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“The Cost Of Sanity, In This Society, Is A Certain Level Of Alienation”
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com The late psychonaut/philosopher Terence McKenna once said “The cost of sanity, in this society, is a certain level of alienation,” and I think my regular readers will immediately and experientially understand exactly what he was … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, corporate news, culture, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Alienation, Consciousness, consensus reality, corporate media, culture, establishment narrative, Insanity, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Mainstream Media, Philosophy, propaganda, society, Sociology, spirituality, Terence McKenna, Timothy Leary, Worldview
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The Varieties of Psychonautic Experience: Erik Davis’s ‘High Weirdness’
By Michael Grasso Source: We Are the Mutants High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies By Erik Davis Strange Attractor Press/MIT Press, 2019 Two months ago, I devoured Erik Davis’s magisterial 2019 book High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, History, media, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged 1970s, Consciousness, Cybernetics, drugs, Entheogens, Erik Davis, Esoterica, High Weirdness, history, Neuroscience, parapsychology, Philip K. Dick, Philosophy, Psychedelics, Robert Anton Wilson, Science fiction, Shamansism, spirituality, Technocracy, Terence McKenna, the Seventies, Visionary Experience
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Anarchy vs. Statism: Uncontrolled Order Over Controlled Chaos
By Gary ‘Z’ McGee Source: Waking Times “Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.” ~Frederick Douglas Caught up, as we are, in the politics of statism, it is often extremely difficult to see the forest for the trees. We’re … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, Corruption, culture, Empire, Philosophy, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Anarchism, Anarchy, Bureaucracy, Chaos, conditioning, Derrick Jensen, Government, Order, Philosophy, propaganda, society, Statism, Terence McKenna
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Saturday Matinee: Technocalypse
“Technocalyps” (2006) is a documentary by Frank Theys examining the transhumanist movement and development of the sciences of interest to them including genetics, robotics, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence. Features interviews with philosophers, writers and researchers including Raymond Kurzweil, Kirkpatrick Sale, … Continue reading
Saturday Matinee: Hemp Doc Double Feature
The Hemp Revolution (1995) covers the history, cultivation and usage of hemp including food, fuel, building material and medicine. It also explores some of the factors behind the prohibition of hemp production in the U.S. in 1938 (including pressure from … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Art, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, culture, Drug War, Film, Health, History, Saturday Matinee, society, State Crime, Video
Tagged Cannabis decriminalization, cannabis legalization, Dr. Andrew Weil, Dr. Lester Grinspoon, Hemp Cannabis, Hemp Decriminalization, Hemp Documentary, Hemp Legalization, Jack Herer, Peter Dale Scott, Prof. Sheri Tonn, Prohibition, Terence McKenna, The Drug War, The Emperor of Hemp, The Emperor Wears No Clothes, The Hemp Revolution, War on Drugs
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Pulling the Cosmic Trigger: The Contact Experiences of Philip K Dick & Robert Anton Wilson
Editor’s note: On this 87th anniversary of the birth of Philip K. Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982), enjoy a deep dive into some of the more paranormal aspects of his life and how they relate to experiences … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, culture, History, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Spirituality
Tagged 2-3-74, A Day in the Afterlife, Alan Moore, Albert Hofmann, Carl Jung, ECCO, Exegesis, Firebight, Jim Pike, John Lennon, LSD, Max Planck, Mystics, Philip K. Dick, PKD, RAW, Robert Anton Wilson, Terence McKenna, Tessa B. Dick, Timothy Leary, Valis, Visionaries
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Terence McKenna’s Disillusioned Perspective on Mass-Consumerist Culture
Editor’s note: Since Terence McKenna’s passing on April 3 2000, his ideas have only grown in relevance and popularity largely because of their prescience and resonance to growing segments of internet culture. In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of his … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, culture, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, society, Spirituality
Tagged Consumerism, Counterculture, culture, Dystopia, Entheogens, Philosophy, society, technology, Terence McKenna
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