Goddess Summoning Series P. Cast 1 New York Times bestselling author P. Cast brings mythology to life as ancient goddesses help powerful modern women find love in this paranormal romance series. Sign me up to get more news about Fiction books. We are experiencing technical difficulties. Please try again later. Titles in Order Sort by: Latest to First First to Latest. Isabel must travel to another time to seduce the legendary Lancelot du Lac away from Queen Guinevere. The handsome knight is a dream for any woman in any century.
But for Isabel, a deal is a deal. Now, the King watches as fate takes from him the mysterious beauty he has come to worship, knowing all too well that any interference on his part could destroy the kingdom he loves. In a bid to end the Trojan War, three powerful goddesses try to tame the incomparable warrrior Achilles with the love of a modern woman in this Goddess Summoning novel from 1 New York Times bestselling author P.
So much devastation—all because of some silly male egos. The worst of the bunch is Achilles, the Greek champion whose powers have made him practically invincible. To stop him would be to end the war. But the only way to stop a man like Achilles is to distract him—with something far more pleasurable than combat. The three goddesses seize their chance when a twenty-first-century beauty named Kat and her best friend perish in a car crash in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
But time will only tell if her independent, fiery spirit can match the unquenchable fire of his epic rage…. The mythical Venus helps a nerdy woman find her own inner goddess in this novel in 1 New York Times bestselling author P. After eons of helping others find love, Venus has no problem working her magic on Pea. But when the goddess herself starts falling head over heels for Griffin, it will take an act of divine intervention to set this love triangle to rights….
Goddess of the Rose. But Mikki would rather forget this family quirk and lead a normal life. His ideas are dense and rich, weaving Jungian archetypes, eschatology, process philosophy and Platonic forms together in a dizzying, but at the same time excillerating manner. It seems to me, that many people miss the point about McKenna, believing he literally speaks of alien communication and the apocalypse. It is a result of his usage of language, which is filled with symbols and metaphors. I read the book a number of times in a row, taking my time with every other sentence trying to grasp its meaning.
That is how McKenna should be read. This book opened up my mind and made me consider everything in new ways. I do not necessarily agree with all of McKenna's views, but his work is deeply inspiring and remain an influence on me. Dec 06, Chad Oldham rated it it was amazing. God, i love Terence. This book catalogs alot of his mind-bending ideas.
I remember a quote from terence that will stick with me forever "The deconstruction of reality has no bottom. Nov 09, Helmut rated it really liked it. Alles andere ist eigentlich eh, schon allein aufgrund der Wartezeiten, zum Scheitern verurteilt. We are not primarily biological, with mind emerging as a kind of iridescence, a kind of epiphenomenon at the higher levels of organization of biology.
We are hyperspatial objects of some sort that cast a shadow into matter. The shadow in matter is our physical organism. I think there's a very strong Calvinistic bias against a free lunch. The idea that you could achieve a spiritual insight without suffering, soul-searching, flagellation, and that sort of thing, is abhorrent to people because they believe that the vision of these higher dimensions should be vouchsafed to the good, and probably to them only after death.
It is alarming to people to think that they could take a substance like psilocybin or DMT and have these kinds of experiences. I think that if you do these things right, they give you plenty to think about. One thing that people do that I'm definitely opposed to is to diddle with it. If you're not taking so much that going into it you're afraid you did too much, then you didn't do enough. Not the way people will take it to go to the movies, go to the beach, this and that. No, I talk about what I call "heroic" doses and "committed" doses.
And if you only do heroic doses, then every trip will count. What is a "heroic" dose of psilocybin? Five dried grams will flatten the most resistant ego. It [Psilocybin] holds the possibility of transforming the entire species [humans] simply by virtue of the information that comes through it. Psilocybin is a source of gnosis, and the voice of gnosis has been silenced in the Western mind for at least a thousand years. Ist der Pilz also ein Orakel, das einem Fragen beantworten kann?
I don't necessarily believe what the mushroom tells me; rather we have a dialogue. It is a very strange person and has many bizarre opinions. You either love them [hallucinogens] or you hate them, and that's because they dissolve worldviews. If you like the experience of having your entire ontological structure disappear out from under you - if you think that's a thrill - you'll probably love psychedelics.
On the other hand, for some people that's the most horrible thing they can imagine. Mar 04, Johnny Cordova rated it it was amazing Shelves: A compilation of essays and interviews spanning , The Archaic Revival is a thoroughly satisfying overview of McKenna's signature ideas, ranging from the evolutionary importance of shamanism, time wave theory, "novelty," linguistics, deep ecology, the end of history, ufos as holographic projections from the future, and the symbiotic relationship between hallucinogenic plants and man. Archaic Revival is a phrase coined by McKenna to define what he saw as a 20th century movement and return A compilation of essays and interviews spanning , The Archaic Revival is a thoroughly satisfying overview of McKenna's signature ideas, ranging from the evolutionary importance of shamanism, time wave theory, "novelty," linguistics, deep ecology, the end of history, ufos as holographic projections from the future, and the symbiotic relationship between hallucinogenic plants and man.
Archaic Revival is a phrase coined by McKenna to define what he saw as a 20th century movement and return to the spiritual and ecological sensibilities of Paleolithic and Neolithic plant-based shamanism. Jan 23, Ava Johnson rated it liked it Shelves: Before delving into this hodgepodge of essays, articles, and interviews take note that the subtitle of this book begins "speculations on The approach is personal and phenomenological rather than empirical.
It says that one need not look to the priesthood, or scientists and scholars, or ascetic monks an Before delving into this hodgepodge of essays, articles, and interviews take note that the subtitle of this book begins "speculations on It says that one need not look to the priesthood, or scientists and scholars, or ascetic monks and gurus because the only experience of the universe that will be of any value to you is YOUR experience.
For McKenna, experience is primary, and experience is valid. Anything else is just idle chatter, an abstraction of The Real which can only be talked about and contemplated rather than felt. What I enjoy about McKenna is his willingness to take informed leaps into the unknown, to shatter all pretenses, to question every value and self-evident truth, and at the same time entertain the possibility that he may be wrong.
What seems to be important is not that we are right all the time but that we take risks in our thinking, that we permit an element of danger into our thought process. The man is several dancing dictionaries with an encyclopedic breadth of knowledge. This selection of essays incorporates everything from computer programming, information theory, esoteric and mystic traditions, mythology, poetry, art history, anthropology, mathematics, psychopharmacology, botany, biology, and more, all within the covers of this book.
In short, whether you end up agreeing with him or not, he is not a quack, a charlatan, or one to shoot from the hip and in the dark. I took many of the positions he presents in this book with a grain of salt, not due to weakness of argument but because of their speculative nature. I would recommend any of McKenna's books or audio lectures to psychonaut explorers, and to lovers of science fiction, or anyone looking to dissolve that pesky, semi-permeable ground of being that is all your pre-conceived convictions about the composition of reality.
If you want a more rigorous and grounded read, I would recommend "Food of the Gods," by far his best work. In this one, however, McKenna is not playing with the other children inside the sandbox of sanctioned knowledge. He absorbed those narrow boundaries long ago and has since moved outward to tickle the playground's weedy edges and take a peek past the chain link fence so that he may better understand what is there. Three stars because I just didn't enjoy it as much when compared to Food of the Gods, yet it wasn't as bad as some of his less-inspired books which were pretty bad.
Jun 11, Nick rated it really liked it Shelves: Im tempted to give this book 5 stars because it was just so entertaining. McKenna goes off the deep end in numerous parts, but he is also surprisingly lucid and rational when discussing seemingly bizarre subjects such as the "stoned ape" theory of evolution. The number of topics in this book is astounding, so anyone interested in scifi, fantasy, ethnobotany, travels in south america, aliens, Lovecraft, pantheism, , and a lot of others.
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Even though McKenna was dead wrong about numerous things, Im tempted to give this book 5 stars because it was just so entertaining. Even though McKenna was dead wrong about numerous things, the way he writes is very precise and easy to understand.
Unlike many "mystics" it is easy to see where he is wrong because he states his viewpoint clearly without a fog of mystical sounding "eastern" language. This makes sense, as he is more of a Huxely psychonaut than a Tim Leary type. Anyway, hes right more often than he is wrong, and his approach is totally solid.
After reading this book I actually have a decent amount of respect for the guy whereas before I kind of giggled at him. May 27, Preston Bryant rated it it was amazing. The only intellectual or noetic or spiritual path worth following is one that builds on personal experience. This man, in my view, is still the most important philosopher to have ever lived; he certainly changed my life. I hope his motives for a new generation of seekers is met wit "What good is a theory of how the universe works if it's a series of tensor equations that, even when understood, come nowhere tangential to experience?
I hope his motives for a new generation of seekers is met with an abundance of bravery. We need bravery and we need it now. One of my other true mentors. Feb 24, Cameron rated it liked it. This collection of interviews, essays and articles contain the most entertaining expressions of the psychedelic audacity that originally inspired me to track down McKenna's writings. Whether or not his conjectures are meant to be taken literally misses the point of living inside his brain for a short time, which is a pleasure.
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Sep 10, Marjan rated it really liked it Shelves: I thought this would be more like his other books; a developed argument on the subject, but in fact it is a compilation of essays and interviews. Not just that, it is also a collection of his wildest ideas. Although these things will not come as a surprise to anyone who is familiar with McKenna's work, it is good to have it on the shelf, since youtube videos don't fit there yet. Jul 28, Chris Feldman rated it it was ok. Another one from the crackpot shelf.
Nov 17, Henrique Maia rated it liked it. This book is a compilation of interviews of Terence McKenna as he is being asked by different people about the plethora of ideas McKenna was known to joust for. As a transcription of said interviews, these lose quite bit by being rendered in text, since Mckenna was mostly a very good conversationalist — the spoken word was his most unique quality; the text presented here becomes much drier than any recording on the same topic. Since this book is organized by interviews standing for chapters, even if the book lacks some overall coherence making it a bit harder to take it as a whole work, this also allows you to read it as what it is, a compilation, something to be read in many sits, not necessarily tying the whole reading together.
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Jan 09, Kenneth Moffitt rated it really liked it. The book was compulsively readable and activated my imagination with all kinds of theories about the nature of consciousness and psychedelics. Of course a lot of his own theories are probably way off, but his point which I agree with is that psilocybin mushrooms, DMT, etc have very interesting effects on the mind, many of which seem fantastical but all of which need additionally study. He thinks anything natural, plant or animal based, should not be illegal and that additional research could ill The book was compulsively readable and activated my imagination with all kinds of theories about the nature of consciousness and psychedelics.
Dec 13, Tom Weismantel rated it it was amazing. It's a book to read with a healthy amount of skepticism, as I'm sure Terence would agree, and even he himself seems to go back on forth of what he believes and feels, but I highly recommend this book nonetheless if you're interested in the historical religious background of ethnobotanicals and well as modern applications and a look to future applications of vegetable intelligence.
In a society struggling to understand its highest aspirations and its place in the world and the universe, McKenna's remarks left me feeling hopeful for the future. Nov 05, Mark rated it really liked it. Better than Food of the Gods. This is actually a collection of essays previously published in various magazines. Although he's wrong about some stuff, this collection is a pretty good source of the more esoteric topics McKenna has talked about. His speculation of the Voynich manuscript might be bogus, but some of his ideas are still good.
I think the main point is that everything is real. Anything you can imagine, anything that was a cartoon or whatever - is actual real. But we can't see or inte Better than Food of the Gods.
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But we can't see or interact with them as is. You don't need to know or see any of it to be enlightened. But, it just exists. The human mind seems to contain inherent virtual reality and a superquantum computer. But technologically wise, we can build these machines too. They can help and can be fun, or the solution to our problems. But a lot of people don't know the mind can inherently do this.
You can use them to model projects. You can use computers to model fractals but the human mind can generate them with the aid of plants, and meditations. It serves its own purpose. It shouldn't get past a certain point. That's all that I could understand what it could mean at present. It seems to say something like that. Terence said we should be able to program the visual hallucinations soon. It could just be an imitation or similar to the actual thing. The simulation is A. If we put the consciousness in the supercomputer it could be different. It also could probably mean nothing.
It's the psychedelic experience. It just is what it is. There's some speculation that technology plays a role, but no one really knows what it is. Apr 29, Pineapple rated it it was amazing Shelves: There is a lot to learn from the past, of course, and the archaic has a lot to offer. Terence McKenna, although sometimes very long winded, but also very likeable, demonstrates the liberating power of the imagination and the potential for change with psychedelics. It is good to keep the doors open. Dec 18, Ant rated it liked it.
As a book that, beautifully jacketed in silver and adorned with an amazing sketch for every enticingly named chapter written by one of the most thought provoking speculators of the future of culture, promised much, I expected more. For a subject so filled with psychedelic adventure, it got boring.
Another hang up I had with the book was that due to much of it being the spontaneous spoken word of radio interviews, the ideas were at times not conveyed with the usual air tight logic that Terence would normally, magically deliver on such bizarre topics. I found him 'messing up', if only in small ways on subjects which should really be treated with the strict discipline which he himself always attempts to apply.
While this can be forgiven, it was not what I was expecting to be reading. There was a strange radical diversion of a chapter regarding the Voynich Manuscript. I spent the entire chapter waiting for the tie in to 'machine elves' or 'Visual language' but there was little if any relevance to the rest of the book. And on the subject of machine elves; another let down of the book being not a single detailed description of a DMT experience, machine elves, self transforming language objects, or any psychedelic experience for that matter, only vague promises of what to hope to expect on a decent Ayahuasca trip, which never happened either.
Having read two other of his books, both missing any description of a DMT 'voyage', I was hoping this would be the one, but the book turned out to be a tease. I would not liked to have missed reading this book as it did fill in some gaps, though it is not a central book of his. For that I would reach for his experiential "True Hallucinations" or his deeply theoretical speculations of "The Invisible landscape". In any case, he was utterly wrong about the singularity of , no matter how you look at it, but I think he would have been the first to say it.
Jul 28, Pieter-Jan Beyul rated it really liked it Shelves: Today we're privileged to see hours of Terence McKenna lectures online with a single mouse click. So most of the ideas covered in this book, which is an anthology of articles, essays, travelogues and interviews, won't be unfamiliar to the regular McKenna fan. But this book is still worth having on the shelf because next to being the greatest bards of the 20th century, McKenna is also a fantastic writer.
As one of the few who dared to converse with the mushroom Logos, knowing how to handle the lin Today we're privileged to see hours of Terence McKenna lectures online with a single mouse click.