c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…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…
…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.…
…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…
…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…
…and scrupulous and their eyes are going around in circles and he's telling: you know this is voodoo this is Christ this is Hitler. It wasn't actually this nuts I'm exaggerating for purposes but it was you know in his own head it was this loose. We…
…this time everyone hates everyone else's guts for some reason or another and Sarah and Sia who had about as much in common as Hitler and Stalin, are our buddy buddy because you know I've missed Sarah because it turns out Diane was right and there was a…
…them. I said that part of the archaic revival that they had exemplified a certain facet of it. Let me be more explicit. Hitler: One of the things that he did was that he felt the exhaustion of Christian values. He felt Christian values to be bourgeois,…
…Christian values to be bourgeois, so he tried to enkindle an interest in the nordic, pre Christian Nordic myths, and the Hitler Jungen were always going off to sing folk songs around the campfire and press wildflowers and learn about these great traditions.…
…the 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…
…see this: 1900, the end of the edwardian thing, descent into novelty. World war I. The 20s further descent into novelty. 1933 Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany. World war Ii is fought down in this trough. Now the tendency coming out of the post war…
…Civilization and Hitler's Rhetoric was entirely about that about a thousand year millennium the whole rigmarole. It really wasn't Hitler it was Goebbels. Goebbels is the architect of all manipulations of populations through symbols that have followed. He is…
…come true not that they haven't always been poised to come true I mean Frederick Barbarossa was identified as the antichrist, Hitler was identified as the antichrist. Late at night on my radio 15 years ago, Muammar Gaddafi was presented as the antichrist.…
…has been very well and absolutely convincingly interpreted as always the one person that people wanted to interpret it for, Hitler fit it perfectly I think: yeah everybody fit it the emperor, Barbarossa Everybody fitted it just by manipulating the numbers…
…of long ago. In other words it was a prophecy after the fact. As if we would, for instance today write an apocalypse about Hitler and describe the rise and fall of the Reich Out of the perspective, let's say, of someone who lived in the middle ages…
…millennia, five millennia, choose the number. Experience has been hierarchically distributed in human society from the top you get a Christ or a Hitler or a pope or it's a leader of some sort or a visionary and then the exegesis of the vision is passed…
…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 Koresh and some distort it. Maybe we like to think less a buddha, a Mahavira, but the point is they all distort it.…
…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…
…twisted and unhealthy their eyes were going around in circles and he was telling me: this is buddha, this is Christ this is Hitler. It was not actually this demented. I exaggerate to give the flavor, but in Sia's head I'm sure it was this loose. As…
…the incoming flow of data and adjusted. That's why the concept model is somewhat 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 a little more soft conclusions than to say: you know…
…what people were interested in was literally a return to normalcy. It was called that the return to normalcy. You know we've whipped Hitler, We've called down the power of the stars upon our enemies. Now we just want to go back and marry the girl next…
…by centering in on 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…
…gods, the whole germanic mythology is that the whole age will end in a twilight of the gods and one of the problems that Hitler had in reviving the German Gods is that that entire theology of those gods the entire pagan system of the germanic gods is…
…that as primates, we're incredibly adaptable to change. Put us in a desert: we survive. Put us in the jungle: we survive. Under Hitler, we survive. Under Nixon: we survive. We can put up with about anything and it's a good thing because we're going to…
…here and this is the franco prussian war and the American Civil war. The 20th century begins right there and all Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany right there. The moon landing is right there, and then everything we've been living through has followed…
…The whole germanic mythology is that the whole age will end in a twilight of the gods. And one of the problems that Hitler had in reviving the German Gods is that that entire theology of those gods, the entire pagan system, of the germanic gods is…
…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…
…by centering in on 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…
…satanic figure emerged for the projection being Saddam Hussein. You know his pronouncement about hostages and babies starving and stuff now Hitler, the whole sort of projection thing has got working and now he's become this totally evil power. So this same…
…millennia, five millennia choose a number. Experience has been hierarchically distributed in human society from the top you get a Christ or a Hitler or a pope or it's a leader of some sort or a visionary, and then the exegesis of the vision is passed…
…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 Koresh, and some distort it. Maybe we like to think less a buddha, a Mahavira but the point is they all distort it.…
…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…
…into a hypnotic trance to go and disembowel their neighbors you know and has so been done and one could even say that Hitler in a sense used some of the shamanic techniques of you know this torchlight you know the trappings of. So it's very, very…
…step. Of course the point that Rian is making is that that person can also take the next step which is the wrong one as Hitler did. How do you relate or how do you think of the shamanic experience and the shaman in relation to the idea of charisma…
…seriologist and ruining him would be a tremendous blow to paganism. It's like what would happen to the third Reich if you blew up Hitler is what will happen to paganism in England if you get rid of it the chances are that if anyone discovers it's a…
…first in 1905 and the general came slightly later. Down here in the bottom of this trough let me show you right there Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany and then all of world war Ii is fought. In the bottom of that trench, here's 39 here's august…
…through, they would run around with some kind of omnipotent feelings. I mean there is serious research being done about the fact that Hitler has taken mescaline and got some of his visions so not through his dark and deep wounded soul other than he did…
…eloquent to poetic to demagogic and demagogic is where you want to be careful, because then you can turn. You know, essentially Hitler turned history on its head with speeches. He just could really deliver a stem winder. I've been fascinated by the fact…
…that whole thing. People weren't Victorian, Ladies and gentlemen that they had the cannibalistic drive, the oedipal drive, the this drive, Hitler proved that 500 years of western ethics have you shoving people into ovens as a political course of action the…
…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…
…is a disgrace and to this moment, a disgrace. It's uncomfortable to look back at auschwitz and say, well the 30s the 40s, Hitler, those gray grainy movies this has nothing to do with us this is just some terrible thing that happened in Europe 50 years…
…and this is paralyzing, because if we start talking about redesigning human nature, people say: oh wow you know 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 know…
…up where the genes are, the coding for the proteins. 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 return the focus of attention to individual experience. We have been slave…