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Terence McKenna

"Pay attention. And keep breathing." -- T. McKenna (1946-2000) This nOde last updated November 27th, 2004 and is permanently morphing...

(9 Ix (Jaguar) / 17 Keh (Red) - 74/260 - 12.19.11.11.14)

Terence McKenna relinquished his body at 2:15 a.m. Pacific time, April 3, 2000. RIP 1946-2000

psychedelic heir apparent to Timothy Leary.

Mushrooms

DMT

brother - Dennis McKenna



sampled in:



604 track _Atomic Powwow_ MP3 by Space Tribe off of _Sonic Mandala_ on Spirit Zone (1996)

cover depics sacred mushroom



samples: "Whatever you have thought about the world before, forget it, now you are in this one."; "What evolution is, is the slow conquest of dimensions."; "Music has always been the way.." - Terence McKenna

ambient track _Hymn_ MP3 (27:54) by Pete Namlook & Mixmaster Morris off of _Dreamfish_ CD on FAX (1993)

sample: "the god of western civilization has NOTHING to do with women..."

track _Prana_ MP3 by Eat Static off of _Abduction_ CD on Planet Dog/Mammoth (1993)

sample: "we're not dropping out here... we're infiltrating and TAKING OVER." from the Camden Talks 6/15/92

604 track _1200 Mics_ MP3 by 1200 Micrograms off of _1200 Micrograms/Growling Mad Scientists_ 12" on Tipworld (1999)

sample: "i remember the first time i smoked DMT..." by Terence McKenna

604 track _A New way To Say "Hooray"_ MP3 (192k) by Shpongle off of _Tales Of The Inexpressible_ on Twisted ( 2001)

samples by Terence McKenna re: the DMT experience:

"so you take let us assume a third toke, looong and sloowww, you vapooorize and you take it in and in and in... and there is a sound like the crumpling of a plastic bread wrapper or the crackling of a flame and a tone, a tone, a mmmmmmmmMMMMMM... and there is this.... (explosion) there is a cheer... the gnomes have learned a new way to say hooooorrraaaaaayyyyyyy"



"these walls, such they be, are crawling with geometric hallucination..."



"Very brightly coloured, very irridescent. Deep sheens and very highly reflective surfaces everything is machine-like and polished and throbbing with energy but that is not what immediately arrests my attention. What arrests my attention is the fact that this space is inhabited."



"And so like jewelled self dribbling basketballs these things come running forward and what they are doing with this visible language that they create is they are making gifts! They are making gifts for you and they will say ..."

604 track _Skwirm_ MP3 (192k) by Andy Guthrie aka Funkopath off of _All Boundaries Are Illusion_ compilation CD on 21-3 (1997)

sample: "A psychedelic person is not willing to be a good citizen, or a good anything that is defined by somebody else. I mean, the shaman is a true anarchist.."; "Wisdom... Consciouness expanding" by Terence McKenna

604 track _In Memory Of Terence McKenna_ MP3 (192k) by Cosma Shiva off of 12" on Shiva Space Technology ( 2001)

collaboration with The Shamen on the track _Re: Evolution_ off of their 12" on One Little Indian (1993)

One Little Indian - label started by ex-peace punks Derek Birkett and Tim Kelly of anarcho- punk band Flux Of Pink Indians

track _Nature Loves Courage_ MP3 by Catal Hayuk

track _Re:Evolution (Future Sound Of London Remix)_ MP3

track _Alchemical Illuminatus_ MP3 by Neuronaut & Terence McKenna

lecture (vhs/ntsc)

lecture video _Metamorphosis - Trialogues At The Edge Of The West_ (vhs/ntsc) - Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham discuss at Esalen

Terence talks about Ilya Prigogine - Belgian thermdynamicist



Rupert talks about meeting Terence, Esalen, going to India, psychedelics, his development of habits in nature vs. Terence's novelty in nature



Ralph talks about music and math, living in Himalayas, introduction to psychedelics



Rupert has a Ph.d. in biochemistry



Rupert explains morphic resonance



Terence explains Ralph's models of chaos



Rupert explains cracking of the egg - nature's laws develop as it goes along

lecture _Petaluma, CA_ MP3 (29:34) (mixed with ambient music)

topics include language, octopi

lecture _Nature Is The Center Of The Mandala - 1_ MP3 (32k) - (44:09)

lecture _Dreaming Awake At The End Of Time_ MP3 (vK) - (truncated 45:23)

lecture _Psilocybin & The Sands Of Time - Esalen December 1982_ MP3 (112k) - (73:48)

lecture _Unfolding The Leaf #006 KPFK_ MP3 (48k) - (15:22)

lecture _Unfolding The Stone Part 2_ MP3 (20k) - (31:30)

lecture _Nature Is The Center Of The Mandala - 2_ MP3 (32k) - (44:12)

lecture _Surfing On Finnegan's Wake - 1_ MP3 (96k) - (38:21)

lecture _Surfing On Finnegan's Wake - 2_ MP3 (96k) - (36:14)(possibly truncated)

lecture _DMT Prep_ MP3 (64k)

lecture _History Ends In Green Part 1/6_ MP3 (56k) - (59:54) on Mystic Fire Audio

lecture _History Ends In Green Part 2/6_ MP3 (56k) - (55:24)

lecture _History Ends In Green Part 3/6_ MP3 (56k) - (89:42)

lecture _History Ends In Green Part 4/6_ MP3 (56k) - (86:14)

lecture _History Ends In Green Part 5/6_ MP3 (56k) - (87:27)

lecture _History Ends In Green Part 6/6_ MP3 (56k) - (56:43)

lecture _The World And Its Double - 1/4_ MP3 (80k) - (46:12)

lecture _The World And Its Double - 2/4_ MP3 (80k) - (40:11)

lecture _The World And Its Double - 3/4_ MP3 (80k) - (44:52)

lecture _The World And Its Double - 4/4_ MP3 (80k) - (26:23)

lecture _In Search Of The Original Tree Of Knowledge Part 1/ 8 - Live from Boulder, CO_ MP3 (48k) (88:02)

lecture _In Search Of The Original Tree Of Knowledge Part 2/8 - Live from Boulder, CO_ MP3 (48k) (88:24)

lecture _In Search Of The Original Tree Of Knowledge Part 3/8 - Live from Boulder, CO_ MP3 (48k) (87:35)

lecture _In Search Of The Original Tree Of Knowledge Part 4/8 - Live from Boulder, CO_ MP3 (48k) (86:54)

lecture _In Search Of The Original Tree Of Knowledge Part 5/8 - Live from Boulder, CO_ MP3 (48k) (86:53)

lecture _In Search Of The Original Tree Of Knowledge Part 6/8 - Live from Boulder, CO_ MP3 (48k) (59:35)

lecture _In Search Of The Original Tree Of Knowledge Part 7/8 - Live from Boulder, CO_ MP3 (48k) (58:42)

lecture _In Search Of The Original Tree Of Knowledge Part 8/8 - Live from Boulder, CO_ MP3 (48k) (43:03)

lecture _Wetlands Preserve NYC_ MP3 (128k) - (41:19)

lecture _Imagination In The Light Of Nature - Q&A_ (48k) - (32:21)

Q: this is the question about the "great attractor" that you mentioned... did you ever see that movie 2001?



TM: ah, a couple of times [laughter from the audience] Q: could the great attractor be symbolized in that movie by the monolith? TM: yeah, absolutely... that's the myth of what i'm saying... if instead of having those monkeys jumping around in front of a slab of linoleum, they had had them cavorting in the presence of the mushroom, then you would pretty much have my theory in a nutshell... [laughter/applause] lecture _Angels, Aliens & Archetypes_ MP3 (48k) - (41:30)

lecture _Eros & Eschaton_ MP3 (32k) - (118:58)

lecture _Psychedelic Denial_ MP3 (48k) (3:11)

lecture _Food Of The Gods @ Phoenix Bookstore in Santa Monica_ (32k) - (58:11)

lecture _Syntax Of Psychedelic Time (cd2)_ MP3 (112k) (truncated 33:15)

lecture _Personal Breast Beating_ MP3 (16:06)

lecture _Starwood Festival 1994 Part 1_ MP3 (12k) (46:44)

lecture _Starwood Festival 1994 Part 2_ MP3 (12k) (47:02)

lecture _Starwood Festival 1994 Part 3_ MP3 (12k) (47:03)

lecture _State Of The Stone 1995 Part 1_ MP3 (160k) (44:36)

lecture _Now I've Lost My Way Here_ MP3 (16:45)

acoustic new age track _Terence McKenna (Introduced By Timothy Leary)_ MP3 (96k)

acoustic new age track with words _Consciousness Expanding Agents_ MP3 (96k)

lecture _What I Have Learned From Psychedelics Part 1_ MP3 (64k) (7:05)

lecture _She Who Remembers - Light Of The 3rd Millenium - Chicago After TX Whole Life Expo Pt. 2 (1997)_ MP3 (48k) (27:15)

lecture _Light Of The 3rd Millenium - Austin TX_ MP3 (20k) ( 82:15)

lecture _Light Of 3rd Millenium - Chicago_ MP3 (20k) (87:24)

lecture _Notes On Planetary Intelligence - Jan 1999_ MP3 (11:38)

"if the world is code, then it can be hacked..."

_Critique Magazine_: "Well Terence, now I'm wondering what you think the ultimate goal of human evolution is..?"

Terence McKenna: "Oh, a good party..."

604 track _The Ultimate Goal_ MP3 by Kode IV off of _Silicon Civilization_

Authored:



video _Alien Dreamtime_ with Terence McKenna and Space Time Continuum



_Food Of The Gods_

_Trialogues At The Edge Of The West_ along with Ralph Abraham and Rupert Sheldrake

_True Hallucinations_

"In _Finnegans Wake_ by James Joyce, such a space is called the 'merry go raum,' from the German word 'raum', for 'space.' The room is actually going around, and in that space one feels like a child, though one has come out somewhere in eternity."

-Terence McKenna - _Archaic Revival_

"We need to cultivate a sense of mystery. The mystery is not only in the Other; it is in us. This reverberates again with the idea that we become what we behold. The nature of history is suddenly transforming in the post quantum physics, postmodern phase; this was not expected. The nineteenth century, the early twentieth century - they didn't realize this was what they were pointed into. Although some few people, the 'Pataphysicians, the surrealists, saw what was coming. But now here we are."

- Terence McKenna - _Archaic Revival_

"This is a kind of Islamic paradise in which one is free to experience all the pleasures of the flesh provided one realizes that one is a projection of a holographic solid-state matrix that is microminiaturized, superconducting, and nowhere to be found: it is part of the plenum. All technological history is about producing prototypes of this situation with greater and greater closure toward the ideal, so that airplanes, automobiles, space shuttles, space colonies, starships of the nuts-and-bolts, speed-of- light type are, as Mircea Eliade said, "self-transforming images of flight that speak volumes about man's aspiration to self-transcendence."



"Man is a very odd creature. And to have arisen in a million years from the chipping of flint to launching of the space shuttle and the hurling of instruments out of the solar system, it seems preposterous to maintain that the forces and facts of nature as we know them could have allowed us to do what we are doing. Instead, I take a very premodern view: we are in league with the demiurge. We are the children of a force that we can barely imagine." - _Archaic Revival_ p. 40

Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?

Terence McKenna: He was impelled by the backward shockwave of the Eschaton towards the self-replicating machine hens glittering hyperspatially across the road.





release _Steve's Green Thing_ CDs by Self-Transforming Machine Elves_ on Nova Zembla (1995)

_Wun_ _Free_ _Steve's Green Thing_ _Fore_

first mention of Terence McKenna in Usenet:

From: Bandolar (COSC60I@elroy.uh.edu)

Subject: Re: Questions on Jacking (long and rambling)

Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk

Date: 1989-08-03 19:13:22 PST



> Speaking of alternate realities, there is an weird and wonderfully

> interesting person named Terence McKenna who proposes something of the

> same sorts of things about our favorite "magic mushrooms." :) But this

> probably too obscure to go into here...

>

I had always wondered about the possibility of hypnotism to create this effect. For example, your screen is split into three sections

/what you hear

|what you see

\actions

All are text but your are hypnotised into interpreting them into actual visual images. Afterwards, on exiting the trance, you remember the events that took place as if you actually lived them. In a similar sense, it seems to me that a D&D game could be played on the same level. If it were possible I would certainly find it very interesting and even seductive.

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