Godlike Productions - Discussion Forum
Users Online Now: 1,650 (Who's On?)Visitors Today: 202,973
Pageviews Today: 331,490Threads Today: 110Posts Today: 1,835
04:18 AM


Rate this Thread

Absolute BS Crap Reasonable Nice Amazing
 

Terence McKenna: A thread dedicated to the words, studies, knowledge and wisdom of one of the wisest men to have ever lived.

 
Slick Vick
User ID: 68035084
Mexico
02/14/2015 08:16 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Terence McKenna: A thread dedicated to the words, studies, knowledge and wisdom of one of the wisest men to have ever lived.
I'd like this thread to be a tool, to all those interested. A source for the study/learning of self-growth and empowerment of ourselves. A place to examine and absorb the crucial information, mesmerizing ideas and the masterfully wise words that have been given to all of us from the amazingly intelligent and beautiful mind of the late Terence McKenna.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with this genius mastermind, here's a bit of info below.

Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) was an American philosopher, psychonaut, ethnobotanist, lecturer, and author. He spoke and wrote about a variety of subjects, including psychedelic drugs, plant-based entheogens, shamanism, metaphysics, alchemy, language, culture, technology, and the theoretical origins of human consciousness. He was called the "Timothy Leary of the 90s", "one of the leading authorities on the ontological foundations of shamanism", and the "intellectual voice of Rave culture".

Life
In the early 1980s, McKenna began to speak publicly on the topic of psychedelic drugs, 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, 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.

In addition to psychedelic drugs, McKenna spoke on a wide array of subjects[27] including; shamanism; metaphysics; alchemy; language; culture; self-empowerment; 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.

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" and with comedian Bill Hicks' referencing him in his stand-up act and building an entire routine around his ideas. McKenna also became a popular personality in the psychedelic rave/dance scene of the early 1990s, with frequent spoken word performances at raves and contributions to psychedelic and goa trance albums by The Shamen, Spacetime Continuum, Alien Project, Capsula, Entheogenic, Zuvuya, Shpongle, and Shakti Twins. In 1994 he appeared as a speaker at the Starwood Festival, documented in the book Tripping by Charles Hayes.

McKenna published several books in the early-to-mid-1990s including: The Archaic Revival; Food of the Gods; and True Hallucinations. Hundreds of hours of McKenna's public lectures were recorded either professionally or bootlegged and have been produced on cassette tape, CD and MP3. Segments of his talks have gone on to be sampled by many musicians and DJ's.

McKenna was colleagues and close friends with chaos mathematician Ralph Abraham, and author and biologist Rupert Sheldrake. He conducted several public and many private debates with them from 1982 until his death. These debates were known as trialogues and some of the discussions were later published in the books: Trialogues at the Edge of the West and The Evolutionary Mind.

Death
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. For the next several months he underwent various treatments, including experimental gamma knife radiation treatment. According to Wired magazine, McKenna was worried that his tumor was caused by his 35 years of smoking cannabis, although his doctors assured him there was no causal relation.

In late 1999, Erik Davis conducted what would be the last interview with McKenna. During the interview McKenna also talked about the announcement of his death:


"I always thought death would come on the freeway in a few horrifying moments, so you'd have no time to sort it out. Having months and months to look at it and think about it and talk to people and hear what they have to say, it's a kind of blessing. It's certainly an opportunity to grow up and get a grip and sort it all out. Just being told by an unsmiling guy in a white coat that you're going to be dead in four months definitely turns on the lights. ... It makes life rich and poignant. When it first happened, and I got these diagnoses, I could see the light of eternity, a la William Blake, shining through every leaf. I mean, a bug walking across the ground moved me to tears."

McKenna died on April 3, 2000, at the age of 53.

On February 7, 2007, McKenna's library of books and personal notes was destroyed in a fire that burned offices belonging to Big Sur's Esalen Institute, which was storing the collection. An index maintained by his brother Dennis survives, though little else.


[link to en.m.wikipedia.org]

Last Edited by Account Deleted by User on 02/15/2015 11:00 PM
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 63973700
United States
02/14/2015 08:20 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: Terence McKenna: A thread dedicated to the words, studies, knowledge and wisdom of one of the wisest men to have ever lived.

Anonymous Coward
User ID: 26873511
United States
02/14/2015 08:24 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: Terence McKenna: A thread dedicated to the words, studies, knowledge and wisdom of one of the wisest men to have ever lived.
Please quote what you consider to be several of his most impressive examples of "the wisdom of one of the wisest men to have ever lived."

Unless you just meant he tripped a lot.
Hawk-02
Hawk-o-holic

User ID: 897951
United States
02/14/2015 08:25 PM

Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: Terence McKenna: A thread dedicated to the words, studies, knowledge and wisdom of one of the wisest men to have ever lived.
5 stars.

PINE IT!!!
Pickle Suprise!
SN7

User ID: 51691602
United States
02/14/2015 08:30 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: Terence McKenna: A thread dedicated to the words, studies, knowledge and wisdom of one of the wisest men to have ever lived.
"We are not primarily biological, with mind emerging as a kind of iridescence, a kind of epiphenomenon at the higher levels of organization of biology. We are hyperspatial objects of some sort that cast a shadow onto matter. The shadow in matter is our physical organism.

At death, the thing that casts the shadow withdraws, and metabolism ceases. Material form breaks down; it ceases to be a dissipative structure in a very localized area, sustained against entropy by cycling material in, extracting energy, and expelling waste. But the form that ordered it is not affected. These declarative statements are made from the point of view of the shamanic tradition, which touches all higher religions. Both the psychedelic dream state and the waking psychedelic state acquire great import because they reveal to life a task: to become familiar with this dimension that is causing being, in order to be familiar with it at the moment of passing from life.

The metaphor of a vehicle—an after-death vehicle, an astral body—is used by several traditions. Shamanism and certain yogas, including Taoist yoga, claim very clearly that the purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the pysche." ~Terrence Mckenna

Last Edited by COSMIC WARRIOR on 02/14/2015 08:31 PM
"The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish."

~ Terence McKenna
SN7

User ID: 51691602
United States
02/14/2015 08:32 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: Terence McKenna: A thread dedicated to the words, studies, knowledge and wisdom of one of the wisest men to have ever lived.
lovethispost
"The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish."

~ Terence McKenna
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 64700266
United States
02/14/2015 08:33 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: Terence McKenna: A thread dedicated to the words, studies, knowledge and wisdom of one of the wisest men to have ever lived.
..or some would say he was a drugged out blathering idiot with a large vocabulary
Anonymous Coward (OP)
User ID: 68035084
Mexico
02/14/2015 08:38 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: Terence McKenna: A thread dedicated to the words, studies, knowledge and wisdom of one of the wisest men to have ever lived.
I'm not going to explain, for those unfamiliar with him, what it is that is so great about this man. For those of us who are inteleectually and intelligently inclined enough to understand and absorb his words and ideas, all it will take is one listen before you're hooked.

Terence McKenna is not simply some hippie talking about psychedelics. He is a highly gifted speaker, phenomenal with words and speaking with a form that demands respect.

I'm going to post some videos below, but for the sake of the thread's loading time and to keep things orderly, I'll be posting the links directly to youtube. his is also better for mobile users who don't have the ability to watch the embedded videos.

I will also eventually post links to FREE e-book or .pdf files of all his published books and writings.

First, here are some links to several of his better known interviews and speakings.

Audio Archive
[link to archive.org (secure)]

A Link to audio, quotes and some written transcriptions
[link to deoxy.org]


Terence Mckenna - DMT, Mathematical Dimensions, Syntax and Death (video)
[link to www.youtube.com (secure)]

Mckenna discusses if reality is real (video)
[link to www.youtube.com (secure)]

Terence Mckenna - Empower yourself to just say BULLSHIT! (video)
[link to www.youtube.com (secure)]

Terence Mckenna - Trust Yourself (video)
[link to www.youtube.com (secure)]

Tryptamine Hallucinogens & Consciousness
[link to www.youtube.com (secure)]

Terence Mckenna - The world could be anything
[link to www.youtube.com (secure)]
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 53099952
Canada
02/14/2015 08:42 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: Terence McKenna: A thread dedicated to the words, studies, knowledge and wisdom of one of the wisest men to have ever lived.
..or some would say he was a drugged out blathering idiot with a large vocabulary
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 64700266


This. I went down the new age road of psychedelics in seek of "enlightenment" partly due to this mans teachings. this whole idea is very misleading and leads nowhere good. Just my honest opinion
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 6606254
United States
02/14/2015 08:47 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: Terence McKenna: A thread dedicated to the words, studies, knowledge and wisdom of one of the wisest men to have ever lived.
I could listen to his audio lectures for hours on end. The guy was a linguistic genius.
Hawk-02
Hawk-o-holic

User ID: 897951
United States
02/14/2015 08:55 PM

Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: Terence McKenna: A thread dedicated to the words, studies, knowledge and wisdom of one of the wisest men to have ever lived.
Food Of The Gods changed my life forever.

[link to books.google.com]
Pickle Suprise!
Anonymous Coward (OP)
User ID: 68035084
Mexico
02/14/2015 09:04 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: Terence McKenna: A thread dedicated to the words, studies, knowledge and wisdom of one of the wisest men to have ever lived.
Here are some great, simple and deeply relevant quotes from McKenna.

“We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.”

------

“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed.”

------

“If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.”

------

"The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation”

------

“The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.”

------

“You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.”

------

“Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.”

------

“If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.”

------

“My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.”

------

“The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.”

------

“Part of what psychedelics do is they decondition you from cultural values. This is what makes it such a political hot potato. Since all culture is a kind of con game, the most dangerous candy you can hand out is one which causes people to start questioning the rules of the game.”

------

“Monotheism strenuously denies the need to return to a cultural style that periodically places the ego and its values in perspective through contact with a boundary-dissolving immersion in the Archaic mystery of plant-induced, hence mother-associated, psychedelic ecstasy and wholeness, what Joyce called the "mama matrix most mysterious.”

------

“We are asked by science to believe that the entire universe sprang from nothingness, and at a single point and for no discernible reason. This notion is the limit case for credulity. In other words, if you can believe this, you can believe anything.”

------

“The questions of God – meaning in Milton’s phrase “The god who hung the stars like lamps in heaven” – I don’t think psychedelics can address that definitively, but there is another god, a goddess, the goddess of biology, the goddess of the coherent animal human world, the world of the oceans, the atmosphere, and the planet. In short, our world! The world that we were born into, that we evolved into, and that we came from. That world, the psychedelics want to connect us up to… Our individuality, as people and as a species, is an illusion of bad language that the psychedelics dissolve into the greater feeling of connectedness that underlies our being here, and to my mind that’s the religious impulse. It’s not a laundry list of moral dos and don’ts, or a set of dietary prescriptions or practices: it’s a sense of connectedness, responsibility for our fellow human beings and for the earth you walking around on, and because these psychedelics come out of that plant vegetable matrix they are the way back into it.”

------

“A hallucination is to be in the presence of that which previously could not be imagined, and if it previously could not be imagined then there is no grounds for believing that you generated it out of yourself.”

------

“If you don’t smoke cannabis, you may spend your evening balancing your checking account. If you do smoke cannabis you may spend your evening contemplating the causes of the Greek Renaissance.”

------

“Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.”

------

“Culture is the effort to hold back the mystery, and replace it with a mythology.”

------

“We are caged by our cultural programming. Culture is a mass hallucination, and when you step outside the mass hallucination you see it for what it’s worth.”
Anonymous Coward (OP)
User ID: 68035084
Mexico
02/14/2015 09:08 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: Terence McKenna: A thread dedicated to the words, studies, knowledge and wisdom of one of the wisest men to have ever lived.
..or some would say he was a drugged out blathering idiot with a large vocabulary
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 64700266


This. I went down the new age road of psychedelics in seek of "enlightenment" partly due to this mans teachings. this whole idea is very misleading and leads nowhere good. Just my honest opinion
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 53099952


Well you must not have absorbed it properly if at all, because McKenna was largely against the "New Age" movement.

You might consider re-evaluating and listening again. This isn't hippie bullshit. This is higher knowledge teetering on the edge of total truth.
Anonymous Coward (OP)
User ID: 68035084
Mexico
02/14/2015 09:10 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: Terence McKenna: A thread dedicated to the words, studies, knowledge and wisdom of one of the wisest men to have ever lived.
I could listen to his audio lectures for hours on end. The guy was a linguistic genius.
 Quoting: St3v3


Absolutely. His words are almost like music or poetry. Very skilled in giving explanations of things that are nearly impossible to explain with language.
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 68028497
United States
02/14/2015 09:11 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: Terence McKenna: A thread dedicated to the words, studies, knowledge and wisdom of one of the wisest men to have ever lived.
WORSHIP, n.
Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.
Anonymous Coward (OP)
User ID: 68035084
Mexico
02/14/2015 09:14 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: Terence McKenna: A thread dedicated to the words, studies, knowledge and wisdom of one of the wisest men to have ever lived.
..or some would say he was a drugged out blathering idiot with a large vocabulary
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 64700266


Anyone can say anything. What separates the intelligent truth-seekers from the less intelligent followers is the ability to understand his ideas.

His ideas are far more accurate, legitimate and 'real' than anything you're going to learn in school, church or experiences in the institutions of 'culture' or 'society'.
SN7

User ID: 51691602
United States
02/14/2015 09:15 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: Terence McKenna: A thread dedicated to the words, studies, knowledge and wisdom of one of the wisest men to have ever lived.
..or some would say he was a drugged out blathering idiot with a large vocabulary
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 64700266


This. I went down the new age road of psychedelics in seek of "enlightenment" partly due to this mans teachings. this whole idea is very misleading and leads nowhere good. Just my honest opinion
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 53099952


Well you must not have absorbed it properly if at all, because McKenna was largely against the "New Age" movement.

You might consider re-evaluating and listening again. This isn't hippie bullshit. This is higher knowledge teetering on the edge of total truth.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 68035084


hesright
"The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish."

~ Terence McKenna
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 68028497
United States
02/14/2015 09:21 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: Terence McKenna: A thread dedicated to the words, studies, knowledge and wisdom of one of the wisest men to have ever lived.
Food Of The Gods changed my life forever.

[link to books.google.com]
 Quoting: Hawk-02


It clearly didnt do as much good as it should have based on your avatar and your past postings.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 46373832


Are enlightenment and humor mutually exclusive?
Anonymous Coward (OP)
User ID: 68035084
Mexico
02/14/2015 09:25 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: Terence McKenna: A thread dedicated to the words, studies, knowledge and wisdom of one of the wisest men to have ever lived.
This is good..


Terence Mckenna: Psychedelic advice.
[link to www.youtube.com (secure)]
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 46373832
Canada
02/14/2015 09:27 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: Terence McKenna: A thread dedicated to the words, studies, knowledge and wisdom of one of the wisest men to have ever lived.
Food Of The Gods changed my life forever.

[link to books.google.com]
 Quoting: Hawk-02


It clearly didnt do as much good as it should have based on your avatar and your past postings.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 46373832


Are enlightenment and humor mutually exclusive?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 68028497


Your statement is irrelevant to what he or i said.
Anonymous Coward (OP)
User ID: 68035084
Mexico
02/14/2015 09:29 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: Terence McKenna: A thread dedicated to the words, studies, knowledge and wisdom of one of the wisest men to have ever lived.
This is also great.. Quick & dirty.

Terence McKenna - The Message
[link to www.youtube.com (secure)]
Anonymous Coward (OP)
User ID: 68035084
Mexico
02/14/2015 09:32 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: Terence McKenna: A thread dedicated to the words, studies, knowledge and wisdom of one of the wisest men to have ever lived.
Food Of The Gods changed my life forever.

[link to books.google.com]
 Quoting: Hawk-02


It clearly didnt do as much good as it should have based on your avatar and your past postings.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 46373832


Are enlightenment and humor mutually exclusive?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 68028497


Your statement is irrelevant to what he or i said.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 46373832


No, it's not.. Please contribute or debate, but don't debate anything irrelevant to the thread.

Please speak intelligently with regards to the thread's subject, otherwise shut the fuck up.
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 68028497
United States
02/14/2015 09:34 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: Terence McKenna: A thread dedicated to the words, studies, knowledge and wisdom of one of the wisest men to have ever lived.
Food Of The Gods changed my life forever.

[link to books.google.com]
 Quoting: Hawk-02


It clearly didnt do as much good as it should have based on your avatar and your past postings.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 46373832


Are enlightenment and humor mutually exclusive?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 68028497


Your statement is irrelevant to what he or i said.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 46373832


Pretend it's a random question then.

Go.
Anonymous Coward (OP)
User ID: 68035084
Mexico
02/14/2015 09:36 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: Terence McKenna: A thread dedicated to the words, studies, knowledge and wisdom of one of the wisest men to have ever lived.
lovethispost
 Quoting: SN7


I felt like getting a bit of real info flowing on GLP tonight. Contribute whatever you have - links, conversation, ideas.

Admittedly, his words and ideas are so profound it's hard to know where to start a conversation about it all. He covers so much with such style and grace. Almost as if he leaves nothing more to be said, you can just read/listen and then contemplate.
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 46373832
Canada
02/14/2015 09:36 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: Terence McKenna: A thread dedicated to the words, studies, knowledge and wisdom of one of the wisest men to have ever lived.
...


It clearly didnt do as much good as it should have based on your avatar and your past postings.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 46373832


Are enlightenment and humor mutually exclusive?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 68028497


Your statement is irrelevant to what he or i said.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 46373832


Pretend it's a random question then.

Go.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 68028497


The more interesting question is: why are you asking?
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 64700266
United States
02/14/2015 09:37 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: Terence McKenna: A thread dedicated to the words, studies, knowledge and wisdom of one of the wisest men to have ever lived.
..or some would say he was a drugged out blathering idiot with a large vocabulary
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 64700266


Anyone can say anything. What separates the intelligent truth-seekers from the less intelligent followers is the ability to understand his ideas.

His ideas are far more accurate, legitimate and 'real' than anything you're going to learn in school, church or experiences in the institutions of 'culture' or 'society'.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 68035084


what do you have to judge this by?

how do you know they are accurate when no one can verify it?

He just wanted to be a cult leader

Find the Spacetime Continuum CD with him 'speaking in alien voices'

What a douche
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 68028497
United States
02/14/2015 09:40 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: Terence McKenna: A thread dedicated to the words, studies, knowledge and wisdom of one of the wisest men to have ever lived.
...


Are enlightenment and humor mutually exclusive?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 68028497


Your statement is irrelevant to what he or i said.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 46373832


Pretend it's a random question then.

Go.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 68028497


The more interesting question is: why are you asking?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 46373832


To pick your brain.
Lilac.Nights

User ID: 6370977
United States
02/14/2015 09:40 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: Terence McKenna: A thread dedicated to the words, studies, knowledge and wisdom of one of the wisest men to have ever lived.
“Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.”
– Terence McKenna

rofl5
Sammie

User ID: 9846936
United States
02/14/2015 09:40 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: Terence McKenna: A thread dedicated to the words, studies, knowledge and wisdom of one of the wisest men to have ever lived.
Excellent thread idea OP.

I have bookmarked it for reference.

I don't have the time right now to add much but hope to participate sometime soon.

“Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.”
– Terence McKenna
"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow".  ~Aesop


"Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped and there it stayed, it was stuffed with its own self. Some fix, that.
We only have ourselves to go on, and it’s enough…" -Charles Bukowski



"Grasping at things can only yield one of two results:
Either the thing you are grasping at disappears, or you yourself disappear.
It is only a matter of which occurs first."
-Goenka
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 46373832
Canada
02/14/2015 09:42 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: Terence McKenna: A thread dedicated to the words, studies, knowledge and wisdom of one of the wisest men to have ever lived.
...


Your statement is irrelevant to what he or i said.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 46373832


Pretend it's a random question then.

Go.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 68028497


The more interesting question is: why are you asking?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 46373832


To pick your brain.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 68028497


You could have asked 99% of the "people" on this site your question and it would have applied more to them than me. So who are you and what do you want to know?
Anonymous Coward (OP)
User ID: 68035084
Mexico
02/14/2015 09:42 PM
Report Abusive Post
Report Copyright Violation
Re: Terence McKenna: A thread dedicated to the words, studies, knowledge and wisdom of one of the wisest men to have ever lived.
..or some would say he was a drugged out blathering idiot with a large vocabulary
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 64700266


Anyone can say anything. What separates the intelligent truth-seekers from the less intelligent followers is the ability to understand his ideas.

His ideas are far more accurate, legitimate and 'real' than anything you're going to learn in school, church or experiences in the institutions of 'culture' or 'society'.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 68035084


what do you have to judge this by?

how do you know they are accurate when no one can verify it?

He just wanted to be a cult leader

Find the Spacetime Continuum CD with him 'speaking in alien voices'

What a douche
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 64700266


Because I can relate, directly. I have tripped on LSD & mushrooms when younger for fun. Revisited them years later with spiritual intent. Once you know, you know. That's all.

His words are a guide towards truth. It's clearly above your level of comprehension or your willingness to learn, I suppose.

Like I said, once you know, you know. Experience is all that matters, not "rumors" or beliefs that are acquired without direct experience.





GLP