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the same size as
adenine, but it's a little more complicated. It has a free resonance ring." Dennis paused and then gathered his thoughts to continue.
"Now the normal ESR of harmine is a simple signal, but the electron spin configuration of DNA is very, very complicated. It is a broad band.
When the harmine goes in there it will cease to broadcast its own resonation because it will have become very tightly bonded into the structure
of the macro-molecule. It will instead begin to broadcast the ESR resonation of the DNA. That's it. If you have followed it this far, the rest is
easy. DNA is what you are. The physical form is just a lot of juicy macro-physical crystals caused by gene expression, you know, the result of
enzymes set in motion and coded by DNA. Neural DNA is known to be non-metabolizing. It does not go away. The meat on your body comes
and goes every few years. Your skeleton is not the same one you had five years ago, but neural DNA is an exception. It is there for all time.
You come into the world with it. It records and it is an antenna for memory. Not only our personal memory, but any entity or organism which
has DNA in it; there is a way to find a connection to it. This is how we open a passage to the Divine Imagination, this is how William Blake
understood Redemption. This is now within reach.
"This is how it's done. You put a radio into the DNA and this ESR resonation will begin to flood your system because the bond will be
permanent; there will be no way to disrupt it. It will tell you everything—everything that can be known in the world of space and time because
it contains your own and everyone else's records. We are all connected through this magical substance, which is what makes life possible and
which causes it to take on its myriad forms. All DNA is the same. It is the settings that are different; you get butterflies, mastodons, or human
beings, depending on the settings."
"Or so you say," was my noncommittal reply. But I had the distinct impression that I did glimpse his meaning. Organisms are complex
structures that have emerged and stabilized their forms over millions of years. They are literally shaped by the ebb and flow of time on a
vaster scale than any individual lifespan can experience or compare itself to. Organisms have enfolded in their embryology, in their
morphology, a message about the structure of the larger universe. Mysticism has always insisted on this. Molecular biology as the inheritor of
the theory of evolution seems to confirm it.
Perhaps life is a strategy for amplifying quantum mechanical indeterminacy to a level where a macrophysical chemical system, in effect
human beings, can experience and understand it? If one of us could pharmacologically redesign our neurocellular chemistry, there might
indeed be strange new realms of perception and understanding to be explored, brave new worlds of the imagination based on new ratios of
neurotransmitters in the still-evolving brains of human beings. I thought, "Who am I to judge?"
I was intrigued by his precision in invoking these ideas, but for the moment I simply did not know what to say. He stared at me, clearly
expecting more. I believed in the infinite, self-transforming power of the human mind and species, and I could suppose that there were parallel
worlds and alternative dimensions. I could imagine any number of science fiction possibilities, provided that I was not asked to believe, that I
was about to be present personally at their discovery or unleashing. But this is what Dennis was saying: We had somehow stumbled upon or
been led to the trigger experience for the entire human world that would transform the ontological basis of reality so that mind and matter
everywhere would become the same thing and reflect the human will perfectly.
How could anyone conceive of such a thing? We had come to La Chorrera with a belief that if life and mind are possible, then the mysteries of
the universe might well be inexhaustible. Yet something very passive, yet ever present, was there elaborating these ideas in our minds—
something that we had thought of for some days as "The Mushroom."
We talked for more than an hour about these ideas and what finally emerged was the need for a test, or at least Dennis maintained that a partial
test of the idea could be undertaken to convince me and our companions. He thought that as the superconducting state became stabilized there
should be a marked lowering of temperature in the immediate area. In our talking, he and I had left the area of the hut and drifted down the
forest path. It would be possible to attempt to generate the effect of coolness right there on the spot, he supposed.
We seated ourselves on the sandy path facing each other, with the afternoon sun on both of us. After a couple of preliminary low, mechanical
buzzes, Dennis made a sound very similar to the one he
had unleashed in the knoll house three days before. This sound had an extremely peculiar quality and, as it rose in intensity, I looked down at
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