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Critical Deconstruction of Terence Mckenna

max_freakout

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Listen here: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaYPWHBmS1g&t=6546s
Cutting edge conversation between Max Freakout and Cyber Disciple. In this episode Max and Cyb talk about Terence Mckenna's ideas, topics covered include:
Comparison between Terence Mckenna and Tim Leary
Tension between metaphorical and literal interpretation of Mckenna's ideas
Mckenna's 'Stoned Ape' theory of human evolution
Brian Akers' Lamarckist criticism of stoned ape theory
Differing views of Mckenna's motivations
Mckenna's criticism of scientism
Mckenna's emphasis on natural drugs and dismissal of LSD
Mckenna's feminist ideals
Mckenna's analogical model of psychedelic cognition (explicit representationalism)
Mckenna's model of time and reverse-causality and its relation to 4D block-universe determinism
Mckenna's 'timewave zero' equation
2012 as teleological eschaton
Mckenna's idea of accelerating ingression into novelty
Scientistic reliance on inductivist logic
Mckenna's DMT induced 'Machine Elves', comparisons with religious myths such as prophet Jacob's wrestling with an angel
Mckenna's concept of telepathic communication
Mckenna's rejection of psychedelic Christianity via dismissal of John Allegro and Leary's Good Friday experiment
 
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