Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third-story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong. Terence McKenna
Category: Philosophy
Reverie – Crime and Punishment
If so many people are incarcerated that we need a corporate prison system, beyond the State and Federal levels, maybe there are too many people being incarcerated. We do not have a crime problem, we have a distorted view of punishment problem. Image is from the Thurneisser Series
Reverie – Unpure Puritans
The Puritans worked themselves to death for not much of anything. They experienced the Indians trying to teach them, but they saw them unworthy of consideration of the same level. A silly approach when the natives have something the Puritans do not, respect. Respect for the land and for the life. Respecting the life one …
Poem – The practice of killing law
It takes a lot of practice and training to use a gun properly It takes no experience to unleash physics and kill someone How often do you practice the art of not killing? How confident are you to place your family on the backside of a bullet? There is no such thing as friendly fire …
Alchemy interpertation – The counterfort
Walls: We see three different types of walls. Starting from the bottom left, we see a solid wall. Once we pass on the other side of the doorway, the wall takes a 90 degree left turn. When we see the wall again, it now has support structures on the outside of the wall. The support structure …
Quote – Condemned to everlasting barrenness
“What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall the fields and vallies, which a beneficent God has formed to teem with the life of innumerable multitudes, be condemned to everlasting barrenness?” John Quincy Adams, 1802, when rationalizing territorial …
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Story – Sky oceans of the Heavens
Initial thoughts of despair. The view of the heavens was blocked by clouds. With luck, look over to see the South is clear. The sky is so clear. Yet littered with clouds. Pitch black against a moving no... floating ocean of vaporized water sticking to dust. They are white and the Moon, a waxing crescent, …
Quote – Most murderous motherfuckers
What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle. Stephen King - Cell
Quote – By mere noise
“An emotional speaker always makes his audience feel with him, even when there is nothing in his arguments; which is why many speakers try to overwhelm their audience by mere noise.” — Aristotle, Rhetoric.
Poem – The spread of “x”
The spread of Christianity is how it is portrayed. Yet, it is not the export of imaginary ideas, it was the export of force. Of control and power. Utter dominance with an iron fist. The main purpose, just as it had always been since the evolutionary tree, is to control all resources both natural and …
