tagged w/ Terence McKenna
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The Tribal roots of the Tao
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An investigation into the long-obscured mystery of dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a molecule found in nearly every living organism and considered the most potent psychedelic on Earth.An investigation into the long-obscured mystery of dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a... more
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Post videos of the explanation of ideas that, when you first heard them, got you thinking differently.
There's more videos at the link, but post your own mind altering content in the comments.Post videos of the explanation of ideas that, when you first heard them, got you... more
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Supreme architect of language and class one philosopher explains how we can spread the alchemical-femine-cooperative meme to combat the dominator-tea baggers and scared-yes men-fearmonger-curved backed haters by injecting concentrated serums of Yin matrix tonic into the penal glands of all media consuming sea urchins....On the real though, let´s get down to spreading the message in new, creative ways that promote understanding, not fear and alarm. No more kitty snacks for the Defensive-Reactive domesticatio...We got feral cat´s and they rising up from the cutty cuts to bring you new form´s of discourse. These are the last days. That shadow looming over you...its the mind of a plant, it stands before you representing complete TAO. She wants to give you ONE LAST CHANCE...:)Supreme architect of language and class one philosopher explains how we can spread the... more
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Let me begin by saying the 'green movement' is a fraud based on junk science and even junkier solutions. Don't get me wrong. I don't aim to suggest that everyone trying to go 'green' is a fraud or that everyone promoting 'going green' is trying to swindle you. Most people fail to have a clear idea of what exactly they're promoting or consuming.
Yes, we have learned the 'audacity of hope,' and we are witnessing the results. As longtime 'environmentalist' Derreck Jensen asserts in this article ( http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/170/ ), hope leads to complacency about our situation here on this planet. A celestial body we refer to as "Earth." Buckminster Fuller called it Spaceship Earth http://www.futurehi.net/docs/OperatingManual.html. Unfortunately, based on the perspective of Jensen we must all give-up the 'American Dream.' In short, no more baseball, shopping malls or cellular phones or anything else that requires an element of human intervention in order to exist.
Yes, a hard pill to swallow. So, in other words the hope we feel when we think, if everybody recycled or brought a canvas bag to the grocer's or bought a hybrid or used solar etc, etc, etc; we would all be saved from 'global warming', and everything would be bright sunshiny days. However, the common misconception appears to be that by replacing one good or product with another that has some capacity for reduction of carbon emissions is somehow going to resolve our planetary demise.
The pollution figures are staggering. In another article by Jensen, (http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/4697/ ), he writes:
There are 2 million dams just in the United States, with 70,000 dams over six feet tall and 60,000 dams over thirteen feet tall. And we wonder at the collapse of native fish communities? We can repeat this exercise for grasslands, even more hammered by agriculture than forests are by forestry; for oceans, where plastic outweighs phytoplankton ten to one (for forests to be equivalently plasticized, they’d be covered in Styrofoam ninety feet deep); for migratory songbirds, plagued by everything from pesticides to skyscrapers; and so on.
The indication of output of individuals pales when compared with manufacturing and industry. In other words, we as individuals have very little impact on the destruction of our planet, other than insatiable appetite for more...but we're not entirely to blame for it. Although I firmly like the notion of accountability. Again, I think our myopic context of being 'green' has lead to even more folly and apathy.
In the movie Conan the Barbarian, Conan is asked what is best in life. I guess you have to ask yourself that. I kind of agree with Terence McKenna's Plan/Plant/Planet ( http://deoxy.org/t_ppp.htm ). Get back to the basics. The more technology we accept, the more humanity we give away.Let me begin by saying the 'green movement' is a fraud based on junk science... more
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I couldn't reproduce tones like these, I need practice, maybe in time.
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1. The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
Huxley's account of his experiments with mescaline in the 1950s make psychedelic use sound like a perfectly reasonable and admirable pursuit which would bring credit to any middle class gentleman. Huxley never wrote a dull sentence in his life and this is certainly one of his best works. If its influence of the likes of Timothy Leary or Jim Morrison is considered, then it could easily be his most culturally important book.
2. The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S Thompson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is usually considered Thompson's best work, but I much prefer The Great Shark Hunt. It's a huge book, a collection of the best of his journalism from the 60s and 70s, and it shows that Thompson had a far greater range than his later reputation suggests. His essay about Hemingway's death, in which he tried to understand why such a once-vibrant man ended up blowing his brains out in small town America, is particularly poignant following Thompson's suicide.
3. The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
This is Wolfe's account of life with Ken Kesey, the Merry Pranksters and the birth of the American west coast psychedelic movement. Wolfe knew that a detached, even-handed journalistic approach could never really explain what was happening, so he gave his book the same psychedelic viewpoint as his characters. The result is a wonderful piece of writing. For those of us who weren't born in the 60s, this is probably the closest we can get to experiencing it.
4. High Priest by Timothy Leary
Leary was a prolific writer, producing over 30 books and hundreds of essays and papers. I've chosen his autobiographical High Priest (1968) for this list as I think it is one of his most accomplished pieces of writing. It captures both the drug experience and the sense of discovery so well; the moment a scientist realises that the implications of their work are so huge that their life will never be the same again.
5. Sisters of the Extreme: Women writing on the drug experience by Cynthia Palmer and Michael Horowitz (eds)
Psychedelic use is split fairly evenly between the men and women, but the desire to write about and try to explain the experience is a predominantly male trait. Certainly every other book in this top ten is from a male author, which is why this book so important. It sheds light on the otherwise hidden half of the psychedelic experience.
6. The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux
Devereux's impressive and thorough trawl through prehistory will be an eye-opener for anyone who thought drug use was a modern phenomenon. Devereux demonstrates that this point in history is a strange quirk in the human story, a rare time where we don't have a structure for incorporating psychedelic use into our society. If nothing else, it will make you view your ancestors in a different light!
7. DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman, MD
The medical profession has written little about psychedelics since Timothy Leary, which makes this book all the more valuable. DMT, a natural chemical produced by the human brain, is a hallucinogen so powerful that it makes LSD look like lager shandy. DMT throws up some very big questions about the workings of the brain, consciousness and about the world at large, and Strassman does not shy from these. For those who think that one day science will have all the answers, this book shows just how clueless we still are.
8. Cosmic Trigger: Final Secret of the Illuminati Volume 1 by Robert Anton Wilson
9. Bill Hicks: Agent of Evolution by Kevin Booth and Michael Bertin
10. What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry by John Markoff
1. The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
Huxley's account of his... more
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