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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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Novelty is our saving grace.
This segment was deep. I burst out laughing after he said blocking your inhibitors might give you 30 minutes or 30 hours, so get your mantras ready lool
synchronicity, both strictly numerical and otherwise, is an actual phenomenon of nature
10-15 years have passed since his death, and the awareness hes talking about truly has been spread with the internet as more people are awakening but it hasnt become the general metaphor and concern of the masses. Although i still hope that collectively, we can transcend and expand our consciousness, it puts me down a little to see how we're not progressing at the rate he thought we would but i guess that's again a egoic structure of perceiving things in terms of measurement of something like "time" that we think we understand. Which is again what he said, coming to a conclusion based on vague understanding of the reality and then sitting down to worry. It is just creating a false belief of hopelessness i think.
Well as brendon says, hope is not something we have but what we generate.
I believe we can go the right path
Bom dia irmão, tente sincronizar com uma legenda em português, os canais brasileiros carecem de informação.
Source on that mandala background? Great video, Terrence is incredible! Really helped out with my nervousness related to human-caused destruction of nature, which is still sad, but inevitable for me.
Why do so many people go with basically the worst photo ever taken of him? 🙂
New Wallpaper.