Thanks Erik...another trip through the weird and wonderful. I grew up mesmerized by my dads LP of The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein, listening with giant 70s headphones and staring at the otherworldly figures on the cover. It transported me out of my mostly white working class existence and gave me the courage to be as weird and eccentric as I dared to be.
I still yearn to be as free to be myself as George and Bootsy are themselves, and your post reminds me of the value of the freaks for our whitebread culture. As Kilindi said, we do need more Dr. Stranges!
Maybe I need 30 dried grams to help me break outta the box I keep myself in. It’s scary to fully be oneself, especially in these days of hyper political correctness...so I’m grateful for those who can keep the freak flag flyin’ high.
Unfortunately we don’t often hear about them because they work so outside the mainstream, their presentation isn’t polished and not so concerned with conventional scholarship and credentials so they don’t get the platforms that the mostly white academics get.
That’s a shame, because if there’s anything we need right now it’s big vision, wild creativity and boundless imagination. How else are we gonna find our way through the mess we’re in? Something tells me it’s gonna take a lot more than meditation and microdosing.
PS you should watch the whole Season 2 of Mike Judges series on funk...it’s full of wild, wooly and outrageous stories!
Thanks for this, Erik. I recall being struck by Allyne Andrade's presentation at the Chacruna conference Queering Psychedelics – Are Black People and Queer People Allowed to Trip? I remember her framing the question with a big no: no safe spaces for Black and Queer people to allow the medicine to work, and primarily, the dangerous stigmatization of "drugs" and drug use among minoritized groups that has of course fueled mass incarcerations. Exactly: whether you can turn on and drop out--and survive--is a matter of social position. My work not to romanticize the brave souls who manage to storm heaven anyhow. https://youtu.be/_htuqmuQWFw
Enjoyed both very much, will be looking for Brown Buffaloes book and the pbs documentary. Was surprised to learn Castaneda wasn’t at least a cannabis smoker. Now on to Doc Ellis video 😎Thanks Erik!
Thanks Erik...another trip through the weird and wonderful. I grew up mesmerized by my dads LP of The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein, listening with giant 70s headphones and staring at the otherworldly figures on the cover. It transported me out of my mostly white working class existence and gave me the courage to be as weird and eccentric as I dared to be.
I still yearn to be as free to be myself as George and Bootsy are themselves, and your post reminds me of the value of the freaks for our whitebread culture. As Kilindi said, we do need more Dr. Stranges!
Maybe I need 30 dried grams to help me break outta the box I keep myself in. It’s scary to fully be oneself, especially in these days of hyper political correctness...so I’m grateful for those who can keep the freak flag flyin’ high.
Unfortunately we don’t often hear about them because they work so outside the mainstream, their presentation isn’t polished and not so concerned with conventional scholarship and credentials so they don’t get the platforms that the mostly white academics get.
That’s a shame, because if there’s anything we need right now it’s big vision, wild creativity and boundless imagination. How else are we gonna find our way through the mess we’re in? Something tells me it’s gonna take a lot more than meditation and microdosing.
PS you should watch the whole Season 2 of Mike Judges series on funk...it’s full of wild, wooly and outrageous stories!
Thanks for this, Erik. I recall being struck by Allyne Andrade's presentation at the Chacruna conference Queering Psychedelics – Are Black People and Queer People Allowed to Trip? I remember her framing the question with a big no: no safe spaces for Black and Queer people to allow the medicine to work, and primarily, the dangerous stigmatization of "drugs" and drug use among minoritized groups that has of course fueled mass incarcerations. Exactly: whether you can turn on and drop out--and survive--is a matter of social position. My work not to romanticize the brave souls who manage to storm heaven anyhow. https://youtu.be/_htuqmuQWFw
Enjoyed both very much, will be looking for Brown Buffaloes book and the pbs documentary. Was surprised to learn Castaneda wasn’t at least a cannabis smoker. Now on to Doc Ellis video 😎Thanks Erik!