Redemption of the world through Magic | Terence Mckenna

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☿REDEMPTION OF THE WORLD THROUGH MAGIC☿

"We are living in the twilight of a great empire. I don't mean the American empire, I mean the empire of European thinking. Created in the wake of the Protestant Reformation and the rise of modern industrialism. The empire in short of science. Science has exhausted itself and become mere techni. It's still able to perform it's magical tricks but it has no claim on a metaphysic worth any meaning. Because the program of rational understanding that was pursued by science has pushed so deeply into the phenomenon of nature, that the internal contradictions of the method are now exposed for all to see" -Terence McKenna

This was animated from a 16 century piece of Alchemical artwork titled The chemical Preparation of Aurum Portable (Sadeler ll, Kilian, Geiger)

The Aurum Portable is the liquid version of the 'Philosophers stone'. A liquid that can cure all ails. Despite the pop-culture commodification of Alchemy the goal was not to create an actual physical stone. But the entire Enterprise being a metaphor for the psyche. The entire goal of Alchemy was to change ones mind and psyche. To delve into the subconscious and bring fire to the things undesirable until they were molded into something more pure. The ultimate goal being that of a mind resembling the Philosophers Stone. Having the ability to do anything. Go anywhere any be anything.