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Terence McKenna On Cannabis
Posted by talesfromthelou on December 21, 2014Posted in: Alcohol and drugs, Cannabis, Capitalism, Marijuana, Philosophy. Leave a comment
23 Things Terence McKenna Said Best, From DMT Sex To Telepathic Octopi – Reset.me.
Taken from an article by Daniel Hand at
http://reset.me
on December 16, 2014
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“Cannabis is anathema to the dominator culture because it deconditions or decouples users from accepted values. Because of its subliminally psychedelic effect, cannabis, when pursued as a lifestyle, places a person in intuitive contact with less goal-oriented and less competitive behavior patterns. For these reasons marijuana is unwelcome in the modern office environment, while a drug such as coffee, which reinforces the values of industrial culture, is both welcomed and encouraged. Cannabis use is correctly sensed as heretical and deeply disloyal to the values of male dominance and stratified hierarchy. Legalization of marijuana is thus a complex issue, since it involves legitimating a social factor that might ameliorate or even modify ego-dominant values.”“There is no doubt that cannabis is trivialized as a commodity and is degraded by the designation ‘recreational drug,’ but there is also no doubt that when used occasionally in a context of ritual and culturally reinforced expectation of a transformation of consciousness, cannabis is capable of nearly the full spectrum of psychedelic effects associated with hallucinogens.”
“It diminishes the power of ego, has a mitigating effect on competitiveness, causes one to question authority, and reinforces the notion of the merely relative importance of social values.”
“If every alcoholic were a pothead, if every crack user were a pothead, if every smoker smoked only cannabis, the social consequences of the ‘drug problem’ would be transformed.”
More excellent quotes from McKenna:
23 Things Terence McKenna Said Best, From DMT Sex To Telepathic Octopi – Reset.me.
Thanks to: http://talesfromtheconspiratum.com
