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... A place where the unknown past and the emergent future meet in a vi- brating soundless hum... Larval entities waiting for a Live One... (Section describing The City and the Meet Cafe written in state of Yage intoxication... Yage, Ayua- huasca, Pilde, Nateema are Indian names for Banni- steria Caapi, a fast growing vine indigenous to the Amazon region. See discussion of Yage in Appendix. ) Notes from Yage state: Images fall slow and silent like snow.... Serenity... All defenses fall... every- thing is free to enter or to go out.... Fear is simply impossible.... A beautiful blue substance Hows into me.... I see an archaic grinning face like South Pacific mask.... The face is blue purple splotched with gold.... The room takes on aspect of Near East whorehouse with blue walls and red tasseled lamps.... I feel myself turning into a Negress, the black color silently invading my flesh.... Convulsions of lust... My legs take on a well rounded Polynesian substance.... Everything stirs with a writhing furtive life.... The room is Near East, Negro, South Pacific, in some familiar place I cannot locate.... Yage is space-time travel.... The room seems to shake and vibrate with motion.... The blood and substance of many races, Negro, Polynesian, Moun- tain Mongol, Desert Nomad, Polyglot Near East, In- dian, races as yet unconceived and unborn, passes through the body.... Migrations, incredible journeys through deserts and jungles and mountains (stasis and death in closed mountain valley where plants grow out of genitals, vast crustaceans hatch inside and break the shell of body) across the Pacific in an outrigger canoe to Easter Island,... (It occurs to me that preliminary Yage nausea is motion sickness of transport to Yage state....) "All medicine men use it in their practice to foretell the future, locate lost or stolen objects, to diagnose and treat illness, to name the perpetrator of a crime." Since the Indian ( straitjacket for Herr Boas -- trade joke -- noth- ing so maddens an anthropologist as Primitive Man) does not regard any death as accidental, and they are unacquainted with their own self-destructive trends re- ferring to them contemptuously as "our naked cousins," or perhaps feeling that these trends above all are sub- ject to the manipulation of alien and hostile wills, any death is murder. |
