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08c5e3747f8d-36 | Okay. I think several people at once asked, “Where do you get it?” You must each have your own favorite rare plant dealer. I, I don’t work for any rare plant dealer and every time I mention one thousands of dollars flow into their coffers which leaves me feeling slightly weird. Nevertheless, Of The Jungle, PO Box 1801,... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Conversations+on+the+Edge+of+Magic |
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441363540d32-1 | So I wanted to talk about this. I’ll talk for a while and then we’ll break and have an intermission. I’ll sign books if anybody needs a book signed. Then we’ll come back and do Q&A on this until we’re sick of it basically.
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441363540d32-2 | I had a biologist tell me once, “If genes aren’t involved, it ain’t evolution.” So that means you can’t talk about the evolution of the Earth as a physical body. You can’t talk about the evolution of human social institutions. Evolution is somehow a word appropriate to biology and appropriate nowhere else. This brings ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Eros+and+the+Eschaton |
441363540d32-3 | As the universe cooled, simply cooled, new kinds of phenomena, we say emerged out of the situation. As the universe cooled, atomic nuclei could form and electrons could settle in to stable orbits. As the universe further cooled, the chemical bond became a possibility. Still later the hydrogen bond…which is a weaker bon... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Eros+and+the+Eschaton |
441363540d32-4 | Out of that life come eukaryotes, nucleated cells and then complex colonies of cells. Then cell specialization – leading to higher animals, to social animals, leading to complex social systems, leading to technologies, leading to globe girdling, electronically based, information transfer oriented cultures like ourselve... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Eros+and+the+Eschaton |
441363540d32-5 | So this is a general law of the universe overlooked by science. Out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say that the universe, nature, is a novelty conserving or complexity conversing engine. It makes complexity and it preserves it and it uses it as the basis for further complexity. Now, there’s m... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Eros+and+the+Eschaton |
441363540d32-6 | Well you see since the rise of western monotheism, the human experience has been marginalized. We have been told that we were unimportant in the cosmic drama. But we now know from the feedback that we’re getting from the impact of human culture on the earth that we are a major factor shaping the temperatures of the oce... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Eros+and+the+Eschaton |
441363540d32-7 | All of this complexification is occurring at a faster and faster rate. This brings me then to the second quality or phenomena that science has overlooked, which is the acceleration of complexification. The early history of the universe proceeded with excruciating slowness then life took hold in the oceans of this plane... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Eros+and+the+Eschaton |
441363540d32-8 | It’s a catastrophe in the process of happening. It begins with animals kept in balance by natural selection and it ends with a global Internet of electronic information transfer and a language using species hurling its instruments towards the stars. There is no reason for us to suppose that this process of acceleration... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Eros+and+the+Eschaton |
441363540d32-9 | So two factors relating to eros: the movement into complexity and the fact that that movement goes ever faster. The second quality, the acceleration of the movement into novelty, leads me to the third point, which is I suppose more controversial. I am frankly willing to admit that my sensitivity to this third point is ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Eros+and+the+Eschaton |
441363540d32-10 | You are paying attention, aren’t you? Or the idea that it’s some kind of magnifying glass into the personal unconscious – your trauma, your childhood memories, your satanic abuse your parents laid on you, so forth and so on. The model which I like is a geometric model and says simply that since the rise of the Greek al... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Eros+and+the+Eschaton |
441363540d32-11 | This is a journey of dimensionality and essentially what animals are that plants are not are life forms mobile in a very conscious way in the spatial dimension. This is why from the point of view of evolutionary biologists animals are somehow more advanced than plants. Well if conquest of dimensionality is the criteria... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Eros+and+the+Eschaton |
441363540d32-12 | What this conquest of dimensionality comes to be in the presence of psychedelics is an anticipation of the future. We can anticipate the future. We know to within microseconds when the sun will rise. We know within a few percentage points where the prime rate will be in six months. Some things we can predict fairly clo... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Eros+and+the+Eschaton |
441363540d32-13 | It’s very important to science to eliminate from its thinking any suspicion that this eschaton might exist because if it were to exist, it word impart to reality a purpose, you see. If the eschaton exists then it’s like a goal or an attraction point or an energy sync toward which historical process is being moved. Scie... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Eros+and+the+Eschaton |
441363540d32-14 | The problem with this is that it does not fulfill out intuitions about reality. We can see that evolution, biological evolution, has built on chemical systems. We can see that social and historical systems build on biology. As people with open minds or as open as they can be inside this culture, we nevertheless have th... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Eros+and+the+Eschaton |
441363540d32-15 | We are the inheritors of immense momentum in our social systems, our philosophical and scientific and technological approaches to the world. Because we’re driving the historical vehicle with a rearview mirror, it appears to us that we’re headed straight into a brick wall at a thousand miles an hour. It appears that we ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Eros+and+the+Eschaton |
441363540d32-16 | You know there is a lot of talk about cultural death and disenfranchisement and it’s usually couched in terms of some happy naked people in the rainforest or in Tajikistan making their rugs or milking their camels or something - and isn’t it too bad that their culture is being blown up and traded in for mall culture an... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Eros+and+the+Eschaton |
441363540d32-17 | To me, the most confounding datum of the psychedelic experience is this thing, which I call the eschaton and I want to talk about it a little bit this evening because I think it is the hardest thing for people to grasp about my particular rap. Sometimes I’ve talked to many of you about psychedelic plants, shamanism, te... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Eros+and+the+Eschaton |
441363540d32-18 | The hard swallow built into science is this business about the Big Bang. Now let’s give this a little attention here. This is the notion that the universe, for no reason, sprang from nothing in a single instant. Well, now before we dissect this, notice that this is the limit test for credulity. Whether you believe this... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Eros+and+the+Eschaton |
441363540d32-19 | Well I say then, if science gets one free miracle then everybody gets one free miracle. I perceive that it is true when you build these large scale cosmogonic theories that you have to have kind of an umbilical cord to start from that is different from all other points in the system. So if we have to have a singularity... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Eros+and+the+Eschaton |
441363540d32-20 | You don’t have to be rocket scientist to see that human society, human history, human art, human literature, represent things for which there is no analog in the world of wasps, groundhogs, killer whales and so forth and so on. In our species, complexity has turned inward upon itself and in our species. Time has accele... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Eros+and+the+Eschaton |
441363540d32-21 | History then is ending. History is a kind of gestation process. It’s a kind of metamorphosis. It’s an episode in the life of a species. If you think of the simple example of metamorphosis, that of caterpillar to butterfly, we all know that there is this intermediate resting stage where the caterpillar is for all practi... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Eros+and+the+Eschaton |
441363540d32-22 | It’s a period of high risk. It’s like what a butterfly is doing in the cocoon or what is happening to a child in the womb. It’s a gestation process where one form of life is being changed into another. Well, this would all happen naturally and with a great deal of anxiety I imagine as history builds to it’s ever more c... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Eros+and+the+Eschaton |
441363540d32-23 | If you had a prescient or extraordinary understanding of the future, each one of us would be able to do these things. Predicting the weather, you just look into next week and there it is. Predicting the movement of game, same deal. Curing the sick actually involves very judicious choice of your patients with a pre-know... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Eros+and+the+Eschaton |
441363540d32-24 | So now at a kind of moment of great cultural challenge and dynamic for western civilization which has for a thousand years called all the shots and shoved itself down everybody’s throat whether they liked it or not, in the last hundred years, through the science of anthropology, ethnography, ethnomedicine and botany, t... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Eros+and+the+Eschaton |
441363540d32-25 | So just to bring it all around here. The great exhibit, which we must always keep in front of ourselves and our critics, is the mystery of the human mind and body. No one knows how it is that I can command my hand to make a fist and that it will do that. That’s mind over matter. That’s the violation of every scientific... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Eros+and+the+Eschaton |
441363540d32-26 | But sexuality and psychedelics, by carrying us back to an authentic sense of the body, carry us back to the domain of authentic values. More and more, the message that people are getting as they avail themselves of the psychedelic experience is that it is not a journey into the human unconsciousness or into the ghost b... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Eros+and+the+Eschaton |
441363540d32-27 | The real issue is what kind of mental worlds shall people inhabit. What kinds of hope shall be permitted? What kind of value systems shall be allowed? The value systems that aggrandize the possessions of things, the tearing up of the Earth, competition, classism, racism, sexism, have led us to the brink of catastrophe.... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Eros+and+the+Eschaton |
441363540d32-28 | So what we must do I think is see our future in the imagination, catalyze the imagination, form symbiotic relationships with the plants, affirm archaic values and spread the good news that what is out of control, what is in fact dying, is a world that had become too top heavy with its own hubris, too bent by its own fa... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Eros+and+the+Eschaton |
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ee344c161539-1 | Global perspectives... I guess what, uh, I could say about this from a psychedelic perspective, the thing that is, uh, different for psychedelic people, looking at the global dilemma that we’re in and that increases, that continues to deepen around us, is that it’s, uh. From my point of view permission to hope rather t... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-2 | hole, uh, rising third world expectations so forth and so on. When you propagate all these trends, it seems very clear that business as usual is no longer an option. Nobody’s talking about that. So, we’re either in some kind of final fatal meltdown of the values of western civilization, revealed now after a thousand or... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-3 | slime, or is this, uh, you know, a tale of, uh, difficulty overcome and heroism won. And are we going to be able to shed the monkey nature, and shed the ego and actually move up to some kind of shining ideal. Eh, you know it’s, uh, if you think of us as the descendants of the angels this is a pretty tacky circumstance ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-4 | know eager-to-be-educated-audience. Uhm, the real, the real challenge, I think, is trying to decide what is baggage, and what is ballast that’s going to have to be dumped. Can the future be a celebration of humanness as we have known it? Meaning in the animal body, with all its, uh, uh, you know, joys and pains, with a... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-5 | and potential out of, because we’re on our way to some grander, higher domain of being? I don’t have the answer to these kinds of questions. I feel it very poignantly. It’s very poignantly focused in the psychedelic - in the experience of psychedelic plants and psychedelic shamanism, because, e-, you know, as any of yo... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-6 | somehow confined in the domain of the imagination. We, meaning we who trace our, uh, our ancestry back to Europe are part of a different style. A different strain of human being, if you will. We are the idea-excreters. Not ca- not, uh, satisfied to have a canoe, a net, five fish hooks and, uh, a bowl. But instead we ta... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-7 | I remember when I spent time in India; India is rife with talk of shakti. Shakti is energy, conceived of in various ways; it can be sexual energy, or it can actually be electricity flowing through wires is called shakti. And I realized being in India that the Indian obsession with shakti was a consequence of there not ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-8 | cause for despair, it’s that nothing lasts. Nothing lasts. You know, not your fortune, not your misfortune, not your lovers, your enemies, your children. Ultimately, not even your own life and body. Everything fades. And so the western response to this is the attempt to create something permanent; civilizations, enduri... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-9 | repress, and that we at the same time struggle to realize. I mean, the collapse of communism on one level was the collapse of a repressive nightmarish paranoid social system, but the dream which lay behind that was a dream of community, of unity, of sisterhood and brotherhood. And the great concern now is that with the... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-10 | to realize the commonality of the flesh. You know, it’s, a-, a startling thing to realize that what you represent is nothing more than a point of view, and that we each are such a point of view triangulating perception through what is essentially simply a nexus of our past history. We always are talking about “the past... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-11 | The reason I’m interested in the psychedelic potential, and willing to speak about it, is because I think that our, the myth of our separateness, which was the glory of our institutional accomplishments; parliamentary democracy, individual rights, uh, uh, liberation of various classes, and so forth, has now turned some... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-12 | and Mercedes so then we preach this in Bangladesh. Th-this is a bit disingenuous. Uh, the dematerializing of culture, uh, somehow, you see, what we have to recognize in the wake of the collapse of communism is that capitalism as well is a system with a fatal flaw that is set against human nature. Capitalism assumes an ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-13 | living in ecological balance, living in an apparently primitive, naked, aboriginal state, but when you step into the minds of those people and look behind their closed eyelids there are menus hanging in bio-tele-electronic space. Culture, you see, can be downloaded into a chip, installed behind the eyelids, so that is,... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-14 | having been challenged by somebody at a talk like this, they said, “Well, you’re always saying these mushrooms speak, why don’t you ask them, uh, uh, how to save the world?”, and I thought this was kind of disingenuous, but, uh, the next time I had the telephone to hyperspace in my hot hand I did make the inquiry. And,... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-15 | population would fall by half again. This means in 80 years the population of the planet could be reduced 75%. Why have we not heard anything about this? Even for it to be denounced, I’m not saying it has to be embraced, but why is it a tiny fanatical minority advocating this? I think it’s because, uh, it’s inconceivab... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-16 | western society, uh, a woman, say, on the upper east side of Manhattan, or Malibu, or the sea cliffed district of San Francisco. A child born to that woman will have eight hundred to a thousand times more negative impact on the earth than a child born to a woman in Bangladesh. If you were to go to Bangladesh and meet a... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-17 | leisure time. How would you like increased disposable income? And how would you like to, uh, take upon yourself a truly heroic social role?” This is what’s being offered with this suggestion to limit reproduction to one natural child. No more heroic, no more politically correct can be taken. And, interestingly, the wom... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-18 | You see, boundary dissolution is what is needed here. Boundary dissolution of all type, our separateness is an illusion. There is a kind of human bedrock. That’s why I think that the world sweep toward democracy is far more than simply a political trend. Democracy is not exactly a style of government per se. Or, exclus... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-19 | to draw you in. uh. But there is an impulse throughout the 20th century, in freudianism, in abstract expressionism, in dada, psychotherapy, sexual permissiveness, psychedelic experimentation, jazz, rock’n’roll. These are all facets of an impulse toward the archaic, toward the primitive, the non-straight, the anti-bowti... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-20 | when they needed a stabilizing metaphor for the Ummayad caliphate and those civilizations. Now, in the 20th century, we can’t go back to ancient Greece and Rome, or Babylon, a-and in a sense the new age, I think, is an effort to go back to a kind of, uh, Minoan/Egyptian world, which never existed except perhaps in the ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-21 | spirit of the planet. And I don’t mean to imply that psychedelics ar-, simply act negatively; dissolving ego, dissolving social constructs, dissolving programming and neurosis. That’s all true, but what is left when all this dissolving has taken place is not simply a tabula rasa, a clean slate. What is left is, uhm, wh... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-22 | form of self reflection emerged in just a couple of million years, out of animal organization. Well, what we don’t know is how many other forms of mind there m-, are possible, and how many times in the two billion year history of life on this planet, uh, uhh, intelligence has been able to shed the dark chrysalis of mat... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-23 | that we are like, the, the peo-, the, the guy in the story of the prodigal son. We have fallen into history, and out of this misfortune, out of this experience we can come gold. If we return to the fold of the ancestors, if we can, somehow, take what we’ve learned from history and fold it back into the experience of be... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-24 | realize that we are literally, uh, looting the cradle of future human life. That we have decided that we are not simply transient occupiers of this domain, but that it is ours to trash, to use up, to do with as we wish, leaving nothing for the future, then you realize the depth of our need for immediate and widespread,... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-25 | bone, what has to happen is; we must change our minds. If we don’t change our minds we are going to go down with this self-generated titanic called western civilization. And we have the power to change our minds, but it won’t come from hortatory preaching. If that would work then we would have turned the bend on the Se... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-26 | you must humble yourself so thoroughly that you need to form a pact with an organism that begins its life in a mound of manure. You know, it’s a true alchemical journey. You return to the droth, and out of that which everyone has rejected; literally, the compost, uh, of s-, of being you find the jewel. And the jewel ca... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-27 | Is there anybody who’s burning with their own agenda that i-, oh, here’s a “burning person”, yes.
Audience member: “I had a experience, about three years ago now, nearly four years ago, where I-, I was on a hallucinogenic. And, I had a feeling that I was talking to some people, and they were telling me that when we le... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-28 | Terrence: W-well, I-I mean, I think, you know, I mean... It’s funny for me to be talking at a, at a place like this because my, I am actually a rationalist, i-it’s simply that my experience has been very, very peculiar, and I thank God for it, because I think most rationalists actually live lives which reinforce their ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-29 | waiting behind the hill. Uh, uhh, when I first started talking psychedelics it all ran pretty much according to hoil[?], uh, LSD, it seemed like a tremendous tool for insight into the structure of the personality, kind of high-powered, turbocharged self-directed psychotherapy, you know? Uh, which is certainly useful, i... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-30 | people”, I call them self-transforming elf-machines, or tyches, or fairies. And, t-to my mind, this i-, this is confounding, this is no mere extension of the models of the psyche that we inherit from Freud and Jung. It begins to look as though, uh, that, uh, you know, the mind is not even in the brain. There’s some kin... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-31 | the case where all the issues are most intensely brought together. Uh, it’s a naturally occurring neurotransmitter, indigenous in the human brain, it also is very fast-acting, it clears your system very quickly, Not only clears your system, but leaves no trace whatsoever. You can’t even n-, feel that you have done some... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-32 | and then e-, bring it back, but what they look like to me is self-transforming, self-dribbling basketballs, or something, I mean, they come bounding forward. When you enter into the space there’s a kind of a cheer, you know, “Hooray!”, and suddenly you’re there. And this is not the cumulative eff-, effect of spirulina ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-33 | and the, uhh, uhh, relationship between you and them is very rapidly evolving. They seem to have been waiting, and the impression I get is, well it’s not an impression I get, it’s what they say. They say, “Here you are again, how wonderful!”, it’s not exactly in English, you understand… And they have, uhm, e-, you know... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-34 | is this?”, and then, “Is it okay? Am I, number one, am I still alive?” And you check through, you know, take a quick inventory; breathing, normal, blood pressure, normal, heart, normal, but what you’re seeing is a complete replacement of the ordinary world. And these things which are not enough like elves, gnomes and f... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-35 | with the eyes. And this is fascinating to me, I really think that there’s something to be learned here. This is what they want you to learn, they s-, they come forward, they utter statements. Which, remember, you don’t hear with your ears, but which you see as condensed sculptural objects, which are like Fabergé eggs o... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-36 | doing is they’re offering you these objects, and they’re saying “Look at this! Look at this!” As is it is passed you before you, as you look into it you have a very strong, and I believe, genuine, impression that this thing that you’re being shown, though it’s no larger than a kaiser roll is somehow absolutely confound... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-37 | and then the urgency becomes almost strident, they say, “Do what we’re doing! Do it now!” And you say, “Wha-, ho-?”, and, and then you feel, or I felt, at any rate, an upwelling in myself, like a calling forth. Then out of my mouth comes language, or at least, syntax, but without meaning. Some kind of glossolalia where... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-38 | big news. And when I first encountered this kind of stuff I was, uh, I was a-a young art historian at the University of California, and I assumed that any motif, no matter how [french phrase?], or bizarre you would be able to look at the painting, folklore and sculpture of somebody on this planet and find, uh, uh, a tr... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-39 | will be built on the b-, on the shoulders of the giants that have preceded us. The idea of something actually one hundred percent brand new and unexpected is pretty daunting, and, and here, here it was, thirty seconds away, uh, uhh, simply by the act of ingesting this natural neurotransmitter. Well, those of you who’ve... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-40 | dare scarcely suppose. It’s repeatable, it’s on demand, it does not depend upon the state of your moral purity or, uh, uh, you know, tantric accomplishment. It’s something that is our birthright, as much as our sexuality, our language, our eyesight, our appreciation of music. It’s, uh, an innate human thing. And a-, yo... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-41 | different possibilities, o-, and I still entertain numerous possibilities because I haven’t got it figured out yet. One possibility is that these are things are actually human beings from the future. I mean if you take the content of the experience seriously and say, “I am apparently in contact with diminutive English-... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
ee344c161539-42 | Well, it takes a while for the implications of this to sink in. They’re talking about dead people, that’s what an ancestor-spirit is. They’re suggesting that the dearly departed do not evanesce into sunlight or something cheerfully nonspecific like that, but that this actually is, uh, simply one level of, a cosmic syst... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Global+Perspectives+and+Psychedelic+Poetics |
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, thankfully, in the article. But, since the article dealt so specifically with evolution, and because that probably is my best candidate for entre into any kind of respectability, something I crave intensely in [audience laughter] every atom of my body, i thought I would discuss it with you this evening and... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
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because after all human consciousness produced the theory of evolution [audience laughter]. So, you see, it’s a significant failure there. So, uh, obviously if you accept the basic rules of the evolutionary game, which are that there is random mutation, which means gene drift, mixing of genes through sexual ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-3 | Well, I imagined when I first started thinking about this, that there must be some huge edifice of established theory, that we have to go up in there and blow up, surely somebody has stated up this ground and made some kind of an argument about human consciousness. Well, in terms of science, not; or almost not. I mean,... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-4 | brain capacity to do this and have enough left over to invent quantum physics , paint the Mona Lisa , invent the phonetic alphabet , philosophy, religion and all the rest of it. In other words, it was the coordination of the hand and the eye, to the throwing arm. This is what the orthodox folks tell us, that gave us th... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-5 | of doing it very nicely and neatly: it raises in the very act of answering this question , other questions. Maybe more closer to home. Questions that reflect on our social organization, our politics , how we treat each other in the here and now, even with implications for the future. We’ll get to that, for the moment l... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-6 | and occupy a niche and stabilize in that niche. Cockroaches,ants achieved this hundreds of millions of years ago, and have not changed greatly since. Most of biology is this iterative occupation of a climax niche. Very little of biology, is the pushing forward into radical new forms, new species, still rare, new genera... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
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….And there they were happily living in the canopy. But Africa began to dry up.
And they came under nutritional pressure. Now, simpler animals - insects for example - when their food source is withdrawn, they usually buy the farm. They don’t have much flexibility of diet. If you’ve ever ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-8 | When our remote ancestors came under environmental pressure, their environment was shrinking, the rainforest was being replaced by grasslands, and nutritional pressure - their ordinary diet of fruit and insects was being restricted - they began exploring this new environment of the grasslands, and this is the era of kn... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-9 | I’m sure that our early ancestors also tested other kinds, of food, they were testing everything. They were digging for corms with pointed sticks - ahh - and I’m sure there were many uhrhr ecological and medical disasters as a consequence of this. For instance ah, the birth control steroids in modern birth control pill... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-10 | Well, so let’s look at psilocybin then in a little more detail.
It has a number of properties, not specifically related to its psychoactivity that make it an ideal candidate for a catalyst for the emergence of consciousness and an advanced animal. First of all, and at the early stage of human invasion of this new gras... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-11 | OK. The first quality of psilocybin, which isn’t specifically related to its psychoactivity, is that in small doses - doses that are the kind you might obtain if you would just sort of eating it along with little roots, grassroots, small bugs, um, you know, so forth and so on - visual acuity is improved. Specifically, ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-12 | At slightly higher doses, uhh, in highly sexed animals like primates, uh, all alkaloids are what are called CNS stimulants - central nervous system stimulants - that means that they produce arousal, and in sexually extremely active animals like primates, arousal means, uhh, erection, usually in the male, usually follow... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-13 | Well, at still higher doses, approaching effective doses of 20 milligrams or more, in other words 4 grams dried and up, or 45 grams wet and up, uhh, hunting is out of the question [*audience laughs*], sex is something you can consider [*audience laughs*] but it’s out of the question, and you are basically nailed to the... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
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