ARCHAIC—What we have to do is look back in time and find cultural models that served in the past...the archaic revival, an effort to jerk 20th century culture 180 degrees, and send it right back to the value systems of the high paleolithic, because that's the last moment that intelligence, language, religion co-existed with nature on this planet in a less than fatal arrangement.—Terence McKenna, A weekend with Terence McKenna
TECHNOLOGY—Shamanism. Use of the archaic techniques of ecstasy that were developed independent of any religious philosophy—the empirically validated, experientially operable techniques that produce ecstasy. Ecstasy is the contemplation of wholeness.—Terence McKenna, The Archaic Revival
ECSTASY—Literally: the withdrawal of the soul from the body; mystical or prophetic exaltation or rapture characteristic of shamanism and visionary states, originally and naturally catalyzed by entheogenic plants; also, such states artificially induced by breath control, fasting, meditation, drumming and other shamanic and yogic practices.—Jonathan Ott, The Age of Entheogens & The Angel's Dictionary
Even as one can travel inside one's models inside one's head, so can one travel outside or be the outside of one's model of the universe, still inside one's head (level or state +3 Satori +3: Lilly,1972).—John Lilly, Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer, 1967 Preface to the Second Edition
