Re: Here's a list of selected quotes from this episode with timecodes pretty close to when they starottonomyMarch 9 2008, 02:43:34 UTC
26 1:00:00 This is what I'm talking about here is reclaiming experience. This is what's been taken from us. This is why the new music and dance culture is so important. This is why drug culture is so important. This is why the celebration of sexual minorities is so important. This is all about coming to grips with who you really are and how you really feel and then experiencing it. 27 1:01:00 We are creating a world that celebrates diversity, that celebrates the uniqueness of every person. The complexification of our species is a process directly dependent on the complexity that we each bring to the process. The diversity that is spreading through society is a comcomitant to the boundary dissolution. 28 1:01:30 Science's inability to make sense of human beings in the world as part of nature, to make sense of art, love, hate, aspiration, fear…is the failure to come to terms with the transcendental aspect of reality. We are the best evidence there is that something extraordinarily unusual is happening on this planet. 29 1:02:20 There is no going back from the momentum that history has imparted to the human imagination. There is only going forward, into what is called a "forward escape" through art, through design, through management and integration. We have to push the art pedal to the floor. 30 1:03:18 The catalyst now is a combination of technologies…and pharmacology. The world that we are leaving behind, the world that failed us, was a world of ideologies and mechanical technologies. And the ideologies one by one are going down the tubes… and the mechanical technologies cannot be sustained. 31 1:04:13 What is coming into place is a world where drugs replace ideology. That's why drugs are so terrifying to those who oppose them. That's why they say, 'you want to… take drugs to escape.' That's right! You want to escape! You want to escape fascism, communism, socialism, existentialism, phenomenology...escape ideology into the felt presence of the body. Which means drugs and sex and syncopated music. 32 1:04:52 happening in different sectors of society is the hardwiring of our imagination. The building of databases that we can access instantaneously that make the human past co-present with the now. The boundary dissolution that I'm talking about includes the division between past, present, and future. This is what it means to end Newtonian time. 33 1:06:30 human history secures the central importance of human beings. We are part of a universal adventure. What happens to us decrees the fate of a vast set of universal processes and circumstances. We are not ephemeral, irrelevant (to each other, or to the greater whole). This is the truth of psychedelics that aboriginal societies have always known and it's the truth that we had to sacrifice to make the prodigal journey into matter...[which] has now been concluded. 34 1:07:30 We need to go back to the problems of the human soul and there isn't much time, but the tools that have been put into our hands are the most powerful tools there have ever been: the Gaian connection into the vegetable mind of the planet that we are trying to mirror and hard-wire on a human scale. 35 1:08:00 This is a process which is happening, but it's a birth; it can go with ease because we help it from this side, or it can be traumatic because we resist.
27 1:01:00 We are creating a world that celebrates diversity, that celebrates the uniqueness of every person. The complexification of our species is a process directly dependent on the complexity that we each bring to the process. The diversity that is spreading through society is a comcomitant to the boundary dissolution.
28 1:01:30 Science's inability to make sense of human beings in the world as part of nature, to make sense of art, love, hate, aspiration, fear…is the failure to come to terms with the transcendental aspect of reality. We are the best evidence there is that something extraordinarily unusual is happening on this planet.
29 1:02:20 There is no going back from the momentum that history has imparted to the human imagination. There is only going forward, into what is called a "forward escape" through art, through design, through management and integration. We have to push the art pedal to the floor.
30 1:03:18 The catalyst now is a combination of technologies…and pharmacology. The world that we are leaving behind, the world that failed us, was a world of ideologies and mechanical technologies. And the ideologies one by one are going down the tubes… and the mechanical technologies cannot be sustained.
31 1:04:13 What is coming into place is a world where drugs replace ideology. That's why drugs are so terrifying to those who oppose them. That's why they say, 'you want to… take drugs to escape.' That's right! You want to escape! You want to escape fascism, communism, socialism, existentialism, phenomenology...escape ideology into the felt presence of the body. Which means drugs and sex and syncopated music.
32 1:04:52 happening in different sectors of society is the hardwiring of our imagination. The building of databases that we can access instantaneously that make the human past co-present with the now. The boundary dissolution that I'm talking about includes the division between past, present, and future. This is what it means to end Newtonian time.
33 1:06:30 human history secures the central importance of human beings. We are part of a universal adventure. What happens to us decrees the fate of a vast set of universal processes and circumstances. We are not ephemeral, irrelevant (to each other, or to the greater whole). This is the truth of psychedelics that aboriginal societies have always known and it's the truth that we had to sacrifice to make the prodigal journey into matter...[which] has now been concluded.
34 1:07:30 We need to go back to the problems of the human soul and there isn't much time, but the tools that have been put into our hands are the most powerful tools there have ever been: the Gaian connection into the vegetable mind of the planet that we are trying to mirror and hard-wire on a human scale.
35 1:08:00 This is a process which is happening, but it's a birth; it can go with ease because we help it from this side, or it can be traumatic because we resist.
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