Thread: I am a shaman

Originally Posted by cmind

Your knowledge is sacred huh? Looks like we need another ego implosion.

I don't realy know how I feel about this comment....

I do know however that "sacred knowledge" and generally the word "sacred" is not used enough in this society. I wish there where more who used this word in honesty. I feel this lack of sacredness is gravely responsible for the darkness of mankind.

Originally Posted by Dthoughts

I don't realy know how I feel about this comment....

I do know however that "sacred knowledge" and generally the word "sacred" is not used enough in this society. I wish there where more who used this word in honesty. I feel this lack of sacredness is gravely responsible for the darkness of mankind.

Sacred =/= secret. Just look at a guy like Terence McKenna. Far from keeping his knowledge secret, he tried very hard to spread it as far and wide as possible. Because he thought it was sacred.

And isn't this website another example of spreading sacred knowledge to anyone who wants it? Lucid dreaming is pretty sacred, yet no one here wants to keep it a secret.

Originally Posted by cmind

Sacred =/= secret. Just look at a guy like Terence McKenna. Far from keeping his knowledge secret, he tried very hard to spread it as far and wide as possible. Because he thought it was sacred.

And isn't this website another example of spreading sacred knowledge to anyone who wants it? Lucid dreaming is pretty sacred, yet no one here wants to keep it a secret.

Meh. Thank god for that! I love Mckenna and I love LDing.

Terence Mckenna had some real issues (from what I hear, supposedly Dennis talked about it) with the way he presented his stuff. It certainly didn't vibe with Ram Dass the way he took the stage. Judging from the conversation he had with him that is on tape.

But ultimately, was Mckenna a Shaman? He was not. He was a profound story-teller, but he never consciously dared to make the leap to shamanism. Not after La Chorerra afaik. His book true hallucinations goes into shamanism but he immediately shrugged it off as a potential and never truly got into it.

Salvia has been a closely guarded secret for a long time before the west got a word of it. I believe Dream Yoga and Tibettan scriptures had sort of the same faith. At some point they announced that the west was ready to hear the news.. I'm just saying, Shamans tend to think otherwise.