Hamilton Souther

Duncan Trussell Family Hour

Comedy Interviews, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Comedy

4.8 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2016

⏱️ 77 minutes

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We celebrate Terrence Mckenna's birthday with a mind blazingly psychedelic episode with Maestro Hamilton Souther. (http://www.hamiltonsouther.com) Hamilton Souther completed a degree in Anthropology from the University of Colorado in 2000. In 2001, he left his California home and traveled to Peru. Later that year, he studied Ayahuasca shamanism under various Peruvian shamans on the Aucayacu River in the Amazon rain forest, approximately 24 hours away from Iquitos, Peru by boat. Then, in 2002, Souther began apprenticing with Don Alberto Torres Davila and Don Julio Llerena Pinedo, two medicine men in the area. Souther constructed a camp nearby, where he would live during his studies. It soon became clear to him that many Westerners would benefit from similar spiritual work, so he established Blue Morpho, named after the bright blue Amazonian butterfly of the same name. With its inception, Souther began guiding guests on the 24-hour trip by boat from Iquitos deep into the jungle. As more guests arrived, he added greater infrastructure to accommodate their needs.

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0:00.0	Hi friends, it's me Duncan and you're listening to the Duncan Trussel Family Hour podcast.
0:28.5	I'm not sure what part of the time space continuum you happen to be floating down on the meaty inner tube that you call your body, but from this part of the river, I just want to say hello to you.
0:39.6	Trapped in time like a fly stuck in the swirling vortex of a toilet, but not being sucked down into the city sewers, being sucked in the direction of the thing that someone I'm very fond of,
0:53.7	turned the strange attractor at the end of time.
0:58.2	Today, maybe you're aware, maybe you're not.
1:01.1	If you happen to be listening to this today, November 16th, today is the birthday of one of the greatest philosophers,
1:09.5	in psychonauts and mind-blowers that ever walked across this strange extrusion of matter that we call planet Earth.
1:21.0	I'm trying to talk like Terence McKenna, who truly is the ultimate mind-melter.
1:27.7	In my life, I've never encountered anybody so adept at flying into the realms of the psychedelic,
1:36.2	at inhaling dimethyl-triptamin or eating what he called heroic doses of mushrooms and allowing himself to experience that incredible subjective apocalypse
1:49.4	that comes from a tremendous dose of psychedelics and then somehow being able to bring that experience back here into consensus reality
2:01.0	and to articulate it in a way that makes it somewhat understandable.
2:06.2	Terence McKenna is so good at describing the psychedelic mind state that he is his own form of psychedelic.
2:16.2	And I can remember the first time reading him, feeling as though we're having some kind of flashback.
2:22.0	He's the best. So in honor of this great man's birthday, I'm just going to play a clip that I found on YouTube,
2:31.4	which is a talk he was giving in Maui.
2:34.6	We are all in the grip of a transformative attractor,
2:42.7	an attractor which over very long periods of time produced stable biosystems,
2:49.2	old-schools, and jungles full of life, over a very short period of time.
2:54.7	Thousands of years has produced human civilizations, art movements,
3:00.8	dynastic families, languages, migrations, and since 1945, we have been in a kind of hyper accelerated phase
3:12.9	where culture has not changed that much.
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