A Crisis Of Consciousness (Terence McKenna) [FULL]

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Our present global crisis is more profound than any previous historical crises; hence our solutions must be equally drastic. I propose that we should adopt the plant as the organizational model for life in the twenty-first century, just as the computer seems to be the dominant mental/social model of the late twentieth century, and the steam engine was the guiding image of the nineteenth century.

This means reaching back in time to models that were successful fifteen thousand to twenty thousand years ago. When this is done it becomes possible to see plants as food, shelter, clothing, and sources of education and religion.

The process begins by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Let us declare nature to be legitimate. All plants should be declared legal, and all animals for that matter. The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.

Re-establishing channels of direct communication with the planetary Other, the mind behind nature, through the use of hallucinogenic plants is the best hope for dissolving the steep walls of cultural inflexibility that appear to be channeling us toward true ruin. We need a new set of lenses to see our way into the world. When the medieval world shifted its worldview, secularized European society sought salvation in the revivifying of classical Greek and Roman approaches to law, philosophy, aesthetics, city planning, and agriculture. Our dilemma will cast us further back into time in search for models and answers.

The solution

The solution to much of modern malaise, including chemical dependencies and repressed psychoses and neuroses, os direct exposure to the authentic dimensions of risk represented by the experience of psychedelic plants. The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an anti-drug position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behaviour; these are precisely the tendencies in our psychological makeup that the psychedelics mitigate. The plant hallucinogens dissolve habits and hold motivations up to inspection by a wider, less egocentric, and more grounded point of view within the individual. It is foolish to suggest that there is no risk, but it is equally uninformed to suggest that the risk is not worth taking. What is needed is experiential validation of a new guiding image, an overarching metaphor able to serve as the basis for a new model of society and the individual.

The plant-human relationship has always been the foundation of our individual and group existence in the world. What I call the Archaic Revival is the process of reawakening awareness of traditional attitudes toward nature, including plants and our relationship to them. The Archaic Revival spells the eventual breakup of the pattern of male dominance and hierarchy based on animal organization, something that can not be changed overnight by a sudden shift in collective awareness. Rather, it will follow naturally upon the gradual recognition that the overarching theme that directs the Archaic Revival is the idea/ideal of a vegetation Goddess, the Earth herself as the much ballyhooed Gaia--a fact well documented by nineteenth-century anthropologists, most notably Frazer, but recently given a new respectability by Riane Eisler, Marija Gimbutas, James Mellaart, and others.

The closer a human group is to the gnosis of the vegetable mind--the Gaian collectivity of organic life--the closer their connection to the archetype of the Goddess and hence to the partnership style of social organization. The last time that the mainstream of Western thought was refreshed by the gnosis of the vegetable mind was at the close of the Hellenistic Era, before the Mystery religions were finally suppressed by enthusiastic Christian barbarians.

My conclusion is that taking the next evolutionary step toward the Archaic Revival, the rebirth of the Goddess, and the ending of profane history will require an agenda that includes the notion of our reinvolvement with and the emergence of the vegetable mind. That same mind that coaxed us into self-reflecting language now offers us the boundless landscapes of the imagination. Without such a relationship to psychedelic exopheromones regulating our symbiotic relationship with the plant kingdom, we stand outside of an understanding of planetary purpose. And an understanding of planetary purpose may be the major contribution we can make to the evolutionary process. Returning to the bosom of the planetary partnership means trading the point of view of the history-created ego for a more maternal and intuitional style.

From The Archaic Revival by Terence McKenna

More: http://undergrowth.org/plan_plant_planet_by_terence_mckenna

illustration: by Gwyllm Llwydd http://www.earthrites.org

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[JohnRivers8]

also...... what else is your point aside from the apathy/dissaproval towards Organized religion?

i belive that it was lost in the firestorm that i created.

[TerenceMcKennaTube]

@JohnRivers8 Firestorm? 3 replys in 5 months...you silly sausage.

[JohnRivers8]

I kind of agree.....up until you say that this can be used with religion. Religion is perfect, me being a Christian, trying to change the structure or relationship between human beings and god is unethical. Plus saying that the plant can be seen as a SOURCE of religion is basically pagan to ANY major religion of our time.

[TerenceMcKennaTube]

@JohnRivers8 Just because you may think it pagan (which it is, and so what?) doesn't make it untrue. Shamanism is the precursor to ALL religions. That your Christianity keeps your thinking inside a very small box is no great revelation, that's what it's designed to do and to cut you off from the true source. It's the major religions that are a bastardisation and blasphemy of our shamanic origins.

[brianz1214]

Terrence's voice and weed has helped me to decide what I want to do with my life

[LucidityOfReality]

Christianity as it is known was created by a Roman Emporer called Constantine, if you follow the trail of religion all the way back you reach the logical conclusion point : Ancient Babylon, in other words all religions are offshoots of Kabbalah.

[brianz1214]

@mdrndrum I just want to keep learning about the world and enjoying my life, i dont want to be tied down by what culture says i should be. I just want to ski and get a major that will allow me to get a job that i can enjoy.

[mdrndrum]

@brianz1214 What have you decided on, just out of curiousity?

[DreadyRagga]

@brianz1214 i completely agree. its a shame people wont realize it because of the negativity that come with drugs

[matter0ni]

@1annaunki well with all the censorship it wont let me post, guess there are flagged key words, but anyway i can email you info, you should send me a youtube mail with ur email so i can send you good info