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.
Interpretation
The quote suggests a connection between the revival of psychedelics and advancements in space exploration, signaling a transformative shift in human consciousness.
Terence McKenna's quote highlights the intertwining of psychedelic experiences and the advancements in technology related to space exploration. He posits that as humanity develops new capabilities to transcend our earthly confines, there is a corresponding spiritual and psychological evolution occurring, leading to the emergence of a new, more enlightened human culture. This transformation, he argues, will contrast sharply with previous eras of human development, suggesting a significant leap in collective consciousness and global understanding.
In practice
During a lecture on the future of human evolution, one might quote McKenna to emphasize the link between technology and consciousness.
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.
The engineers of the future will be poets.
She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves… They belonged to her her and were her own, and she entertained the conviction that she had a right to them and they they concerned no one but herself.
I knew that the world around you is only uninteresting if you can't see what is really going on. The place you come from is always the most exotic place you'll ever encounter because it is the only place where you recognise how many secrets and mysteries there are in people's lives
Amidst the rush of worldly comings and goings, I observe how all endings become beginnings
Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.
You cannot make a cheap palace.
Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.
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