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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.’
Terence McKenna • Food of the Gods
Surprised the Terence McKenna admitted that Food of the Gods (which introduced the “Stoned Ape Theory”) was consciously a work of propaganda. This doesn’t mean he didn’t believe the theory, it just confirms that the main intention of the work was to change public opinion on drugs:
“Since I feel pretty much around friends and fringies here, it doesn’
Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third-story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
— Terence McKenna
Oman touches here on a very fruitful theme—the degree to which the style and way of life of an entire culture can be imbued with the attitudes and assumptions engendered by a particular psychoactive plant or drug.
Terence McKenna • Food of the Gods
This is the big picture. Yes, it’s coming; the monkeys are going to the stars, better smoothly or not so smoothly. It’s not clear, but the monkeys are going to the stars and they’re going to take everyone with them. It can be a relatively smooth birth with no tearing and no bleeding, and everything just moving right along, or it can be wholly disru
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Terence McKenna • Food of the Gods
Terence McKenna and Dennis McKenna, The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching