McKenna

[Anonymous No.17158160]

Are his books pseud trash?

[Anonymous No.17158168]

dude shrooms lmao

[Anonymous No.17158174]

they're interesting but do not engage in psychedelic experiences just because of this guy

[Anonymous No.17158187]

>>17158160
Mind-altering drugs lead to crime.

[Anonymous No.17158199]

>>17158187
avatar posting is against the rules. not reporting you or whatever just a frenly reminder

[Anonymous No.17158203]

>>17158199

[Anonymous No.17158227]

>>17158160
Joe Rogan won't shut up about this dummy. That is damning evidence he is for pseuds

[Anonymous No.17158233]

>>17158203
it's also not that funny to post peter hitchens in every thread, just being blunt with you fren

[Anonymous No.17158668]

pseud, but not the schizo type, more like the fun reading pseud shit. monke eat shroom goess hooman

[Anonymous No.17158679]

>>17158668
>>17158668
mckenna is not pseud at all, mckenna is high iq but would rather smoke hash than waste time inside a library

[Anonymous No.17158703]

>>17158160
No, he's just not that good a writer. An absolutely superb speaker, though. His lectures and talks are far more valuable than his books, generally speaking.
And he's not a pseud, just wacky. He's a pseud's worst nightmare.

[Anonymous No.17158719]

>>17158187
Based truth, slowly introduce psychedelic compounds into the general population's food supply

[Anonymous No.17158765]

Everything that McKenna does, Carlos Castaneda does more effectively.
>>17158703
He's just a scholar-dilettante when it comes to actual spiritual matters, as are most people who mistake the simple psychedelic experience for divine speech. Which is totally fine. He's very enjoyable to listen to.

[Anonymous No.17158937]

>>17158679
why sit in a library when you can blast off on dmt and access the akrashic records directly from the comfort of your own home

[Anonymous No.17158968]

>>17158765
>Everything that McKenna does, Carlos Castaneda does more effectively.
absolutely fren

[Anonymous No.17159116]

>>17158233
Wrong

[Anonymous No.17159146]

>>17158765
Uhh wasn't Castaneda shown to be a full blown fraud who made up tons of shit

[Anonymous No.17159186]

>>17159146
They are almost total (factually-informed) fiction, yes, but I believe my point still stands

[Anonymous No.17159226]

>>17158160
are psychedelic druggies ever capable of returning to normalcy after they drop acid one too many times? because it seems like even if they stop for a long period of time, they are permanently infected with pseud intellect. it's a real shame

[Anonymous No.17159382]

>>17158160
He knows many historical facts regarding various forms of theology and it makes his knowledge and grasp of such knowledge seem like an ocean when in reality it is a pond.

[Anonymous No.17159400]

>>17159226
You just have to stop getting high. People that do psychedelics often will have a baseline of daily pot smoking and perhaps alcohol consumption. Essentially, their baseline consumption keeps them from ever returning to a useful reality. As long as you go back to full sobriety you won't have problems. But none of them do that. They are all baseline pot heads.

[Anonymous No.17159403]

>>17159226
people are so smug about going after "hippies" and "druggies" as if the general population isn't full of soulless drones who think driving a new Jeep is the point of life

[Anonymous No.17159409]

>>17159382
Who doesn't like a good pond?

[Anonymous No.17159494]

>>17159403
if it takes you a radical drug-induced experience to notice materialism in the world, which is the most cheap and obvious criticism you can make of society, you are probably a retard

[Anonymous No.17159516]

>>17159409
You're right about that, but ultimately this means nothing.

[Anonymous No.17159652]

>>17159516
Then my work here is done.

[Anonymous No.17160015]

>>17158160
He is the definition of a pseud lol but that doesn't mean he's not enjoyable and occasionally thought provoking

[Anonymous No.17160089]

A very comfortable clown, from whom we may all learn in the same way we learn from all clowns. It's very funny how new-right "esotericsts" (and beyond, frankly) have latched onto his concept of "Machine Elves." Interesting interpretation of demons.

[Anonymous No.17160194]

I've only read Food of the Gods. It's enjoyable and he raises some interesting hypotheses. It's worth the read if you're into the psychedelic community. His other books came off a little too pseudo-sciency for me though.

[Anonymous No.17160540]

>>17158174
100% true, but for me he introduced me to see the immense connections psychedelics have with Carl Jung, mysticism, etc.

[Anonymous No.17160610]

>>17160540
confirmation bias

psychedelics are nothing but a confirmation bias derived from irrationality

[Anonymous No.17160820]

Terence had an amazing library: a 1659 folio of Isaac Casaubon's A True and Faithful Relation of what passed between Dr. John Dee and some spirits, and Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy and lots of rare Alchemical literature, that was stored by the Esalen Institute in their office space after his death. A fire wiped out the whole thing (along, I think, with some plays and short stories he was working on) and now there is a collaborative effort headed by his brother to get a complete listing of the books and manuscripts contained therein.

https://www.librarything.com/catalog/TerenceKempMcKenna&collection=254415&deepsearch=

[Anonymous No.17160931]

>>17160610

Try them and see for yourself then

[Anonymous No.17161410]

>>17160931
Do you only have an appeal to the primary experience or can you intellectualize it?

[Anonymous No.17161556]

>>17158187
who is this semen demen?

[Anonymous No.17161585]

>>17160931
I am deeply experienced with psychedelics

[Anonymous No.17161593]

>trip balls your whole life
>die of brain cancer

oh I am laffin

[Anonymous No.17161756]

>>17158187
material conditions lead to crime, retard

[Anonymous No.17161759]

>>17158160
that's willem dafoe

[Anonymous No.17161811]

>>17161756
>materialist
>current year

kys

[Anonymous No.17162047]

>>17160820
Surprised he didn't have a Picatrix