MahdHatre
02-12-2003, 12:10 PM
I've just finished reading "The Archaic Revival" by the ethno pharmacological genius Terrence McKenna. I must say I truly enjoyed this book. Here are some ideas and such that came to me, though I hardly know where to start.
Humanity is in a crisis of evolutionary beginning. We are failing to realize our potential for transcendental growth and understanding of the human mind. We must conquer all dimensions of time, space, knowledge, and growth.
Psychedelics play a major role in our history. Since the beginning of time we have shoveled large amounts plant hallucinogens into our mouths. Yet now, after the development of technology, religion and vast culture, the undergoing task of expanding our mind has become a taboo in society. And it will remain this way until the authorities decide to step down from their thrones of economic domination.
When LSD was made illegal in the 60’s, the decision was also made to ban all hallucinogens, for it was believed they were identical to the synthetic make-up of acid. In which case is not true, such as the plant hallucinogens psilocybin and DiMeThltryptamine (psilocybin actually contains tryptamines), along with ayahuasca and others.
Further research of these plants and future integration into society will, in short, stave off Armageddon.
“The plant-human relationship has always been the foundation of our individual and group existence in the world. What I call the Archaic Revival is the process of reawakening awareness of traditional attitudes toward nature, including plants and our relationship to them.
When accepting the solutions of vegetable forms of life as metaphors for the conduct of the affairs of the human world, two important changes would follow:
“The feminizing of culture, on a level that has yet to be fully explored. Recognizing the real division between the masculine and feminine is not a division between men and women but rather a division between ourselves as conscious animals-omnivorous, land-clearing war makers, supreme expression of the yang-and the circumglobal mantle of vegetation-the ancient metastable yin element that constitutes by far the major portion of the biomass of the living earth. “
“An inward search for values, the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate, and swarm, while plants hold fast. Living in a dimension characterized by the solid state, the fixed, and the enduring.
Theres a lot more I could go on about. So I guess u will just have to go and read it.
Please followup with ideas you my have about this or any other subject.
Humanity is in a crisis of evolutionary beginning. We are failing to realize our potential for transcendental growth and understanding of the human mind. We must conquer all dimensions of time, space, knowledge, and growth.
Psychedelics play a major role in our history. Since the beginning of time we have shoveled large amounts plant hallucinogens into our mouths. Yet now, after the development of technology, religion and vast culture, the undergoing task of expanding our mind has become a taboo in society. And it will remain this way until the authorities decide to step down from their thrones of economic domination.
When LSD was made illegal in the 60’s, the decision was also made to ban all hallucinogens, for it was believed they were identical to the synthetic make-up of acid. In which case is not true, such as the plant hallucinogens psilocybin and DiMeThltryptamine (psilocybin actually contains tryptamines), along with ayahuasca and others.
Further research of these plants and future integration into society will, in short, stave off Armageddon.
“The plant-human relationship has always been the foundation of our individual and group existence in the world. What I call the Archaic Revival is the process of reawakening awareness of traditional attitudes toward nature, including plants and our relationship to them.
When accepting the solutions of vegetable forms of life as metaphors for the conduct of the affairs of the human world, two important changes would follow:
“The feminizing of culture, on a level that has yet to be fully explored. Recognizing the real division between the masculine and feminine is not a division between men and women but rather a division between ourselves as conscious animals-omnivorous, land-clearing war makers, supreme expression of the yang-and the circumglobal mantle of vegetation-the ancient metastable yin element that constitutes by far the major portion of the biomass of the living earth. “
“An inward search for values, the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate, and swarm, while plants hold fast. Living in a dimension characterized by the solid state, the fixed, and the enduring.
Theres a lot more I could go on about. So I guess u will just have to go and read it.
Please followup with ideas you my have about this or any other subject.