Terence McKenna: The Definitive UFO Tape - 1/4

The Definitive UFO Tape, December 1982

The first question to Terence refers to the "two" books he had written at that point and he answers by saying that he kept most of his UFO ideas out of The Invisible Landscape. Then he refers to what he calls "the second work, titled, Psilocybin & the UFOs."

"In psilocybin and the tryptamine hallucinogens generally we actually have a state of mind that is very similar to the state of mind reported to accompany the UFO contact, and that these things could somehow be co-mapped, one onto the other"

"Involvement with these tryptamines as they accumulated in your system, you seem to acquire the ability to inhabit more than one world at once, as though superimposed over reality there was a super-reality, a hyper dimensional world where information was accessible in magical ways."

"History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness."

"The extraterrestrial is the human over soul in its general and particulate expression on the planet. . . . The over soul is some kind of field that is generated by human beings, but that is not under the control of any institution, any government, and religion. It is actually the most intelligent thing on the planet, and it regulates human culture through the release of ideas out of eternity and into the continuum of history."

"The myths that are building are like the Messianic myths that preceded the appearance of Christ."

"What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.""

"What it comes down to is trying to have faith that man is good, because what's happening is that whatever man is, man is taking control of the definition of being human."

"Man is going to become a mirror of his deepest aspirations, and the question then becomes, "What are man's deepest aspirations?'"

"Death is both a historical and individual phenomenon about which we as monkeys have great anxiety. But what the psychedelic experience seems to be pointing out is that actually the reductionist view of death has missed the point, and that there is something more. It isn't simple extinction. That the universe does not build up such complex forms as ourselves without conserving them in some astonishing and surprising way that is perhaps related some way to the intuitions that we have from the psychedelic experience."

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[kotkee]

@demandspacetourism Have you expirince the psycodelic ride Terence McKenna describes. Or are you only taking what he says as facts. Just curious because many prophets have risen and fallen.

[demandspacetourism]

I am disguisted to find that so few people have watched and commented on these amazing tapes by Terence Mckenna. Here we are at the beginning of 2012, and all of this is being ignored by people who have an interest in UFOs and psychadelic drug culture. All the people who say terence mckenna is a legend need to rediscover his selfless work, because Mckenna may well turn out to be a profit.

[leesalexander]

i wish that i could commend, (as an englishman) to rationalise  such open mindedness to ufo witnessing and to concede the concept of a collective unconscious archetype of such awesomeness when (and it is an important factor) ... ufo observations are limited in my country (if not completely um-renowned in much of the world outside of america). why is it that americans alone should be subjected to close encounters of the third kind, but no one else? ... what-up-with-that?

[InerSpce]

I encourage all who haven't listened to this entire rap to do so.. three times and I'm still connecting puns.. If only I could get him to show up in my livingroom and drop some ufo knowledge;)

[khiwarrior]

2 months after i was born...wow..

[stimulater7]

The Australian aboriginal shamans "clever men" or "men of high degree" described "celestial ascents" to meet with the "sky gods" such as Baiame, Biral, Goin and Bundjil. Many of the accounts of ritualistic initiation bare striking parallels to modern day UFO contactee and abduction lore.

a.p elkin author book title ...aboriginal men of high degree

[JEKAZOL]

This is really impressive. Again I'm suprised I came across this guy's ideas so late. The most convincing interpretation of UFOs I've ever heard.

[Carmellito1]

Thank you for uploading this speech. People need to hear this!