Rian Eisler's The Chalice and the Blade has to do with revisioning society by looking at ancient models of how men and women arranged social structure in the past. This book is a tracking horse for a new respectability for psychedelics because when you begin asking the question why was there a partnership society for so long and why did it give way to a dominator culture, the answer lies I think in changing patterns of plant utilization. And it's definitely much more than a growers guide. Don't be fooled. It isn't easy and it isn't that the process is difficult. It's that you have bad habits that will get in the way of the process.
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.”
“What I always hoped for out of the psychedelic voyaging was to bring back something. I always felt, and still feel, that that is the attitude with which you should go into these things.”
“I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.”
“Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.”
“The future holds no terrors for a person who knows how process inevitably unfolds. They are always right and with it each moment.”
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