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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If I rape you, you can use the technique of distancing yourself from identity, if I murder children in from of you, you could also distance the notions of culture. To me that is where this "all is an illusion" breaks down, it becomes too easy to just ignore what can be considered evil, and very easy when you live in an afluent society, and can be free of any concern about anything. McKenna says in this video that it's all information and language, which I agree, to a degree, but once you actually see what hell can be opened up upon the world, you have to ask yourself, do you hide away on the inside, void consciousness so that YOU don't have to be bothered, or take real world action to use your life to try and make an actual difference against what seems like impossible odds. I can assure you that the mind can be calmed, and not lost to pain, while it is out and trying to do what it can, but when you use words to try and make people "get it," as McKenna tries, as many try, you run the risk of generating people that are not motivated to do much in the world, especially if they have the ability to just, "take it easy." If me and you went to the most dangerous places in the world, what good would "our" wisdom do to help the suffering there? Do we just assume it's not our mess, that it will all turn to nothing in the end, or eventually conclude into peace? I'm probably just rambling, but I feel that, even though Terence speaks much truth, he didn't put pressure on his audience, just basically told them that, "hey don't worry about it." I've been around people that seemed to have all the answers, from meditation, food, drug, so on and so forth, and what I found is that they just seemed so ineffective at doing much beyond living within this new culture of self sustained super states which revolves around making peace and pleasure for themself a primary goal, and not just that, but I felt hostility from them. This was probably because I had the same attitude that I do now, that these folks are just the same old shit that has been walking the earth in all its different forms throughout unknowable amounts of time, a truely unconscious and unconcerned egoism.
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One of my all time favorite lectures!
Liberating words.