Ask Terence McKenna

...lier human diet interfered with the ordinary primate tendency to form gender-based hierarchies, and that we actually medicated male dominance out ...

...uthenticity and shed the childishness of historical existence and euh gender politics and all the rest of it and move on to the real business of e...

...we fell into history, that there was once a golden age of balance and gender, uh, you know, reasonable gender dynamics. And, uh, community, and, u...

...ipboards. The assumption has always been that Man’s mind - notice the gender slant - Man’s mind, is, uh, sufficient for the cognition of the cosmo...

...not constrained by expectation, class, the momentum of history, race, gender, the whole thing. But, for a child to make this discovery, and recall...

...ve our little private xenophobic agendas, our historical grudges, our gender obsessions. All these things which divide us and set us apart from ou...

...er to prehistory, to this archaic state and there, in partnership, in genderless, uh, self-organizing society, we begin to see the kinds of models...

...here are dominator societies and there are partnership societies, and gender has nothing to do with it. We can entirely overcome the bullshit abou...

...ng with sharpened bones, nor are you horsing around with your opposed gender acquaintances. Instead, you’re nailed to the ground in hallucinogenic...

...he psychedelic community is cleverly invisible because our choices in gender expression, fashion, so forth and so on, have, by crypto-osmosis come...

... of your culture. It’s not like your eye color or your height or your gender. It’s fragile, it can be remade if you wish it to be. And then the qu...

...ell, I’ll get a job, and I’ll get a significant other of the opposite gender and I will fit myself into this weird paradigm,” unless, for some rea...

...resently in the world, that cultural boundaries, national boundaries, gender boundaries, are all dissolving, and the consequence of that is litera...

... healthy, happy, well fed people of all races, political persuasions, gender preferences, and so forth and so on. And, uh, those people would esse...

...inate some of our political dillemas to that eprsist to this day. The gender friction that typifies human society the heirarchy structers and the ...

...ationship between the masculine and the feminine in human beings, and gender issues and so forth and so on. Well, if you go back into the primate ...

...otomy of the dominator culture. But, the notion that man – notice the gender thrust here – the notion that man could somehow bootstrap himself to ...

... it's not excessive testosterone? TM: No, I have stayed very clear of gender-specific denigration or association. Q: There are theories that anyth...

... about the partnership versus dominator model of society and gets the gender tension inherent in the matriarchy/patriarchy way of framing that pro...

... Eventually the male ego in every single one of us, regardless of our gender, will feel threatened, because it’s hardly different from death, beca...

...ssary to move us here. And feminism really, it has nothing to do with gender, it’s just an attitude toward being in the world that is open I think...