Terence Mckenna – Talks DMT – "If There Is Anything Stronger Keep It Away From Me"

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Terence Mckenna – Talks DMT – “If There Is Anything Stronger Keep It Away From Me”

In the early 1980s, Terence McKenna began to speak publicly on the topic of psychedelic plants, becoming one of the pioneers of the psychedelic movement. His main focus was on the plant-based psychedelics such as psilocybin mushrooms (which were the catalyst for his career), ayahuasca, cannabis, and the plant derivative DMT. He conducted lecture tours and workshops promoting natural psychedelics as a way to explore universal mysteries, stimulate the imagination, and re-establish a harmonious relationship with nature. Though associated with the New Age and Human Potential Movements, Terence McKenna himself had little patience for New Age sensibilities. He repeatedly stressed the importance and primacy of the “felt presence of direct experience”, as opposed to dogma.

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In addition to psychedelic plants, Terence McKenna spoke on a wide array of subjects including; shamanism, metaphysics, alchemy, language, culture, self-empowerment, environmentalism, techno-paganism, artificial intelligence; evolution, extraterrestrials, science and scientism, the Web, virtual reality (which he saw as a way to artistically communicate the experience of psychedelics); and aesthetic theory, specifically about art/visual experience as information representing the significance of hallucinatory visions experienced under the influence of psychedelics.

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