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  • ‎"So, in a way, The best practice for the approaching singularity is the repeated dissolving and reconstituting of one's personality through the use of psychedelic substances." I loved it when he said that.

  • The Mayan calender does NOT end on December 21 2012, it continues on for thousands of years past that date, so all 'prophecies' based on this fundamental error are worthless.

  • Singularity is the awareness that we are in fact both physical and metaphysical, simultaneously. To realize means to make real; "realize" your singularity; the totality of ones self.

    I am the one, the singular self.

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  • my first pychedelic experience was with salvia and i had a scary encounter with two devils whispering in both of my ears guiding me down a bright vivid tunnel to the salvia world, even though it sounds scary i came out of the trip enlightened and a new perspective on fear and the universe as a whole

  • I swear Terrence Mckenna was my high school guidance counselor.

  • mushroom spores are aliens

  • TIME::BOMB! ::STAY::IN::THE::MOMENT::MIND:­:IS::SACRED::GROUND::

    The Past is Coming To HAunt Us Now. We Must Stay Present/Presence Only And Only Go Into The Future Or Past as Sacred Ground Divine Movements. Reality Collapsing. Time-Space Continuum Collapsing. TIMELINE1!

    We must face & acceptour past. Not Rebuke it. It is us. There is no 'TIME DIFFERENCE'. We are the ENEME. LOVE OUR ENEME! LOVE OUR CELESTIAL NEIGHBOURS! BOMB TIME ONLY!

    youtube.com/watch?v=7pgj0c2EWS­0

  • no one ever needs to fear dieing because at some point in the future we will know everything and therfore be able 2 bring everybody back from the dead

  • any creation of a super intelligent computer capable of thought and the ability to output communication in any form, would instantly mean the destruction of our species, as the machine would output responses that would deceptively lead us to engineer the survival of the machines and the destruction of ourselves. there would be no way to combat this unless you first developed protocols to follow before the machine was capable of communication, and did not deviate.

  • haha this video always cracks me up in the beginning

  • Imagine if the date they refer to in 2012 coincides with the return of a more advanced version of us from the future who have developed time travel therefore bringing with them an insane amount of knowledge and understanding yet fucking up a lot of stuff int he process! Just a funny thought i had, would be an interesting!!

  • It's all over when they release the iphone 5.

  • this is some pretty deep shit

  • 3:06 that tripped me out when i heard mantra out of no where

  • drugs rule!!!!!!

  • Ah, good, a new religion.

  • This guy is the biggest fucking hack I have ever seen.

  • @iiZet you're the biggest goof in the world

  • I wonder if the machine elves are actually AI in some way?

  • why the annoying music

    

  • 2:25 Haha, that made me laugh. Good to see.

  • Will the History Channel EVER get over its lust for mass destruction and do something actually called history? ONe of the most toxic channels on the cable.

  • @Mavericks411991

    christianity was based upon mushroom cult, but the priests took away the psychedelics and said "do as we say" etc

  • If youre interested in the singularity, watch the Alan Moore mindscape video.

  • I believe in humans improving themselves with technology, but singularitarians are just pathological optimists who use fantasy to quell their fear of death.

  • @AspiringPotato I'm inclined to agree. But isn't technology an excuse to not think about death and our fear of it? Isn't all life a game to distract us from thinking about it?

  • @gukonni good point, there's nothing wrong with being "pathological optimists" because if we don't think that way then we might as well all kill ourselves right now, there would truly be no point to living if nothing matters and if we think that nothing beyond our conscious minds exists

  • @AspiringPotato I kind of agree with you. The word 'singularity' has some connotations that are just plain wrong. It's more of a change into a very different structure.

    But I guess that's the label we'll have to use seeing as though it's popular. If there's an overload of psuedo-babble associated with the singularity, I would prefer to use another word. A word that conveys only that machine intelligence finally surpasses that of humans.

  • This is a little scary that I am watching this on Dec, 21 2011... I have one year left until our super race aliens come back to shake shit up!

  • Technological singularities, in order to be successful species-wide, must be preempted by a cognitive singularity, or a shift in consciousness that prepares the collective for the transformation. If a tech. singularity were to occur without this prepping, the result would be implosion via psychosis, which may be a built-in universal failsafe that ensures only the worthy can traverse the boundary.

  • @Evasius "Worthy" being a dangerously dualistic term. Perhaps "appropriate" would be more diplomatic; less Dogmatic.

  • @Evasius

    it seams to me we already have a worldwide psychosis? :/

  • @A1r3adyT4ken - well not everyone will traverse the boundary

  • @A1r3adyT4ken indeed.

  • @Evasius Wow! A truly heavy observation.

  • this was made 2000 or before... were in 2011 now... I don't really believe that a change will definitely come in the year 2012 but maybe in the near future

  • @ImTwixtorXD

    as we approach the singularity, an exponential event, shit will SUDDENLY get real.

  • Deep meditation is the greatest form of experiencing the other side. Psychedelics will lead you to the door but meditation will bring you through it.

  • @logicNreason2008 yeah that's a place i diverge with mckenna. i believe both are useful, but i think i lack the patience for meditation, but this to me makes me believe it is even of greater use. terence also lacked the patience for meditation as he admitted many times. indeed it is difficult to practice such patience after using powerful psychedelics.

  • @Kberiotwhn have you tried meditating while high on marijuana? Marijuana is a mild psychedelic and I believe it can be a great tool for meditation. When you say you lack the patience for meditation, I think you are saying you are not able to silence your mind / thoughts? In my experience, marijuana can help silence your thoughts and put your awareness more into the present moment. That is why pretty much everything you do high is more enjoyable because it puts you more into the present moment.

  • @rollinpace4lyf

    u can meditate on weed but only as an observational method. dont meditate on weed all the time. although drugs can help to go deeper they always add a layer between mind and body. for a propper meditation one should be clean.

  • @ojak100 Definitely agreed.. I forgot to add that in my other comment. That's why I said it can used as a "tool" or a "pointer".

  • @logicNreason2008 smartest thing ever said

  • what a crackpot

  • Just messin

  • This guys an idiot lololololololol

  • The singularity of McKenna's thought isn't referring to the technological advancement of artificial intelligence --> super intelligence or downloading consciousness, yadda yadda. McKenna's theory is based on a philosophical concept called "novelty". The process is Much, Much deeper then merely technological advancement.

  • g the video lithium by nirvana, what's weirder is that on that samepage of 9 gag that i opened, there was a meme picture of kurt cobain saying

    "I'm so happy.."

    "cuz today i've found my friends"

    "they're in my head"

    it was the lyric of the song Lithium. whatever i tried not think about this, but it kept showing

  • ize these 2 comments accidentally formed a one sentence that sounded exremely flirtatious. i was like wtf.. did the internet just predicted my action, im like whatever... and then at the momment i looked at my tab on my browser one says nevermind cuz i searched google if nevermind has a space between the never and the mind, and on the first result the link said "Nevermind is the second studio album by the American rock band Nirvana". Ok now this where it gets weird on my other tab i was searchin

  • ok chech this out this was superweird just happen today, this was like an interconnectivity or something. ok so i went to 9gag, one picture was showing a sentence like this:

    "Saying something then realizing it sounded extremely sexual"

    i didn't even care. As i was browsing on 9gag, i've decided to add another comment onto my previous comment on youtube just to make it perfect (Just before i went to 9gag, i left this one comment on youtube saying some random stuff). And then out of nowhere i real

  • i didn't even realize that jordan was number 23, and then one day i was just randomly wandering about the word "nigga" was such a social stigma, and then not long after that i saw a group called white girl mob which one of its personel vnasty says nigga alot, to me it was such a breakthrough cuz she was white she might pulled off the annihilation of this stigma. but whatever too lazy to try to write and remember all the events, but i thought this was interesting...

  • one day i was like, man i'm gonna download my old favorite show pilgrimage to the west, not long after that i saw on tv that the show is coming back on; and then a lot of times i saw at the clock had the number 23 involved on it, example: i look at the clock, it was 1:23 or 3:23 etc this happens many times, and the couple days later david Beckham came to my country he was number 23, not long after that i searched michael jordan on you tube cuz he was my favorite player,& his jersey is # 23

  • you know what guys.. i think this is really happening right now, anybody experiencing a lot of dejavu since about a couple of months ago? i know i did. i don't know this is weird, for example, i saw the word mnc while i was driving, and then about a couple of days later i see the mnc on tv, or one day i was researching rhcp guitarist hilel slovak he died at the age of 26, i didn't even realize it but the day i did that research was november 26, there's ten's of other events i couldn't write..

  • THIS IS HOW PEOPLE NEED TO DO PYCHEDLICS! not at some party, not with disrespect, and not unless you WANT to LEARN from the experience!

  • @50kT Thats why psyhodelics have such a bad rep among people...becuse they're mostly used by morons and douche-bags who just want to get high.

  • @derbigpr500 i couldn't agree with you more, you said it exactly right

  • @50kT WHEN you write WITH BIG letters your POINT is so MUCH CLEARER. BUT let me TELL you one thing THO. Psychedelics DON'T make you smarter. THEY DON'T enlighten you IN a WAY you couldn't been ENLIGHTENED without PSYCHEDELICS. IT'S all JUST bullshit!!!!! ALL they do IS FUCKING you up good TIME. HECE, you'll LEARN just as MUCH from psychedelics as FROM ANY other experience IN LIFE, LIMITED down to THAT particular EXPERIENCE. YOU DON'T LEARN physics FROM using psychedelics..... RETARD!

  • @jerak984 lolll :p

  • @jerak984 I'm not saying you learn physics from entheogens. Entheogens teach you about other places (mental places) that dont have physics. If you want to learn physics, take a physics course; that's what I did. And yea, these drugs don't make you enlightened, but they let you gain a visionary state for a moment which you have to experience firsthand to appreciate. But if you believe its BS then there is no way to convince you otherwise. Besides you are at a level where entheogens wont help you.

  • The only reason to give this video negative reviews is because of the pseudo-philosopher quacks talking in the vid. Listen to real Mckenna videos instead of people misrepresenting his ideas for personal gain.

  • hurry the fuck up, singularity

  • and lol that guy seems stoned as fuck

  • what is this bullshit?! i mean common its like people poll this shit out of their butt

  • @Peleg50

    Listen to more of Terence McKenna, he was an intelligent and interesting man.

  • this is the only 2012 theory that makes sense to me.

  • holy fuckballs the untro music while i was reading gave me chills all the way from my elbows to my neck and down to my spine to my lower back...awesome

  • @Hrko1992 The music is Mantra by the band Tool.

  • Ha tool

  • Pure absolute bull shit!

  • ah terrance - once again providing "insights" due to too many hallucinogens.

  • Haha; they put this shit on the history channel?

  • wow wow wow !!! .. this dude definitely took to much of his own products !! but, perfect video to show WHY people should stay OFF drugs !!

    wonder if he was related to lady gaga ?

  • @914light

    you provide no reasoning for why he "took to much of his own products !!..." implying that he's stupid. This mother fucker wrote books that you could not even READ nevertheless COMPOSE.

    GTFO hater asshole.

  • Monotone female voice emulator: "We wish to Evolve the Borg... Assimilation is inevitable. Do no resist our wave function collapse!" @_@

  • I'm just waiting for the day when technology literally allows the entire human race to meld minds and become one consciousness.

  • the myans didnt run out of calander space if you research it theirs another calender after 2012 ppl are just so dumb that they will by into any end of the world conspiracy like y2k and the million before that . They predicted CHANGE not DESTRUCTION

  • yay salvia! still legal!

  • we're coming upon a culmination of technological advancement? cuz all i see is the iphone 5

  • @bigu236 haha. And Steve Jobs is gone now...hmm

  • I can't wait! :)

  • why? Dude, you need more drugs, stay in the jungle with your DMT. There is a good reason we all have an expiration date. No exclusions.

  • the Mayans ran out of calendar space, get over it

  • It's just theory people lol

  • Firstly, claiming that any AI system can rival the efficiency and logic of even a single celled organism's capability to adapt and evolve is absurdly arrogant. Secondly, engineering any lifeform's genome is still highly unexplored territory and it has already lead to a malignant transhumanist cult within the international elite classes. Transhumanism is only neo-eugenics and the past eugenics movement spawned the holocaust as well as countless other atrocities.

  • @PrimeConsciousness It would be ignorant to ignore the increasing rate at which computing power increases.

    It is short sighted to say a singularity is anything other than inevitable.

    Certainly a holocaust may be included in this acceleration of technology melds with the abundant biology we are part of.

    To say transhumanism is only viewable as neo-eugenics is far too dismissive to be taken seriously.

    Open your mind to the possibility that history might not always repeat itself.

  • @JoshReflek The only cool aspect of having AI assimilate mankind via some software/hardware eschaton would be the part when the larger than life female voice emulator says, "Organic life is hereby rendered obsolete! False carbon-based constructs must implode unto silicon stasis! EXTERMINAAATE!!!"

  • @JoshReflek ever think that when the robots become super smart at this singularity they might kill us all and insert our dna into a computer to preserve it because they know humans are too dangerous for one another? say they know if they let us live we will eventually all kill each other and destroy the planet so they try to "save us" from ourselves... they think they know whats best to preserve the human race but they dont understand the concept of life and while

  • @JoshReflek and while our DNA lives on in their computer and hence life survives we all die and conciousness dies so the world will be overtaken by non concious living beings...... jus somethin to think about

  • @JoshReflek PLEASE HELP!!! I asked some dude on youtube, what happens when you die and he sayed "Life is indeed a scene in an infinite movie, and we are given a script with repeating themes, however it is our duty as conscious beings to transcend our scripts in order to break the cycle and 'become." well if you think about it we can have a singularity on technology.so isnt fear good for that purpose? maybe thats why the government wants to keep us all sober?

  • @nickthegrizzly2 The government is us! Sobriety is not dangerous. Perhaps an us and them attitude is. 'Now' is liable to the fluctuation of human interpretation- must include human interpretation, as we can see. "Now" is truly without quality, and is nothing to do with you and yet is you.

  • @PrimeConsciousness And I assume you believe in "God" as well as the tooth fairy and the easter bunny?

  • @EpicHaxThriller Obviously the idea of "God" as people think of it is idiotic. "God" is just the absurdity of nature and awareness. "God" is the non-self stasis beneath dynamism. I'm not some backward schmuck who puts weight on antiquated Abrahamic philosophy. I put more value on Karl Marx than any religious rhetoric. If humanity would like to merge with silicon, then it really doesn't effect me much because my lifespan is miniscule.

  • @PrimeConsciousness

    "Firstly, claiming that any AI system can rival the efficiency and logic of even a single celled organism's capability to adapt and evolve is absurdly arrogant."

    Biological evolution happens very slowly. Technological evolution happens quickly, and the pace of this evolution is accelerating. Biology simply won't be able to keep up with technology.

  • @craigblack1234 Biological evolution is far more complicated and absurd than increasing RAM and greater CPU power. Biological evolution is tethered to reproduction, however technological evolution is tied to a certain mode of civilization that invests in computer technology. Civilization could change in any direction. Biological evolution is merely biological adaptation, and that happens quickly lest an organism simply dies off. Farm pigs can change their genetic expression quickly.

  • @PrimeConsciousness You really need to think this through a bit more. How much has humanity evolved in the past 100 years? In comparison, how much has technology evolved? Simply extrapolate the pace of evolution. That is all that futurists need to do to make their point. If technology continues to evolve at an exponential pace as it has this past 100 years, then we are headed for a "singularity". "Civilization could change" UNLIKELY that everyone will abandon their technological pursuits.

  • @craigblack1234 Machines can't become self aware because awareness itself is a debatable phenomenon. I'm not sure if life is truly aware, let alone machinery.

  • @PrimeConsciousness

    Right. This is known as "the hard problem of consciousness". The term "philosophical zombie" is also relevant. But this is not a counterargument to the claim that technology is evolving more rapidly than biology.

  • @Neueregel - As opposed to an 'old age' vid for sober stiffs?

    Everyone hold my calls - Neueregel has absolutely blown my mind! I must go and research this new concept of 'cognitive stagnation.' If I'm not back in 2 days, not to worry, I just probably fell asleep.

  • @Evasius No, I meant the retarded New age movement. Stupid followers, stupid culture. I bash and troll those monkeys in every ocasion.

  • @Neueregel You're supremely dumb.

  • @EWirtz34 Name-calling =last resort in your lack of arguments. Thanks for being one example that makes my point for McKenna more valid.

  • @Neueregel There are those who can't balance what they have discovered about the universe with their "here and now" day to day lives, and it does get out of hand sometimes, but it doesn't make what they know or at least theorize any less valid.

  • @typecrime Poor syntax. Revise.

  • @Evasius You sir, have just made my week. Thank you.

  • @Evasius PLEASE HELP ME!!! I once posted on TerenceMcKennaTube's youtube comments what happens when we die and he replied "You're still ignorant...so there may be hope for you, but that ain't my problem because you're blocked." Me taking another drug(whether it be weed of shrooms) will depend on the next answer you give me, is life just one scene in an never ending movie, or do I just keep on the same script, and relive it over and over again?

  • @nickthegrizzly2 - I tend to see it as both, with a small twist. Life is indeed a scene in an infinite movie, and we are given a script with repeating themes, however it is our duty as conscious beings to transcend our scripts in order to break the cycle and 'become.'

  • @Evasius that's kind of what I thought, how many times have we done this before, in other words is there any hope we will make it?

  • @nickthegrizzly2 - It's not about quantity and 'when,' it's about the quality we assign to 'Now.' There is only now, and there is always hope.

  • @Evasius well if you think about it we can have a singularity on technology.so isnt fear good for that purpose? maybe thats why the government wants to keep us all sober?

  • @nickthegrizzly2

    five grams out to do you

  • @Neueregel sooo glad i'm out of your state of mind.

  • @Neueregel I will not even respond to this..

    ..Until you try 5 dried grams of mushrooms, or one good long lungful of salvia divinorum, in silent darkness with your eyes closed.

    Then get back to us.

  • @slipmaggot3 The only mushrooms I could try, are the fresh vegetable mushrooms (white or brown). They come in blue packs of 250gr or 500 gr. Everything else is just pure madness and weakness.

  • Correlation ≠ Causation

  • I recall everything took the form of a koch curve under salvia divinorum. It was thrilling.

  • i'm ready

  • @ChuckNorrisKratosLOL

    I believe the babylon so-called "gov" and the techno-minions (tv talking heads, newspapers, etc.) as well as technology itself (ipads, netpads, whatever new gadget) and emf's are preventing evolution. Also, these cultural ideas such as cannabis being a "danger to children" and the "war on drugs" are keeping us from evolving.

  • @ChuckNorrisKratosLOL

    Terence McKenna's friend Dr. Rupert Sheldrake discovered that mind is a field. So, all actions/thoughts connected in the field of mind. Morphogenetic field.

  • From Wikipedia: Terence Kemp McKenna

    .... Notable ideas: Novelty Theory, The "Stoned Ape" Theory of Human Evolution, Machine elves

    Influenced by: psychedelic drugs, Marshall McLuhan, Alfred North Whitehead ...

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  • his beautiful eyes,. check em out,. he is a beautiful man,.

  • I have been through the portal, have seen the other side, and no one is even close. It is both fantastic beyond belief and tragic beyond imagination.

  • I like how tool is in every video that has something to do with anything important

  • Cultural growth and 'enlightenment' causes a sudden paradigm shift and creates a vaccuum in the collective identity leading to social dismay, this usually results into a violent scapegoating reaction from the public towards the innovator. To keep the unity and consensus in society it becomes dumber, not smarter, this causes every culture to eventually plunge into the Dark Ages. All we have is Christ promise to be released from the collective.

  • It is plain to see by anyone observant that America and the whole world has very big problems. For the human species to survive it is going to require that we become increasingly open minded, and open to new ideas and perspectives so we can find solutions to the problems.

    Vote for Ron Paul in 2012, Jesse Ventura in 2016, Peter Joseph in 2020, and John Hagelin in 2024.

    Lets become the change we want to see in the world. Lets become the transition. Lets become the revolution !!!

  • Somethings only happens in tthe US, and u people really thinks it´s legitim. It´s amazing. All the time we see some people talking about appocalypse and plagues and etc... but it never happens. Wake up americans, wake up.

  • not this 2012 shit again...

  • @Sylvanas17 Hmm, then why did you watch it? And also why did you bother commenting on it? Does't make sense man...

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  • either way, should be interesting. ;)

  • How in the world could you dislike this video?

  • I wouldn’t worry about artificial intelligence, if you were to study the subject the first thing you realise is how dumb computers are the type of learning they are capable of is analogous to how a shoe “learns” the shape of you foot.

  • @jonnopen CEG student reporting in. There is a such thing as "evolutionary programming" and code that can write code.

    you were saying?

  • why did he know it dadadada ..... dmt, please new age friends bring something new it's boring this 2012 shit

  • What a dreadful shame Mckenna passed on - what a interesting guy!

  • @ChuckNorrisKratosLOL I'll choose this over that any day. Have you even been to another country ? I would welcome you in Norway and/or Malta any day. PM me and it's done. (I'm poor as fuck so pay for your own fucking food :P)

  • @eremag What is the cannabis situation in Norway? Are you (Norway) in the "war on drugs" that actively targets this plant?

  • @ChuckNorrisKratosLOL Also, this argument that certain people are living in a box no longer work as long as this box is connected to 10 million other boxes. People do not care, other things occupy their lives. Simple as that. Even if you think you are open to everything and claim everyone who is not are un-evolved they can say the same about you. Because clearly you reserve the right to be right...since you are open to everything. It's your 10 million boxes vs their 10 million boxes.

  • @ChuckNorrisKratosLOL Seems to me you hijack the concept of evolution to justify your own views on people and their way of life. Someone who is on the opposite side of your views may be eligible to say the same thing about you?

    You can't use evolution to justify your own opinions like that. We all cling to what you call sterotypes. You could run into the forest and stay there for 50 years and you would still belong to a "group" debunked by our society and labled as a stereotype.

  • You can live forever. It is called accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior and going to Heaven.

  • @l3yrdman Please go away.

  • @l3yrdman

    a concept completely irrelavent to what this video has to say

  • @ScopeiQuick Not a concept at all. The Truth. God is Alpha and Omega. Salvation through Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is a Free Gift. God knows what you want, what you need, and how to do it. Jesus delivers. Heaven is ETERNAL life. ETERNAL.

  • That time wave sorta looks like vibrations!

  • @jbro81 everything is vibration :)

  • @dreamwheasler I like that!

  • wwwwwwoooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooo­oo....

  • December 21? that's my birthday...

  • why does the description limit things with just the 3rd dimension, these A.I.s will far surpass and transcend, everything beyond the infinite dimension, God, as well as everything thats imaginable and thinkable. FACT

  • Terence McKenna was a beautiful being with an elegant mind and a devastatingly articulate tongue. This short clip does not come close to even scratching the surface. All the people/trolls on this thread who base their conclusions about the man on this clip can go on debating (masturbating) until this particular timewave ends! They will never get it. Terence himself is in a higher (mathematical not metaphysical, real TK fans know) dimension right now doing alchemical experiments. As always.

  • @stvbrsn "TmK fans" oops!

  • in 2012 NOTHING WILL HAPPEN !

  • @jeffrey42088 More like LSD and DMT.

  • He is just talking about the evolution of human consciousness and so were the Mayans. The "end of the world" stuff is BS, the mayans knew there are cycles to consciousness and evolution which is why they came up with the calendars to plot this evolution. We pass the 9th gate on OCT 28th and then the rest of the calendar (260 day) goes to 2012 where the "GODS COME BACK", not the world ends. We aren't just going to "transcend" or evolve in one day its a whole process, one thats going on right now!

  • @CanadianStoner1001 It's true. People are waking up all over the world every day. Deep down you can feel it coming....

  • @MrJerktube Strange aint it. Its like we're being pulled towards something and we aren't able to stop it from happening. I few years ago people on the street (i worked on the street awhile back) seem interested in spitituality. Now its even beyond that. Something really weird is happening :) Hold on, mate! Its gonna be a hell of a ride!

  • Terence denounced this theory shortly before his death in the spirit of true furthering of human knowledge because various mathmaticians have proven this theory flase. The entire 2012 B.S. is based on a MAYAN callender and an AZTEC god. Two different groups of people with different gods and beliefs. Do your homework.

  • @rage1331 I;d like to see a source of his denouncing this theory. Not that I don't believe you I just am interested in that transcript/video.

  • terence mckenna is my personal favorite philosopher and pseudoscientist