Podcast 417 – “Earth Mind and Monkey Mind”

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “Alcohol could hardly be more different than psilocybin in terms of the social values that it promotes.” “Warfare is the natural consequence of agriculture.” “I really see psilocybin as a kind of inoculation against the primate nature.” “Noting on Earth is as much like a man as a woman. We tend to forget this. And ego is not now a male problem. We are all completely infected by ego.” “We do not have group values. The reason the planet is dying is because we cannot place the good of the group above our own desires, consistently.” “The big news is that the rise of the ego has suppressed a portion of reality, which is that nature is an animate and minded thing of some sort.” “Culture is the condensation of language.” “Every society is based upon a lie of some sort. “Drug smuggling is like assassination, if the government isn't involved it never seems to really happen.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option