The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself.
Terence McKennaNotice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.
Terence McKennaThe psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.
Terence McKennaCertainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one which is confirmed by the psychedelic experience.
Terence McKennaThat's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with.
Terence McKennaNot to know one's true identity is to be a mad, disensouled thing — a golem. And, indeed, this image, sick-eningly Orwellian, applies to the mass of human beings now living in the high-tech industrial democracies. Their authenticity lies in their ability to obey and follow mass style changes that are conveyed through the media. Immersed in junk food, trash media, and cryp-tofascist politics, they are condemned to toxic lives of low awareness. Sedated by the prescripted daily television fix, they are a living dead, lost to all but the act of consuming.
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