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This lecture explores the significance of psychedelic experiences in human culture and history, arguing that they have been overlooked and undervalued in Western civilization. The speaker discusses the role of psychedelics in shaping human consciousness and behavior, and suggests that they may hold the key to resolving the crises facing Western institutions. The lecture covers topics such as the history of psychedelic use, the effects of psychedelics on the human brain, and the potential for psychedelics to promote personal and cultural transformation.
Terence McKenna — 5 recordings in the archive.
The book: True Hallucinations by Terence McKenna.
A major aspect of what it means to be a human being has received short shrift in our civilization bird at least a couple of millennia and that some degree the solution to the make a crisis that is bearing down Western institutions is to be found in a remit by the arcade and this takes many different kinds of forms it's nothing to do with what is popularly presented as the new age it's to my mind a much larger and deeper and persistent phenomenon that in fact the entire intellectual tone of the 20th century can be seen as the groping toward or recapturing of this arcade mentality this is what psychoanalysis this is what cubism surrealism and political so negative phenomenon such as National Socialism all of these various intellectual concerns to my mind can be traced back to a kind of unconscious nostalgia for the arcade now when a society feels itself be in crisis the unconscious response is to look back into time to attempt to find a previous model that seemed to work and then to crystallize energy around that model in a death in an effort to reorient society the last time this happened was with the breakup of the medieval stasis of the pseudo eschatology of Christianity and out of that chaos of that sense of disconnectedness came classicism in other words people were looking back into time for a serviceable model that could step in to the make a to choose of the discredited medieval church and what they came up with was platonic the loss of the Roman law the aesthetics that ruled Periclean Athens and so forth and to a degree we are still living in the twilight of that returning to classicism but it no longer serves and in its place is this inchoate grow thing for a yet another historical narrative that can somehow be contextualized in the late 20th century and give meaning to the experience that is coming to sweeping over the world now to my mind the Freudian breakthrough what the surrealist were doing what the abstract expressionist were the replacement of phonetic alphabet linear print culture by electronic media that has happened took the last 25 years these things are all well and good but they are insufficient because once you begin to zero in on the notion of the archaic mentality and…