"Rationalism is the weapon by which the ego segregates the world: Me and them. Inside, outside. My tribe, their tribe. The good people, the bad people. This is the neurotic response that somehow comes out of the trauma of our evolution on the planet."
“Is culture good or bad? Well, I’m coming slowly to the conclusion that, I’m not sure it’s bad, but it’s certainly a damn nuisance. It’s a limitation, is what it is.”
“To the degree that we are integrated into our culture, we are not ourselves.”
As always, eternal thanks to Lorenzo at the PS.
also known as “Drugs, Cultures, and the World Corporate State”
Note: audience questions have been edited out
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q69DmqUYBE4
Terence McKenna on the buddhist concept of the problem of the Parinirvana and Dharmakaya, and the essential contradiction of the Universe.
Music: We Plants Are Happy Plants - The Light
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHtt_QhsUUY
So many great quotes in such a short time. Terence denounces modern society, offers a shamanic way out, and outlines a better future. "This process of bootstrapping through language to more and more alien levels of beauty, which we call style, art, the revelation of the human soul, this is the vector that points away out of the iron prison of Gnosticism and the mute world of Sartre's existentialism, it is to recognize and take as one's field of experience, as one's rightful birthright, the full spectrum of human possibilities."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLZ75T6xX3c
"Nature is self-similar across scale."
Terence McKenna on the fractal structure of the world and time.
art by Robert Steven Connett
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT-bjR8Dxak
"Where we're headed now is unclear."
"Now, clearly, we have become a toxic drag on the rest of Nature."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpPu663buHg
"For modern people, it's more like an idea. You have to sacrifice an idea that you hold dear in order to progress. Because the ideas that you hold dear are exactly what are making you suffer if you're suffering."
Full Peterson talk "Psychology of Redemption in Christianity": https://youtu.be/DtiRzQMgBDM
The second talk is by Hungarian psychotherapist Andrew Feldmar, who brings up death and rebirth through a different subject.
Full talk: https://youtu.be/3qprx9AsQCw
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCKpGSxGe7I
Perhaps a little bittersweet remark on love by Terence McKenna,
from the latest PS podcast. Recorded in 1991.
3+ hours of McKenna: https://youtu.be/aAlaRdrcQcY
Music: We Plants Are Happy Plants - Euphrosyne
footage from Jason Silva's SOA series.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H8oTI2fgns