Paul Stamets

The problem is the people that are in control of AI and these systems, the people that will benefit from them incredibly in a financial sense, those people are not having these experiences.

And if they were having these experiences, they could be the only ones.

If you have a benevolent person in an extreme position of power, they're probably the only people that can really do something about that.

And I think it's very important that they hear this, that you realize like you're wasting this valuable moment in life trying to acquire money when we have this very unique opportunity to connect together in a way that people probably used to do on a regular basis in the past.

but was always suppressed by the powers that be because of its revolutionary powers.

It's hard to be a dictator.

Yeah.

Dictators want people in constant conflict fighting against each other, and they take advantage of that.

It might be the only way.

It might be the only way we can get through this.

Because if you think about what this problem is, the problem is the way we interface with reality.

That's really what it is.

We have been interfacing with reality a very particular way, showing up at work every day, doing our job, getting a paycheck, employee of the month, yay.

That's how you interface reality most of your life.

And then all of a sudden you're met with this profound technological change that's going to eliminate your job.

There needs to be some sort of a profound experience that reintegrates you with the mother.

It lets you know this is something people made.

This is something that people made and most of the people that made it weren't having psychedelic experiences.

And they're building cities and they're building skyscrapers and they're polluting the river and they're doing all this stuff and it doesn't mean that this is how we're supposed to do it.

Inspired.