psychedelics, shamanism, gnosis(?)

Terence Mckenna
   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

   from p. 9...

      TM: ...I am very much at variance with the wisdom of
      hindsight in looking back at how Leary and Alpert
      and Ralph Metzner handled it in the sixties. But
      to try to launch a "childrens' crusade" to try to
      co-opt the destiny of the children of the middle
      class using the media as your advance man, was a
      very risky business. And it rebounded, I think,
      badly.

      I think Huxley's approach was much more intelligent
      -- not to try to reach the largest number of people,
      but to try to reach the most important and influential
      people: the poets, the architects, the politicians, the
      research scientsts, and especially the
      psychotherapists. 
   
   from p. 205, interview in <i>Critique</i>, summer 1989, 
   
      Rebecca McClen: You have said that the term New Age
      trivializes the significance of the next phase in human
      evolution and have referred instead to the emergence of
      an Archaic Revival. How do you differentiate between
      these two expressions?
      
      Terrence McKenna: The New Age is essentially humanistic
      psychology eighties style, with the addition of
      neo-shamanism, channeling, crystal and herbal healing,
      and this sort of thing. The Archaic Revival is a much
      larger, more global phenomenon that assumes that we are
      recovering the social forms of the late neolithic, and
      the Archaic Revival reaches far back in the twentieth
      century to Freud, to surrealism, to abstract
      expressionism -- even to a phenomenon like National
      Socialism, which is a negative force. But the stress on
      ritual, on organized activity, on race/ancestor
      consciousness -- these are themes that have been worked
      out throughout the entire twentieth century, and the
      Archaic Revival is an expression of that. 
      
      full interview here (and in SOURCES):
      http://www.mavericksofthemind.com/ter-int.htm

      equation of "New Age" and "Archaic Revival"
      from Tales of the Living Dead - interview with Jerry Garcia
      http://www.mavericksofthemind.com/gar-int.htm
   
      Rebecca McClen Novick: Some people believe that this is
      a pivotal time in history. Do you feel there is a New
      Age or to use Terence McKenna's term, an Archaic
      Revival coming about?
      
      Jerry Garcia: Sure, I'll go along with that - I love
      that stuff. I'm a Terence McKenna fan. I prefer to
      believe that we're winding up rather than winding down.
      And this idea of the 2012 when everything tops out,
      well, I would love to be here for it. I'll buy into
      that belief - I don't want to miss it!
   
   The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching
   
   Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of 
   Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human
   Evolution 
   
   Ralph Metzner (2001) Well of Remembrance:
   Rediscovering the Earth Wisdom Myths of Northern
   Europe. Shambhala Publications, Boston. 
   ISBN: 1570626286. 
   
      "Metzner’s fresh look at the mythology of northern
      Europe skillfully rescues these grand protean forms
      from their sad misassociation with the excesses of
      German fascism. The original power of the story of Odin
      to save and restore us is presented in a scholarly and
      thoroughly fascinating way." 
      
      ~ Terence McKenna, author of The Archaic Revival.

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