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The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.

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Jeremy Bentham

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Paradoxes3 mentions
23:40

…don't live by the philosophies they propound. Probably the most spectacular example of that is the English 17th century philosopher Jeremy Bentham who is known as the founder of utilitarianism and who proposed this thing he called the utile, which was to…

24:02

…thing he called the utile, which was to be a unit of worth that could be applied to work, art, objects, money. As a utilitarian, Bentham was a rationalist and an atheist but when it came time to go to glory he had himself mummified. And now if you go…

24:25

…on the left as you go in the front door of the side wing, there in a glass case, hat on head, cane in hand, is Jeremy Bentham in his mummified state, staring from a glass case. So he sort of had his cake and ate it too. So did Lennon for that…