Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]

“The people who take that position that alienation is symptomatic of neurosis don’t realize that the cultural momentum of the last five hundred years has made the Gnostic myth a reality. In other words, we have become a menace not only to ourselves but to the planet.”

“Civilization is a ten thousand year dash to space with the potential to destroy yourselves. History is the departure of a species for the stars, but it takes ten to fifteen thousand years, a moment of biological and geological time.”

“We are creatures of information and the imagination. The monkey we are already beginning to transform and shed. We don’t look like the other monkeys, and we look less like them all the time.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 241 – “Philosophical Gadfly” Part 2″

Guest speaker: Aldous Huxley
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» Continue reading “Podcast 236 – “The Politics of Ecology””

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake
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“I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.” -Rupert Sheldrake

When asked if he believed in randomness, Terence quickly said, “No,” and then he went on to say, “Randomness is the least likely thing. Nowhere in nature do you encounter it.”

“If there is no randomness in the universe, then what do we mean by chaos?” -Rupert Sheldrake
» Continue reading “Podcast 234 – “The World Soul””

Guest speakers: Ralph Abraham, Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna
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“Who would talk about the evolutionary mind? Who cares about the good and evil in the evolution of species, and so on? This must be interesting only to the degree to which it informs us in this very present moment regarding our choices that we will make in the creation of our future.” -Ralph Abraham

“In a dynamical system, or a massively complex dynamical system such as we live in, when there is a moment of bifurcation, which is the technical mass jargon for “the snap”, that is the only time you get to do anything about the evolution of the system. So according to this self-inflating view, we live at an especially important special moment in history where when we think something or do something it has actually an enormous effect on the future. … What we do has some influence on the creation of the future more than at other times in history.” -Ralph Abraham
» Continue reading “Podcast 230-Trialogue: “The Evolutionary Mind” Part 3″

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake
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“Because of this fact, that clear thinking can be mathematically formalized, there is a potential bridge between ourselves and calculating machinery.”

“Good thinking, whether you’ve ever studied mathematics for a moment or not, can be formally defined.”

“What is important about nature is that it is information. And the real tension is not between matter and spirit, or time and space, the real tension is between information and nonsense.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 229-Trialogue: “The Evolutionary Mind” Part 2″

Guest speakers: Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham, and Terence McKenna
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“The development of current brain size is not the reason that there has been this explosion of technical innovation recently. Brain size hasn’t changed much for 100,000 years.” -Rupert Sheldrake

“It’s much more likely that for most of human history it was not man the huntER but man the huntED. … It wasn’t until about 50,000 years ago that there was an improvement in hunting technologies all around the world, whereby human beings could indeed become fairly effective hunters. But for most of the three and a half million years of hominid history it was man the huntED.” -Rupert Sheldrake

“The shaman is a person, a designated member of the social group, who can mentally change into an animal, who can become so animal-like that other members of the social group are appalled and draw back.” -Terence McKenna
» Continue reading “Podcast 228-Trialogue: “The Evolutionary Mind” Part 1″

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]

“I’ve never met anyone with a deeper devotion to cannabis than myself.”

“So what you have to do is just like every other thing, everything you’ve been told is wrong, and you have to take life by the handlebars and figure out what’s really going on, which doesn’t mean that you’re reckless.”

“We are living inside a 90% Nineteenth Century world view. And a culture cannot evolve any faster than its language evolves, because what cannot be said cannot be done. What cannot be said cannot be put in place.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 225-McKenna: “Hermeticism and Alchemy” Part 3″

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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“What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It’s a kind of tuneless singing.”

“Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence, a situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land, all were in dynamic balance. And not in any primitive sense at all. Language was fully developed. Poetry may have been at its climax. Dance, magic, poetics, altruism, philosophy, there’s no reason to think that these things were not practiced as adroitly as we practice them today. And it was under the boundary-dissolving influence of psilocybin.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 221-McKenna: “Evolving Times””

Guest speaker: Bruce Damer
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“The EvoGrid at home will be your computer looking for signs of emergent protolife in the primordial digital soup.”

“[Life-like digital processes] are significant because they show us an insight into our own beginnings. They challenge religious beliefs, creationists’ beliefs, they show us that life may have emerged elsewhere in the universe in different environments. They will be, in a sense, one of the ultimate creations of the biosphere.”

“Perhaps Gaia, the biosphere, has a devious plan which is to allow one of its species, one of its offspring, to create a mechanism to create new forms of life.”

“The crescendo of human civilization really is going to be in people’s minds more than on the streets. It’ll be in the minds first.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 220-Damer: “EvoGrid: The Ultimate Nerd Project””

Guest speaker: Dr. Timothy Leary
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[NOTE: All quotations are by Dr. Timothy Leary.]

“Now the key thing to the human species is this: That we have not committed ourselves to an over-specialized form.”

“It’s obvious that if any quantum leaps are going to happen in evolution it’s best designed to happen in a period of adolescence.”

“Evolution has always involved people like us getting together as we are tonight, figuring out where we came from, and who’s slowing us down, and what’s the factual evidence as to how fast and where we can move?”

“The future belongs to those who see the future.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 219 – “Tim Leary Live in Sanfrancisco 1979″ Part 2″