[ENLIGHTENMENT - Episode 3: The entheogen. Through the use of a root, a transmutation of consciousness occurs: the "state of tree." A disruptive access to the mind. A glimpse into the process of self-creation. The essence of The Serpent speaks.] [Adam:] Serpentine… Fruit orphidian… Gifting… Root-sin Viperous… Oh, so snakely… Gifting… Truth-bin Sweet rapture, see who I lie… Me, shelter afar… Afire-frost, father… Bearer, butcher, mother… Inverted-eye I fruitify to see… and self-deserted I choose to be tree Vampire of land – Brute-seeker, nature-damned Somebodyness. Memorylessness. Unloneliness. Togetherlessness. [Adam & Serpent:] It gains, gains way – The fruitful mind is forging the man Blooming, all has gone away in pain. [Adam:] While I-child… As I-progeny… When I-cub… Since I-man to be Lone still… though rains gray no more Befoul still… I pour no rain! [Adam & Serpent:] Lone still… though rains gray no more Befoul still… rain’s broke as It gains, gains way – The fruitful mind is forging the man Blooming, all has gone away again and again and again and again... Again.