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The effects of mescaline change the normal status of mind, altering perception and realizing that everything is language in such a form, from empathy to fear, from visuals to nightmares, you also can feel how you become part of the everything. There's no sensation of time, so the idea of "forever" become stronger when you're part of these "everything" which also explain, the stars becoming his eyes and the wind his hands. All that poetry is a way to describe the "other world", not the world of the deads, but the "totally other".
There's also something like a metronome that sounds all along the song. This maybe can a "wink" to a the Icaros, songs and rhythms created to perform and guide the one who's under the influence of the substance.
There's only one thing that does not match with the explained above, and that is that Peyote does not have spines. Well, that's not true at all. Peyote have spines, but only the first months of life. He can't make someone blood, or something like this, but there's also other cacti, "San Pedro " (Echinopsis pachanoi) who also contains mescaline and flower by night, this one have huge spines and thorns
Maybe the "Selenicereus grandiflorus" explanation is a correct / political way to refer to these sacred plants, like a metaphore.
Psychodelic drugs can make feel "like you're mad", but you can't go mad by just seeing a thing, you must also eat it...">
Far From Any Road Meanings & Lyrics Discussion by Entropista | SongMeanings
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The effects of mescaline change the normal status of mind, altering perception and realizing that everything is language in such a form, from empathy to fear, from visuals to nightmares, you also can feel how you become part of the everything. There's no sensation of time, so the idea of "forever" become stronger when you're part of these "everything" which also explain, the stars becoming his eyes and the wind his hands. All that poetry is a way to describe the "other world", not the world of the deads, but the "totally other".
There's also something like a metronome that sounds all along the song. This maybe can a "wink" to a the Icaros, songs and rhythms created to perform and guide the one who's under the influence of the substance.
There's only one thing that does not match with the explained above, and that is that Peyote does not have spines. Well, that's not true at all. Peyote have spines, but only the first months of life. He can't make someone blood, or something like this, but there's also other cacti, "San Pedro " (Echinopsis pachanoi) who also contains mescaline and flower by night, this one have huge spines and thorns
Maybe the "Selenicereus grandiflorus" explanation is a correct / political way to refer to these sacred plants, like a metaphore.
Psychodelic drugs can make feel "like you're mad", but you can't go mad by just seeing a thing, you must also eat it..." />
I have a different interpretation based on ethnobotanical knowledge. I do not assume that I'm right, probably I am not, but there are some few things that points me in some psychedelic / entheogenic direction.
Oh, I almost forget to say that I'm not native at English, but I'll do my best. :)
"Creosote" is a plant, exactly "Larrea tridentata, which is known for a symbiosis (supply, nursemaid...) with Lophophora williamsii, also known as "Peyote". Peyote contains Mescaline, a psychedelic alkaloid from the family of phenethylamines. Peyote grows slow and his flowering is also slow. It takes more than 10 years to get ripe and at this time the cacti usually starts to flowering. That's the point when the alkaloids are in a huge concentration and can be eaten. In fact, Huicholes (native americans who used peyote from thousands years ago) go in a pilgrimage through the desert to collect it. <<To watch the cactus bloom>>
The effects of mescaline change the normal status of mind, altering perception and realizing that everything is language in such a form, from empathy to fear, from visuals to nightmares, you also can feel how you become part of the everything. There's no sensation of time, so the idea of "forever" become stronger when you're part of these "everything" which also explain, the stars becoming his eyes and the wind his hands. All that poetry is a way to describe the "other world", not the world of the deads, but the "totally other".
There's also something like a metronome that sounds all along the song. This maybe can a "wink" to a the Icaros, songs and rhythms created to perform and guide the one who's under the influence of the substance.
There's only one thing that does not match with the explained above, and that is that Peyote does not have spines. Well, that's not true at all. Peyote have spines, but only the first months of life. He can't make someone blood, or something like this, but there's also other cacti, "San Pedro " (Echinopsis pachanoi) who also contains mescaline and flower by night, this one have huge spines and thorns
Maybe the "Selenicereus grandiflorus" explanation is a correct / political way to refer to these sacred plants, like a metaphore.
Psychodelic drugs can make feel "like you're mad", but you can't go mad by just seeing a thing, you must also eat it...
I have a different interpretation based on ethnobotanical knowledge. I do not assume that I'm right, probably I am not, but there are some few things that points me in some psychedelic / entheogenic direction.
Oh, I almost forget to say that I'm not native at English, but I'll do my best. :)
"Creosote" is a plant, exactly "Larrea tridentata, which is known for a symbiosis (supply, nursemaid...) with Lophophora williamsii, also known as "Peyote". Peyote contains Mescaline, a psychedelic alkaloid from the family of phenethylamines. Peyote grows slow and his flowering is also slow. It takes more than 10 years to get ripe and at this time the cacti usually starts to flowering. That's the point when the alkaloids are in a huge concentration and can be eaten. In fact, Huicholes (native americans who used peyote from thousands years ago) go in a pilgrimage through the desert to collect it. <<To watch the cactus bloom>>
The effects of mescaline change the normal status of mind, altering perception and realizing that everything is language in such a form, from empathy to fear, from visuals to nightmares, you also can feel how you become part of the everything. There's no sensation of time, so the idea of "forever" become stronger when you're part of these "everything" which also explain, the stars becoming his eyes and the wind his hands. All that poetry is a way to describe the "other world", not the world of the deads, but the "totally other".
There's also something like a metronome that sounds all along the song. This maybe can a "wink" to a the Icaros, songs and rhythms created to perform and guide the one who's under the influence of the substance.
There's only one thing that does not match with the explained above, and that is that Peyote does not have spines. Well, that's not true at all. Peyote have spines, but only the first months of life. He can't make someone blood, or something like this, but there's also other cacti, "San Pedro " (Echinopsis pachanoi) who also contains mescaline and flower by night, this one have huge spines and thorns
Maybe the "Selenicereus grandiflorus" explanation is a correct / political way to refer to these sacred plants, like a metaphore.
Psychodelic drugs can make feel "like you're mad", but you can't go mad by just seeing a thing, you must also eat it...