Great Mckenna Interview

I read this awhile ago and its greatly influenced my thinking on a lot of things, particularly the fungal spore theory of how life was seeded on this planet:

http://www.intuition.org/txt/mckenna.htm

Highlight:

"Jung's criticism of Christianity was that it had not made a place for what he called the shadow, and he said the productions of Christian culture will always be neurotic because the shadow has not been included, so there's a lack of psychic balance. "

"Perhaps the UFO carries compensatory psychic energy from the realm of the shadow. Some people are very frightened of it. Some people see it as an almost millenarian salvational hope, the savior of mankind. I think that it's very powerful, that it haunts time like a ghost, that the messianic anticipations of Fundamentalist Christianity and Islam are in fact a picking up on the shock wave that the image of the flying saucer casts backward through time -- that this image of the New Jerusalem, the four-gated city descending from the sky to whisk the elect away to a better place, is a kind of prophecy yearning toward a fact in the act of becoming. You know, Christianity and Islam are the most history-obsessed of all the world's major religions.

MISHLOVE: Along with Judaism.

McKENNA: Along with Judaism. And all three of them have this notion of the transcendental object at the end of time. And alchemy in the sixteenth century was an outbreak of an expectation of a transcendental object in the nearby here and now, that would cure --

MISHLOVE: The omega point of history, so to speak.

McKENNA: Yes, it would cure all ills, confer longevity, fertility, virility, immortality. And I think that the flying saucer is an airborne philosopher's stone -- the sophic hydrolith of Paracelsus haunting the skies of modern America, with a promise of mandalic cohesion for the future, that science has not given us. Science has been a very sadly disappointing religion in the realm of the heart. The flying saucer comes from the heart, but it bears the very strange energy of the other in its manifestation as planetary goddess."