Terence Mckenna Thread

[auron]

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Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) was a writer, philosopher, and ethnobotanist. He is noted for his many speculations on the use of psychedelic, plant-based hallucinogens, and subjects ranging from shamanism, the development of human consciousness, and the novelty theory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_mckenna

Video:

Terence McKenna - Seeking the Stone Part 1 (http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-6088867521723616224)

Terence McKenna - Seeking the Stone Part 2 (http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-3721378281014589551)
An eloquent perspective by Terence McKenna on the idea of a spiritual path for all and an impending transformation of the human world. In all his singularly lucid, prosaic style, McKenna presents profoundly compelling ideas that challenge our beliefs and encourage our participation in the creation of a new social reality. He champions the individual’s freedom of choice in deciding one’s own sexual and spiritual development and techniques. He highlights the role of hallucinogenic plants in shamanic societies and their impact on the evolution of human cultures. See why this cyber-techno-shaman is drawing freethinking crowds wherever he speaks and find out what role you may play in the unfolding of our “post-historical future” as we approach a major “concresence” in human history.

Terence McKenna - Psychedelic Society (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp5IlodrPj4)

Audio:

Download these from this website:

http://www.futurehi.net/media.html

* Terence Mckenna - Dream Awake.mp3 (5mb)
* Terence Mckenna - Metamorphosis.mp3 (7.6mb)
* Terence McKenna - The Invisible Landscape (4/85) -1A.mp3 (16.3mb)
* Terence McKenna - The Invisible Landscape (4/85) -1B.mp3 (18.2mb)
* Terence McKenna - The Invisible Landscape (4/85) -2A.mp3 (18.1mb)
* Terence McKenna - The Invisible Landscape (4/85) -2B.mp3 (17.9mb)
* Terence McKenna - The Invisible Landscape (4/85) -3A.mp3 (18.4mb)
* Terence McKenna - The Invisible Landscape (4/85) -3B.mp3 (16.8mb)
* Terence McKenna & Ralph Metzner - Shamanism (10/88) - 2A.mp3 (18.5mb)
* Terence McKenna & Ralph Metzner - Shamanism (10/88) - 2B.mp3 (18.5mb)
* Terence McKenna & Ralph Metzner - Shamanism (10/88) - 3A.mp3 (18.5mb)
* Terence McKenna & Ralph Metzner - Shamanism (10/88) - 3B.mp3 (18.5mb)
* Terence McKenna & Ralph Metzner - Shamanism (10/88) - 4A.mp3 (18.1mb)
* Terence McKenna & Ralph Metzner - Shamanism (10/88) - 4B.mp3 (17.9mb)
* Terence McKenna & Ralph Metzner - Shamanism (10/88) - 5A.mp3 (18.5mb)
* Terence McKenna & Ralph Metzner - Shamanism (10/88) - 5B.mp3 (18.6mb)
* Terence McKenna & Ralph Metzner - Shamanism (10/88) - 6A.mp3 (6.2mb)
* Terence McKenna & Nicole - Amazonian Shamanism - 1A.mp3 (18.6mb)
* Terence McKenna & Nicole - Amazonian Shamanism - 1B.mp3 (17.6mb)
* Terence McKenna & Nicole - Amazonian Shamanism - 3A.mp3 (18.4mb)
* Terence McKenna & Nicole - Amazonian Shamanism - 3B.mp3 (17.2mb)
* Terence McKenna & Nicole - Amazonian Shamanism - 4A.mp3 (18.3mb)
* Terence McKenna & Nicole - Amazonian Shamanism - 4B.mp3 (18.1mb)
* Terence McKenna & Nicole - Amazonian Shamanism - 5A.mp3 (18.4mb)
* Terence McKenna & Nicole - Amazonian Shamanism - 5B.mp3 (18.5mb)
* Terence McKenna & Nicole - Amazonian Shamanism - 6A.mp3 (18.3mb)
* Terence McKenna & Nicole - Amazonian Shamanism - 6B.mp3 (4.9mb)
* Terence McKenna - The Rites of Spring - 1A.mp3 (18.3mb)
* Terence McKenna - The Rites of Spring - 1B.mp3 (18.3mb)
* Terence McKenna - The Rites of Spring - 2A.mp3 (18.3mb)
* Terence McKenna - The Rites of Spring - 2B.mp3 (17.4mb)
* Terence McKenna - The Rites of Spring - 3A.mp3 (18.4mb)
* Terence McKenna - The Rites of Spring - 3B.mp3 (18.5mb)

Add whatever else you find!!

Auron :)

[soglad]

YES YES YES YES!

I love Terence McKenna.

Everyone should listen to him to pop open their stupidity bubbles on drugs.

:cool:

[sensimillia]

he has my deepest respect. you are missed terence!

[auron]

he has my deepest respect. you are missed terence!
I bet he has become one of those machine elves!

Terence McKenna - Food of the Gods.pdf (http://www.badongo.com/file/2747872)

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Long live Terence Mckenna!! :)

[barbitone]

Terrance McKenna is a fucking legend. Fullstop.:D

Listening to him speak is pure ear candy!

[i am all i am]

G'day Auron.

You are a fucking LEGEND brother.

Thanks for the links. I have some downloading to do now which I will put some time aside to do. Much appreciated mate.



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[peter19]

some might not be terrance mckenna but most are and its mostly along those lines anyway. i got all these from a file i downloaded of conspiracycentral and it was called terrance mckenna so ill put what i can here. ill probbly add more when i have more time. -

Terence Mckenna - Angels Aliens & Archetypes rc.mp3
Size: 5MB |
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ayahdv

TechnoPagans at the End of History 2 rc.mp3
http://www.sendspace.com/file/1l4vk9

plantsofpower1 rc.mp3
http://www.sendspace.com/file/yofy63

File Name: plantsofpower2 rc.mp3
Size: 7MB |
http://www.sendspace.com/file/38exo9

plantsofpower3 rc.mp3
Size: 7MB |
http://www.sendspace.com/file/vj6kxc

:cool:

thanks for those to auron mate.

[auron]

Thanks for those Peter!

Add anything you find!! :D

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[peter19]

terence mckenna - Eros&Eschaton rc.mp3
Size: 17MB |
http://www.sendspace.com/file/bqdwqv

Terence Mckenna - Food of the Gods rc.mp3
Size: 8MB |
http://www.sendspace.com/file/3h51so

Terence Mckenna - HashEater rc.mp3
Size: 6MB |
http://www.sendspace.com/file/p1drhh

Terence McKenna - I Ching - habit & novelty KUT 10-97 rc.mp3
9mb
http://www.sendspace.com/file/96ng75

Terence McKenna - Light of 3rd Millenium Austin rc.mp3
Size: 11MB |
http://www.sendspace.com/file/5g0j05

[peter19]

Light of 3rd Millenium Chicago rc.mp3
Size: 12MB |
http://www.sendspace.com/file/o05yxi

Terence Mckenna - Light of Nature - 1 of 2 rc.mp3
Size: 10MB |
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ev11eb

Terence Mckenna - Light of Nature - 2 of 2 rc.mp3
Size: 8MB |
http://www.sendspace.com/file/g4193n

Terence Mckenna - Light of Nature Day 2 rc.mp3
Size: 12MB |
http://www.sendspace.com/file/7l9fit

[peter19]

Terence Mckenna - Man & Woman part 1of5 rc.mp3
Size: 5MB |
http://www.sendspace.com/file/6omctl

Terence Mckenna - Man & Woman part 2of5 rc.mp3
Size: 11MB |
http://www.sendspace.com/file/d8p56x

Terence Mckenna - Man & Woman part 3of5 rc.mp3
Size: 10MB |
http://www.sendspace.com/file/z9722l

Terence Mckenna - Man & Woman part 4of5 rc.mp3
Size: 5MB |
http://www.sendspace.com/file/li6x6a

Terence Mckenna - Man & Woman part 5of5 rc.mp3
Size: 11MB |
http://www.sendspace.com/file/whrk62

[auron]

A couple of other gems. :D

Terence Mckenna - The Invisible Landscape.pdf (http://www.badongo.com/file/3817680)

A thoroughly revised edition of the much-sought-after early work by Terence and Dennis McKenna that looks at shamanism, altered states of consciousness, and the organic unity of the King Wen sequence of the I Ching.

Terence Mckenna - True Hallucinations.pdf (http://www.badongo.com/file/3817685)

This mesmerizing, surreal account of the bizarre adventures of Terence McKenna, his brother Dennis, and a small band of their friends, is a wild ride of exotic experience and scientific inquiry. Exploring the Amazon Basin in search of mythical shamanic hallucinogens, they encounter a host of unusual characters -- including a mushroom, a flying saucer, pirate Mantids from outer space, an appearance by James and Nora Joyce in the guise of poultry, and translinguistic matter - and discover the missing link in the development of human consciousness and language.

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[sensimillia]

i´m studying at a university in sweden, and during a course in rethoric we were assigned to write an essay about any subject we found interesting. i chose to write about halluciogens and reality. my classmates looked at me as i was some retarded hippy or something, but when i handed it in to my old teacher, he read it and told me that he and his wife had been tripping on the amanita muscaria mushroom last summer. he gave me an A on the essay, then we talked some about terence mckenna. ;)

[peter19]

sounds like a good teacher mate lol. thats the thing with mushrooms and stuff isnt it, each persons experience is diffrent from anothers, so its like as someone else said, you cant really get to the bottom of it. iv took muscaria but nothing really happened, i must of had a poor one, it was bought of a website tho. so other than that iv never took mushrooms before but sometime this year i reckon im going to check them out. i live in uk and probblys am going to see if i can pick any. :cool:

[auron]

Terence Mckenna - Psychedelics are Illegal because.mp3 323.9 kb
Terence Mckenna - True Hallucinations rc.mp3 8.4 mb
Terence Mckenna - The Purpose of Psychedelics (2.Minutes).mpg 19.7 mb
Terence McKenna - The Shamen Re-Evolution with Future Sound.mp3 7.9 mb

Terence Mckenna - foodofthegods.mp3 13.3 mb
Terence mckenna - Eros&Eschaton rc.mp3 17.2 mb

Available Here:

http://www.nw0.info/?p=eBooks%20and%20Audio%20Books/Drugs/Psychadelics/Terence%20McKenna/

[auron]

sounds like a good teacher mate lol. thats the thing with mushrooms and stuff isnt it, each persons experience is diffrent from anothers, so its like as someone else said, you cant really get to the bottom of it. iv took muscaria but nothing really happened, i must of had a poor one, it was bought of a website tho. so other than that iv never took mushrooms before but sometime this year i reckon im going to check them out. i live in uk and probblys am going to see if i can pick any. :cool:
Good luck! :)

[peter19]

thanks. ill need it mate, i went out looking last year and either never seen any or i think i picked the wrong uns. do you know anything about picking, good spots or out?.

[holly_ocean]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWEmS4LAGEo

[holly_ocean]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARIG-BQRATs

[eat_a_grey]

Excellent thread,Mckenna should be taught in public schools :)

[revolutionary_jam]

I'm sorry he didn't make it to 2012 :( he was really excited about it...

[soglad]

I'm sorry he didn't make it to 2012 :( he was really excited about it...

Who says he won't? :D

Reincarnation is a possibility, and of course he could observe from the higher realms! :)

He always said that he would be with us from behind our eye lids.

Or something like that!

[revolutionary_jam]

yeah i know im sure he will but I meant in that particular body :P which itself im sure was anticipating it :)

[freedomnonfighter]

Wow thanks for the links guys, didn't even know of half of all that!

<3 Terence completely.

I just love his voice and the way he talks...
His vocabulary is striking as well,
And his sense of humour impeccable :D

Excellent thread,Mckenna should be taught in public schools :)

Lol... agreed! We can always dream ;)

Edit- Uhm.. doesn't this deserve a sticky? :p

[alexph777]

I remember back in the early 1990s when I first started to wake up. I bought the album "Boss Drum" by The Shamen. There music was a reflection of the awakening and great changes. The Song Re-Evolution is spoken by Terence McKenna it was fascinating stuff about the awakening (journey into hyperspace) and great changes but I didn't know what to make of it at the time. I didn't know who Terence McKenna was then. I remember the band being interviewed back then about their music and ideas and their inspiration with Terence McKenna. The band wanted to point out how we are destroying the earth and we need get back in harmony with nature. Sadly Terence McKenna is no longer with us, RIP :(

There is the music rap mix of Re-Evolution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG7txWrqkrI&mode=related&search=

Another version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAQVkEI2VrY

Re-Evolution by Terence McKenna

If the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.

Human history represents such a radical break with the natural systems of biological organization that preceded it, that it must be the response to a kind of attractor, or dwell point that lies ahead in the temporal dimension. Persistently Western religions have integrated into their theologies the notion of a kind of end of the world, and I think that a lot of psychedelic experimentation sort of confirms this intuition, I mean, it isn't going to happen according to any of the scenarios of orthodox religion, but the basic intuition, that the universe seeks closure in a kind of omega point of transcendance, is confirmed, it's almost as though this object in hyperspace, glittering in hyperspace, throws off reflections of itself, which actually ricochet into the past, illuminating this mystic, inspiring that saint or visionary, and that out of these fragmentary glimpses of eternity we can build a kind of map, of not only the past of the universe, and the evolutionary egression into novelty, but a kind of map of the future, this is what shamanism is always been about, a shaman is someone who has been to the end, it's someone who knows how the world really works, and knowing how the world really works means to have risen outside, above, beyond the dimensions of ordinary space, time, and casuistry, and actually seen the wiring under the board, stepped outside the confines of learned culture and learned and embedded language, into the domain of what Wittgenstein called "the unspeakable," the transcendental presense of the other, which can be absanctioned, in various ways, to yield systems of knowledge which can be brought back into ordinary social space for the good of the community, so in the context of ninety percent of human culture, the shaman has been the agent of evolution, because the shaman learns the techniques to go between ordinary reality and the domain of the ideas, this higher dimensional continuum that is somehow parallel to us, available to us, and yet ordinarily occluded by cultural convention out of fear of the mystery I believe, and what shamans are, I believe, are people who have been able to de-condition themselves from the community's instinctual distrust of the mystery, and to go into it, to go into this bewildering higher dimension, and gain knowledge, recover the jewel lost at the beginning of time, to save souls, cure, commune with the ancestors and so forth and so on. Shamanism is not a religion, it's a set of techniques, and the principal technique is the use of psychedelic plants. What psychedelics do is they dissolve boundaries, and in the presence of dissolved boundaries, one cannot continue to close one's eyes to the ruination of the earth, the poisoning of the seas, and the consequences of two thousand years of unchallenged dominator culture, based on monotheism, hatred of nature, suppression of the female, and so forth and so on. So, what shamans have to do is act as exemplars, by making this cosmic journey to the domain of the Gaian ideas, and then bringing them back in the form of art to the struggle to save the world. The planet has a kind of intelligence, that it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message that nature sends is, transform your language through a synergy between electronic culture and the psychedelic imagination, a synergy between dance and idea, a synergy between understanding and intuition, and dissolve the boundaries that your culture has sanctioned between you, to become part of this Gaian supermind, I mean I think it's fairly profound, it's fairly apocalyptic. History is ending. I mean, we are to be the generation that witnesses the revelation of the purpose of the cosmos. History is the shock wave of the eschaton. History is the shock wave of eschatology, and what this means for those of us who will live through this transition into hyperspace, is that we will be privileged to see the greatest release of compressed change probably since the birth of the universe. The twentieth century is the shudder that announces the approaching cataracts of time over which our species and the destiny of this planet is about to be swept.

If the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.

The emphasis in house music and rave culture on physiologically compatible rhythms and this sort of thing is really the rediscovery of the art of natural magic with sound, that sound, properly understood, especially percussive sound, can actually change neurological states, and large groups of people getting together in the presence of this kind of music are creating a telepathic community of bonding that hopefully will be strong enough that it can carry the vision out into the mainstream of society. I think that the youth culture that is emerging in the nineties is an end of the millenium culture that is actually summing up Western civilization and pointing us in an entirely different direction, that we're going to arrive in the third millenium, in the middle of an archaic revival, which will mean a revival of these physiologically empowering rhythm signatures, a new art, a new social vision, a new relationship to nature, to feminism, to ego. All of these things are taking hold, and not a moment too soon.

Source: http://deoxy.org/t_re-evo.htm

[auron]

Check this thread out:

http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6396

[alexph777]

:)

[alexph777]

Oops and thanks! I thought there was a thread somewhere but the search tool on the forum never works.

[auron]

:D

[limelady]

I'm just ploughing my way through McKenna's Food of The Gods.

A fantastic read!

LL :)

[auron]

Aww fantastic book!! :D:D:D

Download it from here:

Terence McKenna - Food of the Gods.pdf

http://www.badongo.com/file/2747872

[auron]

Terence Mckenna - The Invisible Landscape.pdf

http://www.badongo.com/file/3817680

Terence Mckenna - True Hallucinations.pdf

http://www.badongo.com/file/3817685

[limelady]

With alexph777's permission, I've just merged the thread he started in general with this one.... in case anyone's confused. :D

LL :)

[freedomnonfighter]

The Terence McKenna Union :cool:

http://geno.thanez.net/myspace/experience.jpg

[alexph777]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwt-LjvLlZQ&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moPK0WfHHYc&mode=related&search=

:)

[alexph777]

Another interesting discussion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq6N4kQK-KA

[alexph777]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c8an2XZ3MU&mode=related&search=

:)

[gremlin]

wicked thread, anything on mc kenna is worth a read.

Auron, top geezer:D

[alexph777]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4LKz9zxgVM

[sunyatta60]

I agree with everyone Terence was a real visionary I have come to realise that through his work that those with the control and power use these hallucogenics while passing laws banning the rest of us but allowing us the indiscriminate use of alcohol. One really good book I have read recently was the trialogue between McKenna biologist Rupert Shelldrake and the Mathematician Ralph Nader. The book is called Chaos, Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness:

Synopsis
In this book of "trialogues," the late psychedelic visionary and shamanologist Terence McKenna, acclaimed biologist and originator of the morphogenetic fields theory Rupert Sheldrake, and mathematician and chaos theory scientist Ralph Abraham explore the relationships between chaos and creativity and their connection to cosmic consciousness. Their observations call into question our current views of reality, morality, and the nature of life in the universe. The authors challenge the reader to the deepest levels of thought with wide-ranging investigations of the ecology of inner and outer space, the role of chaos in the dynamics of human creation, and the resacralization of the world.

Excerpted from Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness by Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham. Copyright © 0. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
From Chapter 3: "Chaos and the Imagination"
TERENCE: The psychedelic revival is an effort to find our way back to something like the [Eleusiniam] mysteries. We are not the first nor the most eminent to suggest this kind of reengineering of the human animal.. I call attention to the words of Arthur Koestler, the great anticommunist freedom fighter and scientific intellectual. In a book called The Ghost in the Machine, he concluded that there has to be mass pharmacological intervention to change human behavior. He envisioned a drug that inhibits territoriality. Our reflexes and our mental set are highly and well adapted to the stoning to death of woolly mastodons, but, since we so rarely do that, we need to retool for living in peace while managing limited resources. The dissolving of boundaries by psychedelics certainly makes them candidates for antiterritoriality drugs.
RALPH: Do you think that some of our existing national holidays could be changed, or that a mythological mutation could be introduced that would go in this direction? For example, in Switzerland, they recently invented Fastnacht. They previously had no rituals at all, barely Christmas, and there was a suffering of enormous boredom among people there. It was said that there was no known way to make a new friend in Switzerland. So, just a few years ago, they instituted Fastnacht, in February. It is three days and nights of alcoholic revelry around the fantastic reenactment of a medieval drama. It involves people marching in the streets in parades led by musicians who have practiced a medieval song on medieval instruments all year long just for this three-day ceremony. Now it is said that, during Fastnacht, you can make a new friend.
TERENCE: Something along that line that I've advocated-sometimes facetiously, sometimes seriously-is calendrical reform, and I have just the calendar all worked out. I won't lay it all out here, but the basic notion is that it's a lunar calendar of thirteen lunar cycles. It has three hundred and eighty-four days, and consequently it precesses nineteen days against the solar year. This would have the effect of taking the great yearly events of the calendar and slowly moving them through the seasons. For instance, if we kept Christmas on December 25, and you as child celebrated Christmas in winter, then as a teenager you would celebrate it in spring, and as a young adult you would celebrate it in high summer. As an older person, it would occur in autumn, and then, when you were truly old, Christmas would return again to the winter.

The notion is to overcome the really bad dominator idea that the calendar should be anchored rigidly at the equinoctial and solstitial points so that the heliacal rising of the equinoctial sun is always in the same place. Our current calendar sends the message that there is stability. The calendar is the largest framework there is; in it, all other contexts are somehow subsets. The solar calendar is an effort to deny humanity's mortality by reinforcing a false notion of permanence. What we actually want is a calendar that says to us, "All is flow; all is flux; all relationships are in motion to everything else." This is a truer picture of the world. This may seem trivial, and exemplary of why we eggheads are harmless. But, think about it.

If we yield the structure of the calendar to the dominator culture, letting it tell us what kind of calendar we shall have, then we shall all live within the context of the dominator framework. Changing the calendar would have tremendous consequences, and it would not be opposed by the dominant culture until it was too late. It would be regarded as some kind of a crank thing, because it wouldn't be realized that we were twiddling with the dials of our whole civilization's image of time and change.

The year 2000 provides a built-in opportunity to switch the train to a new track because at these millennial moments there's a certain uncertainty in the mass mind about how to proceed. If you just jump up onto the stage and say, "This is it, folks!" you might be able to pull it off.
RUPERT: The first thing that occurs to me is that your idea of a lunar calendar in which the months and festivals move around the year is already in place. It's the calendar of the Islamic world. For example, Ramadan, the fasting month, retrogresses around the year., so people experience it both in winter and in summer in the course of their lives. This is not exactly a confirmation of your theory about such a calendar breaking the dominator mode.
TERENCE: Your point is certainly, um . . . unwelcome.
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Fascinating conversations, 3 Oct 2002
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This is a gripping series of conversations between the three authors discussing various aspects of the psyche, the universe, the role of chaos theory in the dynamics of creation and the rediscovery of ancient wisdom. The authors, all three of whom stood at the cutting edge of their respective disciplines, challenge the reader about our current views of reality, morality and the nature of life. The sometimes breathtaking insights emerging from this will not fail to move the reader. The chapters on creativity, the imagination and chaos are amongst the most compelling, and deal with theories like the cosmic imagination as a higher dimensional magnet that pulls the evolutionary process to itself, the Omega Point, and imagination arising out of the womb of chaos. Other fascinating topics include indeterminism in nature, nature's organising fields as mathematical representations, and the encoding of information in crystals and in written language. The chapter "Light and Vision" is one of the most poetic, dealing as it does with physical light and the light of consciousness, the theory that one's thoughts are a measurable field emanating from the eyes, the similarities between electromagnetic and mental fields, the concept of a world soul, and morphogenetic fields as a medium of divine omniscience. Incorporeal intelligence and non-human entities are discussed - are the latter merely inhabitants of the psyche or do they have an independent existence? Scientists and inventors like Kekule, who received answers in dreams, are referenced here. The book concludes with a glossary, bibliography and biographical information about the authors. It is a stimulating text in which the power of the mythical imagination, scientific observation and innovative speculation combine to create a thought-provoking reading experience.

[siliconpsychosis]

Lets not forget to mention the Timewave Zero album Terence worked on with Spacetime Continuum. Electronic music with Terence talking over the top for an entire album. Its truly amazing. A must listen to.

[marmadukehussy]

terrence i love you xxxxxx

[lucky884]

Alien Dreamtime:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2395498051948678069

superb!

[talkingchimp]

hi fellow psychonauts


i think you will all find the following link interesting

http://www.matrixmasters.com/podcasts/


happy listening

[auron]

Thanks for that link mate! :)

Here is part of one of Terence's talks, directly copied and pasted fron the above website.....

A snoot full of tequila and a messianic mission . . . the psychedelic experience contextualized . . . what I'm interested in is psychedelics as philosophical tools . . . what can the psychedelic experience bring to philosophy . . . where did the world come from, where is it bound, and who's along for the ride . . . The psychedelic community has given itself the image of an underclass . . . evidence of a major paradigm shift . . . we are a culture of science, yet this rhetoric is not the rhetoric of the larger community of psychedelic users who share a nostalgia for shamanism . . . The news coming out of science is the most psychedelic news there is . . . while we struggle to legalize psychedelics, psychedelic thinking is everywhere triumphant . . . the entire universe is ruled by a very weird force that has been known to science for precisely five months! . . . Forces shaping the cultural modality . . . the 20th century had the most spectacular celebratory affair with the irrational since the 16th century . . . if you aren't current in a field then your version of that field is only a myth . . . we've had some fairly existential characters in our ranks over the years . . . we are not relativists . . . I believe the psychedelic experience is the only reliable contact with the numinous . . . Optimism . . . the best story will win . . . Ur was a virtual reality . . . artificial intelligences: while the naïve are scanning the stars our appliances have become telepathic . . . I've come to a kind of cyber pantheistic Emersonianism . . . the Earth's strategy for its own salvation is through machines . . . human beings are the deputized bride in this alchemical rarefaction of glasses, ceramics, metals, and volatile materials . . . the nervous system of Earth is appearing . . . at who's behest are we doing this . . . we are actors in a cosmic drama that involves Earth at one polarity and machines at the other polarity . . . why I like this story . . . Where does the psychedelic experience fit into all of this . . . consciousness expansion in human beings is going to become an absolute necessity . . . the Internet is a partner in the understanding of the world that is Genie-like . . . the only people who can see the game move against the background of the forest pattern are the psychedelic heads . . .A future where the expression of the individual is muted . . . the dichotomy between the natural and the artificial is an obsession of the 20th century, hence canceled . . . Things about the cosmological constant that are very counterintuitive . . . the Novelty wave (Timewave) . . . space itself is in the act of exploding
An anomalous high-energy short-duration fluctuation of radiation . . . how things are really arranged on a high level . . . the boonies are where biology thrives . . . Greg Egan's novels . . . How is the psychedelic community different from other people . . . our cause is the human cause . . . the muse in the mushroom . . . I suppose I will go to the 'grave with life as mysterious to me as I found it when I came to consciousness . . . whatever life is, it is an opportunity of some sort . . . the things I am most grateful for . . . I think the future is bound to be very confusing and demanding for most people . . . in my early youth I dreamed of a miracle . . . the enduring miracle is the psychedelic rush . . . the psychedelic experience is one of the primary compasses of being . . . how good life is in the shadow of this particular tree . . . Q&A: The Earth is the foundation of everything . . . what if you take the view that Earth "permitted" the processes of evolution to occur . .. I think we give too much credit to the human species . . . the myth of taking control . . . we are building and connecting machines that are modeled on biology . . . but we are creating a creature that lives in a different kind of temporal universe than us . . . we are going to be a different kind of people because we are going to have to live in the presence of alien minds . . . this is the Faustian enterprise of all times.

Terence was light years ahead of his time. :cool: