen Kent.
And sound by Space Time. Words and ideas by Terence McKenna. Rap one:
The Archaic Revival.

History is ending, because the dominator culture has led the human
species into a blind alley. And as the inevitable chaostrophe approaches,
people look for metaphors and answers. Every time a culture gets into
trouble, it casts itself back into the past looking for the last sane
moment it ever knew. And the last sane moment we ever knew was on the
plains of Africa, 15,000 years ago, rocked in cradle of the great horned
mushroom goddess before history. Before standing armies, before slavery
and property, before warfare and phonetic alphabets and monotheism.
Before, before, before. And this is where the future is taking us.
Because the secret faith of the 20th century is not modernism. The secret
faith of the 20th century is nostalgia for the archaic, nostalgia for the
Paleolithic, and that gives us body piercing, abstract expressionism,
surrealism, jazz, rock and roll, and Catastrophe Theory. The 20th century
mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the
mushroom-dotted plains of Africa, where the plant-human symbiosis occurred