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Terence McKenna spoke and wrote about psychedelic drugs, plant-based entheogens, shamanism, metaphysics, alchemy, language, culture, technology, and the theoretical origins of human consciousness.
McKenna said that one of his early psychedelic experiences with morning glory seeds showed him “that there was something there worth pursuing”, and in interviews he claimed to have smoked cannabis daily since his teens.
After the partial completion of his studies, and his mother’s death from cancer in 1971, McKenna, his brother Dennis, and 3 friends traveled to the Colombian Amazon in search of a plant preparation containing dimethyltryptamine (DMT). They found various forms of ayahuasca, or yagé, and fields full of gigantic Psilocybe cubensis mushrooms, which became the focus of the expedition.
Terence McKenna advocated the exploration of altered states of mind via the ingestion of naturally occurring psychedelic substances. During McKenna’s studies, he developed a technique for cultivating psilocybin mushrooms with Dennis and in 1976, the brothers published what they had learned in a book entitled Psilocybin: Magic Mushroom Grower’s Guide. In the early 1980s, McKenna began to speak publicly on the topic of psychedelic drugs.
McKenna soon became a fixture of popular counterculture with Timothy Leary once introducing him as “one of the five or six most important people on the planet.” McKenna spoke on a wide array of subjects including; shamanism; metaphysics; alchemy; language; culture; self-empowerment; techno-paganism; artificial intelligence; evolution; extraterrestrials; science and scientism; the web; virtual reality and aesthetic theory or art/visual experience as information.
In mid-1999, after a long lecturing tour, McKenna returned to his home on the Big Island of Hawaii. A longtime sufferer of migraines, McKenna had begun to have increasingly painful headaches. His condition culminated in three brain seizures in one night, which he claimed were the most powerful psychedelic experiences he had ever known. McKenna was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme, a highly aggressive form of brain cancer. McKenna died on April 3, 2000, at the age of 53.
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Teach us about brain works someone died of brain tumor…how ironic is that ?!
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good ol Terabyte
fuck the uploader for editing mckenna's laugh at the end. fuck this guy seriously.
only twelve thousand views. we need at least 2 million. 2 million critical thinkers. but the schools just dont provide
"Do you know what memes are?"
Where's my "terabyte storage module"??
The laugh at the end reminded me of those acid thought loops 😁
seems strange to me that so few people have such little input at these lectures. there are comments here and there but I would be absolutely rabbid to exchange and spar via idea with Terrence in the most joyous fashion possible!
To be aware of your existence , you can be outside of your body . So is this aware without your brain .Like near death experiences . Meme come and go . How about ,Meme of no such thing as evolution . How about ,Humans were alive with dinosaurs . More then a few dinosaurs are still living today . Extinction of species but not the evolving of this human species . Big Bang and we began . We were home , this planet began .Enormous reappraisal of truths .
Enjoying listening to all his stuff, preparing for a breakthrough myself in the near future ☯️🕉☮️
..I'd Love to go back in time and trip on Acid with this guy..
Terence McKenna is Batman?
These are greatly chosen excerpts, you seem to focus on the same parts I would also excerpt in his long talks 🙂
that laugh at the end though
consciousness always seem to have some sort of ideological loop when taking an angle for explaining it, as it seem to be the explainer. however, whom is it that starts teh question haha.
Brilliant as always