11 September 1993 (Terence McKenna) [FULL]

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I'll let Terence give you the name of this talk.

11 September 1993

In this lecture, Terence McKenna talks about the tragic situation we humans have placed ourselves in, and ways in which the boundry dissolution effects of psychedelic medicines can possibly save our species from what appears to be a certain extinction. . . . "What the psychedelic experience does, really, is it stretches the envelope of the imaginable."

"It seems to me that culture, at least this culture, is a shabby lie."

"We have the tools that would allow us to sculpt paradise, but we have the reflexes and value systems of anthropoid apes of some sort. . . . You don't get serial killers in the chipmunk population."

"We live at the end of a thousand year binge on the philosophical position known as materialism, in its many guises. And the basic message of materialism is that world is what it appears to be, a thing composed of
matter, and pretty much confined to its surface."

"We're in, essentially, a tragic situation. A tragic situation is a catastrophe when you know it."

For approximately 500 years [sciences] argument for its pre-eminence was the beautiful toys that it could create: aircraft, railroads, global economies, television, spacecraft. But that is a fool's argument for truth! I mean, that's after all how a medicine show operates, you know: the juggler is so good, the medicine must be even better! This is not an entirely rational way to proceed.

Images: Oculus, Jones/Ginzel (1998)
Location: Chambers Street/World Trade Center, Park Place

Oculus consists of 301 mosaic panels by artists Kristin Jones, Andrew Ginzel and Rinaldo Piras. The project presents the eyes of three hundred individual New Yorkers translated from a photographic study conducted by Jones/Ginzel into stone mosaic by the classically trained Piras. The centerpiece of the work is an elliptical glass and stone mosaic floor, with a magnificent micro mosaic eye at the center of an ultramarine vortex with the image of the City of New York woven into the picture.

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[cheechanchux]

i don't want to say rest in peace because knowing Terence, he's probably doing mushrooms with George Carlin

[dion2k]

this is one of my all time favorite talks, man I miss this guy.

[brendanj2]

notice he mentions the world trade center in a speech that was given on 9/11 but its eight years too soon

[calin4thewin]

@BobbyGeneva357112 I think psychedelics are one of those things that are best tried at least once. So if you've tried it once to see what it's like, then you have all the data necessary to compare among them. If all you do is cannabis, you can't compare.

I for instance don't smoke that, but I did try it a few times, and at least I know what I'm missing and what it's like :)

[Marleyites]

@cheechanchux ... and blazing spliff with Bob Marley.

[BobbyGeneva357112]

@OAwArenAwAkeO

That is not a fact..

These drugs effect everyone differently; not everyone NEEDS to alter their consciousness.

I know people who use psychedelics and are very close minded.. They take psychedelics because they think it's 'hip'. The opposite is also true.

I consider myself a pretty open fellow (I think you have to be to dig Terence), and I've never taken a true psychedelic in my life. I smoke cannabis regularly, and this is enough for me.

[BobbyGeneva357112]

@JessAtlas

That's a good point.

Maybe before it's all said and done, we WILL have sent all of our metal into space.

Maybe some sort of global catastrophe will destroy all of our metal.

Maybe an up and coming species won't be able to use our metal because it isn't in its pure, malleable form.

[JessAtlas]

25:00: where does he think all that metal went? We're not sending it off into space.

[Marleyites]

@Standard999999 I agree that the destruction of his knowledge (his death) and his collection of documentation were deliberately destroyed. If this knowledge infuses the population to a tipping point (approx 5%), the whole enchilada of dominator culture will crash. Babylon system will do anything to keep that from happening. The drug of choice for the slaves (us): tobacco, alcohol, coffee, sugar. money-making, consciousness-destroying. helpful plants? illegal.

[RonGego]

What a delight it would be if more such thought provoking programs were shown on TV nowdays..

[vx3k]

@OAwArenAwAkeO I know what you mean, I feel like humans were slowly introduced in the 60s and on, At the same time that intelligent machines are created.

We are half monkey, half angel

[OAwArenAwAkeO]

If you've never done DMT, you really don't know whats going on. That's a fact folks