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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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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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