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Send us a textGUEST: SETH GRUBER, Executive Producer, The 1916 ProjectIt's been said that “Ideas have consequences and bad ideas have victims.”Ideas are the causes of actions in the world, for better or for worse. And the Christian should know from God's Word that sinful ideas come from unregenerate minds. Romans 8 says, “the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God” (Romans 8:7-8).The depravity and death we see all around us in our culture, particularly millions of aborted babies, all manner of sexual and gender perversion, and suicide and euthanasia, are the direct result of ideas from minds that hate God and His truth and design.As shown in a new documentary film titled The 1916 Project by executive producer Seth Gruber, the wicked lineage of this God-forsaking worldview in America is built block by block upon well-known names like evolutionist Charles Darwin, abortionist Margaret Sanger, and pervert Alfred Kinsey and many other lesser known influencers like Thomas Malthus, Francis Galton, Havelock Ellis, and Emma Goldman.Gruber reveals how these men and women are the reason why abortion today is seen as “My body, my choice,” “love is love,” “gender is fluid,” and “children need to explore their sexuality at the youngest ages.”Seth Gruber joins us today on The Christian Worldview to discuss Margaret Sanger and the History of the Death and Depravity Revolution in light of The 1916 Project documentary film.-------------------------------The 1916 Project DVD

So, you're wondering how HD got that moniker? And no, we're not talking about high definition television. HD, also known as Hilda Doolittle, was an Imagist poet and novelist. She's known more in connection to other writers like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and for an unfortunate kink incident involving early psychologist Havelock Ellis.Continue reading "The Goddess of Imagism – Ep.49"

"All male, all-whale orgies"...need I say more?We're back with another extra special episode for Pride Month 2024! And this one is a DOOZY, my little Hormones.First of all, let me just say..."You know you're gay right?"That's my impression of me talking to every living animal on this good, green Earth.Because it turns out animals have been gay for millennia (stop copying me, guys!), and human animals have known about it forever.Not least my new best friends, Laine and Owen, who are the hosts of the about-to-be-mega-hit podcast, A Field Guide to Gay Animals.Like many scholars who have come before them, Laine and Owen are fascinated by the queer natural world. Tune in to the episode to hear us discuss who the gayest animals are, where they come from, and which intrepid souls first outed them.We talk cock-chafing beetles, big gay sheep with really big...horns, and of course THE Havelock Ellis (you know the one).When you're done, go listen to Laine & Owen's premiere episode, which contains so many more incredible stories on this fascinating subject. I kid you not, it made me rethink my homosexuality...top to bottom. (No seriously I'm thinking of topping...halp.)For more from Historical Homos, you can join our cult at www.historicalhomos.com and follow us on Instagram and TikTok.If you like what you hear, please leave us a five star rating on Apple or Spotify. Do it. Yeahhhhhh just like that.This episode was written and researched by Bash, hosted by Bash, and edited by Alex Toskas. Guest hosts: Laine Kaplan-Levenson and Owen Ever. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Daily QuoteAll the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. (Havelock Ellis)Poem of the Day访戴天山道士不遇李白Beauty of WordsOne More ThingBy Raymond Carver

Watch this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Cafe for only $5 a month! ⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom Part 2 of Andrew's chat with Tom Crewe continues! Tom left us on the edge of our seats when he discussed why water is such a male homoerotic symbol in literature. He begins here and then jumps right into the nuances of John Addington Symonds' marriage to a woman while having sexual affairs with men. Andrew asks Tom what happened when Symonds and Ellis theorized what it meant to be a "male homosexual"? Was anything lost because men who sexually desired other men could now be classified as a homosexual? To get your hands on "The New Life" and to learn more about Tom's literary career, head to his website: https://www.tomcrewe.com/ Be sure to follow Tom on Twitter, @TomCrewe1 . Head to Broadview Press, an independent academic publisher, for all your humanities related books. Use code ivorytower for 20% off your⁠ broadviewpress.com ⁠order. To subscribe to The Gay and Lesbian Review visit ⁠glreview.org⁠. Click Subscribe, and enter promo code ITBR to receive a free copy with any print or digital subscription. Order from ⁠@mandeemadeit⁠, mention ITBR, and with your first order you'll receive a free personalized gift! Follow That Ol' Gay Classic Cinema on Instagram, ⁠@thatolgayclassiccinema⁠. Follow ITBR on IG, ⁠@ivorytowerboilerroom⁠, TikTok, ⁠@ivorytowerboilerroom⁠, and Twitter, ⁠@IvoryBoilerRoom⁠! Thanks to the ITBR team! ⁠Andrew Rimby⁠ (Host/Director) and ⁠Mary DiPipi⁠ (Chief Contributor) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ivorytowerboilerroom/support

"You do it to yourself" sang Radiohead Well that was certainly true of some of the subjects of this episode.   Historian of the mind MIKE JAY returns to the Bureau to tell of the intrepid scientists, artists, writers and thinkers who were experimenting with psychoactive substances and recording their experiences in the Victorian age and onwards.     But the notion that researchers might partake of drugs if they were going to have something valuable to say about them became unacceptable.   And we hear about the first British psychedelic experiences of Aleister Crowley, W B Yeats, Havelock Ellis and Maude Gone along with some of the lesser known London Psychonauts huffing ether, chloroform and nitrous oxide in the pursuit of knowledge during the 19th century counterculture.   For Mike's book: Psychonauts: drugs and the making of the modern mind    Join us at the Bureau of Lost Culture https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/N0ZYoFu/BOLC   Listen to all our shows www.bureauoflostculture.com   #london #drugs #psychoactive #psychedelic #humphreydavy #wbyeats #aleistercrowley #occult #jameslee #morphine #heroin #opium #hashish #nitrousoxide #science

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Juliet Jacques joins PTO to talk about her debut collection of short stories, Variations. Inspired by found material and real-life events, the book explores the history of transgenderism in Britain, from the time of the Oscar Wilde trial to the second decade of the 2000s. We talked about why Juliet chose to use fiction to address the history of trans, the feelings of responsibility that come with describing the experiences of characters based on the lives of real people who lived, loved and suffered, and we also talked about the work of the sexologist Havelock Ellis who plays a prominent part in one of the stories.

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Todos hemos oído historias y hechos insólitos ocurridos en diferentes puntos del globo. A veces pensamos que todo ocurre fuera de nuestras fronteras, pero nos equivocamos, en España también tenemos casos insólitos dignos de la mejor ficción. La virgen roja es un claro ejemplo y en este nuevo episodio Xavi viene a dar buena cuenta de ello con la vida de dos mujeres que cambiaron el curso de la historia política de nuestro país. Una historia plagada de momentos clave, donde una familia adinerada de Ferrol intenta cambiar a la sociedad del momento a través de una mujer diseñada genérica y psicológicamente para ello. Hildegart Rodríguez Carballeira (Madrid, 9 de diciembre de 1914, † 9 de junio de 1933 en Madrid) fue una activista por el socialismo y la revolución sexual, nacida y criada por su madre como modelo para la mujer del futuro. Hablaba 6 idiomas a los ocho años, terminó la Facultad de Derecho a los 17 y fue líder del Partido Socialista y luego del Partido Federal. Hildegart fue concebida en Ferrol por Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira y un padre biológico no revelado elegido por su madre con intenciones eugenésicas. Su partida de nacimiento y acta de bautismo dice: Hildegart Leocadia Georgina Hermenegilda María del Pilar Rodríguez Carballeira, pero solo usó su nombre de pila. Su madre solía explicar que Hildegart significaba "Jardín de la Sabiduría" en alemán. Hildegart fue una de las personas más activas en el movimiento español por la reforma sexual, estuvo vinculada a la vanguardia europea, mantenía correspondencia con Havelock Ellis, a quien tradujo, y Margaret Sanger. En la fundación de la Liga Española por la Reforma Sexual, presidida por el Dr. Gregorio Marañón, fue elegida secretaria sin oposición. Mantuvo correspondencia con muchas otras personalidades europeas siendo guía y objeto de admiración de Herbert George Wells en su visita a Madrid. Ven con nosotros a conocer uno de los relatos mas escalofriantes de nuestra historia reciente de la mano de Xavi. Una historia escalofriante sucedida en nuestro país y que desde luego no te dejará indiferente. Como siempre esperamos que os guste tanto como a nosotros y si os apetece dejad vuestros comentarios en en nuestras redes.

Have you always wanted to know something about the opposite sex? Well, this week's podcast is the one for you. The women question men and vice versa. Guests: Camille. Matthew, Brandon, Norval, Shenara and Andre. "If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth." Havelock Ellis

I. Albion’s Seed by David Fischer is a history professor’s nine-hundred-page treatise on patterns of early immigration to the Eastern United States. It’s not light reading and not the sort of thing I would normally pick up. I read it anyway on the advice of people who kept telling me it explains everything about America. And it sort of does. In school, we tend to think of the original American colonists as “Englishmen”, a maximally non-diverse group who form the background for all of the diversity and ethnic conflict to come later. Fischer’s thesis is the opposite. Different parts of the country were settled by very different groups of Englishmen with different regional backgrounds, religions, social classes, and philosophies. The colonization process essentially extracted a single stratum of English society, isolated it from all the others, and then plunked it down on its own somewhere in the Eastern US. I used to play Alpha Centauri, a computer game about the colonization of its namesake star system. One of the dynamics that made it so interesting was its backstory, where a Puerto Rican survivalist, an African plutocrat, and other colorful characters organized their own colonial expeditions and competed to seize territory and resources. You got to explore not only the settlement of a new world, but the settlement of a new world by societies dominated by extreme founder effects. What kind of weird pathologies and wonderful innovations do you get when a group of overly romantic Scottish environmentalists is allowed to develop on its own trajectory free of all non-overly-romantic-Scottish-environmentalist influences? Albion’s Seed argues that this is basically the process that formed several early US states. Fischer describes four of these migrations: the Puritans to New England in the 1620s, the Cavaliers to Virginia in the 1640s, the Quakers to Pennsylvania in the 1670s, and the Borderers to Appalachia in the 1700s. II. A: The Puritans I hear about these people every Thanksgiving, then never think about them again for the next 364 days. They were a Calvinist sect that dissented against the Church of England and followed their own brand of dour, industrious, fun-hating Christianity. Most of them were from East Anglia, the part of England just northeast of London. They came to America partly because they felt persecuted, but mostly because they thought England was full of sin and they were at risk of absorbing the sin by osmosis if they didn’t get away quick and build something better. They really liked “city on a hill” metaphors. I knew about the Mayflower, I knew about the black hats and silly shoes, I even knew about the time Squanto threatened to release a bioweapon buried under Plymouth Rock that would bring about the apocalypse. But I didn’t know that the Puritan migration to America was basically a eugenicist’s wet dream. Much like eg Unitarians today, the Puritans were a religious group that drew disproportionately from the most educated and education-obsessed parts of the English populace. Literacy among immigrants to Massachusetts was twice as high as the English average, and in an age when the vast majority of Europeans were farmers most immigrants to Massachusetts were skilled craftsmen or scholars. And the Puritan “homeland” of East Anglia was a an unusually intellectual place, with strong influences from Dutch and Continental trade; historian Havelock Ellis finds that it “accounts for a much larger proportion of literary, scientific, and intellectual achievement than any other part of England.” Furthermore, only the best Puritans were allowed to go to Massachusetts; Fischer writes that “it may have been the only English colony that required some of its immigrants to submit letters of recommendation” and that “those who did not fit in were banished to other colonies and sent back to England”. Puritan “headhunters” went back to England to recruit “godly men” and “honest men” who “must not be of the poorer sort”.

Viernes, y el cafecito de hoy para cerrar la semana con broche de oro… ¿En algún momento has sentido la necesitas de abandonar o al menos hacer una pausa profunda en tu vida? Hay veces en que dejarlo todo es la única opción. Lejos de ser un acto de cobardía o rendición, quien elige hacer sus maletas y alzar la mirada al horizonte, viste la piel de los auténticos valientes. ¿Quieres algunas recomendaciones la respecto? Atento y escucha. Ey, si te emociona la idea de crear un podcast, como este, o cursos en línea, o un blog, pero no quieres perder tiempo buscando sin saber en los buscadores tradicionales, en el club kaizen tienes cursos donde te voy guiando paso a paso hasta lograrlo. Suscríbete ahora entrando en: clubkaizen.org, o encuentra el enlace en la descripción de este episodio. Club Kaizen, la comunidad de los que buscan la mejora contínua.clubkaizen.org, o encuentra el enlace en la descripción de este episodio. Club Kaizen, la comunidad de los que buscan la mejora contínua. Esto es un Programa de Radio a la carta (o popularmente llamado podcast), y lo puedes escuchar donde quieras, como quieras y cuando quieras, solo tienes que suscribirte y así no te pierdes de cada nuevo episodio. Grabamos un nuevo episodio de Lunes a Viernes desde que canta el gallo, desde Santo Domingo, República Dominicana y para todo el mundo. Definitivamente, este es el café que más se consume en el mundo cada día. Hoy es jueves 18 de octubre del año 2018, si todavía no tienes tu tacita de café, tu bombilla con tu mate o tu taza de chocolate, ve corriendo por ella porque vamos a comenzar este episodio con un contenido que esto y seguro te gustará mucho. En este episodio escucharemos la frase con cafeína, ese pensamiento o reflexión que te ayudará a seguir creciendo y ser cada día mejor persona; el tema central de este episodio y el reto del día. No puedes perderte todo el contenido de este episodio y vamos a iniciar nuestro itinerario en este preciso momento. Dale play al reproductor! El hosting donde alojo mi web, utilizo el Plan GoGeek [bctt tweet="El arte de vivir implica saber cuándo aferrarse y cuándo dejar ir. - Havelock Ellis #fraseconcafeina" username="robsasuke"] Enlaces mencionados en este episodio: ClubKaizen.org Comunidad en Facebook Grupo de Telegram Canción del día:  DESCARGA LA TRANSCRIPCIÓN Puedes leer todo el episodio, de principio a fin, de este y todos los episodios de TIUC. DESCARGA EL AUDIO EN MP3 Escucha el Podcast desde cualquier dispositivo.   Gracias por Escucharnos Comparte lo que piensas: Deja un comentario al final de esta sección. Envía tus dudas o comentarios en el formulario de contacto que tienes en tu lateral derecho. Comparte este Episodio en Twitter, Facebook, o Linkedin. Para ayudar a crecer este programa: Deja una reseña y una valoración en iTunes (Apple Podcast). Tus valoraciones realmente nos ayudan mucho a alcanzar a otras personas. Suscríbete en iTunes o en iVoox.

Viernes, y el cafecito de hoy para cerrar la semana con broche de oro… ¿En algún momento has sentido la necesitas de abandonar o al menos hacer una pausa profunda en tu vida? Hay veces en que dejarlo todo es la única opción. Lejos de ser un acto de cobardía o rendición, quien elige hacer sus maletas y alzar la mirada al horizonte, viste la piel de los auténticos valientes. ¿Quieres algunas recomendaciones la respecto? Atento y escucha. Ey, si te emociona la idea de crear un podcast, como este, o cursos en línea, o un blog, pero no quieres perder tiempo buscando sin saber en los buscadores tradicionales, en el club kaizen tienes cursos donde te voy guiando paso a paso hasta lograrlo. Suscríbete ahora entrando en: clubkaizen.org, o encuentra el enlace en la descripción de este episodio. Club Kaizen, la comunidad de los que buscan la mejora contínua.clubkaizen.org, o encuentra el enlace en la descripción de este episodio. Club Kaizen, la comunidad de los que buscan la mejora contínua. Esto es un Programa de Radio a la carta (o popularmente llamado podcast), y lo puedes escuchar donde quieras, como quieras y cuando quieras, solo tienes que suscribirte y así no te pierdes de cada nuevo episodio. Grabamos un nuevo episodio de Lunes a Viernes desde que canta el gallo, desde Santo Domingo, República Dominicana y para todo el mundo. Definitivamente, este es el café que más se consume en el mundo cada día. Hoy es jueves 18 de octubre del año 2018, si todavía no tienes tu tacita de café, tu bombilla con tu mate o tu taza de chocolate, ve corriendo por ella porque vamos a comenzar este episodio con un contenido que esto y seguro te gustará mucho. En este episodio escucharemos la frase con cafeína, ese pensamiento o reflexión que te ayudará a seguir creciendo y ser cada día mejor persona; el tema central de este episodio y el reto del día. No puedes perderte todo el contenido de este episodio y vamos a iniciar nuestro itinerario en este preciso momento. Dale play al reproductor! El hosting donde alojo mi web, utilizo el Plan GoGeek [bctt tweet="El arte de vivir implica saber cuándo aferrarse y cuándo dejar ir. - Havelock Ellis #fraseconcafeina" username="robsasuke"] Enlaces mencionados en este episodio: ClubKaizen.org Comunidad en Facebook Grupo de Telegram Canción del día:  DESCARGA LA TRANSCRIPCIÓN Puedes leer todo el episodio, de principio a fin, de este y todos los episodios de TIUC. DESCARGA EL AUDIO EN MP3 Escucha el Podcast desde cualquier dispositivo.   Gracias por Escucharnos Comparte lo que piensas: Deja un comentario al final de esta sección. Envía tus dudas o comentarios en el formulario de contacto que tienes en tu lateral derecho. Comparte este Episodio en Twitter, Facebook, o Linkedin. Para ayudar a crecer este programa: Deja una reseña y una valoración en iTunes (Apple Podcast). Tus valoraciones realmente nos ayudan mucho a alcanzar a otras personas. Suscríbete en iTunes o en iVoox.

les confessions sexuelles d'un anonyme Russe, érotisme ou étude ethnologique ? Pour l’écrivain anglais Edmund Wilson et pour Jean Jacques Pauvert, le premier éditeur à sortir Sade de la clandestinité, ce texte est d’un grand intérêt érotique. Quand il était à la tête de la collection Les Lectures Amoureuses, aux éditions La Musardine, il l’a donc réédité dans un format de poche, le rendant ainsi accessible à tous. Pour moi, c’est un étrange objet, à mi chemin entre érotisme et témoignage ethnologique.Cette confession sexuelle a été envoyé par un homme russe, né aux alentours de 1870, à Havelock Ellis, l’un des pionniers de la sexologie.Il lui a envoyé un témoignage précis et consciencieux de sa découverte de la sexualité, et de ses différentes aventures sexuelles tout au long de sa vie. Pour aider la science, en se disant que peut-être, son récit précis et véridique permettrait d’approfondir un peu mieux la connaissance de l’homme. Ce livre questionne, informe, nous enrichit. Ce n'est pas pour moi à proprement parlé de l'érotisme par contre c'est très intéressant à lire et à réfléchir. Donc je vous le recommande vivement même si au niveau de l'excitation pure ... Enfin vous verrez. RETROUVE LA SUITE SURhttp://lec.charlie-liveshow.com

Scholars in gender and sexuality studies have largely ignored or dismissed attempts to explain the causes of sexual deviation for a variety of reasons. In this podcast, National Humanities Center Fellow Benjamin Kahan discusses how his work, exploring “the historical etiology of sexuality,” moves past those scholars’ dismissal of early sexuality theories in hopes of producing a fuller understanding of how contemporary attitudes and notions about sexuality developed. By considering lost models of sexuality and sexual aberration—dating back to the 1840s—Kahan describes the emergence of ideas that can be found in the work of researchers such as Havelock Ellis as well as in the writings of authors like Djuna Barnes and Virginia Woolf. Benjamin Kahan is an assistant professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at Louisiana State University. He is the author of “Celibacies: American Modernism and Sexual Life” (2013) and the editor of Heinrich Kaan’s “‘Psychopathia Sexualis’ (1844): A Classic Text in the History of Sexuality” (2016). This year, as a Fellow at the Center, his project is “Sexual Etiologies and the Great Paradigm Shift.”

Clare Virginia Eby is a professor of English at the University of Connecticut. In Until Choice Do Us Part: Marriage Reform in the Progressive Era (University of Chicago Press, 2014), Eby examines the origins of how we think of marriage through the theoretical and experimental reform of the institution in the progressive era. Marriage theorist such as Havelock Ellis, Elsie Clews Parson and Charlotte Perkins Gilman took up a critique of the economic for basis of marriage to advocate for a woman’s legal autonomy, erotic agency, and right to non-reproductive sexuality. Against a traditional model, they proposed an equalitarian one of mutual consent and affection. Marital reform ideals included breaking the economic dependency of women, rejecting the validation of marriage by church or state, voluntary monogamy, at will divorce, and mutual sexual satisfaction. The redefining personal relationship, as a microcosm of society, was a means to reforming society as a whole, and an educational process carried through a variety of writing reaching a larger reading public. In addition to the theorists, Eby examines the lives and writing of three literary couples who experimented with the new ideal; Upton and Meta Fuller Sinclair, Theodore and Sara White Dreiser, and Neith Boyce and Hutchins Hapgood. Examples of literary works that explored new forms of marriage included Sinclair’s Love’s Pilgrimage (1911), Theodore Dreiser’s The Genius (1915) and Neith Boyce’s The Bond (1908). These works took up the themes of open marriages, sexual variety, emotional compatibility, dual careers, and the end of love in divorce. Until Choice Do Us Part provides insight into our contemporary marriage patterns and the tension between love and freedom that remains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Clare Virginia Eby is a professor of English at the University of Connecticut. In Until Choice Do Us Part: Marriage Reform in the Progressive Era (University of Chicago Press, 2014), Eby examines the origins of how we think of marriage through the theoretical and experimental reform of the institution in the progressive era. Marriage theorist such as Havelock Ellis, Elsie Clews Parson and Charlotte Perkins Gilman took up a critique of the economic for basis of marriage to advocate for a woman’s legal autonomy, erotic agency, and right to non-reproductive sexuality. Against a traditional model, they proposed an equalitarian one of mutual consent and affection. Marital reform ideals included breaking the economic dependency of women, rejecting the validation of marriage by church or state, voluntary monogamy, at will divorce, and mutual sexual satisfaction. The redefining personal relationship, as a microcosm of society, was a means to reforming society as a whole, and an educational process carried through a variety of writing reaching a larger reading public. In addition to the theorists, Eby examines the lives and writing of three literary couples who experimented with the new ideal; Upton and Meta Fuller Sinclair, Theodore and Sara White Dreiser, and Neith Boyce and Hutchins Hapgood. Examples of literary works that explored new forms of marriage included Sinclair’s Love’s Pilgrimage (1911), Theodore Dreiser’s The Genius (1915) and Neith Boyce’s The Bond (1908). These works took up the themes of open marriages, sexual variety, emotional compatibility, dual careers, and the end of love in divorce. Until Choice Do Us Part provides insight into our contemporary marriage patterns and the tension between love and freedom that remains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Homosexuality Isn't a Choice, It's an Option! This episode explains the origin of the term "homosexual" and attempts to place it in historical and cultural context. As it discusses sex and sexuality, it is not safe for work (NSFW) and not appropriate for children.

Guest speaker: Jonathan Ott PROGRAM NOTES: This is a talk that Jonathan Ott gave in September 2004 at the Mind States Conference in Oaxaca, Mexico. From the program for Mind States 2004: Jonathan Ott will give a talk titled “From Octli/Pulque and Xochioctli to Mezcal and Vino de Mezcal Tequila”. The ethnopharmacognosy of inebriating pre-Columbian potions based on octli or pulque, wine of various species of Agave, with special reference to numerous inebriating additives; traditional foods and beverages made from mezcal Agaves; and colonial development of distilled mezcal from fermented, cooked mezcal Agaves. Finally, more recent development of Vino de Mezcal Tequila or Tequila, a regional type of mezcal brandy, from cooked hearts of Agave tequillense or blue agave. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option More about: Agave and Mescal Mescal: A New Artificial Paradise by Dr. Havelock Ellis

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna and Erik Davis PROGRAM NOTES: Please Support Dennis McKenna's Kickstarter Project: The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss! [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "But I did [as a child] spend a lot of time grappling with shit like the nature of the soul, and the nature of sin, and all of these imponderables. And, of course, what you end up doing is you end up reading scholars of mysticism.” “To me it's the most psychedelic part of the psychedelic experience, it's when you get the logos coming out of the trees, the rocks, the berries, the water, everything.” “[Speaking about how to pursue a psychedelic culture.] Well, I'd say the wrongly-packaged version would be something like 'Castenadaism', a formulaic cult. Do these things, take these drugs, follow these instructions and moral obligation will flee from your kin. Nobody can be that foolish. If, on the other hand, you sincerely pursue this stuff, grow the plants, try to understand it, try to revivify the rituals and figuring out what it's all about, well, that's an authentic push towards spirituality, a very authentic push towards spirituality, and probably fruitful.” “It seems to me that 'the shamanic drug of the month' is not a very appealing idea.” “The basic concept [of alchemy] is that somehow intuition and nature are reflective of each other. Until that hypothesis fails we should probably hang on to it, because look how far we've gotten. I mean it is really bizarre how much of nature the human mind seems to be able to understand.” “[I'm hoping] that some lack of resource or vision doesn't reveal that we can't give enough people a bearable life. So we [would then] have to live forward into an age of revolution, social turmoil, and struggle for resources. It doesn't have to be this way.” “Now let's see if information can liberate. That's why I don't want to do something stupid like die and miss the whole unfoldment of this proposition that knowledge is power, information will liberate. And it will be settled in the next ten or fifteen years. Either they'll get a handle on it, whoever 'they' are, whatever a 'handle means. Or it will slip from their control, and it will be clear that some kind of dialogue is now going on between individual human beings and the sum total of human knowledge, and that nothing can stop it, that some kind of Renaissance, some kind of total new relationship to knowledge and possibility is put in place.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Terence McKenna Vs. the Black Hole by Erik Davis This is Erik Davis' account of the interview heard in this podcast. Excerpt: The following are excerpts from interviews that I conducted with Terence McKenna in late October and early November of 1999, in preparation for a profile that appeared in the May 2000 issue of Wired. These interviews have also been edited and released on a CD, Terence McKenna: The Last Interview. Given McKenna's subsequent demise, I chose selections concerning his feelings about death and dying. The October interview was conducted in San Francisco just a few days before Terence underwent a craniotomy, and he therefore spoke a bit more frankly about his condition than during November, when I spent a week with him and his wonderful girlfriend Christie Silness during his sort-of recovery in Hawaii. Mescal: A New Artificial Paradise by Dr. Havelock Ellis