c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…in this painting seem to be anywhere close to full size. Possibly it's a kind of fairyland. We have been conditioned by Disney to over stress the cute in fairies. Fairies are actually fairly peculiar and ambiguous entities to deal with. This may picture a…
…this is actually. Remember I mentioned last night about being in the baths and how it was like a Fellini movie crossed with a Disney cartoon? Well, I was thinking about that in bed last night, and I said, well, there was a simpler way to say it. The…
…that it presents itself through a series of veils. And it's so kind to first timers and second timers. It's like a series of Disney esque images. But, God, once you're into it, it begins to part the veil and you realize the human mind is just like the…
…thing about the mushroom is that it can be as friendly as it needs to be and can even reassure you with a Disney Esque burlesque of dancing flowers and pirouetting pink elephants. But once you are comfortable with it and enter the dialogue and begin to…
…presents itself through a series of veils and it's so kind to first timers and second timers you know it's like a series of Disney Esque images. But god, once you're into it it begins to part the veil and you realize you know that the human mind is…
…more like invaders from the rim than anything associated with the judeo Christian Tradition. Somehow in the same way that we have Disney Fied the elves, we've actually Disney Fied god too. And so you know the old fashioned phrase god fearing. It has a…
…than anything associated with the judeo Christian Tradition. Somehow in the same way that we have Disney Fied the elves, we've actually Disney Fied god too. And so you know the old fashioned phrase god fearing. It has a very anachronistic ring. We modern…
…thing about the mushroom is that it can be as friendly as it needs to be and can even reassure you with a Disney Esque burlesque of dancing flowers and pirouetting pink elephants. But once you are comfortable with it and enter the dialogue and begin to…
…know, there are aspects to me that we've never really talked about. Like what well like this? No no, let's go back to the Disney Loop. How close is the DMT that you smoke compared to the brain DMT that we all have running through? Is there a…
…be saying that there is a deeper reality that this is based on. Well and the DMT elves are a lot weirder than the Disney Elves. The Disney Elves are really sanitized. These things are pretty frightening in a way. I mean they are if you let yourself be…
…is a deeper reality that this is based on. Well and the DMT elves are a lot weirder than the Disney Elves. The Disney Elves are really sanitized. These things are pretty frightening in a way. I mean they are if you let yourself be frightened because…
…it presents itself through a series of veils and it's so kind to first timers and second timers you know it's like a series of Disney Esque images but god, once you're into it it begins to part the veil and you realize you know the human mind is just…
…I mean it's really about comic art but it applies to some of these issues of animation and cartooning. Well the great genius of Disney I mean Disney is my idea beyond Edison or ford or anybody of what we really mean by an American Genius because he…
…really about comic art but it applies to some of these issues of animation and cartooning. Well the great genius of Disney I mean Disney is my idea beyond Edison or ford or anybody of what we really mean by an American Genius because he had mice who…
…true American Yankee genius that he saw how to take a flip book and put it on celluloid and do all that. Yeah I think Disney is a very, very far out person. He went to the platonic ideas and came back with baskets full of them and released them in…
…slingshots with which to fell the global dominator goliath. And I said I thought I'd have to stand in line down here. Where's Disney? Where's everybody? Aren't you guys going to glory? And they said oh no, people don't take us seriously and they say we…
…good look at it because it is an object so fantastic, so unspeakable that I simply had to own it. Yes they sell this at Walt Disney world. It should be on the flag. It's like your first look at a swastika and when I saw it the sick thing was I…
…of my best friends to the magic kingdom for his birthday. And we got up bright and early and we rode into the gates of Disney world and traveled through the park to the happiest place on earth. And because I knew I was going to need some level of…
…consensus and advertising that this is just a logical product? Do I have to buy into this? And of course the hidden ethic of Disney as a corporation, as a media giant is that you absorb the media on all different levels of intensity and of course you…
…park when you want the intensified experience of information. It's really an amplification of what you'll get on ABC or on the Disney channel or in the movies, blah blah, blah, blah, blah. And so what they're doing is they're selling me a reality and…
…or ten thousand and send them out into the world. What I'm arguing for and I want to be very clear on this is that Disney is magic and you fight magic with magic. You spin the new words, you spin the stories, you get them out there, you get them…
…shot through with such a weird sense of zaniness, irishness, joyceishness I mean it's almost unbearable. It's so I don't know not exactly Disney Esque. Because their humor tends to be a little more savage than that and then that is part of the first wave…
…and I said I think we can stop hyping virtual reality. It appears to have attained lift off speed because you know softimage, Disney they were all there with mega million dollar outlays and they haven't yet figured out how to deliver it. But it may be…
…sense of strangeness that you get in the DMT flash although I suspect that what that is is that we've been polluted by Disney, that Disney has given us this vision of fairies as number two harmless it's the tinkerbell phenomenon. Because if you go back…
…strangeness that you get in the DMT flash although I suspect that what that is is that we've been polluted by Disney, that Disney has given us this vision of fairies as number two harmless it's the tinkerbell phenomenon. Because if you go back before is…
…of these things but the elves, gnomes and fairies of folklore are a little too predictable, a little too humanoid, a little too Disney Esque for what you're dealing with. These things actually appear to be as alien a form of life as it would be possible…
…at play in this space in just the same way we're at play in this space and in fact the beauty of it is that Disney Can't actually bring people to their site. The beauty of the web is that the portals exist and you may click on them briefly, but…
…up the learning of everyone and it certainly sounds like it's worth a shot. But it's not going to happen if it becomes all Disney and as it is now. One of the main things that children learn growing up is what Steven Spielberg varies within the theme…