Ask Terence McKenna

...sychedelic experience..[0:05:00]..is as much a part of being human as sexuality, in..personal independence, uhhh.. child rearing.. These are th...

...d coordinated planning, an animal not bound to a particular social or sexual style – we have monogamous human societies, polygamous societies –...

...r deconstructionism. This is something more operating on the level of sexuality, emotion, devotion; it’s a feeling and it’s a birthright of the...

...[Audience] - Can you maybe briefly go into what your model for how sexual relationships would be in a society? If you had an ideal, how would y...

... straight people all went off together — and by this I don’t refer to sexual preference, I use “straight” in the earlier sense — they all went ...

...ed. I spoke with McKenna recently as part of an assignment for Future sex magazine (editorial decision squelched the piece)... PHF: Can you bri...

...The idea of sexual relationships between human and nonhuman beings is a persistent sub-theme through much of mythology. In the Old Testament it...

...timulus for all this if-thinking comes in two forms, uh, uh, food and sex. In other words we think about what we are going to eat, we construct...

...’s something that is as much a part of us, as ordinary people, as our sexuality is. And sexuality is not something that is dispensed by gurus; ...

...ck everybody else around. They control the females, the children, homosexuals, the elderly… everybody is taking orders from this dominance hier...

...of the human birthright. This is as much a part of the game as birth, sex and dying. Now, it may well be that there are kiliachasms(?) of time ...

...hat to my mind is the most astonishing facet of reality. I mean maybe sex is pressing hard in the second position [audience giggle], but these ...

...ant to tell you the myth that to my mind unites paganism, psilocybin, sexual freedom, the peril to the earth, and the hope for the future, all ...

...schools said, “You can do anything you want. You can have any kind of sexual arrangement you want, you can do anything you want. Do not think t...

...ence could be reduced to what fried called day residues and repressed sexual desire - didn't wash within 10-minutes you could tell that was not...

...i mean, lets be frank about it, into the diet. Then later we saw that sexual arousal was also a concomitant to admitting this item into the die...

...amples of this which involve what appears to be an ability to express sexuality in actually two morphogenetic forms. There are creatures which ...

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

...lusion is slash delusion, so the great social illusions/delusions are sexism, racism, xenophobia, egoism, so far- uh, classism. The world is ri...

...orism by the great Renaissance Platonist Marsilio Ficino — there’s no sexism in all of this, you just have to realize that these guys were prim...

... It's like going from the birth to the grave without ever discovering sex. It means that you died as an adol- as a pre-adolescent, you know; yo...

...all, it’s not necessary, uh, and it’s not expressed in lower animals. sex, as you descend the animal phylogeny, becomes more and more mechanica...

... that if you don’t have one for 12 hours you go into crisis. it’s not sex, like if you don’t have it for a week, you go into crisis. It’s not m...

...ays been, whether you present me with a diet, a social arrangement, a sexual conundrum, a work of art, my criteria is ‘is it shit, or is it Shi...

...enda, and we've been hammering on each other with monotheism, racism, sexism, materialism, for the past 10,000 years. We betrayed the aborigina...

...ike geckos. In other words, this is an animal which actually achieves sexual maturity in two forms depending on environmental stress. Spectacul...

...ties. Whatever your agenda is, whatever your political position, your sexual politics, your taste in art and literature and music -- whatever i...

...rences going on on Youth Net. If it's a work of literature, if it's a sexual preference, if it's a complex programming problem, if it's an issu...

... a psychedelic experience like going to the grave without ever having sex. It means that you never figured out what it is all about. The myster...

... undertaking [audience laughs] and, to this day, it’s thought to be a sexist observation, but when you go into villages of native people and th...

... fairs to be plunged into which was myself. And, uh, you know, women, sexuality, social signaling, intense emotion, all of this and everyone ex...

...cal substance thought to make one either capable of or susceptible to sexual activity. Over thousands of years this has been a recurring theme ...

... non-human partner. We're obsessed, as an adolescent is obsessed with sex, we're obsessed with the notion of alien love. We want this, and yet ...

... Well, I don't know a lot about Eros -- I do think if you smoke after sex, you're probably doing it too quickly. But otherwise my expertise lie...

...munication were generally one on one and related, probably, to having sex or aggressive physical encounters. But suddenly one voice could reach...

...nd I’ve been fascinated with it ever since. You know, it’s a bit like sexuality: It’s something which the Calvinist intellect would just prefer...

...d "he's stiff but he's steady as Priam Olim" – all this Dionysian and sexual imagery is fully explicit. In some ways more realized as a charact...

...well please in the same way that they should be able to express their sexual preferences, in the same way that women should be allowed to vote,...

...revolution. This is too good to miss. Uh, you know, it’s like placing sex off-limits or something and then expecting people not to find out abo...

...hrough it all. So it's all still TM: Yeah... ED: archaic, and there's sex, and there's fear, and all of these... the animals in this space... t...

... all forgotten – or maybe we haven’t all forgotten, but anyway – that sex on psychedelics is the Mount Everest of the experience! It’s rarely m...

...ho tilled the soil, had dirt under their fingernails and actually had sex to procreate, rather than dial up things out of vats. People will cho...

...o moment what is going on. You know: Now I am eating. Now I am having sex. Now I am flashing on DMT… and when that part of the brain gets fooba...

...ome computers, let alone interactive networks, virtual reality, phone sex, and so forth and so on. But this was all grist for the McLuhanesque ...

...tnership form of culture is characterized by peace, happiness, and by sex, drugs and rock-'n-roll. It is part of the inter-glacial cycle. When ...

...hird of the world's heroin. It is, uh, the destination of most of the sex tours that originate in Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, places like that, in o...

... of so many computers and emotions-- euphoric emotions not related to sex and all these things. We fear them; we say that we're moving further ...