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Interview: Dennis McKenna |
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Written by Michael (we know him as Rev. MeO)
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Wednesday, 24 December 1997 |
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(DM:)
I haven't had sufficient experience with it to say much. I've taken it once...it was pleasant enough, but didn't grab on, since I never repeated it. Some people seem to find a lot in it. I think its a very safe anesthetic, and that's a good thing.
(Rev:)
What are your visions or ideas for December 21, 2012?
(DM:)
Well, you'll have to take that up with my brother. He is the inventor of the time wave, and the one who is focused on this date. I think basically what he says is true, but by the time we *get* to 2012 things will be so bizarre that it may as well be.
(Rev:)
Do you have any thoughts on the identity of 'Soma'?
(DM:)
Yes. I think clearly Soma has to be either a psilocybin mushroom or a Peganum harmala/DMT admixture combination. I don't buy the A. muscaria theory; clearly soma is a tryptamine. It could be S. cubensis; it could be P. harmala and...what?
(Rev:)
What can we do, as entheogenic worshippers/gardeners/explorers to affect the straight public's views on entheogens, positively?
(DM:)
I think the thing that will ultimately persuade the public is if medical applications are found for these compounds. That can change peoples ideas, and in fact, it may be the only way, in our uptight society, these drugs can ever be integrated.
(Rev:)
Have you any advice for current students of Ethnography/Anthropology/Chemistry?
(DM:)
Find a specialty and get very good at it. If you want to do research on psychedelics, don't go looking for a program where you can do that, because there aren't any. Instead you have to make your own program, go through the back door, so to speak.
(Rev:)
I would just like to thank you so much. I have greatly enjoyed this extremely informative experience! It has been a true joy!
(DM:)
Thanks. Over & out...
The neat, pretty and polished (not all that much, but moreso than these notes) version of this interview appears in the Winter 1997/98 edition of the Resonance Project (issue # 2). Stop by their home page, get a script (subscription, NOT prescription...well sure, yeah get a prescription for something nice, too), and see what Satan Says, or what James says...
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