The Archaic Revival: Speculations on Psychedelic Mushrooms, the Amazon, Virtual Reality, UFOs, Evolution, Shamanism, the Rebirth of the Goddess, and the End of History

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Terence mckenna never disappoints. If you like terrence mckenna, especially him speaking this is for you.

Mckenna seems very frank and straightforward through the whole book, not dancing around subjects or refraining from certain phrases that some would be self-concious to use. This book has intermittent biographical data that helps understand mckenna as ... Read More

Cryonic freezing is one of the ways we may perpetuate samples of our dna and our hard drive. Somatic immortality is the only characteristic that divides man from the gods we have created. This only sustains the chaos, which is basically good. The arch... Read More

This book alters the way one perceives alien worlds and their inhabitants. The archaic revival_ is most memorable for its section on ufo's, and the psychological implications of the alien-abduction phenomenon.

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Mckenna sees no way around the citizen’s perversity than by ‘civilizing’ him or her psychedelically, while krishnamurti sees the way out through total attention. Mckenna comes off like a poster child for petulant demands for instant gratification. Rea... Read More

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Through the use of psychedelics, mckenna has delved into the deepest levels of human consciousness and with the rigour and skep... Read More

And as a parallel movement with the creation of that psychedelic science that mckenna envisions, he predicts the ultimate encou... Read More

I do get the whole metaphor and contradiction about a text that we, modern society, cannot translate, but otherwise it has no c... Read More

Please do not label me into a camp of people for which (using the scientific method) you have no proof that i am associated with.

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This product had a total of 360 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 18 2023.