Terence McKenna

Terence Mckenna - Man and Woman at the End of History (1/5)

Terence Mckenna - Man and Woman at the End of History (2/5)

Recording of Terence Speaking to a UFO convention audience about his most "out there" of ideas


Terence McKenna - UFO  The Inside Outsider

 This week's show features a fascinating talk by Terrence McKenna on many things including the role of psychedelics in human evolution, culture and consciousness. And, how use of psychedelics could possibly help save humanity from extinction.

The Magical Mystery Tour Jun13 2014 Terence McKenna Psychedelics In Human Evolution & Consciousness

Terence McKenna - Evolution of a Psychedelic Thinker

Human history represents such a radical break with the natural systems of biological organisation 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 transcendence 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 a map of not only the past of the universe and the evolutionary ingression into novelty, but a kind of map of the future. 

This is what Shamanism has always been about. A Shaman is someone who has been to the end. It is 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 cozooistry and actually seen the wiring under the board; stepped outside the confines of learned culture and learned an embedded language into the domain of what Wittgenstein called the unspeakable, the transcendental presence of the other, which can be sectioned 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 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 the fear of the mystery, I believe. And what Shamans are, are people who have been able to de-condition themselves from the community's instinctual distrust of the mystery, and go into it, to go into this bewildering higher dimension, and gain knowledge, recover the jewel lost at the beginning of time, save souls, cure, commune with the ancestors and so forth and so on. 

A shamanism is not a religion - it's a set of techniques, and the principle 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 a struggle to save the world. 

Shamanism is not a religion - it's a set of techniques, and the principle technique is the use of psychedelic plants.

Re:Iteration ft Terence McKenna [Future Sound Of London Mix]

On a balmy summers eve in February of 1997, I first met Terence McKenna over dinner in a dodgy pizzeria on the notorious nightclub strip of the Fortitude Valley. Only hours later I would mix a spontaneous soundscape for Terence as he delivered an improv spiel to an intimate audience at The Zoo in Brisbane. This file is produced from the soundesk DAT recording, mastered by Pip Theobald. It remained dormant for several years and was only recently digitised- as it took so long to find a functioning DAT player. Some noise and clicks arise from the aged tape, other glitches and abberations are less explicable...Machine Elves? I hope to edit, enhance and remaster later this year.

Aside from vinyl and CDs being mixed to create the soundscape, compositions fresh from the studio of The ApeMan (Stuart Burgess) arrived as the event was underway. Several channels were woven as an ambient landscape for Terence to traverse, leading all present on a collective journey. The current raw edit is not for distribution, I hope that it can be remastered and fused with visuals so that the message can be projected to others.

"Looking at present cultural trends and extrapolating them, it's reasonable to suggest that by the end of the Mayan calendar- which is 2012 A.D.- we will be unrecognisable to ourselves, that what we take to be our creations, computers and technology, are actually another level of ourselves." Terence McKenna. The Archaic Revival. 1991.


Terence McKenna with DJ Zippy - Live@The Zoo. Brisbane. 1997.

Terence Mckenna ~ Institutions

Terence Mckenna - DMT, Mathematical Dimensions, Syntax And Death

002-Terence McKenna: "Linear Societies, Nonlinear Drugs"

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"What civilisation is is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each others shoulders and kicking each others teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation. And yet you can stand back and look at this planet and see that we have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the Love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least amongst us, the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary, we're led by the least amongst us, and we do not fight back against the dehumanising values that are handed down as control icons. This is something, and I really don't want to get off on this because it is a lecture in itself but... culture is not your friend! Culture is for other people's convenience and the convenience of various institutions, churches, companies, tax collection schemes, what have you. It is not your friend, it insults you, it desempowers you, it uses and abuses you. Non of us are well treated by culture. And yet we glorify the creative potential of the individual, the rights of the individual, we understand the felt presence of experience as what is most important. But the culture is a perversion. It fetichises objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirly religions and silly cults, it invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanise themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue and Hollywood and what have you."
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Terence Mckenna on Culture

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Have human beings outgrown, given their propensity for destructive behavior, the human form? Furthermore, is that propensity part of a program for the species to move into some other type of existence? In this edition of Cosmic Perspective News, journalist William Kern and non-dual kabalistic shaman Timothy Rothschild examine the process described by Terence McKenna, by which psychedelic plants and fungi impacted human evolution by instigating the self-consciousness and self-reflection we have come to identify with the human condition. Particular attention is paid to a disturbing aspect of last week’s program on the therapeutic uses of psychedelics and mind expanding substances with author and scientist Dr. Dennis McKenna: whether this “program” of expanding consciousness might include a physical catastrophe, instigated by the human imagination itself, which brings life AS WE KNOW IT to a sudden end.

PODCAST 'Make Our Day!' - Humanity's Apparent Death Wish With Terence McKenna, Dr. Dennis McKenna

011-Terence McKenna: “Culture and Ideology are not your friends”

The Magical Mystery Tour Apr 1 2016 Terence McKenna Exploring Consciousness Mushroom Human & Beyond

Recorded in Seattle, Washington on April 22nd, 1999.

Terence McKenna - Shamans Among the Machines

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"My notion of what the psychedelic experience is for is that we each must become like fishermen, and go out on to the dark ocean of mind, and let your nets down into that sea. And what you're after is not some behemoth, that will tear through your nets, follow them and drag you in your little boat, you know, into the abyss, nor are what we're looking for a bunch of sardines that can slip through your net and disappear. Ideas like, "Have you ever noticed that your little finger exactly fits your nostril", and stuff like that. What we are looking for are middle size ideas, that are not so small that they are trivial, and not so large that they're incomprehensible. That middle size ideas that we can wrestle into our boat and take back to the folks on shore, and have fish dinner. And every one of us when we go into the psychedelic state, this is what we should be looking for. It's not for your elucidation, it's not part of your self-directed psychotherapy. You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do, is to bring back a new idea, because our world is in danger by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness. And so to whatever degree any one of us, can bring back a small piece of the picture and contribute it to the building to the new paradigm, then we participate in the redemption of the human spirit, and that after all it what it's really all about."
Terence McKenna

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Terence McKenna on Psychedelics

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Terence McKenna on Schizophrenia and Shamanism

Terence mckenna - Reclaim your mind

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Terence Mckenna - Reclaim your mind

In this expansive talk, given at Fort Mason, San Francisco, on December 13, 1998, McKenna spins the spiritual analogies of dreaming and awakening into a wide-ranging discussion of consciousness, virtual reality, the primacy of language, the plasticity of time, culture as an operating system and the responsibility of working for cultural change.

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