Terence McKenna Rupert Sheldrake: “Especially in Brittan, this declining confidence in science, and this declining funding of science has let to a reduction of scientific morale. Fewer and fewer people want to study science in schools or go into it as graduate students. . . . […]

This is the first part of an evening lecture given by Terence McKenna in early February, 1994 on the Hawaiian island of Maui. "Our [Western] civilization touches everyone on this planet. We are involved in a species-wide crisis, and it's a crisis"

"The absolute victory of habit is death itself." "Life is apparently a phenomenon in this universe considerably more tenacious than stars." "When the democratic crunch hits, democratic values will go down the drain long before they turn off the lights and stop…

Seems like the end of a lecture? Presented at the fifth annual Seeds of Change conference, titled The Bioneers.