[MD] mckenna, fractals and the mayan calendar

[Marsha]

Greetings Rebecca and Dave,

Here's a book I read many moons ago.  It was lots of fun.

http://www.amazon.com/Marriage-Sun-Moon-Andrew-Weil/dp/0395316669/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213461227&sr=1-2

 Marsha



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From: "david buchanan" <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2008 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: [MD] mckenna, fractals and the mayan calendar


>
> Along the same lines, a book titled "THE CHEMICAL MUSE: Drug Use and the 
> Roots of Western Civilization" will be published next month. The author 
> (D.C.A. Hillman) has a doctorate in both Classics and Chemistry and uses 
> them both to say, basically, Dionysian ecstasy is not brought about by 
> beer. He's making a case that ancient Greece was thoroughly saturated with 
> hallucinogens and he does so by way of a simple textual analysis. As he 
> explained in an interview I heard the other day, that whole feature of 
> Greek culture was air-brushed out of the picture by translators and 
> historians but its all there in the original material for those unblinded 
> by prudery or prejudice. And as a student, I appreciate the fact that 
> there are academically respectable sources to cite on this point. There is 
> also Huston Smith's "CLEANSING THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION: The Religious 
> Significance of Entheogenic Plants and Chemicals". I mean, I imagine guys 
> like McKenna and Leary are not acceptable in that re
> spect and I suppose suspicion is not completely unfounded. The whole end 
> of time thing is not something I can swallow but maybe that's just because 
> I don't understand the Mayans.
>
>
>
> Rebecca said:
>> Another brilliant fellow who I highly suggest is Daniel Pinchbeck... I
>> haven't read his latest work on Quetzelcoatl yet but his first 
>> publication
>> "Breaking Open the Head" is more than worthwhile.
>> If one is truly interested in exploring notions of consciousness, they
>> absolutely can not disregard the work done on and with psychadelics and
>> altered states.  Terrence McKenna is high on the list of the last 
>> century's
>> champion explorers in the realms of personal, private, internal 
>> experience
>> that has long been vilified by the established powers.  For a credible 
>> and
>> honest look at the development of his Timewave Zero theory you should 
>> read
>> his 1994 account of the McKenna brother's experiences at La Chorrera in
>> Columbia entitled "True Hallucinations"
>>
>> If you haven't been there then you can't know... once you go, you come to
>> realize that the knowledge has always been inside you.
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