Experiement At Petaluma 1 of 6

Terence Mckenna
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I do agree with you, I think the difference between the 1960s and the 1990s, in terms of these psychedelic compounds is that the 60s entirely lacked any awareness of shamanism or the historical role that these substances had played throughout human history and pre-history.
Uhh The 60s believed they were inventing this reality for the first time, Now that we have been able to compare the psychedelic experience to the way it is done in the Amazon, in west Africa, in areas were these things have been used and understood for a long time, We now have a model, and it's the model not that you take low doses and go with your friends to a rock concert, but that you take high doses in a situation of sensory isolation such as a quiet dark room, and make an inward journey into the self that parallels the journey that shamans have always made to recover lost souls, or to cure, or to discover the where-abouts of lost objects. So in a way, psychedelic exploration has gained power, respectability and uh and legitimacy by discovering that its own roots were in a Paleolithic religion of great power and wide distribution. In other words, psychedelic voyaging is not something new, this is how religion was done for the first million years not the last two thousand years, this is really the only exception to this rule. I agree with what you also said about how vast this domain seems to be, serious psychedelic voyagers I think can agree the further in you go into this realm the larger it appears to be. Really what we are doing is we are discovering the inner richness of organism. That you know the richness of the human world is not in owning stuff, the richness of the human world is... lies in being able to access what is within us, our minds are not blank slates, or merely repositories of traumatic memory, our minds are doorways into an infinite labyrinth a kind of Borgesian library of infinite possibilities and we can choose to open these doorways in whatever sequence or fashion we wish.

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[createculture]

ill be getting the last up today, thanks for the comment... I have plenty more..

[CosmicK8E]

I live in Petaluma, and I'm curious about when,where and what took place at the experiement at Petaluma.

[solargazing69]

thankyou

[tapper36]

Haven't heard this lecture before, thanks for posting.