What's to be done?

Terence McKenna talks about how to navigate in a world with a thousand different forms of salvation an excerpt from Seeking The Stone.

We know we're unhappy, but what's to be done you know, I mean we have a million minor fixes and people peddling all of this things, but somehow salvation itself became an impediment to salvation. I mean want's you see five hundred form of salvation been solved at prices you can't afford the very notion of salvation becomes obscene. You know, it becomes one more layer in the obscene layering that takes meaning out of life, and dis-empowers us, and turn us in a subscription customer, that seems to be how we always are been forced to end up.

The only way out of this, I think, is to... it takes courage, because we have to turn your back on your culture, in the most profound sense there is because there are many ways to turn your back on your culture. I mean if everyone is wearing gray you can wear green, that's one way to turn you back, I mean culture. But another way is to brake it's laws, now that's a little more serious, and you know, bring is big philosophical issues, but in fact the culture is an enormous arrow pointing "GO THIS WAY!" and you know what lies that way? impoverishment, madness, degradation and death that's where the culture is pointing. YOU CAN SEE IT, you can see it just look where we're headed, If everyone on earth aspires to the kind of lifestyle that you people can enjoy by heaving payed the money to be at a scene like this, there isn't enough glass, metal, and plastic in the planet to make that many jaguars, and bluebirts, and snowbirts, and all the rest of this crap. So what is needed is an awakening.

What is really interesting about the psychedelic experiences, it show's you a mental universe that you not only never suspected existed but that you could not have suspected existed. I don't think there is another way to it. I mean I'm not ready to categorically say there's not another way to it, and occasionally and specially at gathering like this people grab me and assure me that there are other ways to it, that.. you know... I want you to meat "Papachi", he's as good as psylocibin. "OH REALLY? I want to meat this man!". Let me say a little bit more about this, I will like to believe that in principle you can get to this places on the natch, Only in principle, however, because if some people say: "You know, this thing you described on DMT and pcylocibin, I can show you how to do that naturally!" "NO THANK YOU! are you kidding? Tank God I have the drung as a kind of marker, so what I know when I'm getting close to that stuff. If I woke up one morning and in that place and I couldn't not tell myself I've taken mushrooms, I will define myself as seriously discombobulated and wait to see what happens, you know? And people say: "Don't you think you are to be able to do it by yourself?" and I love this question! Because the answer is: "You can't do it by yourself!" that's the entire message of the last 10.000 years of human history, that the self is insufficient, that the ego will not suffice. The only way you are going to get anywhere is you must humble your self, to the point where you admit that you can't do it, in less you have help from someone who's ideas of home is a cow-flap. If you are willing to humble yourself to that degree then maybe we can get somewhere...