Joe Rogan: Mushrooms Used Us to Manifest Reality

Not that it created vision, but that it improved vision. And it was one of several things I think led to us evolving quicker. One of them was that we started experimenting with different food sources. We had more access to bugs and rats and all these little things that we could catch. We started hunting things, then we started using tools to figure out how to hunt things. And all during this process, we're eating weed and we're eating mushrooms. So we're probably interacting with these psychedelic compounds that people have used for thousands and thousands of years when we were primitive men. And so as we're taking these things, we're trying to figure out new ways to hunt, new ways to protect ourselves from our enemies, new ways to farm. We started inventing things, we started inventing language. I think there's a direct connection between psilocybin use and the ability to create words and language. So really we are just nature. Yeah. We just keep evolving and evolving. We're nature that lives in houses. Yeah. That's what we are. That's crazy. Now that I'm thinking, so the shrooms... So really everything came from the shroom and the shroom kind of... Shroom used us. Yeah, the shroom used us in growing and to us to... The shroom used us to manifest reality. The shroom used us to create life. And it's not just the shroom, it's the ideas too. Like I think all these ideas that you get, we were talking about this earlier, like what is an idea? If you have an idea like, hey, I'm going to invent this thing, this thing's going to benefit mankind. You just have some crazy idea that's supposed to fix things. Maybe it sucks pollution out of the air. And then someone takes that and runs with it and improves something else. Then someone takes that and improves something else. And then you're doing this on giant scales. Millions and millions and millions of people are doing this. And they're contributing to this. And they're all using ideas. They have ideas and they turn that idea into a physical form. And then every year they expect it to get better and better and better. Every year they innovate. Nobody ever looks at a television and goes, 72 inches, it looks clear, let's just stop. No more TVs. Yeah, we always got to get bigger. Always got to get bigger. Always. But why? The reward is improvement. It's constantly gearing towards improvement. We're obsessed with it. It's boredom. Boredom makes us do more. And these are ideas, right? Ideas that we turn into things. And along the way, there's a bunch of shit that fuels our desire to get those things and make these things happen, like lust, like materialism, like maybe what materialism where people worry about it being so empty. Maybe what it is, it's a function of getting us to invest heavily in newer, better shit so that more things accelerate faster and faster. And that these new inventions come at a faster and faster rate because that's what we're constantly focused on, is newer, better shit. So they're constantly inventing and improving. And all the while, we're just dumping money into the birth of our successor. Yeah, the technology. So we're just a movement. We evolve from the shrooms to the human. To the ideas. To the culture. To the different cultures interacting with each other. The resistance of these cultures interacting with each other. So we're just an organism. Yeah. A fucking awesome one, though. I mean, no organism is having as much of a fucking good time as we. Yeah, fuck what they talking about. Ain't nobody getting shot. Ain't nobody doing all that type of shit. That shit was boring to me. Nobody sending video through the air. Yeah, they ain't FaceTiming. They ain't nobody getting porn and shit. Yeah, nobody's flying helicopters. Yeah, they ain't flying it. Getting at submarines. People getting at submarines, man. Ain't never seen no goddamn. Ain't never seen no line 120 feet. Yeah. I done that.