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Original Title: | The Archaic Revival: Speculations on Psychedelic Mushrooms, the Amazon, Virtual Reality, UFOs, Evolution, Shamanism, the Rebirth of the Goddess, and the End of History |
ISBN: | 0062506137 (ISBN13: 9780062506139) |
Edition Language: | English URL http://deoxy.org/mckenna.htm |
Terence McKenna
Paperback | Pages: 288 pages Rating: 4.17 | 1955 Users | 83 Reviews
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Title | : | The Archaic Revival |
Author | : | Terence McKenna |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | 1st |
Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
Published | : | May 8th 1992 by Harper Collins (SanFrancisco) |
Categories | : | Philosophy. Nonfiction. Psychology |
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Cited by the L.A. Weekly as "the culture's foremost spokesman for the psychedelic experience," Terrence McKenna is an underground legend as a brilliant raconteur, adventurer & expert on the experiential use of mind-altering plants. In these essays, interviews & narrative adventures, McKenna takes us on a mesmerizing journey deep into the Amazon as well as into the hidden recesses of the human psyche & the outer limits of our culture, giving us startling visions of the past & future.Rating Appertaining To Books The Archaic Revival
Ratings: 4.17 From 1955 Users | 83 ReviewsWrite Up Appertaining To Books The Archaic Revival
Having read "food of the gods" and unfortunately found it fairly boring and dull i wasn't sure that this book would offer anything of interest to me. Thankfully my expectations were surpassed, this is truly a fascinating read. The majority of the book derives from interviews which for me was fantastic (i feel he is at his best when talking). Despite the fact in the past i haven't enjoyed his writing, the essays allowed him to further expand on many topics introduced in the interviews and i amIf you read this with an open mind, it will blow it wide open
"What good is a theory of how the universe works if it's a series of tensor equations that, even when understood, come nowhere tangential to experience? The only intellectual or noetic or spiritual path worth following is one that builds on personal experience." After reading Terrence Mckenna, everyone becomes a philosopher. This man, in my view, is still the most important philosopher to have ever lived; he certainly changed my life. I hope his motives for a new generation of seekers is met
Glad I read this & glad this was where I started with Terence McKenna. I hope to read more of his work & maybe one day actually consume Psilocybin Mushrooms.
Im tempted to give this book 5 stars because it was just so entertaining. McKenna goes off the deep end in numerous parts, but he is also surprisingly lucid and rational when discussing seemingly bizarre subjects such as the "stoned ape" theory of evolution. The number of topics in this book is astounding, so anyone interested in scifi, fantasy, ethnobotany, travels in south america, aliens, Lovecraft, pantheism, 2012, and a lot of others.Even though McKenna was dead wrong about numerous things,
Terence McKenna is one of the most interesting and entertaining speakers one can listen to. I strongly recommend listening to some of his public lectures and interviews about topics as diverse as James Joyce, psychedelics, Mayan calendrics, modern cosmology, ethnobotany, cybertechnology, the mass media et cetera. He is witty, charming and sometimes acutely creative. He is probably very, very stoned.As a writer, McKenna does not shine as brightly. His best book may be Food of the Gods, but this
God, i love Terence. This book catalogs alot of his mind-bending ideas. I remember a quote from terence that will stick with me forever "The deconstruction of reality has no bottom.".....as kurtz said ...that quote was like "being shot in the head with a diamond."
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