c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…of immediate experience. And the drugs work there like foods they're not really that different than foods. Like it says in the Jefferson Airplane song it feeds your head I guess she was actually quoting lewis Carroll but in any case it feeds your head.…
…and I think the forward stride into the defining of human freedom took its last great steps forward under American Inspiration that Jefferson and those people actually were on to something but what we have now has nothing to do with it. I mean this…
…to me that well no you don't understand. Hamilton wanted it to say life, liberty and the right to own property, and Jefferson objected. So they decided they'd put in language that was meaningless so they settled on the pursuit of happiness but I say…
…of course one person, one vote any other scheme seems wildly artificial in the Face of that. But you see democracy as Jefferson and John Stuart Mill envisioned it they couldn't conceive of Madison Avenue, the invasive penetration of media and this sort of…
…I think that in spite of the Clinton Hiatus, that the politics of light have not yet come to settle on the land of Jefferson and that we should be prepared on a moment's notice, basically to yes to decamp to Prague and conduct all this from there.…
…corrupted by the agenda of capitalism that it's amazing that we have any rights at all left. And you know thank god for Jefferson and thank god for the constitution every time I go to England it just gives me the absolute willies. I mean these people…