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.
If you enjoyed this video please leave a comment. Thanks for reading!
Travis
TravisEric.com
Crypto Current
Source
Yeah cant wait for no mans sky!
Where is this image from? I love it.
the greatest controlled opposition that ever was, maybe that will ever be
Indeed.
No Man's Sky is a stellar example of his articulation.
the wizard king
I really love the biography in the description. very informative
Tomorrow.. the journey will begin
i just found the others, hello
lol… No man's sky… I heard the release was a huge flop. I'm sure the updates will fix things but I'm waiting for a sale.
Damn, wouldn't it be nice to encounter a breed of McKenna in No Man's Sky – let alone something akin to his notion of superior alien intelligence, like some post-biological tryptamine morphology 😀 <3
the power in the will in the wish that believes goes free to eternity
watch dogs 2. on acid
take shrooms with T%M.
five dryed grams (tm voice)
you willl be fine……
No beginning, but has an end .
Wooop! 😀
There is no such thing as aliens. They are called demons and if you read the book of Genesis in the Bible you will understand why we don't all speak the same language as we did in the beginning of time.
No Mans Sky is average while sober, but while on acid and with its new update its the best game ever made.
► Terence McKenna – Imagination is a Portal:
https://youtu.be/k2tD8Tmr10M Pub Sept 10, 2015
via Travis Knowledge
++++
Shared: @Peta_de_Aztlan
++++
so this is where they got the idea for 'Arrival'!
The third eye , sees other dimensions .
The longest 34 minutes in history!!!!!! BRILLIANT!!!!!
Hello. TM is gem.
Dimensional transcendence
wish there was a decent bg…….NMS? c'mon now lol God I miss you Terrence
Damn, Mister Rogers is a smart mother fucker
Collective consciousness is a real thing i am seeing it all the time now.. I was just explaining yesterday about God making a stone to big to pick up.. and today I hear it on this… so amazing.. the words were different but the concept was the same.. Love is grand…
I normally like Terence McKenna lectures. But his view of what intuition is and calling that the animal Consciousness is absolutely ridiculous. Intuition or gut feelings are what the logos speaking to you is. Heraclecian logos, the voice, the divine wisdom, etc. How can you talk about the third eye in the same sentence as intuition and not understand that the two are related? For all the amazing things Terence McKenna was, he gets hung up too much on the spoon-fed history of man with his ideals on Evolution and his accepted values of the so-called consequences thereof. He accepts the generic generalized and sterilized-for-the-masses textbook explanation for many things that he was smart enough to see beyond. Animals at least certain animals are no less conscious than we are. That's why they work so hard to tell us that they aren't. They (animals) just have a more restrained style of expressing their consciousness.
Hinduism talks about the rejection of culture at a certain age too. They go off on their own into the woods, give up all their possessions, and find a new identity for themselves. Alan Watts discusses this very thing
I hear truth in his understanding
Do we have an archive of him saying "Coo Hwip"?
Imagine a world filled with just one universal language