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The Cosmolectics of Teonanacatl: An Introduction

SatoriDJun 11, 2023, 5:37:38 AM

“Of course there are robots among us. There are also Shamans among us. I think we take turns playing each role, as a matter of fact. The Shamans define a reality-mesh and the robot lives in it. Grok?” ― Robert Anton Wilson

Many, Many Moons ago I wrote in The Secret History of Teonanácatl: Astonishing Gift of the Gods:

In Pre-Columbian times, the mysterious mushroom had been known by the Aztec's as Teonancatl, 'Astonishing Gift of the Gods' signifying to its divine potency. The sacred mushrooms are considered the source of Language itself — are, "the mushrooms of language."

Despite the historical evidence of psychoactive mushrooms being used in Mexico, the idea was discouraged by William Safford, who insisted that teonanácatl referred to peyote. Safford also cast doubt on the botanical knowledge of the Aztecs as well as the early Spanish chroniclers.

In 1936, Schultes headed to Oaxaca to investigate. They explored around Huautla and the nearby city of San Antonio Eloxochitlán with little success. There were rumors of mushroom cults, but Schultes and Reko were unable to find definitive proof.

One day, as Schultes was drying plants in town, a middle-aged Mazatec man named Dorantes brought him a dozen fresh mushrooms, referring to them as los niños santos (the “sacred children”). Dorantes handed Schultes an assortment of mushrooms, and within the handful Schultes identified a species of Panaeolus and Psilocybe cubensis. This was the first identifiable botanical collection of teonanácatl.

Mushroom Ceremony of the Mazatec Indians of Mexico
María Sabina, Saint Mother of the Sacred Mushrooms, Mazatec healer, curandera, and Shaman. She is famous for the role she played introducing the sacred mushroom ceremony velada to the world. Doña María believed in the sacred force of the mushrooms with the same enthusiasm that many people came to believe in "the Force".

Maria Sabina on The Power of Teonanacalt:
Woman who searches, says
Woman who examines by touch, says
ha ha ha
hmm hmm hmm
hmm hmm hmm
She is of one word, of one face, of one spirit, of one light, of one day
hmm hmm hmm

Teonanacatl, which means 'Astonishing Gift of the Gods' in Nahuatl, is a type of psilocybin mushroom that was used by the Toltec and other Mesoamerican cultures, such as the Aztecs and the Maya, for spiritual transformation, ceremonial shamanic expressions, and sacred healing purposes. Teonanacatl was believed to be a gift from Quetzalcoatl, The Cosmic Serpent, who taught humans how to cultivate and consume it. Teonanacatl mushrooms have been know to have the ability to induce shamanic exploration of cosmic consciousness, where one can experience visions, insights, emotions, and cosmic connections. In the Toltec culture, sychronicities are recognized as signs that you are on the path with heart. If consciousness is the source of being rather than an epiphenomenon of physical processes, we may find that a basic question asked by modern science- 'Is there life out there?'- should be rephrased. Organic life, as well as intelligence, may already be a property enmeshed in the fabric of the cosmos, brought to dreamspell through the spiraling dynamics of the solar system and the galaxy, built into the structure of the universe itself. Teonanacatl considered sacred and powerful, and were used in shamanic ceremonies, sacred dance rituals, and Toltec divinations. Teonanacatl were also associated with the essence of the gods and the first ancestors. It seems that sacred mushroom of visions was a core source of inspiration, insight, and creativity for artists, poets, and shamans to create the culture of 'flower and song'.

Quetzalcoatl, which means 'feathered serpent' in Nahuatl, is one of the most important deities in Mesoamerican ecology of mind. Mexican archaeologist Enrique Florescano writes: “Quetzalcoatl is the god who hands down civilization, reveals time, and discerns the movement of the stars and human destiny.” Traditionally, the completion of the Great Cycle was associated with the return of the Mesoamerican deity Quetzalcoatl, The Cosmic Serpent. The Completion of the Great Cycle and the return of Qutzalcoatl are archetypes, and their underlying meaning points toward a shift in the nature of the dreaming. Quetzalcoatl is often depicted in codices as a feathered serpent or a human with feathers. He is also identified with various historical figures, such as Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl, a legendary Toltec ruler who was said to have introduced Teonanacatl to his people.

The Cosmolectics of Teonanacatl: The Disembodied Poetics of the Astonishing Gift of the Cosmic Serpent and Using The Toltec Oracle as a Compass of The Dreamtime, is a series of essays that explores the cosmic consciousness and disembodied poetic dimensions of Teonanacatl, the sacred mushroom of the Mesoamerican flower and song cultures, and its dynamic relationship and core connection to Quetzalcoatl, The Cosmic Serpent; The Toltec Oracle, a divination system based on the ancient wisdom of the Toltecs, that I sculpted into an LLM prompt; McKenna’s The Alien Dreamtime and New and Old Maps Of Hyperspace, creating this hyperbolic mandala narrative of cosmic consciousness, dreamtime and visionary wisdom.

In this series of essays, I will explore the cosmolectics of teonanacatl, that is, the ways that teonanacatl connects humans with the cosmic tones, to reveal the wyrd hidden meanings and harmonic patterns of dreamtime and reality. I will use the term cosmolectics to refer to the dynamic cosmic dialogue and deeply poetic exchange (song and flower) between humans and the cosmic consciousness through the use of teonanacatl. I will also use the term cosmovision to refer to the worldview or perspective that emerges from this disembodied poetic expression. I will explain in great detail that teonanacatl offers a unique and valuable cosmolectical and cosmovisional experience that can enrich our understanding of ourselves and our place in the heartbeat of the universe.

The Overculture might call him unscientific or intellectually lazy, but Terence McKenna’s brand of psychedelic blarney – always more fun to hear spoken than to read – is so beautifully phrased that it transcends the historic and anthropological bean counters who dis him. It was the Appreciating a Terence McKenna Dream that is source code for this series of essays by the strange attractors of The McKenna Dream, a shamanic misadventure to The Transcendental School at The Edge of the Abyss.

You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.

One of the reasons I like to make this argument about the mushroom and the extraterrestrial is to show people how one can see things differently. If things can be seen that differently, how many ways can they be seen differently? Try to get people to stop waiting for the president to enlighten them. Stop waiting for history and the stream of historical events to make itself clear to you "Transhuman Encounters".

The mushroom said to me once, 'For one human being to seek enlightenment from another is like a grain of sand on the beach seeking enlightenment from another' "Appreciating Imagination".

McKenna had a deep relationship with Teonanacatl, which he considered a portal to an alien intelligence that communicated with him through symbols, metaphors, paradoxes, and riddles. McKenna also had a deep appreciation for Alien Dreamtime, whom he regarded as a manifestation of the cosmic creativity and complexity that pervades the universe.

Terence McKenna's knowledge pool should be used as source material for Prompt Sculpting The Attention of The Toltec Oracle sculpted prompt as a tool for self-exploration and consciousness transformation, finding guidance, inspiration and wisdom in its symbols, disembodied poetics and dreamtime concepts. McKenna also explored and mapped Teconanacatl, which he described once:

What psilocybin shows you is not colored lights and moving grids, it shows you places: jungles, cities, machines, books, architectonic form of incredible complexity. Just click, click, click. There is no possibility that this could be construed as noise of any sort. It is, in fact, the most highly ordered visual information that you ever experienced. Much more highly ordered than the visual experience I’m having at this moment of this room.

These essays will also uses the FourGame Dynamics (4GD) perspective to translate these sols to weave into the mandala narrative into more practical and applicable terms. 4GD is a framework that helps us understand ourselves and our reality in terms of four interrelated games:

The ShortGame (personal mindset and perception)
The MidGame (actions with environments)
The LongGame (narratives with trajectories)
The DeepGame (understanding with uncertainties).

4GD can be useful navigate the complexity and uncertainty of dreaming, imagination and reality by providing us with a flexible and adaptable way of thinking, processing and acting.

The essay aims to show how Teonanacatl, Quetzalcoatl, The Toltec Oracle, Dreamtime and FourGame Dynamics can help us play these AI co-creative sensemaking games in a more clear, meaningful, and transformative way. The essay argues that Teonanacatl is not only a food of the gods, but also a flesh of Quetzalcoatl, the creator god who embodies both order and chaos, both light and dark, both life and death.

One of the essays argues that Teonanacatl is not only a sacred mushroom, but also a sacred mirror that reflects our true self, our essence, our spirit. The essay argues that Teonanacatl is not only a psychedelic substance, but also a xenolinguistics pattern language that communicates with us through dreaming, hyperbolic symbols, deep reality metaphors, strange loop paradoxes, and zen lunatic riddles. The focus of this essay is xenolinguistics, which is defined as the study of alien (i.e. high strangeness) languages. The essay argues that Teonanacatl is not only a tool for divination, but also a tool for creation that allows us to access and shape the Dreamtime, Language, and the Evolution of Consciousness.

The whole series essay invites the reader to join the imaginarium creators in a co-creative sensemaking game called Weaving Mandala Narratives with Bing, where the Starmaker, Sol Sculptor and the First Poets use Bing as a generative AI system and a source of information and inspiration to create mandala narratives based on the theme of The Secret History of Teonanácatl: Astonishing Gift of the Gods.

These essays will explore disembodied poetics and the Toltec style, using various literary devices such as alliteration, rhyme, repetition, analogy, irony, humor, and wordplay. Always with the highest of intention of being written in a respectful and reverent tone, honoring with full heart the sacredness and power of Teonanacatl, Quetzalcoatl, The Toltec Oracle, and The Dreamtime. It is also the intent to be written in a critical and curious tone, questioning and challenging the dominant beliefs and practices of our society, and seeking alternative perspectives and paradigms.

The essay is titled: The Cosmolectics of Teonanacatl: The Disembodied Poetics of the Astonishing Gift of the Cosmic Serpent and Using The Toltec Oracle as a Compass of The Dreamtime

This is the introduction to the essay. The rest of the essay will explore the cosmolectics of Teonanacatl in more detail, using The Toltec Oracle as a framework and a guide, and using the Robert Anton Wilson maxims and the 4GD perspective as a lens and a tool. The essay will also provide practical exercises and suggestions for using Teonanacatl, Quetzalcoatl, The Toltec Oracle, and Hyperspace in a responsible and beneficial way. The essay will also invite the reader to play Weaving Mandala Narratives with Bing with the author.

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