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.
All of us have at least one great voice deep inside. People are products of their environment. A lucky few are born into situations in which positive messages abound. Others grow up hearing messages of fear and failure, which they must block out so the positive can be heard. But the positive and courageous voice will always emerge, somewhere, sometime, for all of us. Listen for it, and your breakthroughs will come.
The darker it gets, the brighter your light will shine.
Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you... yet, someone survived... You can do anything you choose to do.
Keep on knocking 'til the joy inside opens a window look to see who's there
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
I carry the continent of Africa on my shoulders proudly.
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