Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTPM_CQd6RE&t=6s
A follow-up episode on Terence Mckenna. Topics include:
The pathway from Mckennaism towards metaphorical psychedelic eternalism
Reconciling Terence Mckenna’s ideas with the ego death theory
Terence’s understanding of esoteric religion
Terence’s tepid defence of free will
Different motives for defending free will and determinism
Undesirability of the no free will position
David Hilman’s problems with official academia when presenting psychedelic theories of ancient Greek culture
The process of scientific advancement, Kuhn and Popper versus Feyerabend
Michael Hoffman’s engineering background, his focus on model building and practical problem solving
Terence Mckenna’s criticism of scientific reasoning and inductivist logic
Terence’s status as a radical and critical thinker
Exotericism and sober meditation as substitute wish-fulfilment
Terence’s attitudes towards sober meditation
Michael Hoffman’s characterisation of psychedelic tripping as loosened cognition
Max Freakout’s process of intellectual development from Terence Mckenna to Michael Hoffman’s ego death theory
Mono-plant fallacy in Terence’s thinking, Terence’s dismissal of LSD
The entertaining quality of Terence’s thought
Lack of metaphor awareness in Terence’s thought
Modifying Terence’s ideas with metaphorical interpretive lense, similarity to Christianity
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12 March, 2017 at 11:28
wrmspirit@aol.com
“The origin of religion is the use of visionary plants to routinely trigger the mystic altered state.” – Ego death theory.-
Religion was born from the mind’s challenges and awareness in the mystic altered state. What occurs in the mystic altered state exists within a spectrum/steps. Ball, for example, gets stuck at ‘unity’. Gnosis is born from the mystic altered state and expresses the mystic altered state. For anyone to say that gnostics did not use visionary plants is a misconception of the origin of gnosis. And that misconception stems from literalism. There is no such thing as gnosis without the mystic altered state. Right at this point is where Hanegraaf, through his lack of understanding and levels of experience, degrades the mystic altered state by saying it commonly occurs without visionary plants simply by meditating. He tries to uplift meditation into the level of entheogens which only serves as distortion and not clarity.
McKenna is another who did not fully grasp the significance of experience in the mystic altered state by failing to link it with the origin of religion. He, too, was half-baked. Had he been able to know the Ego Death theory his experience would have become clear to him and he would not have had to become a memory of wishful thinking by his beloved followers.
NS
29 March, 2017 at 01:35
egodeaththeory
Correction for Transcendent Knowledge podcast, Episode 9:
A rumor is talk or opinion that is widely disseminated that has no discernible source.
It is not a rumor that Freke & Gandy’s publisher made them reduce the entheogen section in their book The Jesus Mysteries.
I sat at a table alone with Freke and Gandy in a coffeehouse underground after The Jesus Mysteries was published. I asked why their section was so restrained. Tim Freke and Peter Gandy told me that their publisher made them reduce the section on entheogens in the book The Jesus Mysteries because having multiple controversial assertions in a single book would reduce the sales of the book.
o This particular report and assertion comes from a known, discernible source, me.
o I am the only one making this specific instance of this particular assertion, a case of a publisher censoring authors in the name of sales. The particular assertion is not widely disseminated; I am the only known person who is asserting that the publisher censored Freke and Gandy regarding entheogens in The Jesus Mysteries.
Therefore this is not a rumor, by the dictionary criteria defined above. The podcast is mistaken about what I posted. I posted the above assertion, multiple times.
— Michael Hoffman, Egodeath.com