A mind-expanding workshop on humankind’s spiritual genesis, presented by the controversial author and ethnobotanist Terence McKenna. For many years, he has roamed the world in search of "the tree of knowledge" – his language for the botanical catalysts that changed the course of human evolution. Already, his books Food of the Godsand The Archaic Revivalhave stunned the scientific and literary worlds. This eight-tape set brings you face to face with McKenna at an intensive weekend workshop.

WORKSHOP HIGHLIGHTS:

• TAPE ONE - Psilocybin and human evolution; the illegality of human experience; understanding our prehistoric psychoactive roots; food and evolution; psilocybin research into improved physiology; how did the human brain double?; prehistory and alcohol; the paranoid ego is born; the waiting universal mind; psychedelics and human survival; Q and A session.
• TAPE TWO - Drugs and politics; disadvantages of LSD; virtual reality; detailed Q and A session; more.
• TAPE THREE - A psychedelic overview; ingestion issues; DMT; Bosch and the artistic vision; natural DMT production and relationship to dream states; ecology of souls theory; visual language and human language; Q and A sessions.
• TAPE FOUR - Logos and the voice of the dead; the “plastic” psyche; origin of perspective drawing and St. Augustine examples; examination of consciousness during a psilocybin experience; the bad trip; more.
• TAPE FIVE - Evolving scientific model; the need for a new model; how are random occurrences formalized?; science, the universe, and novelty; the conservation and concentration of novelty in the universe; more.
• TAPE SIX - The affinity group; India experiences; the question of extraterrestrial origin of psilocybin; theory of formative causation; reconnecting with the feminine aspect; more.
• TAPE SEVEN - Q and A sessions; hallucinogens from natural sources; properties of hallucinogens; "opaqueness" of early Christianity/biblical inconsistencies; apocryphaand Sudapigriphaof the New Testament; the Nag Hammadi texts; gnosticism; value of psychedelic experience; I Ching; properties of novelties; more.
• TAPE EIGHT - Computer as tool for exploring history; astrology and history; historical antecedents of present-day situations; the acceleration of time; cultural mechanics; the transcendental object at the end of time; December 22, 2012; more

8 cassettes in binder

11 hours

1-56455-206-3

AF00003

USD$ 69.95

Terence McKenna,who merged into a greater consciousness in April of 2000, was a radical botanist, researcher, explorer, and author who created a revolutionary view of humankind's spiritual genesis. For 30 years, McKenna studied the ontological foundations of shamanism and the ethno-pharmacology of spiritual transformation. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a distributed major in ecology, resource conservation and shamanism. Terence wrote many books, including Food of the Gods; True Hallucinations, and The Archaic Revival.