And in these inquiries into the mystery of death
The ancient Egyptians weren't just exercising their imaginations
They highly valued the dream states and it's now known that they used visionary plants like the hallucinogenic blue water lily
The ancient Egyptian Tree of Life has recently been identified as the Acacia nilotica
Which contains high quantities of DMT the same active ingredient that we find in ayahuasca
Now it's difficult to imagine a society morе different from the sociеty of ancient Egypt than our society today
We hate visionary states in this society, in our society, if we want to insult somebody
We call them a dreamer
In ancient societies that was praise

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In our society, if we want to insult somebody
We call them a dreamer, (we call them a dreamer, we call them a dreamer)
In our society, if we want to insult somebody
We call them a dreamer, (we call them a dreamer, we call them a dreamer)
In ancient societies that was praise

We have erected huge apparatuses of armed bureaucracies who will invade our privacy, who will break down our doors, who will arrest us, who will send us the prison sometimes for years
For possessing even small quantities of psilocybin or substances like DMT whether in its smokable form or in the ayahuasca brew and yet ironically DMT is as we now know a natural brain hormone, we all have it in our bodies and it's just that its function remains unknown for lack of research
And it's not as though our society is opposed in principle to altered states of consciousness
I mean, billions are being made by the unholy alliance of psychiatrists and big pharma
In over prescribing drugs to control so-called syndromes like depression or Attention Deficit Disorder in teenagers

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In our society, if we want to insult somebody
We call them a dreamer, (we call them a dreamer, we call them a dreamer)
In our society, if we want to insult somebody
We call them a dreamer, (we call them a dreamer, we call them a dreamer)
In ancient societies that was praise
We have a love affair with alcohol
We glorify this most boring of drugs
Despite the terrible consequences that it often has
And of course we love our stimulants our tea, our coffee, our energy drinks, our sugar and huge industries are built around these substances which are valued because of the way they alter consciousness
But what all these approved altered states of consciousness have in common
Is that none of them contradict or conflict with the basic state of consciousness valued by our society which I would call the alert problem-solving state of consciousness
Which is good for the more mundane aspects of science it's good for the prosecution of warfare, it's good for commerce, it's good for politics
But I think everybody realizes that the promise of a society vver monopolistically based upon this state of consciousness has proved hollow
And that this model is no longer working, that it's broken in every possible sense that the model can be broken
And urgently we need to find something to replace it
The vast problems of global pollution that have resulted from the single-minded pursuit of profit
The horrors of nuclear proliferation
The specter of hunger that millions every night, go to bed starving
That we can't even solve this problem, despite our alert problem-solving state of consciousness

[Chorus]
In our society, if we want to insult somebody
We call them a dreamer, (we call them a dreamer, we call them a dreamer)
In our society, if we want to insult somebody
We call them a dreamer, (we call them a dreamer, we call them a dreamer)
In ancient societies that was praise

[Chorus]
In our society, if we want to insult somebody
We call them a dreamer, (we call them a dreamer, we call them a dreamer)
In our society, if we want to insult somebody
We call them a dreamer, (we call them a dreamer, we call them a dreamer)
In ancient societies that was praise