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 the mushroom told him that we are all one flesh and have nothing to learn from each other then wouldn't it be a contradiction to state that we cannot rely on the abilities of others who can do mathematics and play the violin?
I like Terrence, but sometimes he doesn't make sense.
Fucking genius.
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So incredibly grateful for all that is available to us of McKenna's lectures! What a mind, what brilliant poetry in his thought process. RIP
I'd love to learn to let go of thinking and fall into the open arms of the universe supporting me.
All these are great for a no books culture .
Love how he talks about top to down media controlling mass numbers of people , (newspapers, books) now we see the most efficient top to down media, ( Facebook, twitter, instagram, YouTube ) and the convergence of words and pictures and the effect it has on the world
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call me conspiracy theorist, but I think they killed Terence McKenna with some sort of radiation. in this video, listen carefully, he's predicting everything that is already happened.
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Let go. Let it all come to you.
was mcluhan spot on with corporate feudalism apple facebok etc gathering data selling to governments and shit hah were IPeasants/ISerfs… brain gets 'smart' but your head gets dumb…
he was right about the new sexuality lol. it's 2017 and now everything is classified as a sexuality.
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great. Terence McKenna RIP
possibly the deepest and hardest to follow concepts ive ever listened to from terence… but i did it ahha.. you gotta convince yourself to get beyond a point where you feel like oh he's kinda wrong here because blah, and just realize what hes trying to paint a picture of to the world to save it from what it is (however totally right he actually is), not just translating the higher realms of psychedelic knowledge for respect in doing so. you really just need to take it upon yourself to understand that hes actually saying what hes saying to help you understand that at the deepest levels of his consciousness that he could possibly reach, that he is YOU. there is no distinction, the truth is the word, the word that at our cores means everything and is earth shatteringly correct beyond all pickings of divulgences of the mind… only mere moments of intellectual "pursuit" … (in quotations because all intellectual journeys are only a result of higher planning of perfect design in intent and love) .. The life of forgiving and usually just forgetting, of peace and hate/apathy (which is just constant removal of self in a way that lets any random idea/action flow through you (in the bad way)), of flux, of societal implementations on your being, of pain and confusion and entirely misbased trunks of trees of thought, once recognized, cause the user to fade into the higher dimensional realms of true thought that allow for true enlightenment through the alignment with transphusing permitted higher dimensional influence through the hand of the holiest, God himself. Terence's Time Wave if u know anything about the deepest man in public record… its all here folks, the key to the deepest intellectual journey possible to consciously perceive in this 3d realm, Terence Mckenna.
I love this guy
Jading us at youth with ignorance being celebrated and the expectations on the TV that'll never be met. Now it's worse because of the abuse of television and media. Slouching over my bucket of nomnoms, pointing my finger in objection, stuffing my chubby face watching the 40inch foosballs. Wait till the end, till the cruches break the last thought in my mind at the time of departure will be the sweet sweet memories of my desires and comfort. I won't let them go they're all that I know……
I love terence but I just don't buy some of this stuff.
Love Terence
Ever so relevant
I hated everyone who asked a question and knocked him out of his flow with expressing knowledge
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He was way ahead of his time has Tesla was to electricity McKenna was to thinking
I'm probably missing the point but mckenna said he's never seen one man who's more superior yet says the notion that all men are created equal is preposterous
McKenna is all over, his no "rest in peace" his a mushroom in my brain. Do you feel he is dead? Ask the mushroom, he is everywhere