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The Imagination must serve the ideal of the beautiful
If it doesn't change the structure of the human soul, then
We will have to go deeper, and take a walk on the wild side
Is it the coming of the superorganism?
It is going to define, to redefine what it is to be human.
technologies are neither Gods nor demons, it’s what you do with it.
But the dilemma of human freedom is that we don’t know,
we don't know where we rest in the universal hierarchy of good and evil.
what would we do if we could do anything?
Would our transcendent impulses drive us to a kind of angelhood,
or would we flop on the “sceney” side.
“It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.”― Terence McKenna
Terence McKenna spoke and wrote about psychedelic drugs, plant-based entheogens, shamanism, metaphysics, alchemy, language, culture, technology, and the theoretical origins of human consciousness.
A great excerpt from appreciating the imagination:
What we have been calling 'human consciousness' is the only consciousness there is. Uh, it’s something you tap into, not something that you evolve out of yourself. I mean, you, you required a local language to create a local model of this universal input. If your local language is insufficient then you abide in a, in a domain of intuition and I would- that’s what I would call animal consciousness. It’s a domain of intuition of, of being. Animals intuit being. But given a more advanced nervous system, a more advanced cultural toolkit, uh, the intuition changes into a- a direct perception and you begin to make poetry and experience loss and feel love. And, and you begin to feel the emotional outlines of the enterprise of being and how far one can go into that. Uh, I assume its infinite, or at least appears infinite from our limited position.
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