The Second Coming

“I remember reading something from Terrence McKenna wherein he hypothesizes that aliens might not be the way we imagine them, coming from distant stars via metal spaceships. After all, we live in four dimensions — three in space and one in time — and even our physical models of the universe sometimes have 11 or more.

Perhaps aliens are already with us, but in higher dimensions beyond the range of our senses and conditioned minds. It’s possible we could perceive and interact with aliens — or beings from different dimensions — via a change in consciousness. Instead of sending probes and spherical discs across the galaxies to the skies of planet earth, maybe they have already planted their probes on its surface, via consciousness-altering substances like psilocybin residing in the spores of fungi. Could psychoactive fungi itself be their emissaries, inviting us to commune with them through the medium of mind rather than physics?

Whether one deems the particular hypothesis plausible is less important than the notion our ideas are so conditioned by our limited experience we imagine aliens to be somewhat like us — at the very least bound by the four dimensions in which we move. That they might operate in different dimensions altogether, perhaps even dimensions of mind, is so outside our paradigm it’s rarely considered. Hold that thought. We will come back to it."