The Archaic Revival: Speculations on Psychedelic Mushrooms, the Amazon, Virtual Reality, UFOs, Evolution, Shamanism, the Rebirth of the Goddess, and the End of History by Terence McKenna is a collection of articles, essays, and interviews that contain a web of understanding he has gleaned from his psychedelic explorations. McKenna described it as “my explorer’s notepad, my journey of travel through time and ideological space.” He argues for the return of the psychedelic experience into human society via shamanism and the incorporation of shamanic techniques within a scientific paradigm that aims to transform society, starting with the individual dissolution of the ego.
Publisher Summary
“Cited by the L.A. Weekly as “the culture’s foremost spokesman for the psychedelic experience,” Terrence McKenna is an underground legend as a brilliant raconteur, adventurer & expert on the experiential use of mind-altering plants. In these essays, interviews & narrative adventures, McKenna takes us on a mesmerizing journey deep into the Amazon as well as into the hidden recesses of the human psyche & the outer limits of our culture, giving us startling visions of the past & future.”