I occasionally have time for Werner Herzog-style conscious misattribution of quotes…

Pynchon made a career out of it. And very well it turned out too! :-)

http://c-realm.com/podcasts/crealm/c-realm-special-dennis-mckenna-douglas-rushkoff/

I also did not buy the 2012 thing, but yet found myself utterly depressed through January 2013 into February lol I guess there just may have been some glimmer of hope that some Thing somewhere *would* sort this fucked up world out. WHERE WERE THE UFOS ALREADY??! lol

But I did a blog just preceding the turn of the year where I talk about McKenna and his ideas about UFOs etc, and I say how I think rather than some ‘End’ –however you think of that–that it is more of a springboard date. And I sense this. I sense that many of us feel eg ‘whoah, its post 2012. Its 2013! We better get our shit together. I sense a realizing that no magic thang is gonna come–no saviour as such (though according to Robert Hastings in his book UFOs and Nukes, we have been getting intervention), but it is WE/US who have to radically change things via whatever we we can contribute. And a big part of this is speaking out our truth.

Talking about using magic mushrooms etc in a self-healing way. I am very interested in this guy. I love what he is about because I am extremely aware that despite the so-called ‘psychedelic psychotherapeutic resurgence studies’ going on, that what remains is a war against consciousness and nature, which obviously includes our natures, the people, and our OWN empowerment to heal ourselves and support others who choose to do so. This continues from/through the Inquisition of the past when ‘common peoples, especially women’ were savagely attacked and stopped from administering to themselves and community sacred healing and religious rituals using various psychoactive fungi, plants and so on, and that this suppression did not just come from traditional religion, but from those powers trying to establish Capitalism (Caliban and the Witch, by Silvia Federici). On the back of this savage assault on folk medicine and sacred medicine the male-dominated medical establishment was built. This is a great article:
Psychiatric Power and Taboo in Modern Psychedelia

Here is the guy I was talking about: A Framework for Magic Mushrooms – Conscious Living Radio Interview with James W. Jesso – March 2013

I forgot to mention that the construction from the King Wen Sequence was not “revealed” to Terence in one or two psychedelic excursions, but over a period of time (in the early 1970s), and he kept a record of his studies of this. His notes were in a book, maybe a kind of journal. He brought this out to show me when I was visiting him at Occidental sometime in the mid-1980s, but I didn’t ask to look at it. I suppose it was destroyed in the fire at Monterey in 2007 along with his library — unless perhaps it was not stored with his books but kept separately by Dennis.