c/psychedelic-salon
Dive into the archives of psychedelic thought. Lorenzo Hagerty hosts essential conversations on entheogens, science, and the counterculture.
…figure emerged for the projection, being Saddam Hussein. You know his pronouncement about hostages and babies starving and stuff. You know Hitler the whole sort of projection thing has got working and now he's become this totally evil power. So this same…
…among geneticists in the earlier part of the century. It got a very bad name when it was applied on a large scale by Hitler in order to produce a master race by having stud farms of blonde women, ss officers and so on to produce a new master…
…engineering world who are fanatical eugenicists, who think they can purify and uplift the human race. This is not a new idea. Hitler used to say that we needed smarter people for the improvement of the human race and this should be achieved by artificial…
…conspiratorial mode. You stride boldly across the landscape. It's yours. You own it. You think. You suppose. Oh, you mean if only Hitler were alive in Argentina calling the shots? It would all make so much more sense then that would explain things. In the…
…actually built into our psychology. And we keep trying to do it. We tried in the 30 years war. Not enough technological push. Hitler tried to do it. Close, but no banana. Now, the next try, we have this ragnarok, this wish for an operatic conclusion.…
…in on these. The hallucinogenic, ecstatic experience. I couldn't have done otherwise. It seems to me obvious, but I suppose to Hitler, national socialism seemed the obvious solution. So I'm not saying follow me. I'm saying we all have to respond in some…
…in on these, the hallucinogenic ecstatic experience. I couldn't have done otherwise. It seems to me obvious, but I suppose to Hitler, National Socialism seemed the obvious solution. So I'm not saying follow me, I'm saying we all have to respond in some…
…the genes are, the coding for the proteins, you know, does this tell us anything about a broken heart or a messiah or a Hitler? I don't think so. So what we are trying to do is, is return the focus of attention to individual experience. We have been…
…unfit. And this is paralyzing because if we start talking about redesigning human nature, people say, oh, wow, this is what Hitler was talking about. As soon as you start redefining human nature, you redefine it. Worse, the beast returns. It means, you…
…this. 1900, the end of the edwardian thing, descent into novelty. World War one, the twenties, further descent into novelty. 1933, Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany. World War two is fought down in this trough. Now, the tendency coming out of the post…
…planet would burn. And they figured it was a one in ten. And so they said, yeah, reasonable odds. Hitler's out there. I guess Hitler wasn't out there at that point, but those wily japs were out there. So they said a one in ten chance, and they threw…
…whole thing. People weren't victorian, ladies and gentlemen, that they had the cannibalistic drive, the oedipal drive, the. This drive, the Hitler proved that, you know, 500 years of western ethics have you shoving people into ovens as a political course of…
…take on it, but it was a very traumatic thing for my parents generation to go through the depression and then the defeat of Hitler in Europe and all that science fiction stuff about eugenics and what was done to the Jews and all that. And people were…
…the nature of it. It's no rap on them, it's just the nature of it that they distort it. And some distort it horribly, a Hitler, a David Korish, and some distort it. Maybe we like to think less a Buddha, a mahavira, but the point is, they all distort…
…millennia, choose a number. Experience has been hierarchically distributed in human society from the top. You know, you get a Christ or a Hitler or a pope, or it's either it's a leader of some sort or a visionary. And then the exegesis of the vision is…
…the illusion that we're all trying to maintain, which is, you understand me? I understand you. We agree, you know, Woody Allen is funny, Hitler isn't, so forth and so on. But if you start asking, then you asked for it. And you hear that, you know, they…
…Hitler isn't, so forth and so on. But if you start asking, then you asked for it. And you hear that, you know, they think Hitler is funny and Woody Allen isn't funny. And so we are held together by our assumptions. And this is tricky. I get this all…
…the incoming flow of data and adjusted. That's why the concept model is so. You know, if Lenin had said he had a model, if Hitler had said he had a model, I think it would have played out with more soft conclusions than to say, you know, a new truth…
…you know and to this moment disgrace. It was so comfortable to look back at auschwitz and say well, the, thirties the forties, Hitler, those gray grainy movies, this has nothing to do with us, this is just some terrible thing that happened in Europe 50…