Letter from the Editor – Spring 2009 – Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies – MAPS
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Letter from the Editor – Spring 2009 – Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies – MAPS
The ecological crisis will precipitate a death-rebirth confrontation that will shatter our psychospiritual isolation, both individually and societally, and bring forward an awakening of common ground within us.
Terence McKenna, Food of the Gods, p.9:
... See more"Psychedelic shamans now constitute a worldview and growing subculture of hyper-dimensional explorers, many of whom are scientifically sophisticated. A landscape is coming into focus, a region still glimpsed only dimly, but merging, claiming the attention of rational discourse—and possibly threatening to confo
This session showed me that humanity’s transformation will come about through terrible suffering. This suffering will be driven by a global systems crisis triggered by a series of ecological crises. Our species will change when our collective pain simply becomes unbearable. In this, Session 55 echoes the conclusion reached by Duane Elgin in Awakeni
... See moreIt is a time of great change and awakening. As we look around us, we see the changes in our healthcare system, the dismantling of political systems across the globe, and the awakening to the truth that many of the institutions we believed were here to help us, are not.