Terence McKenna - Seeking Enlightenment

um as your theory gets to be more known and like through the media and in the culture in the next 10 or 15 years and these things start it starts spitting up more and more and people come to understand it more um do you think you're gonna become become an object like a messianic adoration or anything no i don't think so i don't think so because um [Music] it's gonna start proving itself true as people get to know it more me as you get closer well yes but see it's i mean i'm glad you mentioned this it always comes up in some context my bit makes no sense and is useless unless i'm completely ordinary in other words it's all very fine einstein and these characters who break through to these places but what i'm saying is that this is for plain folks and uh no he said i am the light you don't hear me saying crap like that no no i am not the light what psychedelics are doing is empowering us to get rid of gurus we don't need these guys uh nobody is special that what the mushroom says i love it it says for one human being to seek enlightenment from another is for is the equivalent of one grain of sand on a beach seeking enlightenment from another in other words human beings are so much alike that it just doesn't matter i am so much like mother teresa that it doesn't matter you are so much like the dalai lama that to make distinctions is pointless i mean why bother he just has a better job that's all we're all in it together nobody has a leg up and that's another thing the mushroom said you know the generous position is to say well you know all these religions they all have a piece of the action everybody's got a little bit of the action you know what the mushroom says nobody's got a piece of the action it's all wrong wrong wrong wrong dead wrong not even warm and and that's like this seeking enlightenment thing no we're there's only one person you know and that's this human person and we are the cells of that human person and and we entertain the notion of separateness but we come out of the same dirt and we go back into the same dirt no we are transcending messiahs it's not necessary the whole notion of psychedelics is that we can each become our own messiah you go in there you contact the logos you contact the logos you don't get it boiled down from some priest you know if a theory like this were vindicated i suppose i would be hailed as a mighty smart fella but that's all that's all it's about [Music] you

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Length: 3min 49sec (229 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 21 2021