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Discuss this wonderful man with me?

>> No.2525783

terrence mckenna?
i still haven't done dmt, not sure what to discuss

>> No.2525799

I have listened to a lot of talks and lectures and to my surprise I found him to be very a very original and insightful thinker. I expected some drugged-out hippie, but McKenna's actually very well read, a really good speaker, and can make connections from Hermeticism and Neoplatonism back to Joyce and Nabokov while talking about McLuhan and new media. Very cool guy and I would recommend listening to some of his things: especially /lit/-related the things on Finnegans Wake.

>> No.2525816
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Very interesting, eloquent individual. He's become something of a figure of worship in some subcultures. Many of his ideas are unsubstantiated garbage, just like McLuhan, but hey, DMT will do that to you.

His colleagues are also worth checking out.

http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v18n1/v18n1-MAPS_8-10.pdf

The only contention I have with McKenna is how his florid language has been taken verbatim as gospel by idiot stoners everywhere because they are incapable of reading rigorous philosophy or thinking for themselves.

Still, I like McKenna. Decent writer, excellent speaker.

>> No.2525820

I ate up his Food of the Gods when I was 15 and had just started smoking weed and thought alcohol and caffeine and sugar were the devils work and if we could all just get high as fuck on mind expanding drugs everything would be alright, man.

It was a pleasant and interesting read though.

>> No.2525850

>>2525799
>very original and insightful thinker

Really? To me he seems like someone who seems to do nothing but parrot other peoples ideas.

>> No.2525856

>>2525850

Well, if it seems to you that way then you haven't heard more than one of his lectures.

>> No.2525859

I like the stuff about Aliens, Asteroids and Magic Mushroom Eating Monkeys.

>> No.2525868

>>2525816
I used to think like that at one point, with the exception of caffeine, but I've since realized that tobacco and alcohol are bad ass. I fucking hate weed.

anywho, I have no fucking idea who that guy is. whatever

>> No.2525882

>>2525868
You were probably referring to the post below the one you quoted, which is mine. I've had the same change of heart. Caffeine I can take or leave, but I love drink and tobacco. Weed actually repulses me a lot of the times, the smell alone can be enough to summon memories of weakness, passivity and lack of clarity. It can lead to interesting states of mind, but more often than not in the way it is used today it sooner leads to stupidity than insightfulness.

>> No.2525883

inb4 quentin

>> No.2525897

>>2525882
exactly. Thank you for being sensible, rather than "hurr durr its a natural plantttttttt SWED".
I've gone through periods of HEAVY marijuana use and I can say that I'm past that stage. Shit fucks with your brain

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>>2525883

Goodnight, sweet prince

>> No.2525926

>>2525882
>the smell alone can be enough to summon memories of weakness, passivity and lack of clarity.

Why is this?

>> No.2525934

>>2525926
Because I associate it with getting high of course. Weed tends to have a very sedative effect on me. Hashish is better, but still not something I like to use more than once a year or so.

>> No.2525937

>>2525820
Same here. Its 18 years later, I still like to think that way, although the bullshit of everyday life so get in the way. I wanted to be an ethnobotanist because of him, didn't end up because, well, ethnobotanists end up broke and crazy.

>> No.2525941

>>2525937
>I still like to think that way, although the bullshit of everyday life so get in the way

You mean reality?

>> No.2525946

>>2525941
Precisely. I cant very well raise my kid on mushroom love and dmt dreams. Doesn't pay so well.

>> No.2525955

>>2525946
Indeed. Ethics and wordly succes seem to be almost mutually exclusive anyway.

>> No.2525999

>>2525955
Unfortunately, this is all too true in todays world. I also just remembered how he was saying ( or at least I always interpreted it as so, myself being a reluctant female) that women were the downfall of the expansion of the mind and its ability to connect with nature on a consciousness level. Jeeze, no wonder I'm so fuct up.