Terence Mc Kenna

[Mech]

I thought it was high time for a Terence McKenna thread.

Definately one of my influences. Terence has this amazing ability to make you "take a second look" at things on many levels..and does it in a totally non-evasive way in that he has no ideology to hammer across your forhead...only ideas.



Scholar, theoritician, lecturer, explorer, dreamer, pioneer, ethnobotanist, art dealer, author, pyschedelic advocate,
critic...call him what you will, was a brilliant man who had
an extrodinary view at what we are missing in normal, waking
3d conciousness and daily life in hyperconsumerist, self destructive, late 20th century space time.

LINK:

users.lycaeum.org/~sputnik/mckenna/


Reading his works and listening to his lectures might lift any numbed
brain out of its cognitive Kansas.








The Terence McKenna Memorial Audio Psychedelic Library:

mckenna.psychedelic-library.org/

[Mech]

True Hallucinations

Terences Journies through the Amazon
rainforest and the encounter with the Logos.


"Terence McKenna Land"


www.deoxy.org/mckenna.htm#sword

[Mech]

Memorable quotes.......


"The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it's not treated -- if there's not pharmacological intervention -- it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality."

"The future of the human race lies in the exploration and making explicit of the contents of the human imagination."


"Linearity in print and thought has made language unable to deal with the invisible world in any meaningful way, except as pathology. "

"What's right here, and from here out is this thing which, no matter how much science fiction you've done, no matter how much William Burroughs you've read, no matter how much time you've spent in the company of the weird, the bizarre, the outre, and the peculiar, you weren't ready. And it's completely real."


"These psychedelic substances are not private, peripheral, ancillary, cultish, esoteric, meaningless, self-indulgent, narcissistic, or obscure; they are in fact central to understanding how what we call 'human-ness' actually came to be in the first place."

"Basically, I think of the ego like a tumor in the psyche that will form unless there is the presence of psilocybin. For a hundred thousand years, nobody went longer than a month without having this boundary-dissolving experience."

"We have to stop waiting for the revelation to come from CNN or Time Magazine, and get lives! And what getting lives means is ignoring the idiotic laws that would dictate to us the kind of states of mind that we can entertain."

"Each one of us is a word of approximately 700,000,000 characters, and this word is made flesh when the sperm and the egg form a zygote and the DNA textural message is downloaded into matter. Now we are on the brink of decoding the human genome, and the end result of this is that the flesh will be made word."

"We're playing with half a deck as long as we tolerate that the cardinals of government and science should dictate where human curiosity can legitimately send its attention and where it cannot."


Terence on "saving our Ecosystem...and ourselves"


www.deoxy.org/t_ppp.htm

[Mech]

Terence on 2012.....




Novelty Theory and the Singularity of Dec. 21, 2012




I've gotten a lot of response to my "We've got less than 12 years left... ;^) " line in my .sig, and I've not really been doing it justice in the quick replies I've been giving, so here's a more detailed explanation:

Technology, population, speed of travel, food and materials production, communications capabilities, computing power, the decrease in computer size, amount of information known to humanity, and a gamut of other things, are all increasing at an accelerating rate. That is, they are increasing, and the rate at which they are increasing is increasing.

Some mathematicians plotted the asymptotic graphs of all of humanity's technological developments and projected them out to the point where they all, relatively simultaneously, hit infinity. The day that they arrived at is December 21st, 2012. One projected date of "The Singularity." That's the day that some say is when everything as we know it will...change. Drastically.

Now I realize that this is a mathematical model, and that things never seem to happen on time, but as a good thumbnail reference point, it makes a convenient time to aim for. There are other models, other calculations, and other dates. The idea is more important than the specific date, IMO.

[An interesting aside: I've heard that the ancient Mayan calendar was calculated forward but ends on...you guessed it: Dec. 21st, 2012. I've also heard that the scientists aren't quite sure _why_ that is... :-) ]

Essentially, if we take a look at some of the really species-changing events in our history, we see 3 really MAJOR developments that changed the entire course of human history. 1) The Agricultural Revolution. 2) The Industrial Revolution. 3) The Information Revolution.

30,000 years ago, we learned how to farm. 350 years ago, we learned how to mass-produce machines. About 50 years ago, we learned how to build computers. As you can see, the _rate_ of change is increasing, as is the ability afforded by the change. With computers, we have the ability to build more efficient things, fly planes and spaceships, educate more people, etc. Each of these enabling technologies will build further development, and at a faster rate.

According to the mathematical model, we should see approximately *61* more of these species-changing developments before 12/21/2012! All of the same magnitude as the three noted above! Again, it's only a model, but they predict 18 of those changes on the last day, and 13 of _those_ to happen in the last FRACTION OF A SECOND, as things accelerate towards that infinity point.

Near as I can figure, that's going to have to do with massive amounts of overlapping and interlocking technologies. For example: Nano-technology producing microscopic computers (that are millions of times faster and more powerful than the supercomputers of today) which sit inside of your cells getting rid of disease and making sure you have a proper nutritional balance, so that you can live longer. And nano-machines that make just about anything and can do it for free by re-arranging the atoms from waste products elsewhere. Or space technologies, which enable further population growth, and zero-gravity research, and practically unlimited energy and material resources from space. These may eventually lead to things like fusion power, faster than light travel, and/or teleportation technologies. While these are currently beyond the scope of our present tech, they may come about someday, and each new technology provides a stepping-stone for future development. There's no doubt that any of the above-named developments would change the course of our evolution drastically. Much as did the Agriculture, Industry, and Computer Ages.


Timewave Zero/2012 :


www.levity.com/eschaton/noveltyreport.html

[Swamp Gas]

I miss the Irish Bards, McKenna and Leary. I remember Terrance's book on growing mushrooms back in the late sixties, early seventies.

I can't add much too what Mech has said, but his writings make more sense than ever, and I mean Mech and Terrence.

One thing he said, back in the mid-80's, when Rave and Techno music was branching off from Kraftwerk and DEVO was that it had political implications to it, in other words, it would be declared illegal at some point. Sure enough, Craphead Joe Biden's Rave Act became Law, and put another clamp on youth and fun. Idiots like Biden would have been laughed out of politics if something like that happened in the 60's.

Terrence's thoughts on DMT and Hyperspace are very intriguing, and coincide with Michio Kaku's model of 10 dimensions...at least.