Thanks for your reply too. I find question in suggestion, if I understand — that a cognitive dissonance trap does or can do, anything but … trap…

Mine is mainly inquiry, and gathering sense of concern about myriad issues and considerations.

I’m sure you know about the fox who merely decided: why, he never wanted those grapes after all — after Plan A (grab ‘em and feast) didn’t work out.

A similar (to my eye) spectacle seems to be unfolding now, for better or worse. Whatever might matter, other than Must Love Terence, is getting a mighty heave ho. A new “Woman Scorned” theory about TM’s ex, letting on about “TM’s Last Mushroom Trip” … And, Dennis jealous of his late brother.

All kinds of new reasons are spawning from the woodwork, crawling out — why TM is simply above reproach or question.

Till this week’s news — I thought we’d have to wait for Dec 21, to hear why we all love Terence “Now More Than Ever” (as we must) — and why his ideas are more true and brilliant, why his stock has gone up now (what’s this talk about bankruptcy??).

That’s the problem I find in general for any such ‘psy ops’ — those who bite the hook most can’t ever get it out — only reeled in furthur than ever been before. And then furthur.

What perspective to put it in, is the final redoubt, as I find. What will TM’s followers have inherited, when the final die is cast?

Thanks again, I respectfully mark your words.

excellent questions! from what I understand so far, the legacy of Terence McKenna is both a cognitive dissonance trap and a means to transcend that trap. McKenna taught people how to think from a higher and multiple hyper-spatial perspectives.

i guess it would depend on the individual how deep and wide he/she wants to go and whether to come out *sane* on the other side of the Terence McKenna rabbit hole.

http://primal-page.com/night.htm

For directing my attention, my thanks to Sam Mickey, Ph.D. (Univ of San Francisco, Dept. Theology and Religious Studies): http://becomingintegral.wordpress.com/

In larger frame, ‘deep dive’ – I realize question of concern, perhaps — whether “bottom” can be reached, with the Terence McKenna legacy? Or are the wake effects bottomless in some sense?

Do divers eventually find bottom and – come back up for air? Or does deep diving only lead to — deeper, deeper diving? Never to come back up again?

In other words, is the legacy of T. McKenna mainly a cognitive dissonance trap — into which those who’ve fallen don’t get back out? And, swept away by the exuberance and inspiration of it all – in turn become fishers of men, casting his lines themselves?

Can McKenna’s ‘theories’ or ‘ideas’ foster cognitive dissonance, and a conviction — of ‘possibility’ not certainty (goes the refrain) — that mainly spawns abandon of reason or better interest? In other words, what is its potential for ‘inspiring’ new forms of irrationalism, even fanaticism, in his following?