ABSTRACT Despite differences, Georges Bataille, theorist of non-knowledge and atheology, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Austrian logician, share specific parallels regarding their understandings of language and mystical experience. For both, mystical experience pushes beyond conventional discourse. Using analogous elements of critical and mystical discourse, each express rather antiphilosophical,...
Terence McKenna’s Food of the Gods exemplifies the reanimation of tradition characterizing an increasingly anxiety-ridden consumer culture. McKenna attempts no less than rewriting human evolution in terms of hallucinogenic-mushroom consumption. On this basis, he contends that the liberated use of such natural drugs today would reconnect humanity to the Gaian mind of the planet, solving most of...