" I'm old, much older than thought in your species, which is itself 50 times older than your history. I have been on earth for ages. I come from the stars. My home is no planet I propagandized by the many worlds of the bright disk of the galaxy that give life to my choice of spores. The fungus that you see is part of my body bathed in sunshine, delivered to the emotions of sex. But my real body is a fine network of fibers that extends through the ground. These networks may cover acres and can have many more connections than the human brain.
My mycelial network is quasi-immortal. Only the sudden and total contamination of a planet or the explosion of its parent star can kill me. I was explaining it is almost impossible due to some mistakes in your model of reality. All mycelial networks in the galaxy are in communication across space blooming time.
The mycelial body is as fragile as a spider's web but the collective mind and memory are a vast historical cradle of the evolution of intelligence in many worlds in our spiral star swarm. The space, you see, is a vast ocean that has given the robust forms of life the ability to reproduce through spores, which are coated with organic matter hardest known.
Through eons of space-time, over millions of years, many spores are transported drifting life in suspended animation until the contact with a suitable atmosphere takes place. Few species have a mind, just me and my relatives have evolved recently reached hyper mode and memory capacity that makes us leading members in the community of galactic intelligence. The way this works is a hyper-secret which will not be lightly given to humans.
But the media should be obvious: The existence of psilocybin / psilocin in the biosynthetic means my living body that opens for me and my vision symbionts of many worlds. You, individuals and species, you are on the verge of forming a symbiotic relationship with my genetic material, which eventually lead to the Earth and humanity to the league of galactic civilizations.
Since it is not easy for you to recognize other varieties of intelligence around you, your most advanced theories and social policies have not advanced beyond the notion of collectivism. But beyond the cohesion of the members of a species in a single social organism, evolutionary possibilities are much richer and Baroque. Symbiosis is one of them. This is a relationship of mutual dependence and positive benefits for the species involved.
symbiotic relationship between my self and higher forms of animals have been established many times in many places through long stages of my development. These relationships have been in pursuit of mutual benefit.
Within my memory is the knowledge of ships hyperdrive and instructions to build them. Will trade this knowledge for a free ticket to new worlds around suns younger and more stable than yours.
To ensure the eternal existence in the long river of cosmic time, and again offer this agreement to the most advanced beings, and so I spread through the galaxy for many millennia.
A mycelial network has no authority to manipulate the world, has no hands, but more evolved animal handling capabilities would do well to partner with the star knowledge that lies within me, and, if acting in good faith, again, along with his humble professor fungus, a million worlds of which the citizens of our stellar swarm heirs. "
(McKenna)
