Terence McKenna - What is a Shaman? What is a Shamanic Experience?

In just over 15 minutes Terence talks about shamanism and hallucinogens, we’re just going to touch the surface; and as always, he figures the simplest way to do this is just to sort of unload on you how he sees these things.

The shaman basically is an exemplar, a model, for how to be. Not simply how to be in the psychedelic or the trance state, but how to be in the act of wooing; how to be in the act of hunting, child-rearing, so forth. It’s a kind of exemplar that bursts through cultural conditioning.

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Terence McKenna advocated the exploration of altered states of mind via the ingestion of naturally occurring psychedelic substances; for example, and in particular, as facilitated by the ingestion of high doses of psychedelic mushrooms, ayahuasca, and DMT, which he believed was the apotheosis of the psychedelic experience.

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