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We could feel the presence of some invisible hyper-spatial entity, an ally, which seemed to be observing and sometimes exerting influence on the situation to keep us moving gently toward an experimental resolution of the ideas we were generating. Because of the alien nature of the tryptamine trance, it's seeming accentuation of themes alien, insectile, and futuristic, and because of previous experiences with tryptamines in which insectile hallucinatory transformations were observed, we were led to speculate that the role of the presence was somehow like that of an anthropologist, come to give humanity the keys to galactarian citizenship. We discussed this entity in terms of a giant insect and, through the insect trill of the Amazon jungle at midday, seemed able to discern a deeper harmonic buzz that somehow signified the unseen outsider. This sense of the presence of an unseen alien third entity was sometimes very intense, most intense in early March, and from there fading off gradually.
For the next thirty-seven days, especially the next fourteen days, our shared ideation consisted of, among other themes, but as a dominant one, the idea of a shamanic journey of return from the ends of space and time to earth, with the collected energy configuration of space-time condensed into a kind of lens or saucer, a true philosopher's stone. One of us experienced an intense transference state similar to reactive paranoid schizophrenia and accepted the paternal and curative role of shaman and psychopomp. From the sixth to the seventeenth of March, one of us did not sleep, and the other, while awake, spoke continuously, in apparent and convincing telepathic rapport with anyone he wished, in command of enormous technological erudition and with a strange and rapidly evolving hyperspatial cosmology which, following a Manichean perception, visualized the solar system as a huge light pump, wherein the light of souls is pumped from planet to planet until it finally leaves the solar system altogether, and is transmitted to the galactic center. Some of his "discoveries" were that Jupiter is the reflected image of the earth in hyperspace, is teeming with bizarre life forms, and is somehow an essential key to unraveling the species' fate. In his interior epic, late twentieth century history was experienced as a frantic effort to build an object, which he called "the lens", in order to allow life to escape to Jupiter on the heels of an impending global catastrophe.
Slowly, as the shamanic voyager neared his home, his place in space, his stich in time, the mythmaking and the symptoms of election schizophrenia faded in each of us. However, the continuing process of understanding, triggered by the experiment, did not cease."
[Excerpt from Extra-terrestrials Among Us by George C. Andrews, Llewellyn Publications, St. Paul, Minnesota, 55164-0383, ISBN 0-87542-001-X]
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