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Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge
If hallucinogens function as interspecies chemical messengers, then the dynamic of the close relationship between primate and hallucinogenic plant is one of information transfer from one species to the other.
from Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge by Terence McKenna
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Why, as a species, are we so fascinated by altered states of consciousness? What has been their impact on our esthetic and spiritual aspirations? What have we lost by denying the legitimacy of each individual’s drive to use substances to experience personally the transcendental and the sacred?
from Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge by Terence McKenna
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Culture is a uniquely human trait, and it arises from, and depends on, language. This is the critical connection to the psychedelic state. Human language originates from inner ideation (which can be understood as another term for imagination). It is image-ination, the making of images, the interior representation of something thought or perceived,
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Psilocybin’s main synergistic effect seems ultimately to be in the domain of language. It excites vocalization; it empowers articulation; it transmutes language into something that is visibly beheld. It could have had an impact on the sudden emergence of consciousness and language use in early humans.
from Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge by Terence McKenna
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‘Language is not merely a device for communicating ideas about the world, but rather a tool for bringing the world into existence … Reality is not simply ‘experienced’ or ‘reflected’ in language, but instead is actually produced by language.’
from Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge by Terence McKenna
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It is language that enables us to not merely experience reality, but to participate in its creation.
from Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge by Terence McKenna
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