Ask Terence McKenna

...shop become the conventions of an entire society, and how it does its politics and how it assembles its commodities are all dictated by the invisibl...

...the 30-Years War. It's a wonderful romantic story -- alchemy, magick, politics. But the purpose of it is to make a statement about our own politics ...

...s. This is true. But if everybody had a devotion to Harry Winston the politics of South Africa would be much more complex. Uh, and it's funny, this ...

...ab becomes Mae West, you know, uh, all the personages of pop culture, politics, art, church history, Irish legend, Irish internecine politics are al...

...rink of an ontological transformation. When we get into this issue of politics, it’s a very tricky issue I think, to handle from a psychedelic point...

...-stop two week intensive education in humanness, third world colonial politics, Dutch Afrikaner history, a whole bunch of things I knew very little ...

...I finally got to the scene, and all this acid, and all this left-wing politics, and all that, then I understood, and... ED: So anyways, so you got t...

...through magic. It’s too late for science. It’s too late for hortatory politics. Well, it’s very interesting, every ancient literature has its apok ́...

...swers now, except technological and shamanic and psychedelic answers. politics has failed. Business as usual failed. Science failed. Religion failed...

...start treating them like machines, and you start putting machine-like politics in place and it becomes nightmarish fairly quickly. And so, it’s all ...

... simply because it’s what’s on my mind, naturally, and to discuss the politics behind the making of this kind of a film. It’s not a film about rave ...

...loser to home. Questions that reflect on our social organization, our politics , how we treat each other in the here and now, even with implications...

...anna talk philosophy or recipes. I don’t know whether they wanna talk politics or, you know, share experiences. So I want to, just in order to make ...

... religion is as concerned with controlling social groups as organized politics is and the, the uh, the visionary or ecstatic experience is unsettlin...

... here's what it is, and it explains a lot about our sexuality and our politics and so forth. All primates um, clear back to squirrel monkeys and lik...

... of grinding into, uh, pollution. So that’s the raison d'être for the politics behind it. Now here’s the spiel. Uhm, sometime in the last three mill...

...the shots for the last seven or eight hundred years. We can transcend politics if we can put some other program in place. You cannot transcend polit...

..., to halt nuclear proliferation, germ warfare, infantile 19th century politics, all these things. It cannot be accomplished through a frontal assaul...

...observation, stoned and unstoned), is that the cosmos, your life, the politics of this city, the history of Western civilization, is a struggle betw...

...nce, which is then as large a portion of my being as my sexuality, my politics, my education, it, it shapes everything. And yet, nowhere in the worl...

...y, shamanism, ethnopharmacology, altered states of consciousness, the politics of all of this, this is as intense and information-packed an exposure...

...exism, racism, uh... all the division-based consequences of old-style politics. And, uh, and people say, "Where then do psychedelic drugs fit into a...

...d to see why: after all, it works in the dark, that’s good; it allows politics, you can make speeches to large groups of people; and it’s – well, it...

... it negative uh because of their impact on our ways of looking at our politics and our social arrangements and everything about being human. RH: Ter...

...you may be able to sign on to that idea, just based on your alienated politics or something like that, but I mean something much more profound, I me...

...ing – because it’s naïve – leads of course to social problems and bad politics and bad social policy. Luc: Your stance has been to, at least, look f...

...s, that the key element to understanding our sociology and our sexual politics and all that, is to realize that psylocibin had 2 effects in the earl...

...ity. I think warfare has been remade by media in that sense. A lot of politics has been remade, because imperial doings are usually ugly, brutal, an...

...ut this. I think this is the key to understanding at least our sexual politics. All primates have what are called dominance hierarchies and this is ...

... an enormous dilemma for us, and an enormous distorting factor in our politics and in our lives. So my notion is that psilocybin, by promoting this ...

...as failed, and Western civilization has failed, and dominator-primate politics has failed, object-fetish consumerism has failed, the national securi...

...veil, not least among them science as ordinarily practiced, dominator politics as ordinarily practiced and the division of our human community into ...

...a democracy, and because racial problems have haunted American racial politics from the very beginning — that we tend to want to believe that everyb...

...im our planet from toxification, disease, overpopulation and bonehead politics. You know the list. What is the hang up here? What is the problem? Wh...

...ith began then! urbanization kingship, male dominance, representative politics all of these things uh begin then and uh are further exacerbated a co...

...chest areas on the planet. As if the inroads of capitalism and Maoist politics were not enough, you’re also going to get a bunch of clowns from the ...

...otic object in the Gaian mind. TM: So here we're coming very close to politics. I recently proposed that we form what I called the () Anarchist Inte...

...ause we cannot go to the stars in the ape mindset, you know, iwth ape politics, and, uh, it's jsut impossible, and very clearly we are on the brink ...

...ou see, and as a practical matter there’s no better way to succeed in politics than to champion the most out-of-it point of view. We live in an era ...

... other things. I mean, in other words if someone said but “What about politics?” I would say well, that’s a subset of feminism, and what about somet...

...h of the tribe will satisfy these myths like science and religion and politics. They do not satisfy. Uh, when I talk about this I usually mention th...

...uh, what we all experience as...our culture...fashion, rock and roll, politics, music, media....all of these things which we experience as the cloth...

...e, and it put the stamp on Greek drama, Greek philosophy, later Roman politics. All of these things were influenced by the hallucinogenic experience...

...ity, the presence of the cybernetic network that is devel- oping, the politics of feminism — all these things are going toward release of humanity i...

...ng a psychedelic drug. It is not a thing which makes us well with the politics of any institution, a university or research institution. Perhaps thi...

...cessity - are really not very satisfying when applied to the world of politics, love affairs, the social world of human beings. And that was where t...