Terrence McKenna On Why Psychedelics Are Actually Illegal

It feels like Terrence McKenna is becoming more popular with the internet age than he was while he was alive! In this audio, McKenna talks about the ego, a mass cultural and social hallucination, and how psychedelics dissolve the boundaries that our egos set up.

Here’s the full transcript if you don’t want to watch the video:

Transcript:

The ego is a late arriving, very tenuous, highly uncertain of itself, social structure, that has taken root in the human psyche like a tumor, like a growth of some sort. It is the leftover of this primate dominance complex and the way it manifests itself is by the establishment of boundaries.First of all, this is my body, do not touch it. Second of all, these are my weapons and agricultural tools, do not touch them, this is my woman, these are my children, I hunt there, so forth and so on. It’s this division of the world which allows the illusion of the ego to come into existence. Now, what do psychedelics do and why are they such social dynamite?

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