Under the influence of mushrooms a being identifiying itself thus: "I am a New Creature/I am here to save the biosphere" went on to give a warning: "If you connect the mind of man to the mind of a machine before connecting the mind of man to the mind of a plant, the biosphere is doomed." I believe that what you could call the Gaian Mind of our planet is reaching out in alarm with this warning and that it is literal and real. It is refering to the fact that we humans are on the verge of creating a new consciousness by means of the cybernetic enhancement of our mind by means of an intelligent computer. This is imminent not 50 or 100 years away and this will not be merely ninety percent of all life on the planet as in other catastrophic extinctions, it will be all DNA - the entire biosphere. This New Creature always spoke literally and I think this means that It is advising that we connect our minds cybernetially to the plant mind instead of the machine mind - by machine It means computer. If you are in this field, or have the ear of someone in this field, please pass this on - pass if on as a joke but pass it on. I think this type of breakthrough is only about five years away and our position on the planet is already tenuous. We humans do not even remotely understand our own mind yet and we have no business creating a new consciousness.