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Are his predictions being proven right?
He might have gotten the exact date wrong but it seems that boundaries keep dissolving with globalism, technology, social media etc.

I wonder if people like him, Robert A. Wilson and Leary would still be such optimistic about the future and pro technology and won't take the Ted pill ,if they'd see how technology is degrading our lives and has become the ultimate tool for governments and corporations to control us.

>> No.16345967

lol I got called a paranoid schizo conspiracy theorist on r*ddit for pointing out that McKenna was CIA. I proceded to link to the audio excerpt in which McKenna admits it verbatim and they still called me schizo. Cultish.

So, yes, of course he's right: he's CIA.

>> No.16345976

>>16345967
Could you please post the link?

>> No.16345999

>>16345976
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj1yFZRmFsw&feature=youtu.be&t=15719

>And certainly when I reached La Chorerra in 1971 I had a price on my head by the FBI, I was running out of money, I was at the end of my rope. And then they recruited me and said, "you know, with a mouth like yours there's a place for you in our organization". And I've worked in deep background positions about which the less said the better. And then about 15 years ago they shifted me into public relations and I've been there to the present.

>> No.16346011

>>16345999
>La Chorerra
KEK

>> No.16346081

>>16345999
Thanks

>> No.16346385

>>16345999
"They" - the mushrooms

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>>16345967
>Dr. Leary, I'm CIA

>> No.16347169

>>16345999
I agree that Terence was recruited by the CIA, but I don't think that makes him a villain. Like he said, he had a price on his head, he literally had not choice but to play ball with the Feds, and he was unquestionably the most brilliant mind of his own time. It's no wonder the feds wanted to make sure they had him under control.

I'm just guessing here, but I think his primary job was to monitor the counter-culture, and temper it with a non-violent doctrine through his books and lectures. There were strains of underground psychedelic movements gaining traction after the failure of the 1960's, and they wanted a pacifist mouth-piece to guide the hippie generation into a more pacifistic world view, and also to monitor the subculture by reporting any violent groups to the state.

All of that said, I think Terence made the right choice. The world would not have the benefit of his learned experience surrounding psychedelic drugs if he had taken a confrontational approach with the feds. By playing ball, he was sanctioned to continue conducting his studies. It is a juvenile world view to believe that all federal agents are boogie men, desu most of them are just desk jockeys without any real power. So I can see why people call you schizo, but IMO your just childish and afraid of viewing the world like an adult.

>> No.16347196

>>16345999
In context his "They" refers to the aliens he just joked about being an ambassador for.

If he was CIA why would he be so retarded as to admit it?