Mckenna Lectures and quotes

In 2011 and 2012 I listened to about 100 hours of lectures by Terence Mckenna.

Now I have decided to go through them again, like reading a book the second time, the idea is to get more out of it that was missed in the first go 'round.

I'd also like to save a few notes and things, even though this has been done extensively elsewhere, these will be things that matter personally to me.
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Psychedellic Salon Podcast, episode 31, towards the end of the episode (48:00), while he is answering the last question asked by the audience. Terence goes on a rant about the forward escape into the future. He then give wonderful descriptions of the inhumanity of corporate capitalism and other dinosaur institutions, etc...

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Psychedellic Salon Podcast, episode 146.
About 1:03:00-

"The real issue is what kinds of mental worlds will people inhabit. What kinds of hope shall be permitted? What kinds of value systems shall be allowed? And the value systems that aggrandize the possession of things, the tearing up of the earth, competition, classism, racism, sexism, have led us to the brink of catastrophe. Now, I think we have to abandon western cultural values and return to the deeper wisdom of the body, in connection with the plants. That's the seamless web which leads us back into the heart of nature. And if we can do this, then this very narrow neck of cultural crisis can be navigated. Very little of the past can be saved. The architectonics, the machines, the systems of monetary exchange and propaganda, the silly religions, the assinine aesthetic canons... very little of that can be saved. But what can be saved is the sense of love and caring and mutuality that we all put into and take from the human enterprise."

1:04:32-

"You know, there's a Grateful Dead song that says:

'You can't go back
and you can't stand still,
if the thunder don't gethcha
 then the lighning will'

and we now hold through the possession of these psycedelics, catalysts for the human imagination of sufficient power that if we use them, we can deconstruct the lethal vehicle that is carrying us toward apocalypse. We can deconstruct that vehicle and redesign it into a kind of starship that would carry us and our children out into the broad starry galaxy we know to be awaiting us. But, it's a cultural test. Nature is pitiless. Intelligence is a grand experiment upon which a great deal has been risked. But if it proves inadequate, nature will cover it over with the same kind of cool impunity which covered over the dinosaurs and the trilobites and the crossopterygian fishes and all those other folks who came before. So what we must do, I think, is see our future in the imagination, catalyze the imagination, form symbiotic relationships with the plants, affirm archaic values and spread the good news that what is out of control, what is infact dying is a world that had become too topheavy with it's own hubris... too bent by its own false value systems, and too dehumanized to care about what happened to its own children. So, I say good riddance to it. Bring on the archaic revival and lets create a new world."

QnA begins at 1:07:00

Go back to transcribe statement about "THEY ARENT HANDING OUT RIGHTS IN THIS SOCIETY...."


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