{"id":6731,"date":"2021-12-20T22:22:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T06:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=6731"},"modified":"2021-12-20T22:22:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T06:22:52","slug":"terence-mckenna-the-meaning-of-being-optimistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=6731","title":{"rendered":"Terence McKenna &#8211; The Meaning of Being Optimistic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/54vH0rqbQO4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Terence McKenna: \u201cIf you&#8217;re intelligent \u2013 and you live past 40 \u2013 you will outgrow your culture!\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terence McKenna: \u201cIf you&#8217;re intelligent \u2013 and you live past 40 \u2013 you will outgrow your culture!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tQeJ-1Kz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1432,"url":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=1432","url_meta":{"origin":6731,"position":0},"title":"Terrence McKenna: &#8220;Culture is not your friend&#8221;","author":"Shawn Hamilton","date":"April 3, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com\/videos\/terence-mckenna\/terence-mckenna-culture-is-not-your-friend.html","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6712,"url":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=6712","url_meta":{"origin":6731,"position":1},"title":"Terence McKenna: &#8216;We Don&#8217;t Know Anything&#8217; (Belief Is For Kids)","author":"Shawn Hamilton","date":"December 8, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Terence McKenna: \u201cIf you're intelligent \u2013 and you live past 40 \u2013 you will outgrow your culture!\u201d https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r4co3bQr39I","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/r4co3bQr39I\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":718,"url":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=718","url_meta":{"origin":6731,"position":2},"title":"Terence McKenna &#8211; Schizophrenic or Shamanic?","author":"Shawn Hamilton","date":"March 21, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Terence Mckenna presents\u00c2\u00a0his view on how we define the mentally ill because we haven't got any place in our society to put these strange perceptions of reality that some people experience. 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