are disposed to think that whatever is thought to be right by them is what counts most. Right or wrong is what you think is right or wrong. Truth is not an objective truth.
God who is the source of all truth and good is replaced by the human opinion. I am getting more and more convinced that indeed only fools cry out that there is no God. And all the stats point to this foolishness.
Perhaps, religion may come as a nuisance when it becomes an obstacle to dangerous human whims and caprices, like birth control and abortion and other immoral acts.
But sometimes, human as I am, I ask: Is it really the truth or God or religion that I dislike or rebel against ; or myself, who do not measure up to it. .. no matter how modern my thoughts and my ways have become.
Terence McKenna and Mark Pesce at Esalen in August 1998. I think we have to have character models built of ourselves, and turn the whole thing over to our writers; and we’ll just go off to Tahiti, and the writers can — it’s the “Uncle Duke” solution. If you can turn yourself into a cartoon character, you can retire, and a whole team of people will keep you au courant. … You know, I think the only way to keep your career going is to retire the “bod”, and create an online character– a Saturday morning cartoon show apparently is where the action is. It’s strange — you know, the Net is denounced as austere, the product of the engineering mentality, so forth and so on. It’s the most feminine influence that Western civilization has ever allowed itself to fall under the spell of. The troubadors of the fourteenth century were as nothing compared to the boundary-dissolving, feminizing, permitting, nurturing nature of the Net. Maybe that’s why there is an overwhelming male preference for it, in its early form, because that’s where that was needed. But it is Sophia, it is wisdom, it is the penetrating archetypal female logos of the world-soul, leading us away from what was very sharp-edged and uncomfortable and repressive to our creativity and our sexuality and our relationships to each other and to the Earth. Virtual reality is a fairly new concept to us; but once you grok it, it seems clear that any civilization that was capable of starflight and longevity extension, and so …
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