Showing posts with label Terence McKenna. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Terence McKenna. Show all posts
Monday
Friday
...Spirit...
...the human soul...
...all of that has been progressively limited and chased down until finally , you know...
...behaviorists , positivists tell us there is no such thing...
...They say mind is an iridescence on metabolism...
...free will is an illusion , and human beings are behaviourally driven machines...
...Well , you know...
...that kind of cheerful horseshit will just not stand in the light of the psychedelic experience...
Monday
Saturday
...Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government...
...is concerned that you may jump out of a third - story window...
...Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures...
...and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing...
...They open you up to the possibility that everything you know...
...is wrong...
...Business as usual is no longer an option...
...There is no middle way...
...It's a world where people of privilege defend that privilege...
...with tremendous establishments of armament and propaganda...
...and the rest of the world slips into poverty , starvation , desperation , and death...
...This is the kind of world that rationalists fear...
...and it's also the only kind of world they can imagine...
...because they are bankrupt of inspiration and ideas...
...So the entire effort of the Establishment has become one of holding down panic...
...keeping the ball in play , keeping ordinary people and ordinary populations quiescent...
...through drugs which are not psychedelic , through forms of media which are not transcendental...
...and inspiring , but which are narcoleptic and deadening...
...This is the fiction that we live in...
...This is why our situation feels so schizophrenic...
Monday
...Between birth and the grave...
...where you are...
...is the world of time...
...The world of time , space , energy , and matter...
...And I think of it as a kind of a puzzle or challenge...
...if you can figure it out , you know...
...you're plucked off into some other dimension with new problems and new challenges...
...If you can't figure it out...
...you'll probably just turn back into a sunbeam at the end of the whole thing...
Saturday
...Woke up this morning with trouble in my mind...
...I tried some meditation but no peace could I find...
....Called up my guru , I asked him what to do...
...He said , Sonny you just gotta remember the first noble truth : ...
...You were born to suffer...
...You were born to pay your dues...
...And that path keeps getting longer when you got the Buddha blues...
Wednesday
Monday
...Have you ever stopped to consider...
...how many people didn't screw up , for you to be sitting here tonight ? ...
...You know , your ancestors , how many times there were opportunities for , you know , ...
...the saber-toothed tiger to strike back , or the hunt to fail , ...
...or the fever to sweep through , or the breast to go dry , ...
...how many times were there opportunities that somebody had their eye on the ball , ...
...somebody paid attention ? ...
...You are the inheritor of that process...
Tuesday
...A long long time ago – and you know , we all have different opinions...
...this is mine...
...I hope it doesn’t offend...
...but a long long time ago I took an oath to tell all secrets that came my way...
...Don’t tell me a secret...
...I won’t keep it...
...I’m against secrets...
...I’m against hierarchies , lineages...
...all assumption of special knowledge on the part of anyone in the presence of anyone else...
...is abhorrent to me...
...I mean , I am a true anarchist first and foremost...
- Terence McKenna -
...this is mine...
...I hope it doesn’t offend...
...but a long long time ago I took an oath to tell all secrets that came my way...
...Don’t tell me a secret...
...I won’t keep it...
...I’m against secrets...
...I’m against hierarchies , lineages...
...all assumption of special knowledge on the part of anyone in the presence of anyone else...
...is abhorrent to me...
...I mean , I am a true anarchist first and foremost...
- Terence McKenna -
Wednesday
...I think as you advance on the path toward enlightenment...
...it becomes harder and harder for people to understand you...
...and when you finally achieve enlightenment you can't say anything at all...
...and anything you say MUST be misunderstood...
...that's the proof that you're enlightened...
Thursday
Wednesday
...If you’re intelligent and you live past 40 you will outgrow your culture...
...Some people may do it sooner...
...but you have to be a complete idiot to just buy-in at 55 , at 60 , at 75...
...At 80 what are you still going to be doing...
...expressing homophobic views...
...voting Republican...
...and worrying about the A, B, and C’s of phony reality?...
...Most people get to a place where they just see it’s a bunch of crap...
Tuesday
...We've been living a potlatch existence...
...Just a frenzied...
...consumerist kind of unthinking abuse...
...And , I think , the best inoculation for that style of life is a stiff dose of psychedelics...
...You can't evade it , you know , ...
...it dissolves boundaries , ...
...it allows you to feel what you're doing...
...I mean , the level of denial in this society is incredible...
...God , we don't feel it...
...We read the newspaper , but we don't feel what it's telling us...
...Because if we felt it , we would probably be an emotional wreck...
...But there's something to be said for opening up to some of that...
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