c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…It's not a software fix we're talking about it's a hardware fix. And no less a venerable commentator on culture than Arthur Kessler concluded after a lifetime of dealing with these problems that probably the only serious solution was some kind of chemical…
…within. Hey that's been going on for long before psychology was invented and Elvis Huxley you know him, yes, Gerald heard, Arthur Kessler. Suddenly some of the most interesting minds in the western world came to Harvard and began teaching us that this is…
…to medicate out of ourselves the lethal style of existence that we have created for ourselves as straight a person as Arthur Kessler Certainly no stoner suggested in a book called the ghost in the machine that we are evolutionarily so hardwired for murder…
…mean I've done it in high detail and with psilocybin but 20 years ago in a book called the ghost in the machine, Arthur Kessler observed that we human beings he didn't single out the males, but we human beings are hardwired for murder. That's what we…
…what we have at any cost against those who have nothing there doesn't seem to be any other plan on the horizon. Arthur Kessler, who probably never thought he would be quoted by Terence McKenna, a very conservative character, you'll recall he was a marxist…
…response and we are sick with it through, through and through no less a bastion of conservative and establishment thinking than Arthur Kessler in his book the ghost and the machine, finally concludes. You know we have to have a drug which inhibits the…
…advocate mass psychedelic conversion. The sly thing to do is to call attention to the words of someone who's dead to Arthur Kessler, great anti communist freedom fighter and scientific intellectual and in a book called the ghost in the machine, his final…
…one and one for all is not our style. Instead what we have going is a cat fight. No less a straight person than Arthur Kessler, in a book called the ghost in the machine, said: humans are so wired for beating the brains out of woolly mastodons. That's…
…states as given and somehow sacrosanct and therefore not to be tampered with. We have to actually begin to engineer. Them and Arthur Kessler has made this point this is not big news, but there's some resistance to it again I think a recursion of dualism…
…get it right but there was a picture of a mushroom and it said: without this you are not yourself. So this is. You know Arthur Kessler I think it was in the ghost in the machine said very clearly that he felt there was no hope for the human species…