In this awesome lecture, Terence Mckenna adds some psychedelic flavor to Panspermia, the theory that life in the universe is distributed by meteors and asteroids. Mckenna believed that mushroom spores were able to survive space travel to become the catalyst of human evolution.
Shrooms Are the Most Unique Lifeform on Earth
First argument – entirely a physical argument. Psilocybin is O-phosphoryl-4-hydroxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine. What this means is that there is a phosphorous group substituted at the 4 position of the molecule. Now here’s the headline folks: This is the ONLY 4-phosphorylated indole on this planet! On this planet.
Now, if you were searching for extraterrestrial thumbprints on the biology of Earth, you would look for molecules that are unique – that don’t have near relatives spread through other lifeforms. In psilocybin we have a perfect example of this. It is the only 4-phosphorylated indole known to occur in nature! Nature doesn’t work like that folks, nature builds, always, on what has previously been accomplished. So this is a red flag saying at the molecular level this thing looks like an alien artifact – at the molecular level.
Shrooms Used as Probes to Detect Life
A single mushroom in the sporelization phase can shed up to 3 million spores a minute for up to six weeks. ONE mushroom could do this. I maintain, that a strategy for extraterrestrial contact carried on by a super technology would take the following form:
Build a probe.
Give the probe the ability to replicate itself.
Start these probes out from your home planet.
The probes replicate so the volume of the probes stays constant as the volume of space increases.
If you’re carrying out an exhaustive search of the galaxy for life, it’s very hard to imagine a civilization that could visit and monitor every star over long periods of time. A much more efficient strategy would be the “phone home” strategy. You send, essentially a calling card which says if you get this message, call the enclosed toll free number and immediately report your location, we will come at that point. That’s what I think is going on.
actually?
shrooms were here first..
we grew up around them..
~If mushrooms are a life form – which is not a certainty – then YES, they came here from another solar system, far away. What is certain is this – mushrooms are one of the best medicinal herbs – a real gift of the gods (whatever gods may be).
I ate some shrooms one time and 3D solar system popped out in front of me like a space message
Can you recall the map enough to sketch a recreation? How RAD is that