Bawa
@bawa_garden
Bawa
Hamilton Morris interviews Michael Pollan
youtube.comMorris questions the premise of legalising psychedelics based on its medicinal/therapeutic properties. His whole thing is COGNITIVE LIBERTY. Hmm. Why does that sound familiar?
Last night at dinner talking about subculture stuff and I bring up my standard boring/reductive Q about “how punk skate hip hop etc had monoculture to rebel against, so what now?,” and a brilliant friend answered straight up, “AI will be mainstream monoculture-esque, and is at its core boring and average and uncreative, and that is what people will... See more
Michael J. Miraflorx.comI’ve come to the conclusion—and some of you may have heard me say this before—that culture is not your friend. That’s the final conclusion. This came to me a few months ago when I had my yearly physical, and as I was buttoning up my doctor said to me, “You know, in the nineteenth century, most people your age were dead.” And I realized that this wa... See more
Dreaming Awake at the End of Time
This is not a formulation I’ve heard in any other lecture. Pretty cool.
“An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he’s AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you’re constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you’ll sort of be alright.”
— Bob Dylan
What I think a psychedelic 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 the mystery of being. In other words, that solutions should be displaced from the central role that they have had in social organization, and mysteries—irreducible mysteries—should be p... See more
The Psychedelic Society
Common Side Effects Season 1 Trailer
youtube.comCommon Side Effects, Adult Swim - an interesting, nuanced take on the Huxley vs. Leary debate
Surprised the Terence McKenna admitted that Food of the Gods (which introduced the “Stoned Ape Theory”) was consciously a work of propaganda. This doesn’t mean he didn’t believe the theory, it just confirms that the main intention of the work was to change public opinion on drugs:
“Since I feel pretty much around friends and fringies here, it doesn’
Are there actually fake references in Food of the Gods?
This is the big picture. Yes, it’s coming; the monkeys are going to the stars, better smoothly or not so smoothly. It’s not clear, but the monkeys are going to the stars and they’re going to take everyone with them. It can be a relatively smooth birth with no tearing and no bleeding, and everything just moving right along, or it can be wholly disru
... See moreloadedshaman • Terence McKenna - The Psychedelic Society
the really important thing that can be done with psychedelics in a generalized sense is that they are inspiration for ideas, and that when you sail out into the psychedelic dimension you’re sailing out onto an ocean of ideas. And you can lower your nets—and there are many minnows and few whales—but the goal is to bring up something middle-sized tha... See more
Link
By Terence McKenna, An Ocean of Ideas