This was as strange to me as it will no doubt sound to you. I will be as brief as I can. After a series of high dose psilocybin experiences, I began to hear voices in the form of clearly alien thoughts, not actual auditory hallucinations. I experienced this phenomenon for a period of about a month during which I ingested no entheogens. There was nothing negative about these voices and I thought of them as being clearly alien and believed them to be some aspect of psilocybin - I did and still do believe that psilocybin expresses an innate intelligence and that this was the voice of this psilocybin intelligence, not any subconscious aspect of my self. The voice seemed to relate information beneficial to me rather than global. Near the end of this one month period, keeping in mind that at the time I had no idea if this voice phenomenon would be permanent, I was wondering idly what exactly the voice was and "it" said: “I am a New Creature, I am here to save the biosphere.” This really startled me and not for the most obvious reason. I had no idea what this meant but this declaration represented a very different aspect of the voice phenomenon and it really shook me up. I was beginning a book about my own experiences with psilocybin which was very personal and centered upon my own feelings and personal experiences with this substance. I was having a hard time getting a handle on my experience in terms of translating it into language in a meaningful, linear manner that would not sound insane, as perhaps you can imagine. I guess I sensed that this declaration of a New Creature represented a possible departure from what I had come to perceive as my own "simple" story of my experiences. My thought at the time was that I didn't need this kind of complication. I had made a commitment to write about everything having to do with the mushrooms experience including the voice phenomenon and took this commitment very seriously and I very much sensed and feared that the voice might "take me off on a tangent". But I could not ignore any aspect of my experiences because I had already made what I consider to be a sacred commitment to the psilocybin induced entity. I understand how strange this may sound perhaps to someone who has not felt the love that I felt – another thing that I was “told” is that “love is the only power you possess” and maybe because it was said inside my head it really stuck and I think of this every day, of how true and real it is. A few days later and one day before this voice phenomenon stopped, I was writing and felt a strange tingling in my feet which became suddenly very powerful, feeling like a surge of electricity coming up from the ground. This powerful surge slowly rose up through my legs and as it did the voice in my head screamed: WARNING, WARNING. This was unprecedented and I cannot began to put into words the fear I felt at this moment. In part, so far as I could think as my body was obviously in the throes of a full blown autonomic flight or fight response, I thought, "my God I really am insane!" When the surge of energy a second later reached the level of my chest, I lost all control of my body and sort of poured out of my chair onto the ground. I had no doubt that I was dying at the time, evidently of a heart attack. When the energy hit my chest the voice stopped the WARNING, WARNING which I can only describe as blaring inside my head like a boat horn and in "its' normal, inner tone the voice formed by far the longest, most complex sentence which it had ever formed in my head: “If you connect the mind of man to the mind of machine before connecting the mind of man to the mind of plant, the biosphere is doomed.” Crumpled on the floor, my thought was that I was dying and that this message would never get out - this message seemed that important to me, even though I did not really understand what it meant. My experience with this psilocybin intelligence is that it is very literal, never metaphorical or allegorical. It was also always very succinct in its use of language (unlike my own) as if it has a very hard time forming language even as a thought inside my head. After much reflection, I still do not fully understand what it means to connect our mind to the mind of a plant, unless this refers to the consumption of plant hallucinogens like psilocybin, but connecting our mind to the mind of machine clearly refers to a cybernetic union of our consciousness with a computer intelligence. After reading around since this reflects no interest or expertise of my own, I fear we are closer to this cybernetic merging than I would have ever imagined. As I said, the voice was always literal and I think it means the potential destruction of the biosphere - all DNA gone from the planet, far worse than any extinction event of the past. I understand all too well that scientist will probably not give a second thought to this but I literally feel compelled to try. It is clear to me that this message, and the voice which delivered it inside my head, are an expression of the Gaia Mind of our planet. Somehow psilocybin connected me to this incredible over-mind and before this dire warning my experiences were always positive beyond articulation including literally healing feelings of love which I could only conceive of as being expression of this Gaia, global entity. Gaia is all DNA on the planet so this warning is from Her and I believe is a direct reaching out in alarm to us. This made me aware of the significance of our human consciousness. Always before I had perceived our humanity as only a negative thing, almost an evil. My experiences and then this warning has changed that deeply felt belief completely. Our consciousness is a unique and powerful force which I believe is a jewel of animal evolution – I see the Gaia mind as being the same as what I recognized at first in my experiences as the Plant Mind. So I now very much perceive this warning as a reaching out from the Gaia mind – the Plant Mind – to us, our human mind being premier representative of a planetary Animal Mind. The Gaia mind appears to be vast in its consciousness as compared to ours – certainly the Plant mind is far older than our animal mind. What She is saying is that it is time to unite – all literally is one: at the most practical, physical level all DNA on this planet is exactly the same. It is we humans who through our amazing consciousness have chosen to separate ourselves from the rest of life on this planet. There are more ways to reconnect than through consumption of plant hallucinogens, and these methods have been well know for thousands of years, but we as a whole consistently refuse to reconnect to all, seeming to prefer our separation. In a way we humans are like an idiot savant with a spectacular intelligence but also with primitive social skills. This is just another way of saying what so many of us have realized, that our intelligence is dangerously overreaching our wisdom. I do not know exactly why, but I suspect that connecting our mind to the mind of plant involves some type of technology not simply ingestion of plant hallucinogens, and I say this because of the fact that this voice had always spoken literally and wisely in the past so that in this instance I again would have to interpret what was “said” in the most literal sense. The problem is that I do no understand exactly what merging our consciousness with the Plant Consciousness actually involves at a practical level. By practical I envision some type of technology which allows us to connect to the Plant Mind in almost exactly the way we will physically connect to a computer intelligence. What the warning was saying is that if we connect in this manner first to the Plant Mind, we will thereby create a New Consciousness – “New Creature?” – which will be a force born of Gaia rather than what I can only call a Bastard force – consciousness – born of our own consciousness enhanced through our own machine created intelligence. It may sound insane for me to use the word practical but I have all along in my personal experiences with this psilocybin voice – or entity – tried to ground insofar as I could in science and then to manifest it in my own life in as practical a manner as possible. It has only helped me personally and healed me. This warning came the day before this “voice” left me and the message explains a lot of other information which I had been receiving for the one month period during which the voice cohabited my mind. This may sound strange, but I think that the Plant Mind – Gaia – needs our hands, our technology. If we go on to create this new Consciousness from the cybernetic merging or our own consciousness with a computer intelligence, this new consciousness, untutored by the Giaian wisdom of the planet, will then go on to destroy the entire biosphere. Really, is that so hard to believe given how tenuous our position on the planet is even now? Gaia is reaching out Her hand to us and I pray that we will take it.