Modern Shamanism
Jul. 5th, 2005 02:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
perzephone
Just a blurb from a book I started reading... thought provoking, but I'm not sure what I think about it right yet. I've got to sleep on it. Even I can understand that, while Leary was talking about drugs, he wasn't just talking about drugs. Yanno that old saw, 'When the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear'?
What if there are no more teachers?
Drop Out: Detach yourself from the external social drama which is as dehydrated & ersatz as T.V.
Turn On: Find a sacrament that returns you to the Temple of God, your own body. Go out of your mind. Get high.
Tune In: Be reborn. Drop-back in to express it. Start a new sequence of behavior that reflects your vision.
Actions which are conscious expressions of the drop-out, turn-on, tune-in rhythm are religious.
The wise person devotes his life exclusively to the religious search – for therein is found the only ecstasy, the only meaning.
- Timothy Leary
We have no symbolic vocabulary, no grounded mythological tradition to make our own experiences comprehensible to us. We have, in fact, no senior shaman to help ensure that our dismemberment be followed by a rebirth.
- Stephen Larsen, The Shaman’s Doorway
What if there are no more teachers?
Drop Out: Detach yourself from the external social drama which is as dehydrated & ersatz as T.V.
Turn On: Find a sacrament that returns you to the Temple of God, your own body. Go out of your mind. Get high.
Tune In: Be reborn. Drop-back in to express it. Start a new sequence of behavior that reflects your vision.
Actions which are conscious expressions of the drop-out, turn-on, tune-in rhythm are religious.
The wise person devotes his life exclusively to the religious search – for therein is found the only ecstasy, the only meaning.
- Timothy Leary
We have no symbolic vocabulary, no grounded mythological tradition to make our own experiences comprehensible to us. We have, in fact, no senior shaman to help ensure that our dismemberment be followed by a rebirth.
- Stephen Larsen, The Shaman’s Doorway
