Reading 'Return of Quetzalcoatl'

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Original post: Son of a Montage

Highlight of the day: Reactions to The Return of Quetzalcoatl, a 'transmission document' received by Daniel Pinchbeck during an ayahuasca trip in November 2003. I heard about this a month ago, but only read the document text today.

It's a pity that Pinchbeck didn't learn hermeneutics or another tradition of literary/textual criticism, else he might have had some much-needed critical distance from what occurred. It reads like bad Cliff's Notes in some paragraphs. The mythological symbolism is garbled, the 'immanence' contradicts Pinchbeck's 'transcendentalist' stance, and 'material reality' that 'cracks apart' usually spells self-dissolution (Robert Anton Wilson points out that 'psychotics create their own realities'). There are some half-baked references to John Lilly's 'steady state' experience (during an LSD trip in a floatation tank) and other writings that Pinchbeck has read. The most dangerous paragraph is this one:

[indent]The writer of this work is the vehicle of my arrival â?? my return â?? to this realm. He certainly did not expect this to be the case. What began as a quest to understand prophecy has become the fulfillment of prophecy. The vehicle of my arrival has been brought to an awareness of his situation in sometimes painful increments and stages of resistance â?? and this book will follow the evolution of his learning process, as an aid to the readerâ??s understanding. The vehicle of my arrival had to learn to follow synchronicities, embrace paradoxes, and solve puzzles. He had to enter into a new way of thinking about time and space and consciousness.[/indent] Having been through a 'transmission document' experience in 1998 I can empathise with Pinchbeck's situation, and the insights he conveys. I'm concerned that people will take this too seriously without a grounded understanding of the traditions Pinchbeck writes about (William S. Burroughs' insight about 'word viruses'). Pinchbeck seems so damn sure of Terence McKenna's '2012' meme. Yet when I asked McKenna about this, he was upfront about being certain of great social changes but uncertain about their outcomes: 'Ask me in 2010'.

Self-liberation, by necessity, includes the 'self-liberation' from egoic consciousness masquerading as traditions that you've read about or immersed yourself in, and any 'transmission documents' you receive along the way.

The Great Work is never complete.


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Original post: Anathema_Oracle

It's always odd that omniscient beings come back and speak through backpacker trippers on really strong hallucinagens...why not someone useful like...I dunno the Pope or Jaques Chirac and so on..

As for the transmission, all I can say is that this Daniel guy has an excellent grasp of the english language and ties in concepts and themes really nicely! I especially enjoyed the part about being immanent and not transcendent, it was nice.

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Original post: Son of a Montage

He wrote a book called Breaking Open the Head which isn't too bad.

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Original post: Dracophoenix

I have dieties talk to me and through me all time while completely sober Then again I'm a channeler and channeling is one of my favourite gifts. I think when you are on some kind of halucinagen or for that matter any drug and channeling or getting messages from dieties, spirits and or powerful entities you'll get those who are douters saying it's the drugs that makes you delusional or makes you create a separate personality/persona.

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Original post: WindigoXXVIII

The Mayan Factor and Mayan Cosmogenesis by John Major Jenkins, were two books I tried to read. The guy is brilliant in a really acid trippy kinda way. I couldnt digest it at all. Im open minded, but it was just so weird.