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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Another great video, which lecture/workshop is this taken from plz
Thanks…Love Terence, peace1love
mckenna equals zero dislikes
maybe I've just gotten to the point where this guy is no longer what I need, "I've got some answers" guy doesn't hold water any more
"The streak of the chicken shit in me" hahahha!
I suppose that they are able to keep it secret as they are r able to keep other things like altered states of consciousness secrets under the clock of negligibility, by selling us so short of the nature of their actual realities that it seems to us as natural as anything to ignore them under the cloak of culture.
I think that one of our greatest problems as human beings in our current time is that we concern ourselves so much so often with acitivites of stress, worry and business in our day to day lifestyle that we then put ourselves In a position where we have not enough time to make the things in our world which don't provide us with the necessary evolutionary step up, of that change ..
This man's words are like the distant drum beat around home fire calling us back.
if only mckenna was a pimp . . .
Terence was a great guy. I miss him. My oldest is named after him. Great hearing T once again. Thanks for posting.
It's interesting how he says that you can never get used to these spaces. I'm not sure if perhaps practicing meditation from childhood/for many years perhaps makes a difference. Personally I've been more astonished by how accepting and well I seem to be able to navigate these spaces. This only seems to happen with DMT and it's variants on a wide range of doses. So far I've always found Terence's insights and knowledge incredibly helpful, but I can't help wondering if I've ended up taking it to the next step. It's like I experienced this astonishment he talks about on my first trips, but I very quickly accepted it; possibly because of Terence's excellent descriptions of how to deal with it and use it. I'm just wondering now if anyone else is going through something similar? I can't be alone in this and if anyone knows of any useful information it would be much appreciated, so far all I can find is very abstract mystical stuff which isn't very helpful.
I am Persian speaking ,are you forget some thing or you afraid to say any thing a but it , so let see you get this the fact you sound much easy to love . Bunch of words you learn by reading others books .
make impossible possible- Alice in wonderland ?
Very clever, bombastic vocabulary, compelling oratory, although fundamentally mixes mistruths with stating the blatantly obvious. He may have lots of amazing insights, although a bit like with Bible books, I'm repelled by the blatant falsehoods littering the rhetoric. Darwin wasn't "one half of the discovery of evolution". Indeed I & I are certainly no such 'cosmic accident' emanating from some kind of comic book radiation mutation.
"the body is sight dependent" – false. 'The orthodox narrative of the catholic church was accepted as the cutting edge of 16th century intellectualism' – false. He talks about pineal gland being part of "normal metabolism" in the same sentence as procliaiming – most scientifically – that it is "very mysterious". Such false idols merely use a loquacious vocabulary to beguile their peers in a mutated amalgamation of NLP, witchcraft & hedonistic escapism. Great sense of humour though. His take on the concept of 'spirituality' is however very true. O*D
I think the dude had a GREAT point and Terence was a bit off. There is a WEALTH of goodness to be had from low dosing and microdosing.
Natural selection isnt really random
"If you haven't taken enough that you think you may have done too much, then you did too little" xD
They take too little too often, the best thing is to take very challenging doses rarely, yeah.
More often than not, his innovations were on rereading reaaally old and mainstream philosophy: e.g; Aristotle
Terrence was always speaking from a 360 degree realm going in every direction like heat at the same time. He touched on things rarely ever spoken about the esoteric knowledge of this world their was nobody who grabbed my attention intellectually more than him!
"..probably the shedding of matter as the vehicle of our becoming"
The notions entertained by McKenna really does open your mind and allows you to think for yourself by your own experiences. Love all of you for really putting the theory of primary direct experience in action. ? ❤️
What is this cover image? It’s exquisite!