When Deep Ecology goes deeper, it leads toward a futuristic shamanism, the path of intentional communion with Gaia. Of course,
all shamanism around the world, going back far into prehistory,
was oriented to Gaia, to Sacred Nature, but without the conceptual framework at our service today.

The Gnostic vision of the Earth is a sacred story that belongs to humanity, but has lost been since the Mysteries were destroyed. The Gaia Mythos, a recreation of that story, is being developed by the timeless technique of "shamanic recall," as explained in Sharing the Gaia Mythos, and Sources of the Gaia Mythos.

Metahistory.org identifies three generations of psychonauts who have contributed to the emergent Gaian orientation of the new shamanism. The material on this site represents the 3rd generation, and looks beyond it.

The term psychonaut was proposed by Ernst Junger, a pioneer of the entheogenic theory of religion. The first generation of psychonauts included poet Robert Graves (The White Goddess), Aldous Huxley (The Doors of Perception), and Alan Watts (The Joyous Cosmology). Graves provided an initial clue on initiatory mushroom cults to R. Gordon Wasson, the man who proposed the thesis that defines the perspective of the first generation of psychonauts.

The second generation emerged via the visionary work of Terence and Dennis McKenna who proposed an expanded version of Wasson's theory. Since the late 1990's the McKenna thesis has been further elaborated, and somewhat modified, leading to the Gaian sacramentalism proposed in this site.

In antiquity, before the rise of Judeo-Christian salvationism with its one-god dogma and patriarchial agenda, there were many Goddess-oriented societies in which psychonauts flourished. Paganism was the indigenous spiritual of Europa. The flower of Pagan spirituality was the network of Mystery Schools where psychonauts used yoga, sexual magic, and sacred plants to learn and teach the secrets of the cosmos.