The Stoned Ape Hypothesis. Did psilocybin mushrooms help the human brain evolve? According to Terence McKenna, probably!

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"I think it's going to get weirder and weirder and weirder. And finally, it's going to be so weird that people are going to have to talk about how weird it is..."

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"Culture is not your friend"

It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves, and yet... and see that we have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love, and the community to produce a kind of human paradise.

But we are led by the least among us, the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary, and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.

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"Culture is not your friend."

We understand the felt presence of experience is what is most important. But the culture is a perversion."

It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, increases endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of swirly religions and silly cults.

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"Culture is not your friend."

Culture is for other people's convenience and the convenience of various institutions, churches, companies, tax collection schemes.

It insults you. It disempowers you. It uses and abuses you.

None of us are well treated by culture. And yet we glorify, you know, the creative potential of the individual, the rights of the individual. "

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The Carl #Jung Theory That Explains #DMT Entities By #TerenceMcKenna

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