Mind Meld 104 | The Beauty of a Billion Failures with Dr. Dennis McKenna and Dr. Bruce Damer

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Michael Phillip

Spirituality, Development, Philosophy, Psychedelic, Comedy, Psychology, Mckenna, Future, Plato, Rogan, Science, Society & Culture, Watts, Trussell, Mind, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2018

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Dennis McKenna is an ethnopharmacologist, researcher lecturer and author who has spent decades doing academic and personal research with psychedelics. Dennis is also the author of Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss, a memoire about his adventures with his brother, the late Terence McKenna.

In addition to being part of the same circle as Dennis and Terence McKenna, Dr. Bruce Damer, is a researcher at UC Santa Cruz focusing on origin of life theory. Bruce has also worked on projects for NASA in which he developed asteroid-capturing spacecraft.

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0:48.4	Now administering third eye drops. Everything's a failure. A success depending on your vantage point. I know that I'm never going to get behind this microphone
1:15.0	and erect the perfect palace of golden rhetoric that heals and inspires the totality of mankind. and moment at the perfect harmonic pressure point in space time to harmonize exactly with their existence.
1:39.0	Their most tightly held hopes and fears.
1:45.0	And of course when it comes to language, this is especially true because language is certainly a subjective science, but it's true across the board, regardless of discipline.
1:58.0	There's no perfection out there.
2:00.0	And we all know this, everything is in flux.
2:04.0	You know, Panther Ray, as Heraclitus said,
2:08.0	impermanence is a core tenet of Buddhism.
2:11.0	In other words, everything is constantly breaking down, degrading, and changing.
2:18.3	So there's no perfection to be found anywhere. But reminding ourselves of that from time to time is a really worthwhile
2:28.6	endeavor because although we know nothing can ever be perfect intellectually. We don't behave as if we really
2:36.4	know it because we let our fear of imperfection strap a leash of fear and complacency around our necks, which of course does
2:48.0	what leashes do, holds us back, aborts our potential.
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