Nobel Ruminations

I think some important folks have been over looked for the Nobel Peace Prize. To name but a couple: First of all that irrepressible Yaqui Medicine man, "Don Juan Matus". If everyone would submit a year of their life to the teachings of this Yaqui, the world would be a better place for sure! For now I want to add one other person to this overlooked list, Terence McKenna. "The world sorely needs Terrance right now."

 Footnote to me previous post re Nobel laureates. In the winter of 1976 I was riding a 3rd class bus through the Sierra Madres en route to Puerto Escondido from the Ciudad Oaxaca. 2/3 of that route is dirt road starting in Oaxaca at 5000 ft. altitude through the mountain passes of 8 to 9000 ft. At this little village in the mountains we stopped and this odd couple joined our group of passengers,

One of the newcomers was a gringo or a mexican-american of about 5 to 60n years of age. The other passenger was and old indio, perhaps 7 to 80 years of age and he was the man for sure. The younger dude was deferential in attitude and demeanor. For the next 4 hours I listened to their interactions and I truly believe I saw Don Juan Matus and his apprentice Carlos Casteneda in this mystical mountain range of high mountain pine forest in the tropics. It was a sublime journey I have shared with no one until now. I remained stoked, awed, and in wonder to the present.