Monotheism exhibits what is essentially a pathological personality pattern projected onto the ideal of God: the pattern of the paranoid, possessive, … - Terence McKenna
" "Monotheism exhibits what is essentially a pathological personality pattern projected onto the ideal of God: the pattern of the paranoid, possessive, power-obsessed male ego. This God is not someone you would care to invite to a garden party. Also interesting is that the Western ideal is the only formulation of deity that has no relationship with woman at any point in the theological myth. In ancient Babylon Anu was paired with his consort Inanna; Grecian religion assigned Zeus a wife, many consorts, and daughters. These heavenly pairings are typical. Only the god of Western civilization has no mother, no sister, no female consort, and no daughter.
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About Terence McKenna
Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) was an American writer, philosopher, and ethnobotanist, who advocated paths of shamanism, and the use of hallucinogenic substances (primarily plant-based psychedelics) as a means of increasing many forms of human awareness. His ideas often revolve around his novelty theory of the universe.
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Our culture, self-toxified by the poisonous by-products of technology and egocentric ideology, is the unhappy inheritor of the dominator attitude that alteration of consciousness by the use of plants or substances is somehow wrong, onanistic, and perversely antisocial. I will argue that suppression of shamanic gnosis, with its reliance and insistence on ecstatic dissolution of the ego, has robbed us of life’s meaning and made us enemies of the planet, of ourselves, and our grandchildren. We are killing the planet in order to keep intact the wrongheaded assumptions of the ego-dominator cultural style.
The global triumph of Western values means we, as a species, have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis
because of the absence of a connection to the unconscious. Gaining access to the unconscious through plant
hallucinogen use reaffirms our original bond to the living planet. Our estrangement from nature and the
unconscious became entrenched roughly two thousand years ago, during the shift from the Age of the Great God
Pan to that of Pisces that occurred with the suppression of the pagan mysteries and the rise of Christianity. The
psychological shift that ensued left European civilization staring into two millennia of religious mania and
persecution, warfare, materialism, and rationalism.
The monstrous forces of scientific industrialism and global politics that have been born into modern times were
conceived at the time of the shattering of the symbiotic relationships with the plants that had bound us to nature
from our dim beginnings. This left each human being frightened, guilt-burdened, and alone. Existential man was
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