Ask Terence McKenna

...thought “culture is not your friend” Idiology is not your friend, and ideology- some people think what we’re trying to do here is sort out good ideo...

...edelic "Net", one of the things that is finished with them forever is ideology. ideology is poisonous. It's not that there are good ideologies and b...

...ate two principles. The primacy of experience and the toxic nature of ideology. This to me is the core. If the New Age, the archaic revival, can exe...

...ad money drives out good money.” And I think it’s even more true with ideology. Squirrelly ideas drive out ideas of depth and substance. There’s a k...

...solutions, and propaganda. By Ellul’s understanding, I agree. I think ideology is toxic. All ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad one...

...er… if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found. ideology is extremely alien to art. Political ideology, I mean. And if you wil...

... you will end up beating human beings like metal on the anvil of your ideology. And this creates great human suffering and, uhh, historical catastro...

... modern science and the acceleration of the toxic consequences of bad ideology, we now come to the 20th century. Throughout the 20th century there h...

... so many classes and outlooks is that it’s an experience. It’s not an ideology. So we’re not talking something which competes on a level with say Ma...

..., is its open-‐ended and provisional nature as opposed to every other ideology or point of view that's running around. We have to -- what the psyche...

...chedelic society, what that notion means or implies to me in terms of ideology, is the idea of creating a society which always lives in the light of...

...paganda" well, you know, people howl to the high heavens. But in fact ideology which is a kind of street corner form of metaphysics, ideology has be...

...nd it may seems strange in this venue, but perhaps not: the idea that ideology is not our friend. It is not a matter of choosing from a smorgasbord ...

...sured, most people disagree, uh, but I’ve come to the conclusion that ideology, beliefs, and then in the broader context, culture, is not our friend...

...ecure over all the decades and the, you know, embracing one idea, one ideology after another. The one thing that seems secure is a truth that is har...

...rt. Because, there is no theory, there is no abstraction, there is no ideology. I mean democracy is as close as you can get, uh, to anarchy, and sti...

... non, if you will, is the psychedelic experience, because it's not an ideology, it's not something that you get from Baba if you clean up around the...

...e are the way we are. The major thing now is that we have transcended ideology. Nobody gives a hoot whether you’re a Marxist or any of that anymore ...

...ndous force to revivify the spirit, particularly because it is not an ideology. It is not something someone figured out. It is an experience and thi...

...ing, the feedback from which has given us an overpopulated, polluted, ideology-obsessed, unresponsive planet. One of the things that’s so striking a...

...e legacy of the Christian centuries under the reign of this demiurgic ideology. And they conceived of the notion of saving us. And it, it has to do ...

...ing about who don't use drugs. And so we can't know what upheavals of ideology they have been through. When there is a tradition which, um, supports...

...fficult to discern are burgeoning populations and then the abusing of ideology, so that people are not invited to live simple agrarian lives in devo...

...orlds, gods of this, gods of that. It isn’t united as a phenomenon by ideology, it’s united by its technologies, which are trance, alteration of con...

... psychedelics. The connection is both of these things operate without ideology and with a tremendous emphasis on the felt presence of the immediate ...

...t to sedate themselves. Who are we to stand in their way with a moral ideology, uh, and the long heavy arm of the law to interfere with that. It dis...

...hallucinogens is particularly effective, simply because it transcends ideology, it transcends ritual, it goes directly to the physical brain, and by...

...st unit of an idea. It’s like what a gene is to biology, a meme is to ideology. Our task is to create memes. Madonna is a meme, Catholicism is a mem...

... it's too horrible, but, you know, you can anaesthetize yourself with ideology, with wealth, with distance, with religious obsession and so forth an...

...applause]. Well, if science gets one free miracle, then I think every ideology ought to be given, uh, the same advantage. So I think that the miracl...

...rmetic magical view, human beings are not tainted by original sin. No ideology is without the potential of abuse. The Hermetic attitude in the Renai...

... human species phenomena can be induced which are so corrosive to the ideology currently in place that there underpinnings are cutaway, there validi...

...ent. What we see in the Soviet Union today is a hang-up, they have an ideology which allows no means to the next level of ascent. They are caught fo...

...ritually, has played the role of the prodigal son. We, for reasons of ideology, botanical geography, other factors have not had visionary ecstatic h...