
Food of the Gods

this enemy, this demon of which I have told you; the force of my words has put it to flight, take care that in quitting me it does not hurl itself on one of you and possess him.” No one dared to touch it; after the sermon, the zealous sophist recovered his “beng.”7
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the demonic side of this process are fully aware of this potential and are hurrying full tilt forward with their plans to capture the technological high ground. It is a position from which they hope to turn nearly everyone into a believing consumer in a beige fascism from whose image factory none will escape. The shamanic response, the Archaic resp
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Later, during the 1960s, the Central Intelligence Agency would use the same technique to smother political dissent in American black ghettos under an avalanche of No. 4 China White—heroin of extraordinary purity.6
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as regulators of cultural change and can be a means of obtaining access to the intentionality of some very large self-regulating system.
Terence McKenna • Food of the Gods
The Ninth Mandala of the Rig Veda goes into great detail concerning Soma and states that Soma stands above the gods. Soma is the supreme entity. Soma is the moon; Soma is masculine. Here we have a rare phenomenon: a male lunar deity. It is limited to certain North American Indian peoples and to the Indo-Europeans (the German folk conception of the
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later, cynical intelligence operatives.
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Medical researchers who were attracted to the new drug included the young Sigmund Freud:
Terence McKenna • Food of the Gods
Such compounds are apparently functioning
Terence McKenna • Food of the Gods
evidence of the failure of science to nurture the soul of humanity is everywhere around us.