Read any of Terence and Dennis' books or listen to their crackpot lectures on youtube.
I've listened to pretty much all of the Terence Mckenna lectures, at least once, usually more than once, and yes, I have read True Hallucinations. Sorry, but I think it's clear that this is more about your personal opinions on Terence, than it is about some kind of widespread resentment permeating throughout the Amazon jungle.
Terence was a likeable, witty character and undoubtably an incredibly articulate, gifted story teller. I think that if you yourself had kept an open mind when you'd listened to Terrence then you would realise that he was as humble and umpfront about his shortcomings as anybody else. For example:
but McKenna has to keep his brand running since nothing happened in 2012 like he and Terence swore it would with their junk pseudo-science.
To claim that they swore 2012 would happen is pretty fallacious. Terence was pretty open about the fact that it was a strange idea, just an idea, and that you should take his ideas with a pinch of salt. If you listen to him this becomes apparent. He doesn't need to prefix everything he says with clarification that he is stating weird ideas which he conjured on mushrooms; it's a given, that's his whole thing. He spoke in riddles and metaphors.
To start with,
these were Dennis Mckenna's views (pre 2012). Terence basically said that the date of 21st of December 2012 would roughly mark the start of a consiousness shift for humanity. I'm not sure he ever said that we were going to suddenly wake up in the morning on that date and everybody would have magically evolved in their sleep. He said that there would be a consiousness
shift. And to be honest, I'm not sure he was entirely wrong about that. There is absolutely no doubt that pychedelics are on the uprise in society. I've certainly witnessed people all around me 'waking up', and the psychedelics are undoubtably the cause.
Or talk to people who lead spiritual or religious ceremonies with Ayahuasca, psilocybin, or San Pedro in countries where it is legal to do this, these people do not like frauds like McKenna and others who go to their country to abuse ayahuasca, and promote tourism mainly so others will do the same.
Which brings me to this. I understand that there are problems associated with ayahuasca tourism, but there are problems inherent to doing psychedelics, or pretty much anything else.
Let us not allow our egos to muddy what's actually going on here. Our species is utterly corrupt and really is sleep walking down a very dark path. A potential cure appears to lie within the psychedelics. The time of the people of the Amazon is over, and many of their customs are going to disappear forever. It's sad, but true. Nothing is forever. Ayahuasca is spreading into the west, because there is a need to take it. Not because people think it's cool, but because people are experiencing a need to better understand themselves and the world around them (just like anybody else on this forum, I presume).
I'm not certain that embracing all of the traditions of people who lived on another continent hundreds of years ago is the way to go. We're moving into the future, not the past, and I don't think this is a time for conservative attitudes. This forum is an absolute testament to the fact that you don't need to be a shaman to take psychedelics. And you don't need to post on bluelight either. They're for everyone.
I'd just like to end this by reiterating that I don't think Terence was wrong at all.
I can certainly see the shift. It was never going to realistically be anything other than subtle.
