Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake

PROGRAM NOTES:

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06:48 Ralph Abraham: Explains his bifurcation theory of the unconscious

08:01 Ralph:

"We can speak of the consciousness of animals, the consciousness of plants, the consciousness of Mother Earth."

11:57 Ralph:

"Chaos goes to the basement, and with this gesture created the bifurcation in consciousness, giving us the unconscious, which appears to be gaining ever since."

17:02 Ralph:

"I think we want Saint George and the Dragon getting it on together in a May Day celebration where Dionysian elements are accepted."

18.21 Terence McKenna: "The orgies driven by the psychedelic religion completely frustrated that desire to identify male paternity."

21:21 Terence:

"Basically the choice was between fun [through orgies] and full knowledge of the flow of your genes, and once it was decided that male paternity was an important issue, then the concept of ‘mine’ comes into existence. . . . And this was the whole thing which this orgiastic, psychedelic, boundry-disolving mushroom religion was holding at bay. It was literally a pharmacological intervention to keep that kind of a psychology [patriarchal] from getting going."

23:33 Terence:

"They went from an ecstatic goddess cult of orgy to a drunken reverie of warriors and whores."

30:16 Ralph:

"And in this sense, a restrictive society which narrows the choice of addictions is somehow anti-evolutionary in that it promotes the growth of unconsciousness, insensitivity, is a danger to the biosphere and so on."

31:11 Rupert Sheldrake: Explains his proposal to legalize psychedelics in an ‘age-related manner’.

33:55 Rupert:

"And the heart of all living systems is unconscious habit. However conscious we think we become we don’t become fully conscious of the unconscious embryonic habits that formed us."

40:03 Ralph:

"And so we would have to work at maintenance of consciousness as we work at maintenance of the garden."

46:47 Terence:

"It [coffee] is the only drug sanctioned by industrial capitalism in the form of the coffee break."

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