This, or that? Yes. 😊

About this man, my heart says:
Second only to teaching plants themselves, is Terence McKenna.

Some quotes from the video above, which is WELL worth watching in entirety:

Part of the reason we have a drug problem, is because we don't have an intelligent language to talk about substances, plants, psychedelic states of mind...

We can't make sense of the problem and the opportunities offered by substances, unless we clean up our language.

"Drugs" is a word that's been used by the government to make it impossible to think creatively about the problems of substance abuse...

It's a paradox. Drugs means 'that which cures us,' AND 'the greatest social problem of the generation.' There. Right there, you see the schizophrenia involved in thinking about drugs. Apparently, there are good drugs, sanctioned by science and medicine. And bad drugs, used by brown people in strange rites, and grown in unusual plants, in distant parts of the world.

He nails it. And this was 1996.
Truth is timeless.

Cognitive liberty is our UTMOST liberty.

It is described as the "right to mental self-determination," and the freedom of an individual to control his or her own mental processes, cognition, and consciousness.

The ideas and images that show on our mind's screen
are, in my opinion, the most fundamental liberty
we could ever insist upon.

We object to the monitoring of our communications,
purchases, travel, and earnings, etc.

And what of the (for some of us) natural urge to explore
the workings of our own mind, and inner condition?

This, I know:

Anything that exposes + dissolves
mechanisms of control, separation and disempowerment
will be banned by oppressors, and
will be celebrated by liberators.

SYMBIOSIS,
the beneficial relationship
between plants + people,
RULES OVER... over-rules...
the dumb, deadening laws,
of a dreadfully mismanaged land.