{"id":31498,"date":"2015-05-01T00:29:24","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T00:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.trueactivist.com\/?p=31498"},"modified":"2019-02-16T03:03:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T03:03:51","slug":"heres-how-psychedelic-drugs-could-radically-change-society-for-the-better-t1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/heres-how-psychedelic-drugs-could-radically-change-society-for-the-better-t1\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s How Psychedelic Drugs Could Radically Change Society For The Better"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"spiritualityy-672x372\"<\/a>Terence McKenna<\/a>,\u00a0self-styled \u2018psychonaut\u2019, ethnobotanist, writer, lecturer, freedom fighter and culture-doubting intellectual, was arguably one of the greatest minds who ever lived. He believed passionately in a basic human right to explore one\u2019s own consciousness, and he advocated the use of psilocybin (the psychoactive compound\u00a0in magic mushrooms) and other natural psychedelic drugs to do so. Controversial until his untimely death in 2000, McKenna<\/a>\u00a0was dubbed the \u2018Tim O\u2019Leary of the 90s\u2019. Ground-breaking books such as The Archaic Revival<\/em>, Food of The Gods<\/em> and The Invisible Landscape<\/em> inspired a generation to turn off the TV and reclaim their minds from the clutches of culture. This, McKenna told us, \u201dis not<\/a> your friend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Contrary to what his critics might claim, McKenna<\/a>\u00a0never played down the dangers of taking psychedelic drugs. He warned: “Experimenters should be very careful\u2026One must build up to the experience. These are bizarre dimensions of extraordinary power and beauty. There is no set rule to avoid being overwhelmed, but move carefully, reflect a great deal, and always try to map experiences back onto the history of the race and the philosophical and religious accomplishments of the species. All the compounds are potentially dangerous, and all compounds, at sufficient doses or repeated over time, involve risks. The library is the first place to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

For maximum personal growth, McKenna<\/a> advised taking a \u2018heroic dose\u2019 (five grams of dried psilocybin mushrooms) alone and in darkness. The idea is to plumb the depths of one\u2019s own psyche in order to discover something meaningful and life changing; not to simply abuse these sacred plants by \u2018getting high\u2019. McKenna warned of worlds with dark entities and the initial feelings of fear, panic and apprehension that accompany such an intense experience, but fundamentally he saw psychedelics as a human rite of passage, a gateway to the hidden wisdom of the collective consciousness, a profound spiritual experience for those who dared to lift back the veil of normal human perception and peer into the unknown.<\/p>\n

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