demius said:

anyone know where the original post's quotes came from?

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curenado said:

<<"Hallucinogens are hardly welcome in agricultural societies.">>

Heh-heh...try telling that to the agricultural society I'ma livin' in right now, 'cause that's just plain naive.
In all seriousness though, I feel that the hypothesis is too conclusive considering that there is always a little of everything going on everywhere. Sometimes it's in the limelight, others, all but gone.
I just couldn't resist the "hillbilly hee-haw" about aggy people don't eat neurotropics!
(psychsplit)

<<he was a thinker, he never claimed to be a prophet, a lot of people just put him up on a pedestal and worship him as one tho.
rest in peace.>>
Amen. I believe the late Mr. McKenna displayed the kind of curiosity and determination that would have made him dispassionate about learning something that blew all his other ideas away as it would seem no more than a natural progression.
In any worthwhile scholarly effort one is best to view in comparison with all the available and reliable material because this is how those who write them arrive at their theories and conclusions - and whether they build on or bash each other is a natural wonderful process called "discovery".
Because of his areas and opinions he suffered what many people in such a condition do - a bunch of loving and well meaning people "projecting" their hopeful ideals and feelings and creating an environment of overmuch "hero worship" which one fears may establish a prejudice against one's work even before it is considered.
He tried not to be a tit is what I am saying, even if he attracted a cloud of them.

The inescapable tragedy of Terrance McKenna for me has always been that his academic study of neurotropics did not reveal to him their extremely potent anti-cancer activity which readily crosses the blood/brain barrier.
I find it astonishing that a man who spent so much time on these creatures perished (with no help from the devoted society of tits...) most probably for the simple lack of them, and guided care by a competent physician.

Maybe his devotees should fund neurotropic medicine and support/supply clinics that treat these people if they would do something to honor his memory that made him more than "another one of those teeny bopper dope gurus" - something appropriate that is more befitting his dignity.
(For the absolutely stupid: no, I don't mean something like a commemorative tie-dye with him and Jesus...)

Ok - gawd, sorry! - to close:
where he is right now is full of stars; and he is laughing at us all!
and the lecture endeth here

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