Black Hills
Gardens & Villa
Gardens & Villa :: Black Hills
June 2013
god dammit, now i believe in sasquatch
fuck
“The amazing thing about psychedelics is it doesn’t depend on a state of grace, it doesn’t depend on allegiance to a leader, it doesn’t even depend on a special diet, or theological predilection. The astonishing news about these psychedelic experiences is you don’t have to go to India for 10 years, you don’t have to be chosen by Baba G. This works for most people, and will probably work for you.”
—Terence McKenna, The Amazing Thing About Psychedelics
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No Time
Action Bronson
If I’m sick she’ll even clean me if I shit in my pants
So I’m taking her to France with me
Action Bronson :: No Time
“I don’t think you could discover consciousness if you didn’t perturb it, because as Marshall McLuhan said, whoever discovered water, it certainly wasn’t a fish. Well, we are fish, swimming in consciousness. And yet we know it is there. The reason we know it is there is because if you perturb it, then you see it. And you perturb it by perturbing the engine that generates it, which is the mind-brain system resting behind your eyebrows. If you swap out the ordinary chemicals that are running that system in an invisible fashion, then you see: it’s like dropping ink into a bowl of clear water, suddenly the convection currents operating in the clear water become visible, because you see the particles of ink tracing out the previously invisible dynamics of the standing water. The mind is precisely like that, and the psychedelic is like a dye-marker being dropped into this aqueous system.”
—Terence McKenna, The Importance of Psychedelics
“It’s a terrifying enterprise because apparently to carry life to the next level, tremendous intellectual sophistication is required about the release and control of energy. The problem is, energy can be used to destroy as well as build, so as the human enterprise has moved toward greater and greater power and ability to manipulate the environment, the stakes in the “cosmic game” have risen. And now what we have essentially is 100 billion dollars sitting in the center of the crap table, and one roll of the dice more, and we’re going to either win it or lose everything. Because intelligence, if we fail, will never again reach the kind of levels on this planet that we have reached.
Why? Because we have extracted all the available metals near the surface of the earth, and an evolving species following after us will find the earth strangely depleted of usable materials down to the 1,500 foot level. And so, intelligence coming behind us will find it simply does not have the resources to make the leap to technical civilization. It’s beginning to look like a one shot deal.” —Terence McKenna, The Importance of Psychedelics
Why? Because we have extracted all the available metals near the surface of the earth, and an evolving species following after us will find the earth strangely depleted of usable materials down to the 1,500 foot level. And so, intelligence coming behind us will find it simply does not have the resources to make the leap to technical civilization. It’s beginning to look like a one shot deal.” —Terence McKenna, The Importance of Psychedelics
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