Terence McKenna - Mushrooms, Evolution, and the Millennium

"Talk by ethnobotanist, ecologist, and author Terence McKenna. He asks the fundamental question concerning natural hallucinogens: is it an accident of nature that certain plants and mushrooms can alter human awareness in profound ways. He argues that man and hallucinogenic plants and mushrooms have co-evolved. These botanicals provid a way for people to experience their spiritual nature, and throughout history have been used by shamans whose function is to enter altered states in order to perceive the spiritual causes behind ordinary reality."
Recorded at Masonic Temple, Van Nuys, California, Sept. 8, 1991
Copyright Pacifica Radio Archives

[@realismpatriotism6437]

McKenna, you will be missed. I cannot with human vocabulary, describe the level to which I truly & genuinely without even having ever met you in person, miss you on this Earth.

[@samwalker8200]

@Mike Knight I love him too too

[@silverwolfmonastery]

The Byrds said it well: Though I never met him, I knew him just the same... He was a friend of mine.

[@davidforshaw4810]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍☯️⚡🕉

[@joshstamps6718]

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[@angeliquemarquis]

His brother Dennis McKenna is continuing their work - I met him last year on February 13th, 2020 and he gave me his card to get in touch with him and take a trip down to Costa Rica where he does Ayahuasca ceremonies with the local tribal shamans there... Dennis promised to make me an EXTRA STRONG 💪 BREW, so I could have the breakthrough experience with the entities on either side of me - and then this fucking global pandemic happened...

[@stefanpavicevic5890]

I’ve literally listened too this 100 times over the last ten years now 🤯

[@mopheadthe3rd]

Best audio quality I've heard an any McKenna recording period..... me likey

[@jamie2866]

I remember listening to a recording and there was a telephone ringing in the background for quite a while lol

[@taylenday]

@@jamie2866 "... and to get at the root of the problem. Right now the root of the problem seems to be to find the damn phone and shutting it off, haha"

[@coreymacdonildo2242]

Yess

[@vidhayreddy4644]

By golly you’re right

[@god5535]

Audio nerds are getting a hard on. What is "best"? Heck one can say a raw recording with white noise in the background is more "natural" and "best"? FFs...

[@mitchellw7695]

"Reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half baked moron, consuming all this trash that's been manufactured out of a dying world." - McKenna

[@painmt651]

If you really want to change your life, get a sense of fulfillment, dedicate yourself to making the lives of OTHERS better. It is through relationship that we develop and grow. This is what one learns from the inward journey.

[@jefolson6989]

So true. Its not a war on drugs, its a war to prevent expanding consciousness. So glad that where I live, mushrooms are readily available from cannabis dispensaries, allowing me to microdose. Essentially decriminalization. I wish TM were here to see it. It's a results of his life's work.

[@markonino12]

And are u following his words?

[@markonino12]

​@@jefolson6989u wish he was here to see what exactly? The world is chaos. No one is following an ounce of what this man said

[@gobisGalaxy_star]

Mushrooms are powerful medicine and are no joke. I ate 3.5 grams, had a wacky and fun visual experience for an hour or so, and then the challenging trip began. Once it was over I was a figurative Scrooge running through the streets of Victorian London at the conclusion of "A Christmas Carol," so desperate was I to make up for my short comings. Mushrooms mentally purge you, and once you've had a good trip all the way through you'll know, for the time-being at least, that you are doing a good job at life.

[@Ellifmusic]

%100

[@null252]

Oh wow, great wording bro. Thank you.

[@aesopbricktop]

On POINT.

[@danielwilson6311]

🤔🎪🤯🍄🥳🤝🫂 Appreciate 💫 Greatly

[@danceoff5385]

Wow you described it perfect

[@3dge--runner]

"and so forth and so on...." i dont know why i get such a kick out of when he always says this

[@janiszambars6132]

Maybe because it's a combination of how he says it and that it literally goes and so forth and so on... it's never ending. And if anyone tries to tell me they get what never ending means, even with DMT trips under their belt, I know they do not. It's something that in a way makes everything in reality funny and non-serious.

[@bastyo]

Who am I? oh man me too, I really love it when he says it. it's strangely satisfying.

[@americafahrlender3138]

Yes!! My favorite TM quote of all time :P

[@andreigherase2107]

Because everyone else says "so on and so forth " love it

[@CornThaddieusThy3rd]

Who am I? Mine is riggermerole

[@0088Halloween]

this is absolutely brilliant. if more people were half this intelligent, this species might well survive.

[@Joleencray]

Indeed

[@spencerstephens7594]

If more people were half as WISE we may well survive. Makes me happy to see these ideas getting so much traction these days

[@Anonymous-xm8ir]

The prob I believe is that theoretical science only exists in the realm of Physics (some chemistry, and psychology - if one would count that as a real science), because mathematic/computers can prove theories that are not yet realised, and therefore "we" (society) can except them, because we trust in pure logic. We don't trust the human mind. No not at all. That is another problem. Now, theoretical Biology - its grand umbrella - where Terrance would sit under, is either lacking people or minds like him, or they are too scared to speak up out of fear of being ostracised. There is also the problem of money and financing. No one if going to fund studies unless there is a tangible outcome and result. The capitalistic model for life is also part of the problem. These kinds of minds do not fit into that.

[@davidforshaw4810]

👍🍄🗝☯️

[@mountain-roots]

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[@marianotrujillo4067]

You can almost throw out the saying 'the best things cant be said' when listening to Terence

[@Departing_Beloved]

This particular lecture almost made me cry. Almost like his words bring about a notch less than complete break through to what the spirit itself tries to get off it's chest throughout the time that man has been aggressive, and animalistic toward each other. Also, the shrooms I ate before listening to this, just pushes the emotions of self to the forefront of the conscious mind. Peace be with everyone who listens to these lectures, hoping to gain truth from beyond the veil of what man has been regurgitating as such based off man's own experience, while not traveling from beyond the realm of man, being afraid of having to possibly change its archaic perception of morality.

[@space.youtube]

That's some f the best word salad I've read in a while. Hope it was a good trip.

[@ToddyBaller21]

I’ve only just discovered an interest in the capabilities and applications of Magic Mushrooms and psychedelics.. this talk is in a language I’ve never found anywhere else and I feel like it talks to my soul and begins to answer all the questions I’ve held deep in my conscious for most of my life..

[@BobbyLectric]

Welcome to the words of the Master, brother. Research further and feel safe in the doctrines. There are spaces one must work hard to achieve.

[@trackerbuckmann1627]

I took an epic dose yesterday. I didn't get any visuals or a trip. but I did talk to my dead father telepathically. and several other dead people. very strange experience and not all of it was pleasant. I'm still pretty shaken by it, but I'm glad I did it.

[@ashershort7741]

Tracker Buckmann Huh very interesting do you remember the strain??

[@trackerbuckmann1627]

Cubensis. "Golden teachers."

[@Anonymous-xm8ir]

Mushroom are not all about visuals, trips or telepathic talking, but if that happens then great. Shrooms are about one thing only, healing of the spirit/soul. Know that everything that happens to you comes from a necessary place. Don't fight it. But don't let it over take you. Merge with it. Go with it. Enjoy it. Learn from it. Noting is real. Everything is thought.

[@shaky33]

Love this man. "Take it easy, BUT take it!"

[@smoozerish]

Terence’s intelligence and passion always shines through. Can’t think of anyone his equal living today. Thank god he left behind a permanent record of his thoughts.

[@williamstevens5599]

Paul Stamets is pretty close. He’s a mycologist.

[@omginvalid]

46:38 scared the shit out of me lol

[@spiritrebooted1447]

+omginvalid I listened to this alone in the dark. Stoned. It wasn't funny at the time :D

[@HankHaze]

+Spirit Rebooted me 2 XD

[@cookinsdabest]

thought I was having a flashback XD

[@Tiziano182]

i was doing a rosemary and laurel cleanse in my house while listening that part!!!! lol.. i thought i pissed off the devil or somethin! hahaha!!!!...

[@jhessrecordings1407]

omginvalid I was on the verge of falling asleep and this shocked me awake. 🌝

[@Ansarihomes]

2018 from Toronto Ontario. We still believe.

[@garytabor2069]

What a mind blowing revaluation. He is a profit. Community and loss of ego. Give Soul Quest Church a try . It works.🍄

[@Sam-wt9se]

As for me and grandpa we believe!

[@knoitall6812]

...prophet...

[@katherinewong2901]

Single most eloquent, delightful and informative speaker of our lifetime.

[@anewlifeinportugal]

Love you mckenna! Wherever you are! You are the best thing to happen to society! If only you were still here to see the appreciation the world has for you now!

[@InfamousVue]

Brothers, sisters, you are not alone. There is love in existence. You are felt!

[@shpongle7322]

Listening to this stoned is seriously trippy. One of the best if not the best talk I’ve ever listened to.

[@ethanvotra8667]

Just ate 6 grams of Cambodians. Gonna let this play and begin drawing. Bless every once of you ❤

[@MichaelDanielHikerLionKing]

Shrooms fixed me, for real

[@broslik6666]

positive! the empowering of the individual is something babylon not interested

[@dand4747]

me too brother it helped me overcome my adhd and also childhood trama.

[@denturmanZ]

Michael Daniel, what were you broken with? ..

[@MichaelDanielHikerLionKing]

emotional turmoil, mental abuse, lots of shit a kid shouldn't have to be force-fed into his brain

[@jezjackson6262]

Me also, my grandmother suffered terrible depression and then it killed my farther, I took acid in my late teens and have never felt nothing but love for life and a longing for nature. Terrence totally resonates with me.

[@markmartin3152]

McKenna possessed what makes us all so very human. He was a searcher. He asked why, he needed to know why. It is this that makes us all so very human. At my heart I have many desires and needs, but most of all, I think I can honestly say that I want to know as many men before me wanted to, I want to know why, and science by it’s own nature is limited, this I know for sure. I don’t think we necessarily need psychedelics necessarily to attain this, as this man believed also. He just wasn’t hardlined against psychedelics as a way of searching. You really can’t be a true searcher unless you’re hardlined against anything except evil, you can’t lose yourself in your search. - my own opinion

[@chilliLRK]

Tripping hard af right now. The greatest trip ive ever had

[@cameronjosemacleod2810]

Cool story bro

[@chilliLRK]

@@cameronjosemacleod2810 youre lame

[@cheaptoebaythrifta5764]

@@chilliLRK I agree very lame, how'd it go?

[@chilliLRK]

@@cheaptoebaythrifta5764 it was wild but it may have changed my life in a wonderful way

[@laidbare819]

Tripping balls but here you are on KZbin 🤦‍♂️ Either stop talking sxxt or being a total pxxxy and live a little hey 🤷‍♂️

[@prabhdeepsingh5642]

This is his "stoned ape" theory explained. Great video.

[@DG-iw3yw]

Part of it, there is always more to his summarial versions

[@SouthwoodsSurvival]

46:38 I thought I was subject to an involuntary dimensional shift. I had prepared for death in a split second....

[@mathewsmith2607]

Mushrooms with Honey is the best way,flavour wise and more euphoria 👁️

[@anthonycaporaso8826]

I eat my mushrooms straight up. I feel more connected to them. Stay trippy

[@mavis3916]

Poff

[@robertbouchardt3357]

See, true genius in the modern world is about being the idea connector. We actually need people like Einstein and Terrence McKenna . I put them in the same sentence because they share the same qualities in which made them both generate genius. They read and read and connect all the great ideas together to visualise abstract concepts. I believe that’ is what genius is.

[@DominatorsGamingChannel]

Listened to this while tripping and 46:37 sent me into a full on panic attack

[@LoganHudak]

Dominator hahahahaha. I was with you!

[@Hoon..]

That was demonic 🤤

[@silverwolfmonastery]

There are dangers. Making sure set and setting a wonderful is important

[@yakopanen6596]

I’m sober and I had one

[@spencerstephens7594]

I immediately came looking for this comment. That was very jarring lol

[@MangoNizer]

Wonderful man. I love him. Thank you for keeping his heritage alive!

[@howtoshroompresentedbyshro8317]

One of the most engaging speakers of all time ! Legendary

[@carolewaudby6301]

He tells us it's up to us or be history FFS xxxxx I love Terrance McKenna I stumbled across him by chance or maybe fate I don't know but all I know is everything he has said in all his talks just makes sense every talk I've listened to I have moments of wow I can't be the only one let's start taking a new direction to our civilisation or we will fail to carry on our history as a species

[@Draakie100]

I love this man, he and Watts saved my life, and I find it comforting somehow that the day he was born (16th of Nov.) is the same day Alan Watts died. "First world" people often look down on what we call "third world people", as if they are lesser people and we (1st world people) are more evolved somehow. I love to travel and had the honor to meet quite a lot of different people and what stood out for me is that when I approach a person on the street in a "1st world country" they look at me with distrust and a look of "what do you want from me". But when I meet a person in a 3rd world country I get a smile, and often one of the 1st things they want to do is give me food and introduce me to their families (I`m not talking about people who live in poverty because some greedy people exploit them). To me this says that they are happier people, and then I question myself; "Who are the 3rd world people, they...or the people in 1st world countries ?" Sometime it looks as if evolution is going backwards in "the west". I thank you for this beautiful upload...and I wish everybody a healthy, happy, and magical life 🙏🍄🌎☮

[@erinanne450]

I’ve always always felt nostalgia for a time when we were forest dwelling plant and fungi eaters. I could never explain it.

[@ihateillinoisnazis]

Fantastic! Absolutly fantastic! Its amazing that only earlier in the week was I contemplating how psychedelics may hold evolutionary keys for humanity to evolve further into amazing creatures, and then to find this?! I am astounded at how the world works and things come together like this. Thank you for sharing!

[@lynnsherlock7752]

jordan wilson k

[@janiszambars6132]

Has to be my favourite Terence recording, it fits with us right now.

[@Anonymous-xm8ir]

True! He touches on all the problems we are dealing with today. Everyone in lockdown should be listening to this

[@zakur0hako]

This is mind melting.

[@mountain-roots]

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[@dmo365]

Listening to this for probably the 50th time, 3rd time this year, Dec 2021

[@morceegao]

Take it easy, but...TAKE IT! Absolutely brilliant!

[@stevengerrard8961]

I need to go through utterly challenging and excruciatingly exhausted work to change my life back to how it was. I know where to start. Thank you Terrence, for fueling me with belief by your great lessons.

[@Tiziano182]

i think you will change it forward! :D good luck!

[@Holy_hand-grenade]

T M 1 8 2 ! Exactly... we never go back... back is what allowed him to arrive at his current dissatisfaction.

[@Anonymous-xm8ir]

good luck

[@Awesommmm]

This man was way way ahead of his time!

[@Anonymous-xm8ir]

No. Way way wayyyy ahead of his time

[@tortoiseoverlord8241]

That audible oddity around 046:50 scared the shit out of me. I'm sober and I thought for sure I'd somehow accessed impossible knowledge (directly or indirectly correlated to this) without realizing it and that reality was about to get weird as a consequence.

[@martinsjancevskis2141]

46:37 Wtf was that, scared the shit out of me, thought it was the devil

[@CliffBarz]

Martins Jancevskis seriously I sleep listening to this stuff and I damn near just shit myself in my sleep

[@futureselfnow]

lmao! seriously! i’m not even tripping and my heart dropped!

[@jeremydow3674]

I believe this was recorded on a ‘reel to reel’ and that was the splice of 2 reels. Maybe not but it is what I believe.

[@MckennaCountrCulture]

How come this brand new talk out of no-where? I've not heard before, the audio quality is awesome. I want to re-upload, I wont run into copyright issues, will I?

[@cognitivedissonance2264]

It's awesome to know this is definitely a un heard lecture. I know this because I watch your videos :)

[@3dge--runner]

+MckennaCountrCulture i know right? this is prob the best audio on a mckenna talk ive heard

[@gxth2874]

what if mckenna has come back from the other world to give us one last message?

[@Tiziano182]

it feels so good to read your thoughts on the comment! ahha.. i thought i struck a gem here with this audio quality!. amazing!

[@rickdrifter4587]

Bryce Marcev please lol once you die your spirit is in another dimension. Not coming back in the same way that's Forsure.

[@LouTheLoo]

Thank you for uploading! His eloquence his a pure delight and his knowledge is truly inspiring. We miss you terence

[@paulies5407]

4:27 Love how honest he is here.

[@jessies4602]

"All of these things are the unique contribution made to reality-existence if you will. By the existence of the qualities in us which we call humanness, which sets us aside from the rest of organic existence."

[@SiriusCygnus]

46:38 audio glitch here scared TF out of me

[@pablo6305]

I understood that all life was connected and truly needed to work together to continue to work together and without selfish decisions for self. I love this man's wisdom I found this knowledge on lsd and was 17 downtown Leslie Michigan at the railroad bridge. Enlightenment..

[@Unanythang]

Great audio quality, thanks for the upload.

[@ART----]

A Lovely way to listen...is to open another youtube window and play something like 963hz solfeggio tone or the Love frequency tone vibrations in the background. Thank you...just Beautiful x

[@gavocrazy]

One of the best talks I've heard of his yet!!!

[@thekingofsmooth]

I was on shrooms not to long ago and i was thinking of this theory and i basically saw it happen and then put pieces together you know?? seems that the genius is living thru me lol thank you for this video

[@daisycypresstulipgarden2131]

Write about your experiences. I would like to read it. :0)

[@gaiaearthborn183]

garypre7 “In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.” ― @12080

[@gremlinaftermidnight4493]

Psilocybin was my introduction to psychedelics. Laying down in grass staring up at a dark night, saw all stars connect like a web, then I was astonished not by the visual, yet by the thought that followed, All is connected, not separate from God, we exist within our own imagination. God being the whole of our consciousness was depressed by its solitary; hence, fragmented into several bits of consciousness to enjoy experience of coming back together again. The ultimate Humpty Dumpty tale.

[@Xxbayarea650]

Gremlin AfterMidnight duuude I’ve experienced this off LSD. Extremely humbling

[@Joleencray]

@gala earthborn Would you mind helping me understand what you mean, please? It sounds so interesting, but not to sound stupid...i just dont get it...

[@SalemB44]

the way he talks kinda reminds me of a car struggling to stay running, slowly sputtering along hahaha

[@ShouldaWaved]

Terence talks always good

[@landryprichard6778]

46:38. Looks like we lost another one to Hyperspace. 😂

[@namelessnick9791]

Mushrooms are one of my favorite foods ❤️

[@docbramblefield883]

Great audio, for what its worth, I threw it in mono because the stereo channel seemed unbalanced but the audio was crispy

[@jackmiller9239]

Yeah the endless loop… you can only dip your toes in, and you can bring back less than wet toes from it. Like Terrance said in a metaphor, “Our brain is the dipstick, stuck into the crank case of the mind” So that you can dive in a try to find information (oil level) but all you are is a dipstick, and the interior workings of the engine will always be a mystery, and all you can take back with you is the notion that “yup the oil level is good/bad” So basically you can only see a tiny portion of what actually is happening, and beyond that you can only see a tiny portion of what actually applies to you. And even beyond that, we have to describe the rest it in metaphors relating to engines😂 and other things that are easily understandable. It is a complete loop. We can experience infinity but can only bring back the finite, which can only be communicated using metaphors which implicate infinity. Which cannot be understood. So it’s like we can gain and understanding of that which is ineffable and cannot be explained or understood, and through understanding the unknown, we know that the unknown is unable to be understood The loop requires individual perspective to give it meaning. And even then meaning in subjective. It all just dissolves in your hands like sand… the more you understand the less you understand. Like this “I KNOW, that the unknown is unknowable” so what do you really know? At this point what can even be known? You already know that the unknown is unknowable but that creates the question, “what do I even know?” And the resounding answer is that you know nothing. You can run around in circles and circles about trying to know what cannot be known but in my mind, the answers is that nothing is known, nothing is understood, and before us stand the “reality” of life. Which is that nobody knows anything. Nothing can ever be known. Things can be experienced and felt but their “mechanism” the reason for their behavior, the reason for why things are the way they are, cannot be known. Reality, true reality is beyond our capabilities of understanding. This is why we find ourselves in thought loops. “I know that I don’t know that I know that I don’t know that I know that I don’t know” Nobody knows anything. No intelligent person CAN k n o w Anything. Damn look at me transcending reality The smarter the person, the more the subject of the unknown looms above their head. Only simple people “know” things I must be Jesus or sumn cuz I just had a revaluation, and a revelation. The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know What the fuck is that shit reality is a sadistic and extremely dark humorous bastard LOL This all brings me to The paradox of knowing

[@zaccyo]

WOW! Thank you so much. This talk was outstanding and quite confronting! Perhaps together we can come up with some way to hack into, and then play this very tour over every television station and radio frequency on the planet at the same time! Just joking, but this has really inspired me to do SOMETHING. At this point, I have absolutely no idea what, however I am going to sit on this. Does anybody have any thoughts? I think it's time we really came together and created one single, and very large online community in an attempt to speed up the spreading and acceptance of this type of necessary information about our harsh reality. Peace.

[@JonathanLaliberte1]

are you on facebook? add me, will invite you to the group

[@zaccyo]

hello my friend, I'm not currently on facebook, but will look into making an account, and will let you know! Cheers

[@mrlookfoster]

Zaccyo do you happen to be in Australia at all? I'm wanting to take this talk the the Burning Seed festival in Oct and dramatise the talk. I've studied Theatre and I reckon I could do it. Could be fun.

[@mrlookfoster]

Jonathan could you add me to the FB group?

[@JonathanLaliberte1]

luke foster sure dude. Add me; facebook.com/jonathan.laliberte.5

[@jayn1234]

It's just a shame we only allow small test groups to try mushrooms to treat depression and anxiety it should be giving to everyone it should not be illegal by any means

[@101TheShape]

here we have, if you want, a holy man, someone who is combinding heart and mind. Is he right you might ask... maby not, maby he is. But he is a self reflection being, some one who finds meaning in him self and in the mean of others.

[@MrWillymtee]

when he talks about the honey in to alcohol make so much sense

[@Joleencray]

Terence is such a brilliant presenter! Fabulous word selection and delivery, and hes totally hilarious! Very fucking fascinating stuff!!

[@sisiarara]

46:38 really almost f...ed me up xD

[@hammadhaider]

Great art! Science are camp fire stories 🔥 All of us will experience the different dimensions of these stories yet it remains up to us whether or not we want to be heroic on our journey. Can we overcome the self on this heroes’ journey ? Peace and love.

[@jerrykinworthy9225]

I couldn't listen to enough of this.

[@painmt651]

Imagine if you could aerosolize psilocybin over a battlefield. Would continued aggression even be possible?

[@eduardorivera4343]

I wonder if there are mushrooms on other planets?

[@BenLeeds94]

Without a doubt

[@fraterilluareus4601]

I wouldn't discard doubt so easily.

[@joshgoddard9172]

Many spores from fungi are known to have the capability of surviving the vacuum of space.. This would make them ripe candidates for interstellar travel.

[@gaiaearthborn183]

Eduardo Rivera im sure

[@Unit_With_Legs]

Josh Goddard Exactly. They may have come from space. Maybe aliens have caps for heads and gills.

[@reglagirl5802]

So interesting. He even talks about sugar.

[@andywarstar]

I like that he admits that he hasn't had many original ideas.

[@daniellunsford637]

The chances of any of us having true original thoughts are extremely slim. We like to believe our thoughts are original but the chances that your thoughts have been through the mind of someone else before are very high. This shows how connected we are to each other and to the universal consciousness. We download information from our ancestors and those around us and then spread it as our own thoughts to carry on the spread of universal knowledge. I had a really interesting conversation with a buddy of mine about how you could calculate the chances of having a completely original thought. Unfortunately we couldn’t come up with an equation but then again we did smoke a large doobie beforehand. Cheers

[@xeftones]

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[@JonathanLaliberte1]

great talk, thanks. Never heard this one. Probably one of the best explanations for SAT in any talk I've heard

[@JonathanLaliberte1]

nah evolving times is better i think

[@theotherway1639]

The small book "30 Days to Overcome Procrastination" by Corin Devaso is a nice book to have on hand. It uses a mindfulness and inquiry approach.

[@loganwilson7311]

WARNING for anyone tripping or stoned as shit the sound goes crazy demonic at 46.39. It scared the fuck out of me hahaha

[@Populationo1vr]

The artwork is simply the best

[@blackbird5634]

The challenge in thinking the mushroom is a kind of ''sentient being'' is that it doesn't care if the host (you) wind up in prison or the hospital or dead. Mushrooms feast on rotting carbon based life forms. "It'' is using the human being to become an ambulatory fungus.

[@periloushydrous6606]

“We now are the inheritors of a planet that is dying under anesthesia. Our entire cultural crisis is predicated on the fact that we cannot feel or connect with the consequences of our history. That we have behaved very badly(we of the high tech societies), we have trashed gender relationships, we have trashed aboriginal societies, we have cut down the rainforests, we have robbed our own children of a future as rich as a future that we expect ourselves to enjoy. There isn’t even a name for this sin, where you destroy the opportunity of your own children, I mean no society has been that perverse. And we’re doing it under a massive infusion of alcohol laced with monotheistic moral propaganda.” - Terence McKenna

[@newcures7813]

McKenna is missing the mark a bit around ~1:11:30. The resource-abuse problem is not because of the "citizens" of high tech societies as much as it is the producers of the high tech. The idea of wealthy whites using more resources than tribal indigenous people is 100% true, but there's a deeper layer to the onion... The consumption is unnaturally high because there is a driving, underlying factor and that is the use of sophisticated marketing and advertising tactics that employ the use of behavioral psychology and neurolinguistic programming. Those wealthy whites who are over-consuming have been targeted more, induced into wanting and buying things they otherwise would, or at least might, not. The artificial demand is like a spell cast upon the citizenry by the marketing "wizards" who work for companies that have as their business plan the over-consumption of resources, and that first over-consume - then unload these resources at a profit. This is akin to how folks in 2022 are acting artificially dumber than they really are because of the media and the shunting/blocking of information. Yes, each of us is kind of dumb, but it's not hard to fathom how a lot of our ignorance isn't natural, but is rather, the result of our exposure to lies, PR manipulations, and our inheritance of bad "programs". Whether induced-consumption or induced-stupidity, the blame lies less on the end consumers of any demographic who are duped by the magician's sleight-of-hand than on the demographic of high tech pushers using what we might call "wizardry". Why else would they use such tactics? They know they can get way more folks buy their pillaged resources in the form or whatever products, than they would without using such tricky tactics. Conscious manipulators drive the very thing they deem to be the over-population problem, and then blame over-population - again in an unconscious attempt to hide their own conscious lies, manipulations, and self-consumption. "Did you eat ALL the cookies in the cookie jar?" - "No, it was my brother and sister." In truth, they had taken ALL the cookies to school, eaten a bunch of them, and sold the rest as though they were the most delicious and nutritious vegetables on the planet. And now it's the "vegetable-eaters" fault.

[@ART----]

Firstly...just for the record!!! i wrote this issuing...and then discovered Terence x

[@shydawghanbowski4683]

I dont like that he keeps pushing that you should keep taking those drugs. Once the drug shows you the unity of creation you have become initiated into the mysteries you can put the drugs down, you got the message hang up the phone. That is exactly what the Buddha meant when he said after you cross the river let the raft go.

[@Anonymous-xm8ir]

Yes, but as a "master" seeker he was always going to keep on searching and go the full hog. So we can follow a clear path already forged. Weirdly, I didn't feel like he was pushing anything except for humanity to wake up. It is possible that your own psyche, your own shadow, is pushing you to do shroms, not Terrance. That's a form of projection. Remember everything is "thought", and when you take it down to that, there is no where else to go but within.

[@magjouswizzhearthofoawld8318]

Anyone else smoked some funny stuff or ate some weird fast foods filled with transmutational chemicals and sometimes even work psychedelicly? Once I drew a very powerful symbol faster than the speed of light. Something that amplified informational processing, into a magical flow that was dubbed 'torpedo sigil' or perhaps, as time will tell, a true harpoon. I am genuinely curious by other people's experiences related to the modern drugs, substances or chemicals, depending on what we talk about. As of late, certain foods stimulate my clarity and open up weird, new possible spirirual adventures. It can be terrifying and dreddful, as well as beautiful and magnificent

[@jamesbarrett3958]

Upvote for the signal boost 🙏.

[@Fudgeyum2122]

Thank you for posting this.

[@DanVentreprofuctions]

oh, but what if Terence McKenna really saved the world, by dying in the one that ended in 2012; and through some weird spirit-mojo pact, that he worked-out with the multi- verse, we're all able to go on existing in a version of reality where the world didn't end.. that scenario would kind of make him seem a bit jesus-ish..

[@horsemumbler1]

He'd have had to have lived in that one and died in all the others for that to make sense.

[@smilelikeUmeanit90]

what are you on?

[@Joleencray]

Okay, I guess. If youre being imaginative, then i'll humor you - That would all have to depend on what it was he'd died in the name of.; what he'd died FOR. You know? Because jesus = salvation...died for sins...all that, (according to christians). So there wound need to be some profound purpose for his death, you know? You cant say he just up and died in 2012 in a parallel universe, and spiritually transcended the "multiverse," and thus, humans could go on to live eternally in a world without death...and everything you said....

[@horridedifice]

What are you smoking? Lel

[@smilelikeUmeanit90]

What are you smoking I mean LOL

[@juampslidiam4833]

Terence 2021!

[@SevenGC89]

31:10 "I don't see how you could have increased fertilization without increased copulation.... Oven Basters aside!!" LMFAO!

[@ElaReMan-KTS]

Thank you for uploading this!

[@weirdorwhat7294]

We live in a simulation and the life we are living now is the life we've once already lived and created. We will live in this simulation for eternity called eternal recurrence

[@carolewaudby6301]

Exactly they gave the next generation mushrooms too

[@diablominero]

Kids with ADHD would probably react more strongly to sugar than to cocaine. Paradoxical reaction to stimulants means they wouldn't get anything but tired from the cocaine, whereas sugar is exciting.

[@TheRealSimSalaBim]

I'm a bit late but here is my comment about 46:36.

[@INFJames]

Love it. That part where he makes up words got me

[@ART----]

And "So..It Goes!!!" x

[@nicholaskellen346]

.5 of mushrooms every morning and cannabis throughout the day has cured my PTSD.

[@MarakanaCacak1989]

What a talk.. i am thrilled

[@genes2311]

Amazing talk by a visionary. Too bad I way too little to to one his talk when we was around :( Hope to see u in the afterlife bro. On sugar, Arnold chwarzenegger in the 1970s called high refined sugar as his biggest enemy and termed it as 'White Death' , I have consciosuly given up sugar for over 7 years other than the occassional cake, mufffin etc here and there and it has never felt better.

[@ART----]

My feelings of distress were also accompanied by ..."A Beautiful Juxtaposition"...

[@TheBrandFire]

Nature loves courage 🙏🏾👨‍🌾🌿🇯🇲

[@robslams2324]

bro I had my headphones on at 2am at 46:46 nice fuckn audio lmao

[@tantrarojo44]

46:38 this happends everytime i take mush, i screw every electrical device at home, last time was the play station, its like you can affect the regular devices

[@tantrarojo44]

@Francisco Nieves well make sense then