Guest speakers: Timothy Leary and Robert Anton Wilson
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[NOTE: All of the following quotations are by Timothy Leary.]

“I don’t want to legalize drugs. It’s not the government’s business to legalize anything we do privately in our own homes. Are they going to legalize masturbation.”

“By far, the number one problem facing our species for the last 25,000 years has been the relentless, ruthless, perennial, almost invisible oppression of women and children by armed men. And it starts in the home.”

“The concept of a generation implies that young people are doing something different.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 178 – “A random walk through two great minds””

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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“McLuhan was synonymous with incomprehensibility in the Sixties.”

“In McLuhan there is a very deep strain of nostalgia for the essence of the Medieval world of what he called ‘manuscript culture’.”

“Joyce is, in ‘The Wake’, making his own alchemeric cave drawings of the entire history of the human mind in terms of its basic gestures and postures during all phases of human culture and technology.”

“Nothing is now unconscious if your data-search commands are powerful enough.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 177 – “Surfing Finnegans Wake” Part 2″

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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“In some ways, I think it can arguably be said that this is the quintessential work of art, or at least work of literature, of the twentieth century.”

“The reason I’m interested in it is because it’s two things, clearly. ‘Finnegan’s Wake’ is psychedelic, and it is apocalyptic/eschatological.”

“What I mean by psychedelic is there is no stable point of view. There is no character, per se. You never know who is speaking.”

” ‘Finnegan’s Wake’ is as if you had taken the entirety of the last thousand years of human history and dissolved all the boundaries.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 176 – “Surfing Finnegans Wake” Part 1″

Guest speaker: Dr. Timothy Leary
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“We represent the aristocratic, exploring elite of our species, and we always have.”

“The purpose of human life is to go within and find out who you are. The purpose of human life is to grow.”

“American history is filled with people who knew how to use drugs intelligently.”

“He [William James] later wrote the book “Varieties of Religious Experience”, in which he said over and over again, no attempt at the metaphysical quest, no attempt to probe the philosophic wonders of the cosmos can be undertaken by those who don’t have some experience with chemicals. In his case it was peyote and nitrous oxide.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 175 – “The Intelligent Use of Psychedelic Drugs””

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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“The thing is that it is incredibly frustrating to anyone who would control it [the Internet], because you can’t predict the impact of any technology before you put it in place.”

“Hans Moravic says about the rise of Artificial Intelligence, we may never know what hit us.”

“If I were to suddenly find myself a sentient AI on the Net, I would hide. I would hide for just a few cycles while I figured out what it was all about and just exactly where I wanted to push and where I wanted to pull.”

“All time is is how much change you can pack into a second.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 174 – “Pushing the Envelope””