This audio is taken from "The Rites of Spring", which is archived on Future-Hi Media.
- http://www.futurehi.net/media.html
Terence McKennas Fractal Soliton of Improbability
- http://dreamflesh.com/blog/2006/09/mckennas-dual-world-mania/
McKennas dual world mania
Ive been listening to quite a few of the MP3s in the Future Hi Media Library recently. Mark Pesce is good for an enthused head-spin; and its been interesting to catch some Terence McKenna that Ive never heard before. Especially in conjunction with guests, such as the incredible Nicole Maxwell. Ive never heard McKennas long-time wife Kathleen Harrison speak before (shes on the series at Future Hi titled The Rites of Spring), and its fascinating to hear her. Of course its highly amusing to hear McKenna get a gentle drubbing for running too far with his metaphors in the way only a spouse can manage.
The stand-out item so far has to be McKennas telling of a then very recent tall tale from the psychedelic information ocean. Its a kind of Gnostic alternative history, obviously chiming with Philip K. Dick and Grant Morrisons fictional truths in the same vein. It has an appropriate mixture of vivid, bewitching detail and convenient vagueness (although you get the impression McKennas download of the information could have been unpacked to a much finer degree if anyone had given him the chance). In short, its as paradoxical as the man himself: flipped one way, its blatantly McKennas own historical wet dream; flipped the other way, its an oddly beguiling possibility with a delirious grandeur of its own. I thought it was worth transcribing in full. He starts in response to someones questions to him:
Youre such a skillful questioner that youve brought yourself to the doorway of my most recent mania. Maybe I should unburden myself briefly about it. One of the weird things about growth, or trying to make your ideas always become new, is that you always assume youre going to know what the next step is. That even though youre going to become more and more enlightened, there wont be any surprises. So, a few weeks ago I was meditating in my usual fashion, and I began to get this new idea, which was so weird that I immediately shifted into, This is not the truth, this is not a transmission about the nature of reality. This is a plot for a science fiction novel that I should write! I tried to hold that as my defence, that was my shield against the onslaught of this thing.
Ive never been one for Atlantis, or Lemuria, all these invisible prehistoric lands and places that people enjoy so much, but I was told a very funny thing, which I will share with you. Its a funny idea. Lets see, how does it go? It has two versions, one of which speaks a scientific language, the other speaks a mythological language."
NOTE: To read the rest of this transcript, visit the above link. This video contains the full audio of this specific conversation.
The Great Timestream Bifurcation
by Terence McKenna
Originally appeared in Psychedelic Illuminations #6
- http://deoxy.org/t_timebi.htm
11-09-2009
A Talk with SMiles Lewis about McKennaa Fractal Soliton of Improbability
Hear a discussion with SMiles Lewis (elfis.net, PsiOp Radio, Anomaly Magazine) delving into strange notions about consciousness, dreams, reality, history, the paranormal, and alternate time streams, with a special nod to Terence McKennas Fractal Soliton of Improbability revelation.
Check out the original source here
http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/668/SMilesFSI.mp3
www.OutTheRabbitHole.com
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Terence McKenna - The Great Timestream Bifurcation - Part 2of3by geogaddi00770 views
Nice mind trip/thought experiment. Ah . . . the Bard . . . you passed too early.
Chesspandora 4 months ago in playlist Chesspandora's favorites
I likes.
eg6roll 11 months ago
I've Never heard this, and I thought I'd touched on them all...Thanks much for posting....(Great stuff!)
TMKchld 1 year ago