The Rational Mind and Meaning
Thursday, November 1, 2018
Sunday, October 7, 2018
we are transcendent equations
transcendent numbers are irrational
embrace the baseless
radius of Tao
Tau
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Ayahuasca
-- I like hearing the before and after experiences people have had.
-- I like hearing the before and after experiences people have had.
Monday, September 3, 2018
Sunday, September 2, 2018
The New Age is Already Here, Within You
"I always felt that in a way the New Age was a flight from the psychedelic experience, that the New Age was saying - its invisible agenda was - 'we'll try anything as long as we're sure it doesn't work' and that exempts psychedelics. All talk of spiritual advancement is always talk of pushing, trying, practice, concentration, attention. Once you find psychedelics, you're not looking for the accelerator anymore, you're looking for the brakes on your spiritual vehicle. You have suddenly found the means to achieve the stated goal, which is union with the divine, the oneness, or something like that. Now the game becomes a very grown-up game - how are you going to integrate this into your ordinary life? You're no longer a seeker, you're no longer an ingenue. Now you're an insider. Now you can come and go from these transcendental places at will. Now how do you use that to make yourself a better person, a better parent, a better citizen of your community?...Some people have the idea you take a psychedelic drug or substance and the world transforms itself and you watch this happen. That's true to some degree but the person, the watcher is themself transformed." --Terence McKenna, NPR Interview March 1999
Thursday, August 23, 2018
More Spectacular and Immediately Satisfying
"The concerns raised by the use of psychedelic mushrooms were well stated by two Christian missionaries, Eunice Pike and Florence Cowan. They said, 'How can one effectively present the message of divine revelation to a people who already have, according to their beliefs, a means whereby anyone who desires may get messages directly from the supernatural world via a more spectacular and immediately satisfying way than Christianity has to offer?'
Quoted by Thomas Redlinger, 'Sacred Mushrooms Pentecost,' in Entheogens and the Future of Religion, ed. Robert Forte (San Francisco: Council on Spiritual Practices, 1997), 106."
-- The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide
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