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Possible solution to all of Washington DC's problems: Less alcohol, more psychedelics. Discuss...
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Terence Mckenna - The solution to cultural illusions (Original Post)
whirlygigspin
Jun 2014
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riverwalker
(8,694 posts)1. I loved his theory of Santa Claus
and the elves. Every Christmas, I chuckle...if you only knew.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)5. The timing of christmas, also
close to the autumnal equinox, is an obvious sign of it being a pagan holiday that began long before Christ.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)2. K&R
Aldo Leopold
(685 posts)3. McKenna was brilliant.
His books True Hallucinations and Food of the Gods are both great reads.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)4. interesting!
On my reading list now!
hatrack
(59,594 posts)6. See also: "One River" by Wade Davis - ethnobotanist who did lots of work in S. America
He and his colleague, Tim Plowman, were some of the first to do nutritional and chemical analyses on coca (among many other plants), and discovered that it had tremendous nutritional value.
No one had ever done it before, because bad, evil coca was responsible for Latin American poverty, doncha know.