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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
Terence McKenna on the imagination:
... See moreThe imagination is central to the alchemical opus; the process goes on in the realm of imagination, taken on to be a physical dimension; we cannot understand the history ahead of us until we imagine a journey into the imagination. We have exhausted the Cartesian paradigm; the future of the human enterprise i
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’
Terence McKenna on language and contradiction:
... See moreEvolve language and understanding to make our way back to the garden, back to Eden… Christ opened the door to paradise, but he closed the door to Eden.. We have to make our way back to the alchemical garden, that’s where meaning is, that’s what we feel, not rational schemas that are rationally beating u
Just finished part 1/4 of “Food of the Gods” (McKenna, 1992) and also read the chapter headers of the remaining parts to get the jist of the rest, which is all familiar from my 100s of hours of McKenna listening. I’m surprised to learn taht there are less than 40 pages in the whole book on his theory of evolution. That’s only 14%! Meaning, this is
... See morePsychedelics 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
Terence McKenna, Food of the Gods, p.9:
... See more"Psychedelic shamans now constitute a worldview and growing subculture of hyper-dimensional explorers, many of whom are scientifically sophisticated. A landscape is coming into focus, a region still glimpsed only dimly, but merging, claiming the attention of rational discourse—and possibly threatening to confo