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Terence McKenna • Food of the Gods
Terence McKenna and Dennis McKenna, The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching
Dave Asprey • Game Changers
Terence McKenna on the alchemist’s view on nature:
... See moreThe modern existential myth says we are cast into matter, lost in a universe with no meaning, and we must MAKE it. This is the absurd in Sartre. “Nature is mute,” is as far from alchemical thinking as you can get; for the alchemist, nature was a great, open book'; they put it through processes, to l
The accounts given by his subjects are fascinating:
Terence McKenna • Food of the Gods
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
Like the octopi, our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.
Terence McKenna • Food of the Gods
ingestion of psilocybin mushrooms to induce ecstasy, dissolve the boundaries of the ego, and reunite the worshiper with the personified vegetable matrix of planetary life.
Terence McKenna • Food of the Gods
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
later, cynical intelligence operatives.