Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.
Interpretation
Psychedelic shamanism can help individuals confront and alleviate their fears of the future.
The quote by Terence McKenna suggests that the apprehension many people feel about the future can be alleviated through the transformative experiences offered by psychedelic shamanism. By engaging with these altered states of consciousness, individuals may gain new insights and perspectives that empower them to overcome their anxieties and embrace what lies ahead.
In practice
During a mental health workshop, this quote could inspire participants to explore alternative methods for dealing with anxiety.
We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from drought and weather, freedom from the movement of game, the growth of plants, freedom from control from mendacious popes and kings, freedom from ideology, freedom from want. This idea of freeing ourselves has become the compass of the human journey.
LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same since, nor will we ever be, for LSD demonstrated, even to skeptics, that the mansions of heaven and gardens of paradise lie within each and all of us.
A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.
Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.
If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.
It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet. The mushroom visions and the transformation of the human image precipitated by space exploration are spun together. Nothing less is happening than the emergence of a new human order. A telepathic, humane, universalist kind of human culture is emerging that will make everything that preceded it appear like the stone age.
I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young, every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television.
I live in constant anticipation of good stuff. It's not being 'Pollyanna' about things, but most stories don't have the ending we would give them right away. The better endings come later.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
If in the sight of God you cannot say you are sure that you have a special call to stay at home, why are you disobeying the Saviour's plain command to go?
For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
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