Joshua
“The mystery of the Amazon is this is where a lot of the mythological energy from all over the world is actually migrating to. We are talking giants, gnomes, elves, leprechauns, mythological snakes… This is the epicenter of that energy. When I was a kid, you see about it in Disney or fairy tales, but these in this jungle, they’re real. So they busted it opened with the mushrooms. They found mushrooms and they started eating them and talking and getting weird ideas. Out of it was the inspiration for his whole career where he went around lecturing people on the use of hallucinogenic plants.
When I was 16 I heard this guy Terrence McKenna in a lecture. And I listened to the story True Hallucinations. It’s the tale of them coming down here and encountering the mystery. So I’m here to encounter the mystery of the Amazon.”
“The mystery of the Amazon is this is where a lot of the mythological energy from all over the world is actually migrating to. We are talking giants, fairies, gnomes, elves, leprechauns, mythological snakes… This is the epicenter of that energy. When I was a kid, you see about it in Disney or fairy tales, but the velleity of this reality, in this jungle, it's real. So they busted it opened with the mushrooms. They found mushrooms and they started eating them and talking and getting weird ideas. Out of it was the inspiration for his whole career where he went around lecturing people on the use of hallucinogenic plants.
When I was 16, I heard this guy Terrence McKenna in a lecture. And I listened to the story, it's called True Hallucinations. It’s the tale of them coming down here and encountering the mystery. So I’m here to encounter the mystery of the Amazon.”
“My favorite thing about traveling is you see the relativity of your own culture. You see that you are just raised in a certain place, in a certain way. But that’s not what reality is. […]
It shows you that we're just product of our environments. In psychedelic they refer this as the journey of tripping because you go outside of your belief system, you enter this different reality and that is exactly what traveling is. You enter this domain where things are very different. And that’s refreshing.”
“Well there’s there is a big preconception from people from the States; just a lot of negativity surrounding that. And I hopefully come to break the status quo about how people are from the States. Because there are a lot of notions of ignorance, of greed, of selfishness so I hopefully come with an energy that can heal people with what the States are in people’s mind. You tell somebody where you from and they gave you this look and kind of treat you weird. And then you kind of have to prove that you are not their preconceive notion.
It’s definitely strange and hopefully I come with energy that heals the States.”
“But one of the thing is that I really love Mickey Mouse and he is everywhere around here. Because in the Ayahuesca [Amazonian plant mixture that is capable of inducing altered states of consciousness] Mickey mouse came in vision. I’ve seen Mickey and Minnie and there they were behind my closed eyes. And I came to Iquitos and you’ll see man... everywhere! People wear Minnie and Mickey shirts. They say Minnie and Mickey live in Disneyworld but I think they actually live in Iquitos. I just never had experience the culture that it has. I have so much inspiration of this couple inside an imagination.”
“Healing. Healing the trauma of what we’ve done to the world as the states and then coming back and representing an energy that is not as violent or ignorant. Going back home [to the United States] and debunking the matrix. Say guess what? It’s not all about just making money, it’s not all about just like getting your businesses on and providing and profits but there is actually a velleity for real experience.
And so Pokemon Go comes into this because what it does is that it takes people out of their houses, out of their box and here they are walking down the street going to capture a Pokemon. Suddenly there are on an adventure ! It's liberating people. I saw something online that said ‘There is more to life than paying your taxes and dying. Pokemon Go.’ “
“Going home and like people expecting you to be who you used to be and then you’ve changed and then trying to please people or giving the time. Or the preconceive question that people have, ‘Oh you’ve worked with Ayahuasca” [Amazonian plant mixture that is capable of inducing altered states of consciousness], you are holier than now. I actually sabotaged myself by having beer with my friends and stuff to show them that I was not deeper, or holier than now. And I ended up just getting back in the old cycle of getting fucked up all the time. So this time I’m going back, it’ll be different.”
