There's something weird about human beings and so much of the explanatory machinery of culture is designed to make it go away. I think that when we start as we will tomorrow talking about the way psychedelics synergize and stabilize certain abilities within a hominid population then other cultural reinforcements can be built upon. Part of our strangeness has to do with the evolutionary changes worked upon us by virtue of our exposing ourselves to unusually high amounts of mutagens in foods, he says. We are not simply an advanced chimpanzee neither are we the sons and daughters of the Lord God Almighty according to him.
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“Culture is the sanctioned virtual reality.”
“They try to tell you that you're in a social contract, but when you ask to see your signature on the document they tell you that you were born into this contract. Well what the hell kind of contract is that? It means that you were born into a kind of enslavement to a linguistically powered paradigm, a virtual reality within which you will walk around your entire life.”
“The clue that something weird is going on on this planet is ourselves. Obviously! I mean, we are like a fart at the opera.”
“History is no longer rationally apprehendable by the systems which created it.”
“We're taking bone marrow from the children of the future in order to keep a corpse alive.”
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