Psychedelic marriages thrive in rural, tribal communities
Leary recommends what McLuhan called the tribal community as best suited for enhancing the psychedelic marriage. He proposes established communities on remote rural land, “free territory”.
Sound bite: Disc 3 of 4, Track 6, 00:00-01:00
Now uh... most people who have wanted to pursue a dropped-out life, and by dropped-out I simply mean where you’re not hooked up to involuntary reward/punishment systems. But there clearly is a movement out of the cities. It’s inevitable that there be a movement of turned-on people out of the cities, because why do people live in the cities? Because the cities are the networks of secondary, tertiary, quartery conditioned punishments and rewards. You come down to the city because you want some sort of a complicated symbolic reward that probably has very little to do with who you are and what you are designed to be here for.
Sound bite: Disc 3 of 4, Track 7, 7:36-7:50
Now many communities and many psychedelic situations are based on the stable unit of the male/female who are hooked up.
Sound bite: Disc 3 of 4, Track 7, 8:02-8:11
That’s a beautiful model, and you’ll see it happening in Big Sur, where you have incredibly powerful male energies and incredibly powerful earth/female energies there.