Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.
Terence McKennaOur task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate.
Terence McKennaIt's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy.
Terence McKennaWhat we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldnโt imagine it if it werenโt real somewhere, sometime.
Terence McKennaWe are living in a very pivotal time. The time that we inherit from science is a time to humble you, to dwarf you. It tells you that the sun will not fluxuate for another billion years, that species come and go, and, in other words, on a temporal scale you don't matter. And that now doesn't matter. But when you look at the release of energy, the asymptotic speeding up of processes, we tend to be xenophobically oriented toward the human.
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