Bridgeman, who was a philosopher of science, defined a coincidence as what you have left over when you apply a bad theory! [26], In differentiating his idea from the "New Age", a term that he felt trivialized the significance of the next phase in human evolution, McKenna stated that: "The New Age is essentially humanistic psychology '80s-style, with the addition of neo-shamanism, channeling, crystal and herbal healing. McKenna soon became a fixture of popular counterculture[5][6][37] with Timothy Leary once introducing him as "one of the five or six most important people on the planet"[41] and with comedian Bill Hicks' referencing him in his stand-up act[42] and building an entire routine around his ideas. [8][17][19][26], Soon after graduating, McKenna and Dennis published a book inspired by their Amazon experiences, The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens and the I Ching. During their stay in the Amazon, McKenna also became romantically involved with his interpreter, Ev. [5][95][b], McKenna saw the universe, in relation to novelty theory, as having a teleological attractor at the end of time,[5] which increases interconnectedness and would eventually reach a singularity of infinite complexity. McKenna also expressed admiration for the works of writers including Aldous Huxley,[3] James Joyce, whose book Finnegans Wake he called "the quintessential work of art, or at least work of literature of the 20th century,"[71] science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, who he described as an "incredible genius,"[72] fabulist Jorge Luis Borges, with whom McKenna shared the belief that "scattered through the ordinary world there are books and artifacts and perhaps people who are like doorways into impossible realms, of impossible and contradictory truth"[8] and Vladimir Nabokov; McKenna once said that he would have become a Nabokov lecturer if he had never encountered psychedelics. T erence Kemp McKenna (1946–2000) was an American ethnobotanist, mystic, psychonaut, lecturer, author, and an advocate for the responsible use of naturally occurring psychedelic plants. Terence McKenna's Last Trip The "altered statesman" emerged from Leary's long shadow to push a magical blend of psychedelics, technology, and … "[43][79], Therefore, according to McKenna, access to and ingestion of mushrooms was an evolutionary advantage to humans' omnivorous hunter-gatherer ancestors,[26][78] also providing humanity's first religious impulse. [3][5], McKenna suspected that notable events in history could be identified that would help him locate the time wave's end date[5] and attempted to find the best-fit placement when matching the graph to the data field of human history. The Mystery in all its nakedness is seen, and nothing else exists. "- Terence McKenna, "So, DMT, like all things in this world, has a physical body – a presence and a presentation. The I Ching (Yì Jīng), or Classic of Changes, which dates from over 3,000 years ago, is believed to be one of the world's oldest books. It’s all things to all men and all women. There were hundreds of control words for naming the secret, difficult to attain. [6] This was the same age McKenna first became aware of magic mushrooms, when reading an essay titled "Seeking the Magic Mushroom" which appeared in the May 13, 1957 edition of LIFE magazine. [5][88] He suggested the up-and-down pattern of the wave shows an ongoing wavering between habit and novelty respectively. ", "Fixing is the culmination of alchemy, and if you can bring off this trick then you possess our stone, the philosopher's stone, the. [17] In 1967, while in college, he discovered and began studying shamanism through the study of Tibetan folk religion. It is the pana supersubstantialis. It's the answer, it's what everyone is looking for and no one can find. There were hundreds of control words for naming the secret, difficult to attain. In this case, it looks rather like earwax. Shopping. With each level of complexity achieved becoming the platform for a further ascent into complexity. I mean, a bug walking across the ground moved me to tears. It is the, . [55], Although McKenna avoided giving his allegiance to any one interpretation (part of his rejection of monotheism), he was open to the idea of psychedelics as being "trans-dimensional travel". Tap to unmute. [5][6][7][8] Despite the pseudoscientific nature of novelty theory,[9][10] promotion of its ideas and its connection to the Maya calendar helped fuel widespread beliefs about 2012 eschatology. But the stress on ritual, on organized activity, on race/ancestor-consciousness – these are themes that have been worked out throughout the entire 20th century, and the archaic revival is an expression of that. So what is it, then? Here’s a song from a Megatripolis compilation CD that sample’s McKenna’s voice (and another). So according to novelty theory, the pattern of time itself is speeding up, with a requirement of the theory being that infinite novelty will be reached on a specific date. We know a tremendous amount about what is going on in the heart of the atom, but we know absolutely nothing about the nature of the mind. “Right here and now, one quanta away, there is a raging universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feelings today is a wish for contact with this other universe.”. These are the two things that the psychedelics attack. It’s the chocolate cake that your mother made once a week when you were a child. In Asian Taoist philosophy the concept of opposing phenomena is represented by the yin and yang. Terence Mckenna - Trust Yourself - YouTube. This is the universal medicine. One must build up to the experience. [3][22][23] In the autumn of 1975, after parting with his girlfriend Ev earlier in the year,[31] McKenna began a relationship with his future wife and the mother of his two children, Kathleen Harrison. Oeric". After their divorce, McKenna moved to Hawaii permanently, where he built a modernist house[17] and created a gene bank of rare plants near his home. [17], In 1965, McKenna enrolled in the University of California, Berkeley and was accepted into the Tussman Experimental College. Terence McKenna was something of a modern wizard. [27] McKenna was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme, a highly aggressive form of brain cancer. It’s the universal panacea at the end of time. And I conceived it as an idea: The TimeWave - I think it would come differently for each of us - for me it was an incredibly formal, aesthetically symmetrical, and, therefore satisfying idea about what time is.". It's a kind of diffuse idea of the philosopher's stone, but it's a society in perfect harmony with fully realized beings living within it, practicing a cosmic religion that frees them from the impulses of cosmic fate. Customs. [6] He believed they would have been following large herds of wild cattle whose dung harbored the insects that, he proposed, were undoubtedly part of their new diet, and would have spotted and started eating Psilocybe cubensis, a dung-loving mushroom often found growing out of cowpats. Music: Defin - KayipFeel free to support the channelPatreon:https://www.patreon.com/snippetofwisdom - Terence McKenna "Fixing is the culmination of alchemy, and if you can bring off this trick then you possess our stone, the philosopher's stone, the lapis , the Sophic Hydrolith of the Wise, Aranius Philalith calls it. [3][13], McKenna said that one of his early psychedelic experiences with morning glory seeds showed him "that there was something there worth pursuing",[13] and in interviews he claimed to have smoked cannabis daily since his teens. Some projected dates have been criticised for having seemingly arbitrary labels, such as the "height of the age of mammals"[10] and McKenna's analysis of historical events has been criticised for having a eurocentric and cultural bias. [62][63], McKenna spoke of hallucinations while on DMT in which he claims to have met intelligent entities he described as, "self-transforming machine elves". [78][80] He believed that psilocybin mushrooms were the "evolutionary catalyst"[3] from which language, projective imagination, the arts, religion, philosophy, science, and all of human culture sprang. And at some time, very early, a group interposed itself between people and direct experience of the 'Other.' Well, this is the luminae de luminae, the light of light, the lux natura, the light drawn out of nature and condensed into a fixed form which then becomes the universal panacea. For Terence McKenna’s birthday this past year (Nov. 16, 2017), the Terence McKenna Archives held a raffle for a set of photos of Terence. For the album by the Dutch. "[5][7] When describing this model of the universe he stated that: "The universe is not being pushed from behind. [8], The basis of the theory was originally conceived in the mid-1970s after McKenna's experiences with psilocybin mushrooms at La Chorrera in the Amazon led him to closely study the King Wen sequence of the I Ching.[5][6][27]. Terence McKenna addressed deep, fundamental questions in a talk called ‘Dreaming Awake at the End of Time‘, a talk he gave shortly before his death in 2000. [12][33][35], In the early 1980s, McKenna began to speak publicly on the topic of psychedelic drugs, becoming one of the pioneers of the psychedelic movement. [5][6][12][24][27] In La Chorrera, at the urging of his brother, McKenna was the subject of a psychedelic experiment[5] in which the brothers attempted to bond harmine (harmine is another psychedelic compound they used synergistically with the mushrooms) with their own neural DNA, through the use of a set specific vocal techniques. [43], One of the main themes running through McKenna's work, and the title of his second book, was the idea that Western civilization was undergoing what he called an "archaic revival". [7][8][17], On February 7, 2007, McKenna's library of over 3000 rare books and personal notes was destroyed in a fire at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. [17], Harvard University biologist Richard Evans Schultes wrote in American Scientist, in a 1993 review of McKenna's Food of the Gods, that the book was "a masterpiece of research and writing" and that it "should be read by every specialist working in the multifarious fields involved with the use of psychoactive drugs." Here’s a nice clip of Terence talking about the difficulties of being a club-scene philosopher (and mentions Megatripolis). He conducted several public and many private debates with them from 1982 until his death. It’s the universal panacea at the end of time. Terence McKenna was a philosopher of extreme experience, a psychonaut who dedicated his life to empowering direct experience through the medium of psychedelics. [37] Though associated with the New Age and Human Potential Movements, McKenna himself had little patience for New Age sensibilities. [5], Peter J. Meyer (Peter Johann Gustav Meyer) (born 1946), in collaboration with McKenna, studied and improved the foundations of novelty theory, working out a mathematical formula and developing the Timewave Zero software (the original version of which was completed by July 1987),[87] enabling them to graph and explore its dynamics on a computer. [16] The voice's reputed revelations and his brother's simultaneous peculiar psychedelic experience prompted him to explore the structure of an early form of the I Ching, which led to his "Novelty Theory". Speculating that "when the laws of physics are obviated, the universe disappears, and what is left is the tightly bound plenum, the monad, able to express itself for itself, rather than only able to cast a shadow into physis as its reflection...It will be the entry of our species into 'hyperspace', but it will appear to be the end of physical laws, accompanied by the release of the mind into the imagination. “The philosopher , writer, and ethno-botanist shares a series of insights and provocations after these news headlines with Aileen Alfandary.” (c. 1:18) If you’re hungry, you eat it. McKenna pointed to phenomena including surrealism, abstract expressionism, body piercing and tattooing, psychedelic drug use, sexual permissiveness, jazz, experimental dance, rave culture, rock and roll and catastrophe theory, amongst others, as his evidence that this process was underway. The experience that, along with everything else, was sexual, included the phenomena of translinguistic matter. That's precisely my model of human history. He was able to graph the data and this became the Novelty Time Wave. Fischer et al. "[21] He then wandered through southeast Asia viewing ruins,[21] and spent time as a professional butterfly collector in Indonesia. Berkeley to finish his studies[17] and in 1975, he graduated with a degree in ecology, shamanism, and conservation of natural resources. [7][8][27][78], McKenna's hypothesis concerning the influence of psilocybin mushrooms on human evolution is known as "the 'stoned ape' theory. [6] He conducted lecture tours and workshops[6] promoting natural psychedelics as a way to explore universal mysteries, stimulate the imagination, and re-establish a harmonious relationship with nature. [5][7] The graph was fractal, it exhibited a pattern in which a given small section of the wave was found to be identical in form to a larger section of the wave. He had many interesting and thought-provoking ideas, ranging from the stoned ape theory to the concept of novelty as the driving force of the universe. And I'm using as many of these alchemical terms as I can draw out of my memory to give you a feeling for it. It’s all things to all men and all women.
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