[Spoken-word sample by Terence McKenna] Schizophrenia is a similar thing. I can remember an experience I had years ago: I was in the Tolman library at the University of California, which is the psych library, and I was looking up some drug or something, but then I just saw it and I pulled it off the shelf: a book about schizoprenia. And it said that the typical schizophrenic lives in a world of twilight imagining. Marginal to his society, incapable of holding a regular job, these people live on the fringes, content to drift in their own self-created value system [Spoken-word sample by Terence McKenna] That's it! [laughter from audience] That's it! Now I understand! [Spoken-word sample by Terence McKenna] We have no tradition of shamanism. We have no tradition of journeying into these mental worlds. We our terrified of the madness. And we fear it because the Western mind is a house of cards. And the people who built that house of cards know that, and they are terrified of madness [?] said LSD is a psychedelic substance which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have not taken it More [?] exhibited psychotic behavior from not taking LSD, but just thinking about it, then they exhibited it. Anyway, certainly in my family: I watched my parents both go psychotic … the mere fact that LSD existed they would never have taken it. There is a great phobia about the mind. The Western mind is very queasy when first principles are questioned. Rarer than corpses in this society are the untreated mad We have come to terms with that. A shaman is someone who swims in the same ocean as the schizophrenic; but the shaman has thousands and thousands of years of sanctioned technique and tradition to draw upon. In a traditional society, if you exhibit schizophrenic tendencies, you are immediately drawn out of the pack and put under the care and tutelage of master shamans. You are told, "You are special. Your abilities are very central to the health of our society. You will cure, you will prophecy, you will guide our society in its most fundamental decisions. Contrast this with what a person exhibiting schizophrenic activity in our society is told (is told, is told, is told, is told)
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